InsaneJournal

Tweak says, "Mmm...I like pie!"

dominique (drochester) wrote in weddedplot,
@ 2011-12-30 10:48:00

Hola! This is Dominique Rochester. She's 23 and a grad student at NYU, she's a history nut so she's getting her master's in that department. She's an incredibly ambitious sort, she tries to be the best at whatever she tackles. And if she can't, then chances are she'll never try the darn thing again (like video games - she's rubbish! so that she'll leave to her fiance

demerits). When she's not busy studying and doing school work, she loves to let her hair down and have a good time. She's almost always on the go unless she's curled up with a book or a movie. Small warning, she is trying to plan her wedding and therefore might be a bit of a bridezilla buuut she means well?

Anyway, I did a horrible job at summarizing her, so feel free to take a look at her bio here. She could use lines of all shapes and sizes, we're not picky. :)

(Post a new comment)

	danshy 2011-12-30 08:06 pm UTC (link)
	Nothing. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	drochester 2011-12-30 09:17 pm UTC (link)
	Rude! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	mcarthurs 2011-12-30 11:51 pm UTC (link)
	Well Micaela here is a hair and make-up artist who loves to do weddings and has been working with another well known artist so maybe her name was tossed into the mix while Dominique is doing her wedding planning? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	drochester 2011-12-31 03:15 am UTC (link)
	That would be awesome! I have no idea when their wedding is set for, but I know she's the type to be meticulous when she's trying to plan. Hearing of Micaela would definitely make her want to do her research, so I bet they'll have some interaction at some point soon! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	mcarthurs 2012-01-02 07:21 am UTC (link)
	Awesome that sounds great, I look forward to it!! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	brchell 2011-12-31 12:30 am UTC (link)
	My boy Andrew is a wedding photographer so if Dominique is still on the look out for one, he'd be more than happy to fit her into his schedule. Plus he loves to get to know and dote on the couples who hire him so it'd be fantastic to have one in-game. (Reply to this) (Thread)

drochester
2011-12-31 03:17 am UTC (link)

We can easily say that she's still on the look out. She's super picky about things, I bet, so she's going to be very careful about the photographer that she chooses (and I'm sure she'll have more than one anyway). How long has he been doing that? We're still trying to work out the deets to their engagement, but depending on when it was maybe he took their engagement pictures? Unless he solely does weddings.

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

brchell
2011-12-31 04:02 am UTC (link)

He's been a photographer for six years. He was a second-shooter for the first two of them, but after getting acclaim in Glamour for a "DIY Wedding", he's since been getting steady work. This last year he shot the mayor's wedding so he's gained a lot of notoriety from that. And he absolutely does engagement sessions. They're a perk for the couples who book weddings with him because he likes to get to know the bride and groom so they can be comfortable come their wedding day when he needs to get detail shots and the like.

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

drochester
2011-12-31 04:20 am UTC (link)

Excellent! Why don't we go ahead and say that she had a friend of hers refer him, and after looking through that friend's wedding pictures she sort of fell in love with his photography style, so they booked him for the wedding and they did engagement shots a few months ago? Like I said, we're still working on all the deets so once I know an exact date then I'll get back to you on when they could have initially met and all that jazz. :)

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	brchell 2011-12-31 04:28 am UTC (link)
	That works great! He'll have kept in touch via links to his blog post when their images went live for the engagement shoot as well as by having lunch on his dime to give them the disc with the complete gallery of color graded and corrected images. And a holiday card, of course! Like I said, he loves to spoil and get to know his couples. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

drochester
2011-12-31 05:26 am UTC (link)

That sounds super. Talking about it with my slp, they got engaged in late June, so she would have wanted to get their engagement pictures done as soon as they could - possibly mid-July? And the wedding itself is possibly going to be in April, so she'd definitely keep in contact with him for that. He sounds fantastic, and just the type of guy Dom would want for her special day. :)

(Reply to this) (Parent)

	bost 2011-12-31 01:56 am UTC (link)
	Ginger five! Summary: rich kid, graduated Columbia, almost finished his Master's at MIT before deferring & picking up a civil engineering job, really technically minded, inquisitive, cannot leave something alone until he figures it OUT, doesn't like things that don't make sense but otherwise laidback. A nerd but a boy, still likes football, beer & boobs. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	drochester 2011-12-31 03:19 am UTC (link)
	High five right back at'cha! How bad is it that I hadn't even realized he was a ginger? And I LOVE this guy! Now I love him even more! lol Anyway, he sounds great and I have no doubt that they'll get along swimmingly. She likes being around fellow nerds, that's for sure! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	solidad 2011-12-31 03:59 am UTC (link)
	Soli here is the wedding planner premade and owns her own planning business 'Once Upon a Wedding' so we could always go that route for a lien and then maybe they blossom a friendship out of it? OR we can have a friendship already and maybe the wedding planning comes up as a favor? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	brchell 2011-12-31 04:10 am UTC (link)
	Totally comment hopping on this! If Soli is a wedding planner, she and Andrew should absolutely have a connection if you're looking for more lines since he's a wedding photographer. ;] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	solidad 2011-12-31 04:12 am UTC (link)
	OH YES! I think that would be great. :) (Reply to this) (Parent)

drochester
2011-12-31 04:27 am UTC (link)

