I met with Garifalia about shooting her and Marc’s wedding last year.  As you may know, time flies and the 9/3 date flew upon us!  We started the day in the hotel and everything was buzzing!  Family everywhere, people in an out and just an all around great vibe.  I had the pleasure of having Brad Smith along to shoot and we had a blast!  Garifalia and Marc were a great couple to work with and really laid back.  The atmosphere at Lily Lake was great too.   Everything was in bloom and there was great color all over the place!  Probably the best part of the evening for me was the dancing, especially when the extended family got into it too!  Thanks guys for such a fun and memorable wedding to shoot!

Once in awhile Jennie and I will have a big idea.  The Midsummer Night’s dress shoot was one of those.  The idea, 5 dresses hanging over a beautiful stream.  Smoke blown into the trees was to capture the streaming sunlight painting ethereal rays over the scene.  Well, mother nature didn’t agree with our plan.  A calm early morning gave way to an unreliable, omni-directional breeze.  No amount of smoke would fill the canopy and if it did, it would have found it’s way in front of the dresses ruining the image.  It did work for one image…click on ‘more’ below the image for the rest of the story…

Jennie and I had an idea, shoot brides and grooms in controlled situations that showcase some of our fantastic local venues.  It’s a chance for us to work with vendors, models, and venues while creating some great images.  Here’s what we’ve learned, working with venues, not terribly difficult, all we had to do was ask.  Working with models, again not so difficult, all we had to do was ask.  Then it dawned on us…wedding dresses…where could we find wedding dresses for different models for the different shoots?  Before we started trying bridal vendors Jennie told me to let her try something.  I waited and by the time a few days had passed Jennie called me elated, “I think I’ve got eight dresses for us!”  Jennie had put a post up on facebook and the call was answered.  A bunch of generous friends offered up their nuptial accouterments, (i.e. beautiful gowns)  We got