CJ and Amy!

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I have known CJ since he was three and I was twelve...and his babysitter. Cut to many years later and here I am shooting his wedding!
It was a beautiful event with lots of personal touches. CJ's sister Tori, who I also sat for, made one thousand paper cranes that were hung throughout. During the ceremony each of the guests held a stone which was then placed into a lovely open wood box for the couple to keep. The reception was held in a beautiful barn and at the end of the night a bonfire awaited.

Grand View Inn
Florist; Beth Hylan
Jenny's Wedding Cakes
DJ Labbe
Hair; Connie Maratos

Hanging out in the pool room the night before the ceremony

The candy bar!

Quick! Before the Twins Arrive!

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I have known Amy quite a while. She is the ever-capable head of Stoneham TV where my mom hosts the cable access show The Total Woman.

Amy and I had been talking about getting together to photograph her and her family before the arrival of her twins Luke and Josh. Fortunately, we made it just in time with a week or so to spare!

 A very nice note from Amy...

Cydney,

I LOVE LOVE LOVE them!!!  I feel so lucky that we were able to go on a professional photo shoot with you!  This will be very special to show Luke and Josh someday...that they got their very own photo shoot!  I LOVE the shots of Nicolas and am happy to have proof of my belly since so many people can't believe I was pregnant with twins!

Thanks so much!

~~Amy

Diane Arbusing

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Diane Arbusing, you ask?  Yes, there is such a thing. I have decided that Arbusing is a verb, right here, right now, as I type this.

I cannot express how much I love these photos. They were taken at a "photo booth" at my friend Debby's wedding in California last weekend. Maybe I like it because I never have my picture taken. Maybe I love it because it's with her and I adore her. Maybe it's because I was her mentor when she was an intern at The Palm Beach Post seven years ago (yikes!) and we have remained friends ever since.

When she was an intern with the Post, she came over for a Halloween party after some crazy late-night shoot she had to do, because, well, she was the intern and sometimes as an intern you get stuck with that stuff. We were feeling silly and decided to take a goofy, serious photo (yes, I do see the paradox), which we both joked later, as I recall, that it looked like a twisted version of the already somewhat twisted shot by Diane Arbus of a set of twins looking straight at the camera. (That photo from seven years ago is at the bottom of this entry).

Skip forward seven years and Debby is getting married and here we are again, still dressed up but much more grown-up like (well, sort of).

At first we had a hard time pulling it together, of course.

Then we managed it.

and this is the old one.

Completely, Totally Rad!

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This is just a quick shot I took of my friend Jenny for the local news yesterday. We have been working very hard in preparation for this fund-raiser for the Center for Performing Arts in Wakefield. Let's hope it's a success! Wanna come?

Jenny Foss of Waltham, a Wakefield High School Alum unpacks a collection of 80s posters at the Scott house. Foss is a member of the Center For Performing Arts and is working with fellow member and WHS grad Cydney Scott on the CPA's upcoming 80s Dance fund raiser.