With the 2013 wedding season wrapped, Jess and the Test Shot will take a short hiatus for the winter. In the interim I'm excited to share today what will be the final engagement shoot to hit this space for a while (though I do have some cool posts upcoming that aren't wedding-centric). Before this week's deep-freeze hit, I spent a few hours bumming around Back Bay with Nicole and Galen, enjoying the last gasps of fall. It's a ways off still, but I'm already looking forward to their 2015 wedding. 

It's fitting that my 2013 wedding season ended with a November wedding that felt like it could have been in April (maybe that explains our wildlife sighting). Before their wedding, I felt like I already knew Lindsay's family, as I'm pretty sure her dad should be teaching "Facebook for parents" classes (at least to my mom and in-laws), and the day couldn't have been more fun. Perhaps the only disappointment was that Gordy didn't make an appearance. Ben was also kind enough to tag along and help us blow out the season in style, and many of his images appear below.

I guess you can call 2013 the year of awesome pups tagging along to engagement shoots - a trend Lia and Ryan (and Walter) kept alive and well when I met them for engagement photos last weekend. I'm already looking forward to their Maine wedding next fall when hopefully we'll have some peak foliage (but sadly no Walter).