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RACHEL BUCKLEY WEDDINGS is a portrait & wedding photography studio based in Portland, Maine specializing in elegant, honest storytelling and romantic, natural portraits.

 
 
 
 
 
 
Tomorrow’s the day all! It’s going to be another awesome collaboration with @crateandbarrel, @jessicahennesseyweddings, @beachplumfloral and we’d love to see you there! Shopping, wedding inspiration, food, music, fun prizes...who is going to say no to that?! . Join us at @crateandbarrel’s Private Registry Event tomorrow, 10/20, to create your perfect registry and enjoy food, fun and more. Click link in bio to learn more and to RSVP. Per usual I will be the one joyfully behind the camera documenting all the not-to-be-missed inspiration from the awesome vendor team listed below. . Planning + Design @jessicahennesseyweddings | Photography @rachelbuckleyweddings | Catering @wanderlushboston | Floral Design @beachplumfloral | Stationery @allisonkthln | Hair Stylist @the.bridal.bar | Bakery  @lizzies_bakery | Entertainment @speechlessmusic | National Strategic Planner @shannongailweddings .  #CrateWedding @CrateWedding #ad 📷 : @courtney_elizabeth_media 💋 @adorerouge 💇‍♀️ @aphroditesalon
You know that feeling when you meet someone and you feel like you've already known them for a lifetime? @justpatridge and @johnnyhilbrant are definitely those people for me this year. Warm, funny and kind. And I mean seriously kind. Justin even kept me company on his work break while I was stranded in a waiting room at Mass General for what felt like a lifetime. It felt so familiar spending an evening with them. We ate lobster rolls and popped champagne while we sailed around Casco Bay at sunset. 🙌Looking forward to seeing what magic they bring to their wedding day @fpmaine next year! ❤️⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ It was brought to my attention recently that my catch phrase in life is always some variation on "This is so amazing!" So let me just say yet again...THIS NIGHT WAS AMAZING! Genuinely amazing and I adore you two! 😘
A circle - timeless, wholeness, infinite, eternal.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ One of my favorite things about photographing weddings actually has nothing to do with photographs. It is actually getting to witness the thoughtfulness and originality that each couple puts into their wedding day. I am not sure what year it was that I started to notice wedding celebrations shift away from a more traditional, cookie cutter type day to becoming these awesome expressions of who the couple is. And I am not just talking about picking colors for bridesmaid dresses or asking for their favorite florals I am talking about intentional overall design. Custom ceremonies where guests may pop up to share their favorite quotes on commitment. A fair trade scarf stand for guests to celebrate the bride's time working with women in Africa. A Nordic-inspired lounge area at the reception to honor the groom's mother. An enormous Viking-style bonfire at the end of the night to celebrate the couple's heritage. Or in this case a tribute to the circle. From something as large as the layout of the ceremony to something as small as the boutonnière. Intentional, thoughtful and unique.
Do you know what is crazy flattering? When fellow photographers and creatives ask you to document their wedding day. Peer fear is REAL and having @nplevesque and @albrundage put their faith and trust in me is just 🙌🙌🙌. Feeling goooood y'all. Feeling confident. Feeling so ready to rock the heck out of their fall wedding @primorestaurant. These two were the best company & they made my job feel effortless . 💕#creativesunite
Sometimes I have to remind myself to step back. No, not from like life or my crazy thoughts or from the work hustle. Like literally and physically I need to take a step back. I tend to photograph couples and details "up close and personal." My professor's voice still echos... "Fill the frame. Crop in camera. Get close. Then get closer." Although I am not sure that training actually explains my tendency towards the get close then get closer approach. Honestly it feels more like an unconscious tic. Like somehow if I am really "in it" with the two of you the photograph will reflect more - I step forward again - then even more of whatever it is you are feeling. I am not to proud to admit that maybe, just maybe, this isn't always the case and that sometimes a photograph (or let's be real the two of you 😬) need me to take that step backward - I step backward again - leaving a little room to let the moment (or in this case the gorgeous centerpiece) breathe. What do you think? Green wall = breathing room? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @watershedfloral⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @newagenseasideinn⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @aebelbem & @bemismw
FASHION COURAGE. The enviable backless dress. And for some of us 🙋‍♀️ the elusive backless dress. Ever google how to wear one of these beauties? It ain’t easy to look this dang good. 👸🏼
A little love note to @watershedfloral whose talents continue to add not only another layer of beauty to your wedding day but also to the images we photographers create. You. Are. Appreciated. I know it’s only August but...will you be my valentine? 😉😘⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ . ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ As photographers one of the age old questions we get is “can you describe your style.” Well I don’t know if florists get this too but for me, as a non-florist, I’d say this particular bouquet inspires romance. Like soft, fluffy - we never argue cause we are too pretty - cloud-like romance.
Welcome to my treasure spot! So I realize that the lucky ones who grew up here will be able to guess this location straight away but for my part, and for those of you who didn’t, you’ll just have to go hunting - my lips are sealed. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🙃 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ IMO this is a view best served on Sunday mornings. Sunrise, lighthouses (plural!) and a sandwich from @scratchbakingco waiting to be devoured.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🤤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @eyoung1124 recommends the Smokey Rose and I am all like avocado toast everything, everyday and for always.
I had this mother of the bride last year who arrived to the bridal suite with this gorgeous chignon. I was all heart eyes and mentioned to her how beautiful it was and how something so simple (in appearance) can be so elegant. She was flattered but beyond that she asked with a bit of a surprise in her voice, "Do you not know how to do this?" Come to find out she learned to do this herself from her mother as a child in Sweden. Since meeting her I have tied and twisted and pulled and sprayed may way to the perfect chignon and well...fail. Thank goodness for hair stylists, amirite? Truly wish I had my own stylist on wedding days to class up my non-pinterest worthy - yes I’ve tried all the you tube tutorials - top knot. 🤦‍♀️⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ . ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ A couple weeks ago I walked into a bridal suite and there it was. Taunting me. Another variation on the ever timeless chignon. 💕
Were you a summer camp kid? If yes I am guessing you have a memory of that one particular counselor you were always crushing on. Well here's a story for you of happily ever summer camp after! K&S were counselors at neighboring @camp.kieve and #campwavus here in Maine when they first met. It could not be more perfect that they should return to this special place to celebrate their union. Marrying each other but also their past, present and future. @pinchmeplanning did an awesome job of infusing K&S's camp traditions throughout their day and getting to witness and experience this - place, people and traditions - was just goosebumps for days. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I myself was a summer camp kid. Third generation at Camp Hiwela singing the same songs as the family members who attended before me. 🎼Oh granny's in the cellar - Oh lordy can't you smell her - Baking biscuits in that darn old dirty stove... 🎼 Mm, probably best I stop there. These lyrics don't exactly scream "Rachel Buckley Weddings - luxury wedding brand!" 😂These lyrics do however illuminate those childhood memories of late night giggle fits in bunk beds, candlelit processionals to evening bonfires, swimming across the lake so you can finally take off that embarrassing "tadpole" wrist band that kept you in the shallows the summer before. Where names were sewn into clothing tags, flashlights were used to get you from cabin to cabin, and at the end of the week your skin was dotted with calamine lotion. All this rambling is just a round about way for me to say what I mean... CHEERS! Cheers to childhood innocence and cheers to the camaraderie of summer camp. ❤️⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ P.S. I learned last night while @thompsonspoint for a kick ass concert that @maggierogers attended summer camp in Maine. Just sayin' 😎

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