Somehow the so-called “slow season” has turned into a really busy season, so I have lots to blog, but I will start with the lovely wedding of Kelly and Adam this past weekend! Yes, it was Valentine’s weekend, no, it was not a Valentine themed wedding… Kelly wanted to make sure nobody thought it was and went for an unexpected (and very welcome) pop of citrus for her flowers… love it!

Kelly looked stunning.

We headed to St. John’s Church in Mount Morris for the ceremony-

It’s a cool church, and I noticed their officiant left them a cute little note in the pew that said “Hey Kelly and Bub- Smile, you’re gettin’ married! Love, Butch” how awesome is that? It was a fun, sweet ceremony.

So happy to be Mr and Mrs!

Rings! They had these cute little snowflake holders for the place cards, so I snagged one for this shot.

Let’s Dance! (I’m singing that David Bowie style as I type, in case you were wondering.)

Fun!

And on to the portraits… the portraits we did in the bitter, bitter cold. You guys were awesome!

Kelly had all the best winter wedding accessories- a fabulous cloak and some cute boots!

So cute!

Thank you guys so much, and have an amazing time in Jamaica… seriously jealous right now!
Congratulations!

So excited about this post! I teamed up with coordinator extraordinaire Cyd of Sweetest Occasion and super stylish Ami at Elizabeth Ann Designs on this shoot. It all started with one little picture posted by Cyd, which was the basis for Ami’s lovely inspiration board…

It was really impressive to watch Cyd at work, bringing her creative vision to life. We unloaded a ton of supplies from her car, and she went to work figuring out how exactly she wanted everything to look… I love this color combination, it is so simple and elegant.

I can’t go any further without mentioning our mascot of the day, my nephew Jeremy. Look how handsome!

You want this to be your seat. Don’t lie.

Mmmmmm

Cute favors!

I had so much fun shooting this with Cyd! It is really amazing to see how one little piece of inspiration can give rise to an entire wedding decoration theme!

After meeting with Emily and Dan and doing a super sweet engagement session I was really excited for the wedding. They’re just really cute together, Dan’s quiet and Emily is bubbly, and the way he looks at her is so very sweet! Plus they’re kickass models.

Emily’s mom made this awesome birdcage veil. I do so love a birdcage.

This girl knows how to work it!

Dad sees her for the first time. And seriously people, how gorgeous and perfect is this dress on her?

The ceremony was at St. Louis Church in Pittsford, which I LOVE. I’d never been there before, but the light is great, the whole church is beautiful and the setup is pretty fantastic photo-wise. Having the chairs for the bride and groom on the left side of the altar is basically infinity times better than on the right.

A couple of tears from Emily’s dad… awwwwwww!

Seriously, LOVE this place.

The reception was at the Memorial Art Gallery, which is a really cool spot for a party! Emily and Dan (and a bunch of their friends) are chefs, so uh no pressure on the caterers or anything, ha ha. They had some pretty nice moves for the first dance…

More tears!

How cute is this picture???! Everyone was having so much fun!

Get down, get down!

Killer! Kind of has a Pulp Fiction dance vibe, right?

Before the reception, we headed off to the Woodcliff to take advantage of the view. The bridal party was awesome, thankfully it wasn’t as cold as Pam and Jared’s wedding, but it was still pretty bitter out there!

Nice light!

We also did some stuff at the gallery, which has some cool places to shoot. I like the crazy pattern of the branches.

This was a quick indoor shot, I couldn’t get it exactly how I wanted it, but thought it turned out kinda cool anyway.

I knew Emily was going to bring it with the footwear after she wore heels to our engagement session at Mendon Ponds and called them her “hiking boots” and these did not let me down! I adore colorful shoes on brides!

Thanks so much Emily and Dan, I’ve had such a great time working with you guys! Have an amazing time in Florida!

Also, I can stay silent on this issue no more… I’m With Coco. 1000%

Viva la Conando!

Happy 2010 everyone! I’d like to thank all my 2009 clients for making it such a fun and successful year!

Pam and Jared were married this weekend, just after New Year’s, and I can’t even begin to express how amazed I am at how smoothly everything went… Pam is a friend of one of my couples from this summer (more on that later!) and her first question was whether or not I’d be able to take care of planning from overseas- Jared is in the military and is stationed in Germany, so they’ve been back and forth a bunch of times in the last few months, came back to New York for the holidays and their wedding, leave for Jamaica on Tuesday and then the day after they get back, they’re officially moving to Germany. Just take a second to think about that. Planning a wedding, moving to a foreign country, honeymoon travel, and holidays all within about TWO WEEKS. My head is about to explode thinking about it. But you’d never guess from how chill everyone was during the lead-up to the wedding.

