It was a busy end to 2025 with many weddings, portrait sessions, and events and once again I was too busy to update my blog.. so here we are. Aimee and Zach’s wedding was my last wedding of 2025 and it was a beautiful backyard celebration filled with friends and family and lots of love and celebrations. We had some great late fall weather with the perfect hint of crispness in the air and perfect golden hour lighting for their portrait session. We really could not have asked for a better day. As the sun was setting, we all gathered underneath the tent for speeches and the dancing and celebrations continued well into the night. Congratulations to two very special clients and friends!
When Hayley told me that she wanted to do her maternity shoot at the Sussex County Sunflower Maze, I was ecstatic. Not only do I love when a client has a special location that they’ve chosen, but I have been looking for an excuse to visit the maze for years. I got there early to scope out a few spots and strategically chose late afternoon so that we would be able to catch some of the golden hour lighting to end our session. We pretty much had the entire place to ourselves and had a great time together exploring the maze and trying out different poses.
It was a busy summer and I am just now catching up on editing and updating my website and blog. There will me much more to come over the next few months as I prepare for all of the sessions that I have booked for the holiday season. Thank you for following along!
Last month was Alex and Paul’s wedding at the Park Savoy in Florham Park, NJ. This was my first wedding of the year and I couldn’t have asked for a better day to start off my 2025 wedding schedule. Alex is such a talented jewelry maker and hand made all of the jewelry for the wedding including both of their rings and Paul’s cufflinks. I made sure to get plenty of detail shots of all of her beautiful craftsmanship along with the rest of the details throughout the day. We did not let the rain stop us when it came to their portrait session and opted to use it to our advantage and bring an umbrella outside for some shots.
Photographing a wedding is all about documenting the day as it unfolds and the weather is just one part of their story. when my clients look back at their wedding gallery or album, I want it to tell a story. I want it to remind them of every little aspect from their wedding so they can relive their special day again and again and again.
I am looking forward the rest of the weddings, portrait sessions, engagement sessions, and other events that I have booked for the rest of this year. I am so lucky to have such great first-time and repeat clients and to work with friends, couples, and business owners who trust me to capture their weddings, their love, their special moments and their events. Here’s to a successful and fun 2025!
Every year, I look forward to photographing the Asbury Park Santa Run as it is always one of my favorite events of the year. Everyone is in the Christmas spirit, vibes are great, and the afterparties get better every year. This year, the event was sold out and they had the best turnout yet. Everyone braved the cold weather and warmed up during the 5k run. After the race, groups of runners and their friends and families flocked to the beach, boardwalk, and of the course the 4 different after parties. The biggest crowd is always for The Stone Pony but there was great live music at all of the parties. For the entire day, all of Asbury Park was filled with happy people all dressed up in Christmas attire, having a great time, and singing along to the music. I’m already looking forward to next year!
Once again, the busy summer got the best of me and I am a few months late to posting but I had to share some photos from Alex and Paul’s engagement session which we did earlier this summer. Since I will be photographing their wedding next year, we wanted to do an engagement session so that they had photos for their save the date cards and so we could work together before the big day. We decided on Ringwood State Park for a location and we ended up having good weather all day, with some great lighting to have fun and get creative with. Alex has her own jewelry business so she made this beautiful engagement ring herself and she is also making the rings for the wedding along with some other custom pieces for the wedding party, which is am beyond excited to photograph! I just upgraded to the Canon RF 100mm 2.8 macro lens for my Canon R5 and I am very impressed with the image quality in Macro mode for ring shots. This was my first session using this new lens and I am looking forward to having this be a regular lens in my arsenal. Can’t wait for the rest of the sessions that I have lined up for the remainder of the year and I hope everyone is having a great summer!
Veronika and Kyle had a beautiful courthouse wedding this summer and I was so happy that they chose me as their photographer for the day. Having worked together for their engagement photos, I had a great idea about what they were looking for and knew that we already worked so well together.
The weather was looking iffy so I spent the afternoon the day before scoping out some spots we could hopefully go for a quick portrait session before the rain started. We started at the Mahwah courthouse and did our family portraits right outside as soon as that was over. While their families headed to the restaurant they had picked out for a celebration dinner, the 3 of us went to the spot I had picked out for portraits. We had nice flat lighting thanks to the overcast sky and they were both on cloud nine. Those emotions truly showed in their photos. We wrapped up just as the rain started falling so the timing could not have been better.
What a year it has been! I have a few more posts that I will work on for the rest of my sessions to round out 2023 so please come back soon. Thank you for reading and I hope everyone is having a great fall season!
There is something so special about photographing a proposal; the genuine reactions of everyone, the romantic atmosphere, and being able to enjoy and celebrate such a special moment and share that with my clients. When I got the call that Joe was proposing to Alexa and they wanted me to be there to photograph, I was ecstatic. Her mom had a beautiful area set up outside by the pool with a sign, balloons, and chilled champagne waiting to be opened for the celebration. Alexa was so surprised and happy and her family were all so glad they they could be there to witness it and share that moment together. We got a very quick portrait session in while they were still reeling with excitement and I got some genuine emotion and reactions captured on camera that we were all so happy with. I feel so lucky to have friends and clients that trust me with capturing such a monumental day and I can always look back on shoots like these with joy. It has been a busy and eventful year, but I still have a few more posts left for the summer so please come back soon!
As I am booking weddings and events for 2023, I wanted to make a post about Amber & Connor’s amazing wedding at Maritime Parc in Jersey City, NJ from the end of last year. The couple did the ceremony in Mahwah, NJ at a friends house with a beautiful autumn backdrop and a handmade archway and decorations. Amber and the rest of the crew did an absolutely fantastic job putting it all together and we we were blessed with some great weather for the entire day.
After the ceremony, we headed to Maritime Parc for the reception and we were able to squeeze in a portrait session before dinner with a stunning sunset and city backdrop. It was great to be able to have a nature and city backdrop in the same day; something I often don’t have a chance to experience and shoot.
With both families being super fun, everyone laced up their dancing shoes and the good vibes and fun continued well into the night. What a special day and as always, I feel so lucky to have the best clients, many of whom have become friends as well over the years. I cannot wait for wedding season 2023 to start!
Well this year is certainly flying by. Last weekend was Jason and Eliza’s wedding at AURORA in Brooklyn and it was nice to have a city wedding as a change of pace from my last wedding at the beach. They did their first look at the William Vale hotel and we stopped for a quick portrait session at Domino Park before we got the venue for the ceremony. I was so excited when they told me the had rented a vintage taxi cab for photos since I have only had a few other couples do that and it always adds such a unique touch to the photos.
The food was incredible and included hand made pasta, fresh fish, and a mix of delicious desserts (my favorite being the chocolate cake with pistachio gelato). We had great weather all day and everyone ate and danced to their heart’s content. I am gearing up for my last wedding of the fall tomorrow and will be back soon with another blog post for that one. I hope everyone is enjoying this beautiful fall weather that we are having!
Welcome back! I have been so busy this fall that I completely forgot to make a post about Carolynn and Casey’s wedding from the end of the summer. They got married right on the water in Scituate, Massachusetts and we could not have had a more perfect day. The weather was great and they had a New England seafood boil with full lobsters and steamer clams for dinner. Not to mention some of the best clam chowder I have ever had at cocktail hour.
They also had their dog there for the ceremony, which I am always a fan of. It was nothing but good vibes and good food all day with music, corn hole, and of course a whole lot of love. We had a beautiful colorful sunset to end the day and the sky really put on a show for us. I have some editing to do for my fall weddings but check back soon for another post and gallery. Thanks!