This engagement session is going up early/out of order because Bena and Ruoshi are getting married this weekend! I really look forward to shooting their wedding at the MIT Chapel – one gorgeous piece of architecture (and also where a September client of mine will be married as well – you know who you are!)...
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Lauren and Pranay’s wedding at Castle Hill at the Crane Estate is coming this weekend! We were able to grab some engagement photos on a very sunny day at the Larz Anderson park in Brookline – one of the most beautiful park spaces in metro Boston, if you ask me =)
Lauren simply radiates energy. During...
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Sunday, July 11, 2010 Posted in Weddings
What was the first thing Rebecca did on the morning of her wedding day? She jumped on her bed, exclaiming to Naimish, “we’re getting married!” while Naimish laughed. That playful energy persisted throughout the long wedding day. After a coma-inducing Indian buffet lunch, it was back to getting ready for the blue-and-white American wedding ceremony...
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There are some days when as I pull together a wedding, I realize just how lucky and blessed I am to be doing this for now. Rebecca and Naimish’s wedding was so fun (you can check out their engagement photos at MIT here)! I’ve never met a more cool bride than Rebecca, she is spunky,...
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Tuesday, July 6, 2010 Posted in Weddings
It’s no secret I love traveling. Even within Massachusetts, there are hundreds of hidden gems and gorgeous places to get married. Linda and Daniel’s wedding at a private home in Provincetown on the tip of the Cape was no exception. There is just so much to love about this wedding – it’s intimate, stylish, and...
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Thursday, July 1, 2010 Posted in Weddings
Luci and Owen hosted a gorgeous, offbeat, intimate wedding at Harvard Faculty Club for their family and friends. Some of them traveled down from Canada for this beautiful event. I had the honor of documenting their family-only wedding ceremony in the rose garden as well. The day was perfectly them, you can really tell how...
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Sunday, June 27, 2010 Posted in Weddings
Remember the rock climbing engagement session? By comments alone that was one of the most popular engagement sessions on Shang Chen Photography’s blog to date =) The energetic couple is now married! So many incredibly awesome vendors came together for their gorgeously detailed and modern wedding – including several of my favorites!
I fell head over...
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I love my clients, and what I want, more than anything, is for them to receive their images with ecstatic glee. After all, I want them to love and treasure their photos! You can read many of my reviews online at Yelp. Here is a collection of recent kind words I’ve received. You guys make me feel...
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010 Posted in Weddings
Oh my goodness, be prepared, this is the first of MANY weddings that will now be making their way to the blog now that I’m delivering proof galleries! First of all, I am so, so, so happy to finally show Mary and Jason’s wedding at the Henderson House in Lincoln, MA, on the blog. To...
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Friday, June 18, 2010 Posted in Personal
As of today, I’ve quit the other job. So long, management consulting. Goodbye, steady paycheck. Au revoir, wrangling with Powerpoint, Excel, and Lotus Notes. Don’t get me wrong, Shang Chen Photography would not have been possible without the rigorous business training I received at my consulting job. It has taught me not to shy away from...
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