Maine Wedding Photographer

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  • Michele (and Angie!) -Shane and I just clicked through the pictures you posted on facebook and our mouths were hanging open in awwwwww..... YOU ARE SUCH AN INCREDIBLE PHOTOGRAPHER - there are so many moments you caught!!!! I have no words to describe how thankful we are to you!!! Before we even saw any of these Shane and I could not stop talking about how wonderful you were to work with over the weekend - we hardly ever noticed you taking some of these!!!! THANK you for allowing us to just enjoy every single moment - you and Angie were amazing!!!!!!. And I can't forget to tell you how I noticed that you stayed beyond your deadline time and we are soooooo thankful for that too!!!!! Shane and I were talking over breakfast today about how we don't feel that we can fully express our gratitude to you and Carrie and Jason and our flower designer, Emily enough!!!!! I know you do this all of the time but capturing everything you did for our memories, which will soon become duller than your gorgeous photos is a true gift - you are a preserver of memories and love and experiences and those are the greatest gifts for us :) Absolutely priceless.And THANK YOU for taking the time today to prep those for us to see before we left!!!!!!! I am SOOOOOOO EXCITED to get a book from you :) I told Jason that we would be paying forward all of the love and generosity we felt this weekend from you and the other wedding magic makers - and from all of our guests - New Zealand will get a healthy dose of Shane and Stacey love - but as I told Jason earlier - Our smiles are now permanently wider because of the happiness you have helped bring into our lives :)THANK YOU - and speak to you soon!(New Zealand pics will definitely come your way) :)Love,Stacey and Shane
  • OH MY GOD MICHELE!!!!!!!!!!! I cannot even express to you how happy we are. The photos are literally sensational... they captured every special moment of the day. We LOVE them!!!!! We will be recommending you to ALL of our friends (most of whom are not married yet!!!!)We plan to pass them around tomorrow....THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! :)Lots of love.Ann & Justin
  • Dear Michele,A BIG thank you to you and Angie for doing such a wonderful job with our wedding photos. We are thrilled with the outcome. All of our family and friends are also raving about the photos. Kudos to you!It was a pleasure to work with you and we hope to see you in the future!All our best,Tana & Michael
  • Hi Michele! Everyone loves the teaser pics, cannot wait to see them all. Thank you again for doing such an amazing job. We could not be happier.Thanks!Kate
  • Michele, your images are spectacular and we could not ask for a better individual to capture these amazing images for us on such a momentous day. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts...Rebecca & Jason
  • Michele,Thank you so much for all your time and effots in photographing--and most especially just being there for a laugh--our wedding. We received so many compliments on the pictures--they so captured our wedding weekend, and so many committed on your ability to blend in; I forgot you were even there at times! Angie was also a doll, and we loved that she captured our {quote}Bride & Groom{quote} forks!Love,Greg & Kolleen
  • Hi Michele!I got your emails and I've already spent more than an hour skimming through the pictures and I'm not even half way done! So far they look AWESOME and I will be spending many more hours looking at them much more closely! The journalistic style is all that we hoped it would be! The pictures captured moments and memories in the making. Thank you, Michele and Angie!Thanks!Danielle and David
  • Michele-Holy crap. Thank you for capturing so many amazing moments! I'm so happy with how everything turned out! I was terrified that I would make my face look weird and the photos would make me look ugly- but I actually look good! Thank you so much- there are so many great photos to choose from! I can't wait to set up an album!Thanks again-Kate
  • Dear Michele and Angie,Thank you both for all the hard work you put into photographing our wedding. We are so very pleased with how the photography turned out, as have been all the people with whom we shared it.Photography was one of the most important elements of our wedding, as we're sure you could have guessed and we're so glad we hired you both to be there for us, documenting such an important day.Emma & David
  • We got our pictures in the mail yesterday evening and are so happy with each picture! Working with you has been a really great experience! Thank you so much for bringing Angie along for more awsome pictures as well. Brian and I are not only impressed but captivated by the story this wedding album tells. You are greatly talented and we just wanted to say well done!