Oooh, that's a cool connection! I think it would be fun to say they were friends already. Dominique is the type who thinks that she should tackle the whole wedding planning thing all on her own. She's an extreme perfectionist and has control issues, however! With her busy school schedule I know she would quickly burn herself out if she was trying to do it all on her own. So I think at some point (maybe a month or so ago) she finally cracked and asked Soli for help!

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	solidad 2011-12-31 04:34 am UTC (link)
	I can see, especially if they were already friends, when Dom says 'okay I need your help' Soli being like 'what took you so long?' but totally good naturedly. She'd also listen to what Dom wants and won't force a single thing on the girl. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	drochester 2011-12-31 04:46 am UTC (link)
	That's wonderful. I think having a friend who she trusts help her with the planning will definitely cut down on her getting all high stressed and anal about everything. Now I'm going to have to look through a bunch of wedding stuff to figure out what type she wants! lol good times. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	solidad 2011-12-31 04:48 am UTC (link)
	Tomorrow I so need to update my sls post...haha (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	drochester 2011-12-31 04:49 am UTC (link)
	I've been too busy to even THINK about that! lol (Reply to this) (Parent)

	merodio 2011-12-31 04:06 am UTC (link)
	i'm not sure what alejo here could do for you but he did live in england until last january for a few years. granted it was liverpool, but they have a bit of england in common. maybe we could work something out? or start from scratch? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	drochester 2011-12-31 04:31 am UTC (link)
	She would love to have connections with others who have lived in England! Maybe we could say that he was a friend of the family, somehow. Like one of her guy cousins and him could have been really close buddies, and then when he moved to the States her cousin could have told him to look Dom up! Or something? I'm up for anything. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	merodio 2011-12-31 04:36 am UTC (link)
	He played for Liverpool FC, so even if her cousin didn't live in Liverpool, he'd have been all over England and they could have met anywhere. They could easily have been friends and then when he moved the cousin says 'here's my cousin's number go make a friend' I like it! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	drochester 2011-12-31 04:47 am UTC (link)
	We could even say that her cousin (who I'm now naming Patrick just to have a reference), was on the team with him? I like the sound of that a lot, though! (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	merodio 2011-12-31 04:50 am UTC (link)
	Works for me! Patrick it is. I like it, and he'd still keep up with the guy too. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	drochester 2011-12-31 04:51 am UTC (link)
	Exciting, thanks for the plot! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	edenfrankel 2011-12-31 07:42 pm UTC (link)
	I'd love a line with her. Eden is a 21-year-old broadway nut, she loves singing and acting and right now is attending Juilliard. She's probably Dominique's opposite in some cases. She's not really into history or "nerdy" things in that aspect, but she does know how to have a good time and be silly. Her lack of video game skills would sadden Eden a bit, haha. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	drochester 2012-01-01 12:36 am UTC (link)
	One can never have too many friends. Not sure how they could have met, but Dominique does love her some Broadway, so maybe they met somehow through that. (Reply to this) (Parent)

chaserossi
2012-01-02 12:11 pm UTC (link)

Does she know where she's going to have the wedding? Or the reception? If she needs space to have any part of that wedding (be it a luncheon before hand) or the reception afterward, Chase could offer up his gallery space. He has prime real estate and a spacious gallery in the heart of Manhattan. Also, I can offer Chase up as a big brother type of role if you're interested, especially if she's going to be friends with his younger brother

marcorossi.

(Reply to this) (Thread)

drochester
2012-01-02 08:44 pm UTC (link)

Oh gosh, I haven't even gotten that far in her thinking, but I'm sure she would have a place all picked out by now. They got engaged in June, and while it's taken them a while to finally set a date (the wedding's in April) she would have been on top of things by researching where she wanted to have the place. Do you have any idea what the gallery space would look like? Because she really would love to take him up on that offer at least for a luncheon or something! I'd love for these two to have a good relationship. Since she's friends with their younger sister, I sort of have this idea that she adopted herself into their family, so she would definitely look up to him and Marco as brothers!

(Reply to this) (Parent)