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  • Welcome to our Blog!

    Hi. Thanks so much for visiting our new blog.  Tara Morris and Ben Wight are Hitched Studios:  the best friend wedding photography duo.  We're located in Boston, but we love to shoot anywhere on our planet.

    This blog is where you'll find a nice/large sampling of our latest weddings and engagment shoots, as well as anything else we feel like announcing.   We'll be sure to post enough photographs from each shoot so you can get a good feeling of the energy of the day. 

    We feel really lucky to be able to photograph people in love on such a beautiful day in their lives.  We love being Hitched Studios, and we thank you so much for visiting our blog. 

Jill and Mark: hitched.

Jill’s rad.  That pretty much sums it up.  Photography was super important to her (go, girl!) and she’s drop dead gorgeous so working with her and Mark was a highlight of our season.  She wanted killer pictures so she designed her time line around getting those.  It didn’t hurt that no one was at the ICA when we were there and it was another gorgeous Saturday in July. It was just an easy, relaxed wonderful day.

Jill loves weddings and is just a really good person so we were so happy for her that everything turned out so perfectly.  She deserved every second of her bliss.  Jill and her girlfriend, Sue, have a really great event and wedding design/planning gig.  If you’re engaged and looking for some help, check them out: www.detailsboston.com

Thank you to Jill, Mark, and their friends and families.  We had a wonderful day.

Venue:  Seaport Hotel

Band: Men in Black

Details: (who else?) Details Boston!

enjoy.

Jen and Joe: a beautiful, multicultural wedding.

Hoot, hoot!  Our first Chinese American wedding.  What took ya so long, Chinese American peeps!?  Ben and I had the best time EVER at Jen and Joe’s wedding in June.  It was at the Boston Harbor Hotel Wharf Room which is pretty much the most stunning venue in the whole dern city so that didn’t stink.  Jen and Joe put so much thought and organization and detail and fun into their day.  There were door games that Joe and his guys had to go through before Joe got to see Jen, a beautiful tea ceremony in Jenn’s STUNNING Chinese dress, table toasts, a groom’s cake to reflect all the things Joe loves (namely surfing, Hawaii, and the Red Sox), and a third dress change to round out the American, the Chines, and the Party Girl!

This was such a great day for Ben and I.  Thank you so much to Jen and Joe for trusting us with such a beautiful day.

We love you guys.  You know that.

enjoy.

Rose and Josh: their weddin’.

So, Rose and Josh are not only super rad, but they’re the third couple in a set of friends that we’ve photographed in a year.  It’s so fun to go to these weddings because we know at least 30% of the people and we kid ourselves to think we were actually invited as guests.  You should see Ben. He gets super drunk and hits on all the girls.  It’s super embarrassing.

Rose and Josh were married at The Clarion Hotel in Hull, MA on an absolutely gorgeous Friday night in June.  Great weather, great friends and family, great music.  Guess what? They’re wedding was great.

enjoy.

Kate and Chris: their weddin’

So…. I met Kate when she was like…ohIdon’tknow….six years old, maybe?  It wasn’t that recently, at any rate.  Her older sister, Suzy, was a good friend of mine startin’ way back in the days of Elementary School, and MY older sister was really good friends with Suzy and Kate’s older sister, Kerre.   Do you care? No, you don’t.  But I do, and I’m the author of this post.;)

AAAnyway…. Kate got a hold of me through facebook last year and we were both super excited at the thought of Hitched photographing her wedding.  Her and Chris ROCK!! They have three amazing dogs and they’re just a great couple.  Their engagement shoot, you may remember, is HERE. Ben and I have been excited for their big day since we last photographed them then, and all our dreams came true.  A PERFECT day, a super fun wedding, a great looking couple and wedding party, and a great location (Indian Pond CC in Kingston, MA).

Here are some of our favorites from the day:

enjoy.

(there are no comments on these photographs.  It’s not because I didn’t have anything to say.;), but because it takes about 90 minutes or so to upload individual photographs with comments.  If you’re really missing the comments, let us know.  If it’s not a big loss, let us know.  Do it on our facebook fan page or through the comments section here)

Nikki and Lou and their perfect DIY Wedding.

YOWZA!!!  Wait ’til you see this wedding!!  Talk about putting your heart and soul into something!  OK, so some things you need to know:  Nikki is a preschool teacher (notice: her programs, her ‘I Spy’ games for kids, among others).  The wedding was created by the bride and her staff of one.  The combined talents of Nikki and her mom really made the wedding what is was…. ( Nikki made the bracelets the bridesmaid’s wore and designed the flower girl dresses. Her mom made the table runners, the table numbers, the groomsmen’s ties, and LOTS of other stuff).  Her aunt made the clutch purses her bridesmaids carried AND sewed the flower girl dresses!!  Lou’s mom MARRIED THEM…because she’s a Buddhist Priest! UNREAL!!!  There are many details and extras I’m not including here, but lots of details are in the captions of the photos.  Their day was perfect!  It was at Brooksby Farm in Peabody on a perfect day in May.  Two young and beautiful people starting their lives together.  Utter bliss.

Nikki has started a part time job helping other brides with their DIY wedding.  If you’d like to get a hold of her, please let me know!!!

enjoy.

Nikki's childhood bedroom where she got ready. It's such a pretty place I had to include a shot.

polk-a-dot shoes? the creativity continues.

Her mother's wedding dress in the foreground and Nikki's in the background.

Fabulous Lou!

First sighting!

In their bedroom...in the basement of the house she grew up in...which is the house her Dad grew up in. These kids know family and loyalty like none other.

Take a good look at everything in this inspiration board. A DIY bonanza! amaaaaazing.

Right down to the instruments played at the ceremony...a totally unique wedding.

Moments before her walk down the aisle.

Lou, his mom, and his brother watching for Nicole. Lou's mom MARRIED THEM!!!! What? She's an ordained Buddhist priest. Is this wedding killing you yet!?

How much do you already love this guy?

Lou's Dad speaking at the ceremony. He is amazing and brought all sorts of Native American elements into the day.

KILL ME!!!!!!!!

Ready for this? This is Nicole's grandfather's truck...which was sold years ago to a random couple in Maine. Nicole's family contacted the new owners and they drove it from Maine for pictures!!! amaaazing!!

Needless to say, we spent quite a bit of time photographing these two with the truck.

This is the truck that Lou picked Nicole up in for their first date. OBVIOUSLY!

the jubilant announcements!! can't you just hear the crowd roaring...

What's your favorite part of this image? The sweep-off-your-feet excitement of their first dance...or Ben's face?

As if this all wasn't enough...their first dance? A fully choreographed, utterly well done East Coast Swing. (what?!)

Listening to toasts and taking it all in.:)

'One for you, two for me' is always a great policy when it comes to cake.

And when the light was perfect...we headed out to the apple orchard.;)

On a scale of one to a gagillion...how much do you think Ben and I enjoyed this?!

I love this image of Ben's. Nicole and Dad doin' their dance.

AGAIN!!! Lou and his mom did theeeee most amazing dance together. Another East Coast Swing. Unreal.

What? How else would you end your wedding, but with a Native American chanting parade that went all over the grounds. INSANE GOODNESS!!