Real Wedding - Erica and Sam Captured by Alexandra Roberts

I am proud to feature Boston photographer, Alexandra Roberts on SCW today. Alexandra has also generously offered to share some photos from the real wedding of Erica and Sam.

 Alexandra's love affair with photography goes back to her childhood. She writes "I have been taking photos since my mother gave me her old Minolta SRT201 camera when I was in middle school.  I loved shooting with black and white film and she was always very supportive of my artistic adventures.  She would sign me up for classes and when my brother was in high school he took a photography class where he got to develop his own film.  I quickly started teaching myself about how to develop your own film and then the both of us begged our mother to help us set up a darkroom in our basement.  After some convincing, while we were already taking a trip to new york city, she took us to B&H photo to pick out our equipment for the darkroom and I have been hooked ever since!  I shoot digital now and have never stopped loving the art of photography.  I love to incorporate Polaroid cameras (I have 5!) and lomography toy cameras into my shoots as well from time to time."

As many people tend to do, Alexandra did not immediately follow her passion for photography, but soon she was drawn back to the art. "I felt myself drifting away from photography after I graduated college in 2005 and moved from Maine to Boston.  I needed to reconnect with the art form I love so much and so I started scouring the internet for photographers who would give me a chance to second shoot for them.  Of course nobody wanted to take me on because I work a normal 9-5 job as a web developer.  After months and months of searching, someone needed an assistant photographer for a wedding and so the portfolio began to develop!"

And what exactly is Alexandra's philosophy when it comes to wedding photography? I think she sums it up in saying "I've had a lot of brides and grooms tell me that they don't remember very much about the actual day because it goes by so fast.  So, photography is the way they get to remember the day in it's entirety.  I am very much about getting people in their element, not posed and giving me 'camera smile'."

As they say though, the proof is in the pudding and these gorgeous shots show precisely why Alexandra is a star on the rise in the Boston wedding scene. Alexandra shares about our featured wedding, "The couple was going to have their wedding next to a beautiful pond, and 3 weeks before the event the city revoked all permits for that area! As an apology to the couple, the town of Medford (MA) gave them the city hall building to host their wedding (they have never had a wedding there before) and it was beautiful inside!  They had most everything handmade and the reception was a pot luck style.  Friends and family provided this couple with almost everything!"

 Thank you so much Alexandra for joining us today. If you'd like to see more of Alexandra's work, check out her website http://www.alexandraroberts.com/

We'd also like to send a special congratulations to Erica and Sam, living proof that at the end of the day, all you need is love!