Jamie and Emily - May 24, 2008

Emily and Jamie were married in a beautiful outdoor ceremony at Hurd Orchards in Holley, NY. The weather could not of been more perfect for the two of them. 

Here is Emily getting ready with her maid of honor and mom at the farm house.

Hurd Orchards grows, and creates all the floral arrangements, 

bridal bouquets and boutonnières

The ceremony 

Some of our favorite image of Jamie and Emily. 

LOVE this one!

Toast by the maid of honor. Lots of tears, laughs and hugs

In addition to the flowers Hurd Orchards does all their own catering. 

The food was wonderful!

Emily and Jamie's favor was milk and cookies for the guests on the drive home. 

Emily and Jamie's First Dance

 I don't think they realized there were people standing around watching. 

They were in their own little world dancing with each other. 

Parent Dances. 

Emily's father is deceased so she was not able to do the "Father Daughter" dance instead she made a toast to the crowd explaining that she knew her dad was with her today and that she isn't sad because she had been able to dance with her dad at many other family weddings. She invited all the fathers and their daughters to come up to the dance floor 

and share the song with her and her mom. 

It was a tear jerker! Thank goodness I had tissue in my pocket.

Jamie dancing with his mom. 

The cake 

Jamie's mom dancing like a rock star and 

Jamie and his brother rockin' out with her. 

Congratulations Jamie and Emily!! 

Nick and Alicia - Engagement Session

Nick and Alicia were high school sweethearts. They were so much fun to photograph. Really funny and outgoing and they have an amazing little dog. 

Where did we go?

we have been so busy this wedding season that I realized I haven't been updating our blog on a regular basis.... oops! So in the next few day's... most likely the next week, I will be updating the blog with all of our recent amazing weddings and engagement sessions, and hopefully a little of what we have been doing as well. 

Susan and Garrett - May 10, 2008

Susan and Garrett were married at the Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School in Rochester, New York. They had a beautiful, heartfelt ceremony and a wonderful reception. Susan and Garrett first met in High School but their lives took them in different directions after graduation. After many years, jobs, states and other obstacles they found each other again and realized how much they were still in love. 

Susan's dress. It was hand made and fit her perfectly. She was stunning!

Detail of Susan's dress which also matched her veil. 

Susan and her mom. 

Kurtis hung out with Garrett while he got ready. 

Susan and her dad moments before they walked down the isle. It was also the first time they had seen each other that day. They were both excited and giggling. 

A few of our favorite pictures of them. Susan and Garrett had a long list of family pictures that they wanted so we didn't have as much time to take pictures of them as we usually do. Kurtis and I were a little nervous about the time but we were able to get some great shots of just the two of them before it was time to go off to the reception. 

There were many toasts for the happy couple. All of them heartfelt, meaningful, funny and tender. I loved their toasting glasses. They found them in the fingerlakes on a wine tour. 

Garrett dancing with Susan's mom. 

Susan dancing with her dad. 

Susan and Garrett's first dance. The were not sure if they were going to do a first dance, but they did end up dancing together for a quick song. It was beautiful. 

Their cake! This was the greatest thing Kurtis and I have seen in quite a while. It was an ice cream cake! It was different and fun. Everyone lined up for a piece of it. Including us... ( Since we usually are busy taking pictures of the reception we usually forget that there is cake, also, since we are not official guests at the weddings we usually don't eat the cake....unless the bride, groom and or grandma insists, but folks, this was ICE CREAM! we couldn't pass it up!)

Congratulations Susan and Garrett!! Thank you for letting us photograph and share your day...and your ice cream cake!!

Well Wed in New York Magazine

Kurtis and I have one of our weddings featured in the latest Well Wed in New York magazine. We feel very honored and we are all giggly about it.  Well Wed found Kara and Austin's wedding at Esperanza Mansion on our website and fell in love with it. They called us and asked if they could feature it in the next issue. So check it out! It's on news stands right now!

Wild World of Animals

It has been the wild world of animals around here lately. I was waiting for Kurtis to pick me up from the DMV so I wandered over to the Country Max store. I was watching 2 little love birds do this funny little dance. I wanted to get a picture of them so I got out my camera. When I wasn't looking this little guy jumped from his cage, crawled up my arm and sat on my head. It was so comical that I had to take a picture. 

Our neighbors cat had kittens, this is Basil at 5 weeks. 

Kurtis took this picture and apparently this is how Sylvester and I look when I fall asleep reading my book at night.