Meet Aisling & Jon

Ash and Jon are high school sweethearts who are planning a Halloween wedding this fall. Ash is a fellow photographer and it's always such an honor to have another photographer select you to document on of the most important days in their lives. More impressively she is also a hockey player and her and Jon participate regularly in a local rec-league. We met at Lynch Park in Beverly for their engagement shoot and they told me that it's one of their favorite places to people watch. I've shot a few times at the park but Ash told me a great story about the history of the beautiful Rose Garden.

The current Rose Garden used to hold the summer White House of President Taft which was owned by the Evans family. Apparently Mrs. Evans didn't care for Taft and was so annoyed with the President and all of the commotion that he caused that after two years of renting to him, she informed him that his summer home would no longer be available, as she was planning to construct an Italian Rose Garden in its place. The cottage was moved by barge in two separate pieces to Peache's Point in Marblehead, where it can still be seen today. What an awesome story!

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