Jennifer and Clint were married on Saturday, March 8, 2008 at the Port Royal Club located in Naples, Florida. Located in the middle of one of Naples upscale neighborhoods as well as directly on the beach, the Port Royal Club offers a beautiful and private setting for weddings. Jennifer and Clint had their wedding ceremony directly on the beach. It was a chilly and windy day in Naples, Florida, but Jennifer and Clint were still able to have their ceremony on the beach. The Port Royal Club has many beautiful indoor locations for pictures, so most of the formal pictures were taken inside due to the weather.

The decor was Caribbean beach themed, using coral and beautiful vibrant flowers as center pieces.

The Ace Factor Band from Tampa, FL kept the reception lively.  The dance floor was always filled.

Laura and Brett were married on February 25, 2008 at the Ritz Carlton located in beautiful Naples, Florida. The Ritz Carlton has a gorgeous property from the garden located in the front of the building to the boardwalk leading to the beach to the white sandy beach itself.

Laura and Brett’s son was an adorable little ring bearer - he often tried to steal the show!

During the wedding Laura and Brett had a sand ceremony. The sand ceremony often replaces the unity candle for beach weddings because it has the same symbolization, but you don’t have to worrry about the flame getting blown out!

One of the unique things that Laura and Brett had as part of the wedding day include special linen bins for the guests to put their shoes in and exchange for sandals before heading out to the beach ceremony.

At their reception, Laura and Brett had a special plate for everyone to sign as their “guest book.”

Of course, you can’t go wrong with Tiffany & Co. jewelry!

Here are some fun images of the couple from the evening… They had lovely weather and a beautiful sunset.

Sara and Daniel were married on February 16, 2008 at Sanibel Harbour Resort and Spa located just before the Sanibel Island causeway. Sanibel Harbour Resort and Spa always provides a beautiful wedding experience for their brides and grooms. 

Sanibel Harbour Resort has many lovely locations for formal photographs of the wedding party. Their large beautiful rooms allow us plenty of room and ideas for photographs of the wedding party getting ready and their outdoor property has the lovely beach, a long boat dock, a large balcony overlooking the pool, and tons of palm trees!

As you can see in these pictures, Sanibel Harbour’s beach, which is surrounded by palm trees and other large plants, provides a quiet, intimate ceremony.

In addition to a delicious seashell cake, Sara and Daniel also offered chocolate fondue with a variety of fruit and desserts for dipping.

Since the couple was from such a cold state like Massachusetts, formal pictures outside, especially on the beach, were very important to her!

     Here are some of our other favorite images from the evening…

We are extremely excited about all the changes taking place in our photography studio!

We are making additions to the physical appearance of the studio as well as additions to our studio staff! Some of the physical changes include new fun paint colors - blue to match our logo in our main sitting area and brown back in our new slideshow viewing area. Our logo colors are transitioning from blue and black to blue and brown and we are implementing some artsy blue and brown designs on our print material and on our walls in the studio.  Our new slideshow viewing area has a large flat screen tv mounted on the wall as well as a sitting area for clients to view slideshows from specific weddings venues and specific photographers. We’ve also installed an electric backdrop system with some new fun backdrops for our studio maternity, baby, children, and family portraits.

We’ve also brought on some new team members! Michael is our new editor and design specialist and Allison is our new receptionist. Welcome to Michael and Allison! We are thrilled to have you working with us! In addition to her great phone and office skills, Allison also speaks fluent Spanish. This is a great asset for us in the studio because we do receive a lot of calls from Spanish speaking clients. Now we can say, “We speak Spanish!”

We’ll post some pictures when we are finished with the studio updates.

The Grandezza Country Club, located in Estero, Florida, continues to be one of our favorite venues for photographing weddings. The staff are excellent to work with, the weddings are beautiful, and the bride and groom usually do something unique.

Nicole and Eric’s wedding in February was no exception. For starters, Nicole had initials and wedding date embroidered on the inside of her wedding gown.

The garden ceremony was beautiful as usual of course. This shot was taken with our new Nikon 70-200 mm f2.8 VR lens! It has exceptional sharpness and takes amazing pictures!

The colors and flowers chosen were a great choice. They made beautiful table decor and fit nicely in the banquet room.  We used our Nikon 50 mm f1.4 for this shot. This is such a fun lens to use! It focuses on the foreground and blurs the background so wonderfully!

Instead of a wedding cake, Nicole and Eric had individual cupcakes with a ‘W’ for their last name on each one.

 To finish the evening, Nicole and Eric wanted to take some final pictures of them inside Grandezza. This Goodnight Kiss was a great finale to the evening.  

We encourage parents to bring their child in at 1 week old, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year and then once a year after that, typically around the child’s birthday. Babies change so quickly especially in the first few months of their lives, so we want to make sure parents have a lot of great portraits of their child during these different stages!

Baby Karston will be coming in for his 3 month portraits within the next couple of weeks. Below are his portraits at 6 days old. It will be fun to see how much he’s grown and changed these past 3 months!

Our most recent studio photo shoot was with the adorable 3 month old Eli. We used our new studio favorite lens - the nikkor 50 mm f1.4 AF. Eli seemed to know just what to do. He was full of smiles and was sitting up so well! Here are some of his pictures!

We will soon be adding maternity, baby, children and family portraits to our new website!

Abby and Joel were married on January 11, 2008 on Marco Island. The wedding ceremony was completely in Spanish and they even had a Mariachi band at the reception!

Lorna and Jeff were married at the South Seas Resort located on Captiva Island, Florida on January 12, 2008. Lorna designed and made her own wedding dress as well as all the bridesmaids’ and flower girl’s dresses. They were absolutely stunning and so very elegant. The wedding took place on the King’s Crown Lawn at the very tip of Captiva Island. The day had been very overcast with the threat of rain, but just as the bride was escorted to the ceremony, the dark clouds were replaced by beautiful white fluffy clouds and a bright blue sky! Perfect timing! The bridal party and the wedding guests were a fun group. They had a blast dancing!

Sheryl and Blaine were married on December 27, 2007 at the La Playa Beach and Golf Resort in beautiful Naples, Florida. It was a small intimate wedding. The ceremony was held on the white sandy beach in front of La Playa and the reception took place in a private dining room. It was a gorgeous day with perfect weather and a great sunset. La Playa is a great venue for weddings. Their facility provides a variety of great photo opportunities - the fountain garden, the lobby, and the beach, just to name a few. La
Playa has an elegant southern plantation charm to it. Congrats, Sheryl and Blaine!