Li Ward photographer of pets and weddings. Fat Orange Cat Studio is a fresh and candid boutique photography service in Boston, Massachusetts.

Hooray for winter weddings! Another hooray for teeny tiny weddings! I had a wonderful time hanging out with Kate & Phil and their immediate family as they gathered for an intimate ceremony inside Back Bay’s Ames-Webster Mansion. Kate’s dress is by J.Crew, lipstick by Tarte, and her bouquet is courtesy of that little flower stand next to the Back Bay Station. Heh. We started at the Lenox Hotel and then everyone walked together to the house. The wedding party was so small and the mansion was so enormous (and on sale for $18 million!!) that we were all able to fit comfortably in the staircase landing, where the ceremony was performed. Cocktails, toasts, and dinner afterwards at Gaslight Brasserie in the South End. Kate & Phil then jetted off to Paris and were married again in an even more intimate and romantic ceremony. Just the two of them. This was all a far cry from their original plan of a large Boston hotel wedding in the summer. Smaller and simpler suited them to a T. Congrats to you both!

I am looking forward to sharing the rest of this little wedding in a big house, which is on the market for $18,000,000. Down from $23,000,000. Get it before it’s gone! (and let me live with you please)

A wonderful spring session in the city with the handsome and playful Marley! We are all so happy to be under the sun and amongst the flowers.

This shoot features Louise and Brian, a young couple who just celebrated their 2nd anniversary. They are both originally from the South and have been in Boston for several years as Brian finishes up his PhD at MIT. The theme of the shoot is A Lazy Afternoon in the City. As Louise told me, “It’s pretty common for us, especially in the fall, to just grab a cup of coffee or cocoa and wander around the Back Bay, Beacon Hill…”

So on crispy and gray fall afternoon, we met in the historic neighborhood of Beacon Hill, traversed our way to the Public Garden, wandered through the Back Bay, stopping to window shop at AllSaints Spitalfields and admire their collection of vintage sewing machines — Louise’s family is in the textile business and she is an avid sewer. We stopped at the Old South Church where Louise sings in the choir, and finally warmed up with a glass of red wine at a Newbury Street bistro.

It turns out that Louise and I grew up in the same Atlanta suburb, and graduated from the same high school! We both agreed that despite the frigid cold, being transplanted from suburban sprawl to a tiny, walkable and beautiful city like Boston has not been a bad thing at all. Strolls from one neighborhood to the next, all steeped in history, is a weekly ritual and like me, they feel lucky to have been able to experience and appreciate Boston in this way.

Jake is a 7 year-old pointer mix. He has two very important jobs. One is gunning down all those icky, in-your-face squirrels at the park. The other is partnering with his mom in her office as a therapy dog. Buckley is his little Golden Retriever brother. I think his biggest job is to annoy Jake. He is also very talented at karate chopping water fountains with his bare teeth. We spent one beautiful weekday afternoon in Bay Village and the Boston Public Garden doing all these things.