Danielle & Jay are married!

What I love most about shooting weddings is getting to know my brides as new friends! Danielle and I instantly hit it off and both share a passion for pink, fashion, all things girly, blogging and a love for Jesus. Last year, I even started going to the same church as her and Jay and her family. By the time her wedding got here, it felt like I was shooting for an old friend.

Danielle & Jay are one of those couples who you look at and know that they are extremely made for each other. Their ceremony had me in tears as they had friends play worship music and the entire church raised hands in praying over their new marriage. I love seeing God truly in the center of a relationship as He joins two as one.

VENDORS:
Wedding Coordinator: Cassie of Flaire Weddings
Ceremony: Riverside Baptist Church
Reception: Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens
Lighting: Jax Stage Lighting
Event Design: Riverside Event Design
Caterer: The Chef's Garden
Cake: Classic Cakes
Florist: Flowers by Pat
Furniture rental: Unique Option
Band: Spike at the Beach








Jay seeing Danielle for the first time during their First Meet!
































Such stunning orchids for Danielle's boquet!










I love this moment right before Danielle let's go of her dad's hands now into Jay's!




So sweet with Danielle's mom crying and Jay's mom praying for them!




Cassie doing a fabulous job of wedding coordinator. I recently shot photos of her and her hubby!


And all the details coming together that Cassie and Danielle worked so hard on!












A cool green candy bar!




This is my favorite boquet toss to date!




They brought in a full moon to light the evening!


One last shot before they ran off to their honeymoon!



And the slideshow! I loved how Danielle picked the song from "The City". Woo hoo about "The Hills" starting again next Monday!

Danielle & Jay's wedding showcased on Southern Wedding's blog! Jacksonville Wedding at Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens.

It's always fun to get published, not just for my photography, but because I know my brides put so much thought and planning into all their fabulous details that deserve to be showed off to inspire other up and coming brides. Danielle and Jay's wedding details were so sweet and I loved their "V.I.P." red carpet theme at their reception at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens. Her wedding also proves how lighting design is sooo worth the investment and makes all the difference in photos.

Check out their interview and photos on the Southern Weddings Magazine blog and leave Danielle some comment love there:

Part 1
http://www.swsmag.net/blog/2009/6/24/real-florida-wedding-danielle-jay-part-i.html
Part 2
http://www.swsmag.net/blog/2009/6/24/real-florida-wedding-danielle-jay-part-ii.html

Danielle loved being a bride so much that she has now started the Florida Brides Blog with her wedding planner, Cassie of Flaire Weddings, who I love working with. Go check it out at:

http://floridabridesblog.com

Danielle & Jay are engaged!

One thing I love about posting my bride and grooms photos on the blog is giving them the opportunity to be rockstars. Not only are Danielle and Jay my new blog rockstars, they will soon also be starring in an upcoming video with me on photographymentor.com, an amazing community created by Los Angeles celebrity photographer Robert Evans. Robert has shot weddings for the likes of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, and Brad Pitt and Jennifer Anniston, and has created an awesome resource for photographers to learn from other photographers on his mentoring website. I was thrilled and honored to get asked by Robert to participate in an instructional video for his mentoring website. It will still be a little while before that video is ready, but for my fellow photographers out there, if you haven't yet, go sign up on his "playground" and get active in the free forums and his online school. I owe so much of my knowledge as a photographer to online forums!

So for the video, I needed a hot couple to shoot, and I knew Danielle and Jay would be a perfect fit. Danielle originally wanted a high fashion boutique hotel kind of feel to her session, but it's hard to find that in Jacksonville. So we rescheduled their original session date and took a road trip down to South Florida where Robert was also shooting. Danielle and Jay totally worked it for the camera! In the teaser I put up, people were saying Danielle looked like Paris Hilton, but I personally think she's hotter! :-)

Here's my faves from the shoot and their slideshow below. Enjoy!


















































To the right is Robert filming me as I know I'm in some weird position getting this low shot from the ground up.


And the slideshow....