Author: Caroline
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Jing and Peter’s reception
After the ceremony, the wedding guests moved indoors for a cocktail reception followed by dinner. Live orchids decorated each table in the conservatory. Passed hor d’oeuvres included beef wellingtons, mushroom and goat cheese strudel and chicken skewers. A seafood station offered shrimp, oysters and lobster claws. Yum! Peter’s mom at the reception. A…
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Boston Public Garden
We took a short ride to Boston Public Garden for pictures. Did you ever read Make Way for Ducklings? It’s one of my favorite children’s books, and I got to ride the famous swan boat! A horse (carrying a police officer) stopped for a quick smooch. Jing and Peter’s parents, aunts and uncles.…
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Harvard Faculty Club
After Jing and Peter got dressed, I made portraits of them inside the Harvard Faculty Club. The light in the hallway was absolutely perfect, like a Vermeer painting.
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Jing gets ready
Jing booked an appointment at Yen Salon in Boston’s Chinatown. Not only was the price right, but these are professionals who understand Asian hair and Asian makeup. So important! This deedee was such a good boy. His mom’s hair appointment started before we arrived and she was nowhere near done when we…
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Jing’s wedding dress
We rolled into a David’s Bridal in suburban Boston at 5 p.m. on Saturday in search of a dress. The wedding would be in exactly 24 hours. I love the way Jing doesn’t sweat the trivial stuff. This cool and composed lady is a doctor, for heavens sake. This poofy dress was beautiful, but overwhelming on my…
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Jing and Peter, engaged!
Jing and I have been friends since we were 12 years old. (That’s seventh grade, Levy Lions!) Over the years, we’ve bounced all over the country — Buffalo, Philadelphia, San Jose, Boston, Seattle, Baltimore — but somehow we always stayed close. I was so honored Jing asked me to shoot her wedding in Boston this past…
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Flowers, close up
More macro-lens love. It’s amazing what this lens can see. Channeling my inner Georgia O’Keeffe.
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Nora’s missing teeth
Our niece Nora, 6, is seriously missing some teeth! She says she can still eat crackers and other hard things, by chewing on the side of her mouth. We had pizza when she came to visit, and she did all right. Nora had a big weekend in Seattle: visiting the aquarium and Volunteer Park, watching Star…
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wedding album
The photos in this post are by Nora Gruner, an amazing photographer and (luckily for me) my friend from grad school. She did a fantastic job shooting my wedding last year, especially given she had two very difficult subjects! Grygiel wedding by JiaYing Grygiel | BOOK INFO I made the album in InDesign…
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Hawai’i
Picture “paradise.” You see warm sand, turquoise water, palm trees swaying gently, right? There is a place that matches that description EXACTLY, and it even has a direct flight from Sea-Tac. Ah, Hawai’i. I wanted to stay forever. Chris and I visited my sister on the Big Island, waking up to fresh papayas for breakfast and…