Alisha & Carl, The Engagement Photos

I had the honor of photographing this beautiful couple with The Classic Image, and I have the even more exciting honor of shooting their wedding this coming Saturday, which I'm endlessly excited about. Beautiful Secret-Garden-esque setting, fairy wings. Now all we need is good weather.

But here are some of their engagement photos for starters :)

Ivy & Seth, The Engagement Photos

They met. They wanted to save the world. They learned each others hopes and dreams. They started to date.

And then they filled in the banal stuff - parent's names, favorite color, etc.

That's overly simplified, but how can you put into word such amazing people? This shoot was, simply, hilarious. Their chemistry and their humor and their cuteness are just to die for. This is just the sweet stuff. I may post the hilarious stuff separately, with permission :)

Ivy and Seth, at the Boston Arboretum.

This next one is probably my favorite one of the day:

Big eyes.

Big love.

I'm way behind, but almost fully edited, so hopefully a couple more blog posts in the near near future :)

By special request...

My attempts to organize my life have, as it does in most cases, just made my life more disorganized. This blog as been severely neglected because I was ATTEMPTING to move to Wordpress for many reasons. So I haven't wanted to update this blog because I was saving all my posts for Wordpress, but Wordpress was so confusing, that I didn't post at all.

End result: I am very far behind. I don't even know what to post to catch up.

So here's a little teaser for an engagement shoot I did this past weekend at the Boston Arboretum. Congrats Ivy & Seth!

Otherwise, I have been a shooting, editing, marketing, scheming manic. So this blog post is dedicated to Chrystine, the only person I know who actually religiously follows my blog with any semblance of regularity :) Thanks lady, I love you.

Hoppy Easter

Hope it was eggs-ellent :)

Roxy's Gourmet Grilled Cheese

For year's now, I've been yapping on about wanting to start a food blog, but couldn't. What better way to invite failure than to start a project? So I procrastinated and made excuses, looking for the perfect opportunity, the perfect situation, the perfect food to jump start my creative juices, thinking it would never happen. But it did. And today was that day.

Picture this: It's March 23rd, early evening. It's snowing. Why is it snowing so late in March? I'm crossing Chestnut Hill Ave at Cleveland Circle and... is that an ice cream truck? In the cold and snow?

No. It's a grilled cheese truck. This definitely warrants further investigation.

Enter, James DiSabatino.

This is the face behind the face that is Roxy's Gourmet Grilled Cheese Trucks (the main face being, of course, that of Roxy). And who is Roxy? According to James, it's a secret.

Roxy's Grilled Cheese features four varieties of the classic sandwich, from the Turkey Bomb Melt (Harvarti, turkey, scallions, cranberries and sour cream) to the Rookie Melt (Jack, tomatoes and mustard). And what about plain ol' fashioned cheese on bread? Probably. But I wouldn't recommend something so vanilla.

I, on this first of what I'm sure will be many, many visits, order the Green Muenster - muenster, guacamole and apple-wood smoked bacon. Et voilà!

Okay, so it's not the best photo of the sandwich, but I was so eager to try it that snapping a photo only occurred to me retrospectively. But it did not disappoint. The bread was toasty and crunchy, the cheese gooey and - get this - the guacamole is fresh made, by the Roxy staff, every day. I am a guacamole fanatic and snob and I have to say - that guacamole is the big cheese. This truck is parked not 3 blocks from my apartment, and it was gone before I got to the building door.

Roxy's Gourmet Grilled Cheese also offers two sides: the classic, must have with grilled cheese on a snowy New England day, tomato soup, and fried Grillo's Pickles. Extra points to Roxy's for the Grillo's, which are some of my favorites (coincidentally, also something I discovered ala street food).

So far, Roxy's only has one parking location - in the parking lot on the corner on Beacon Street and Chestnut Hill Ave, at Cleveland Circle - and you can find them there Wednesdays and Thursdays during the day, and Friday and Saturday night.

I left the truck still without the story of who Roxy is, so now of course, the allure is two fold - melted cheesy goodness, and the mystery. Who is Roxy? How did she inspire this idea? And what is that tattoo on her arm...?

Whoever she is though, I can only be glad she inspired James, who's amazing sandwich, in turn, inspired me to finally start this blog. So, James - thank you.

Roxy's Gourmet Grilled Cheese. Bread. Cheese. Rock and Roll.

Jamie: Twenty-one!

I just found out this pretty lady's birthday is tomorrow! So happy birthday Miss Sraet! You can find her here on Model Mayhem.

Maia + Zach: The Big Apple, NY

She was from the Philippines. He was from Ohio. They both signed up to be leaders for CISV (Children's International Summer Villages) who's motto is - most appropriately and ironically - "Building global friendship." Which is what they did. And then more.

It started as a long, long distance friendship. She went back to Manila. He went back to Ohio. There were Skype movie dates. And then he surprised her for Valentine's Day - by coming to the Philippines. He was supposed to stay a few weeks - he ended up staying over a month.

She moved to NYC to go to grad school. He got a job in the same city. And then one day, he proposed.

This was just a small civil wedding, with a pending church wedding set for December 2012. But still, how can you not love a love story like that? :)

Keith Todd: Musician

I spent the whole day cleaning house in preparation for the arrival of my cousin and her new hubby who are staying the weekend to attend PAX East. They don't arrive til 11pm and I'm stuck at home feeling housewifey (a feeling I truly hate), so instead, I'm choosing to feel productive by updating this blog :)

This is from late last year, but never got posted anywhere as far as I recall. This is Boston-based musician, Keith Todd, who's headshots and album cover I had the pleasure of doing.

Kristy Doll: Tangy

After futilely wrestling with WordPress, I am officially sticking to this blog! I've been playing with branding and changing websites and fighting with logos and vacillating between company names - I may as well keep one thing the same. And this is it!

So, let's see if I can actually post more regularly. This is from a few weeks ago:

Two bottles of powdered Tang, one dozen oranges, two grapefruit and a sexy lady. That's all you really need :)

Not a New Years Resolution

I'm not going to pretend that I'm going to post regularly, since I obviously am bad at it. I've more committed to being a Facebook junkie (like everyone else is), so, I have a new business page! Keep following me at Karina Picache Photography on Facebook.

I'm not saying I'm not going to post here anymore, I'm just giving a warning as to its infrequency.

But here is a great newborn session I did this January. Izzie Blu, and so adorable.

See more here! (link!)

And hopefully you here from me soon :)