  • Michele,Bianca & I just wanted to thank you for all your amazing hard work. We thoroughly enjoyed having you as our photographer and your (and Angie's) presence made our wonderful weekend that much more amazing. Enjoy the rest of your summer!Bianca & Michael
  • Hi Michele,We received the disc today, thank you! I was able to view the images with no problem. We've been receiving tons of comments on your work. Everyone absolutely loves the images. A couple of the favorites happen to be the exact same ones you chose (camo and B&W). Also, the one of me on the beach as the breeze is blowing my dress. I love the images of the wrap around my bouquet. And the images of the rings around the quotes on the newspaper was very clever. The birdhouse was a nice surprise too!I can't tell you how pleased we are with your work. We thoroughly enjoyed working with you. It truly showed with Steve's many smiles. All 5 of his sisters mentioned that they've never seen him smile so beautifully for pictures. Cindy
  • Hi Michele!!! So exciting, they look amazing! They are perfect - we are so happy!
  • Michele-We are in awe of your work!!! If you could send the disc to..., that would be great. There aren't any photos to remove...all are amazing. We can't thank you enough for your photos and would love to write a testimonal for the quality of your work and our experience. We may be up in Maine again before end of the summer and may set up a time to come by and look at the album options again. Talk more soon. Enjoy the rest of your summer!Thanks again,Kate and Colin
  • Hi Michele, I thought I would share this with you. My really good friend from college who couldn't make it to the wedding wrote: {quote}I am so blown away. I can't believe what an incredible job your photographer did. She truly caught the beauty in every single detail of the wedding, from your guest's personality to the way your bouquet was wrapped with satin and pearled pins. You two were astonishing. Erin, you brought tears to my eyes. Thanks for sharing the pictures, I felt like I was there.{quote} Great job! Erin
  • I just spent the past hour looking through your pictures. They are spectacular! I'm so thrilled to see them, and I'm sure our friends and family will be too. You really captured the occasion, and I was so happy to see moments that I hadn't been present to enjoy and to see our guests making friends with each other. I am really pleased and I'm sure Craig will be too. Also--I wanted to pass along compliments from our friends and family. They thought you were wonderful and loved having you and Cristin at the wedding. You did a really tremendous job and I'm so glad that you were able to have some fun in the process! I look foward to creating the album and to looking at the pictures over and over (although maybe not all in one sitting!) Thanks again so much for everything! Phoebe
  • Michele, I've been traveling for work and have just now been able to sit down for an hour and look at the photographs you sent Maryanne. They are absolutely incredible. So I am sitting here with tears streaming down my face and laughing at the same time. Thank goodness for hotel rooms with high speed internet hook-ups:) I cannot thank you enough. You and Hannah captured all the joy. beauty and awe we all felt on that weekend. I speak for Alan, too, of course!! Regards, Liz [Liz & Alan, parents of bride Maryanne]
  • Hi Michele! We got our album yesterday...It took my breath away! I LOVE it!!!!! We are both so excited with our album; I can't thank you enough. I love the cover, and I'm so happy with the gold pagemount. It's better than I imagined (the whole thing!!!) Chris opened it at work and several co-workers were very impressed by it. A few women were in awe of it and said they wished that had something that nice. And it's because of your beautiful photo skills! We're excited to show it to our families...My Mom is crawling the walls to see it. :) It's a treasure we'll have the rest of our lives and for our future family's lives so thank you so much for creating it for us! We will continue to recommend you to anyone we know getting married! :) Thanks again so much! Megan (and Chris)
  • Extraordinary. Very touching. You really captured how we all felt--good and bad. Beautifully shot. We'll write more later-- Thank you, Michele Pete and Carrine
  • Michele, Just to let you know, all boxes were received early this week. We gave Bryan's mom her album last night since we won't be seeing her on Xmas. She LOVED it. She said no one has wedding photos like we do and that is, in part, thanks to you and Hannah. It made me so happy to see her so happy...and also very excited to start on our album. So, again, thanks and have a very happy holiday. Best, Allie
  • You made such a difference in our special day. Michele, you are so friendly, reliable, professional...I could keep going....Jeff and I can't thank you enough for being there for us... We can't wait to see the pics... We will talk soon! Love, Zoe
  • Dear Michele-- We are so lucky to have discovered you. You've been such a pleasure to work with this past year. Your attention to detail and passion for photography are very inspiring. Samara & Gifford
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