Photographer Begs Thieves to Return Maynard Wedding Pictures

By ALEX NEWMAN (Patch Staff)

NEWTON, MA - For many people, the day they get married is one of the most memorable of their lives. But what if there was no record of it?

Wedding photographer Francielle Santo is making a plea to thieves to ensure that doesn't happen to a newly-married couple she shot in Maynard Saturday night. Shortly after the ceremony her equipment was stolen from her car, and with it, the memory cards containing the only copies of the wedding.

Santo, who runs her business out of Newton, is offering $1,000 for the return of the memory cards, Fox25 reported. She told the network that the bride is a friend of hers and she is heartbroken over the prospect of losing the photos.

After the reception Saturday night, Santo drove into Boston to pick up friends and parked on Hereford Street in Back Bay. She told Fox25 she was only gone for a few minutes and returned to find her back window smashed in. Her camera, as well as other equipment, had been stolen.

Santo hopes her appeal will resonate with the thieves or that someone who buys a used camera and finds the photos will return them.

She is also asking that pawn shop employees look out for her equipment - a Canon EOS 5D Mark III camera, a Kingston compact flash 16GB memory card and a SanDisk SDHC 32GB memory card.

>>>Read the full report from Fox25 here<<<