I met the girls at the Radisson downtown where they had a beautiful suite overlooking the city.

Some finishing touches…

Looking lovely!

When Pam and I first met earlier this fall, I showed her some pictures from other winter weddings I’ve done and she really wanted some cute winter accessories to go with her dress… I looooove this muffler.

As always, I’m thrilled when clients decide to do a “first sight” and it was essential on this day because the sun was going to be completely gone over an hour before the ceremony! So cute! (Fun portraits at the end)

Happy!

First dance… I love those star lights.

The speeches were great- emotional and really funny.

Krystle and Tim!!! I love when I get to see past clients, especially when they live hundreds of miles away. Cute as ever! Really great to see you guys, marriage looks good on ya!

Some of you may recall this guy was one half of the beautiful choreographed dance from Krystle and Tim’s wedding. I was hoping for an encore performance… no such luck, but he still brought some moves.

It got a liiiiittle bit rowdy… the guy in the foreground is my favorite part. I was making the same face!

Chair dance terror!

This one makes me laugh… so dedicated to the rhythm.

I always like to end with the portraits, they serve as a nice punchy conclusion.. what do you guys think?
We headed to the Lamberton Conservatory for portraits, that place is beautiful!

Spanish moss is cool, I like both these angles.

And finally, my favorites, we got about 12 seconds out in the -12 degrees… I heart snowflakes!

Congratulations you two, have a fantastic time on the honeymoon and I hope everything goes smoothly with the move! Talk soon.

Since it’s been about 10 degrees for the last couple weeks, I think a shoot from summertime is in order! I met with Katie and Sean in spring about their wedding next year, and we set up an engagement session for the end of August. Unfortunately, I came down with an awful, sudafed-resistant cold during my trip to Brooklyn (for the best party of all time) the day before, so we postponed, but it worked out well because it wasn’t the best weather… and the day we did get was fantastic! Warm and sunny and just right!

Now, my undying love for Buicks is fairly well known… so I knew it was going to be a good day when we were making the plans for where to meet up and I told Katie to look for me in a white Buick, and she exclaimed “I drive a white Buick too!” Sweet! We met up at St. John Fisher, where they went to school and had a great time wandering around shooting… they were so natural infront of the camera, just laughing and having fun like they do that every day. Win!

Right around this area was where I had what I would classify as my dorkiest photographer moment (and there have been many)… I was walking backwards while shooting, and totally forgot there was a giant step behind me, and I just backed right into it and completely bit it. Not cool, ever. Fortunately, it was a step UP (down would’ve involved lots of tumbling and breakage of gear and bones) and extra fortunately, Katie and Sean were quick to offer up their own stories of falling over to make me feel like less of a hoser. Love you guys!

Love that dress on her, Katie’s got some Hepburn style.

Hey, remember what flowers look like? I don’t. *shiver shiver*

After finishing up at Fisher, we headed to this overgrown field I’d spotted a week before, which was looking pretty awesome around sunset!

Totally feeling the warmed up black and white for these.

Looooove

I’m looking forward to May you two, can’t wait to see all the details and of course the dress!

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone, I’ll be back with some babies soon, and weddings start back up on the second so lots to blog!

Catch up time! I have a few shoots that I wasn’t able to blog because the wedding season was so busy, so now is the perfect time to post some of them- and since they were shot when it was nicer out, we can all pretend that it’s not cold, dreary, gray and leafless outside! Bonus!

Emily and Dan are getting married in January, and we got together for a sweet shoot during peak fall colors. We met up at Mendon Ponds and had about 2 minutes before it started pouring, so we decided to meet again the next day and I’m so glad it happened that way! The next day I came across this cool field that had these weird seed pods with white cottony seed puffs floating around, so I tossed the idea out to Emily and Dan and they were game… I’m posting these first because I LOVE them so much!

We had to keep waiting for the wind to bring a cloud of the puffs over, and Emily and Dan were perfect models every time I yelled that some were coming. Well done!

Then we headed back to Mendon Ponds and got some shots with their two puppies Jake and Gracie. They’re such a funny pair, and totally adorable.

Shooting with dogs is so hilarious… looking calm and cool on a peaceful nature walk:

….aaaaand 2 seconds later, playtime! He he he, I love dogs

Then we left the pups for a few more of the romantic ones

All of my couples are pretty adventurous anyway, but it’s nice when we don’t have to worry about getting dresses dirty!

Love them in this shot! They really are cute together.

Looking forward to January you two, enjoy the holidays and see you soon!
I’ve got some other engagement and portrait shoots to blog, so stay tuned for those as well everyone