As promised here is wedding two of Memorial Day weekend featuring Sara & Jordan. All the images but the first 3 were shot on the beautiful grounds of The Hall of Springs in Saratoga Springs NY. The morning looked like it was going to rain but it never did. It actually ended up being a perfect day for a wedding, awesome temperature, a tiny breeze & fabulous lighting all day. Sara & Jordan opted for a first look and it was one of my favorites to date. We got all the formal photos and portraits done with the quickness, everyone had time to chill before the Ketubah Ceremony. Sara & Jordan had Rabbi Anna Sugerman on the scene, she’s such a fun energetic person to have around on wedding day. Big Joe had a great idea to do the Ketubah Ceremony outside in the hall area which was awesome thanks to all that good light. The staff at the Hall of Springs never ceases to amaze me, they had a dressed up table outside for that ceremony within minutes, they rock! My man Lance Wheeler was shooting the video thru out the day as well. All and all a great day. Before the party began we went back outside for some of that good light and boy was it good! The rest of the wedding was in TS Ensemble’s hands and they did a good job on keeping the people up and dancing all night long. Sara & Jordan, thanks for having us. We had a fun time with your families and friends.

Enjoy, leave love,
JP

A former bride of ours Darcy Stryker doing the makeup…

A beautiful bride getting ready…

Jordan and the boys. One of my favorite ‘guy shots’ so far this season. The light, the lines, the curves.. all good.

Here is my series of the first look…

And here is Big Joe’s series of the first look…

Wow! How photogenic is she?

Now I normally don’t show shots like this on the blog but this ones special. All four grandmothers were able to see their grandchildren tie the knot. How flipping cool is this?

Some nice classic black & whites. My favs… 

This light was so sweet!

Here I am doing my thing and loving what I’m getting…

The result of my reaction above.

I told you we had time to chill after! I got a whole folder of these shots…

I’ll say it again. What a great idea to sign the Ketubah outside.

On to the ceremony.

I know your digging that funky panoram of the hall…

back outside.

My other favs from the day.

Their first dance was that Adam Sandler song… beginning to see a trend with that.

This is pretty exciting stuff here. I’m honored that Millers/Mpix chose me for their “MPIX ROCKS” campaign. It really is a huge honor and privilege to be representing two of the largest photo labs in the US.  The following was drafted up by Big Joe.

We are pleased to officially announce that JP Elario of Joe Elario Studio Photography will be representing Miller’s Pro Imaging, the foremost professional lab in North America. JP will be appearing in a series of print ads in both professional trade publications and several photo newsstand magazines – for the months of: June, July & August, totaling eight different publications along with full page presence on Millers – Mpix websites.

All of this has to do with Millers new marketing campaign for Mpix.com which is their consumer version of Millers . If you are confused with all the many internet photo service providers, you must give Mpix a try – today, trust me it is of the very highest quality & quickest turnaround in the entire industry. I am honored that Millers Lab / Mpix a true cutting edge operation have chosen to have JP Elario be synonymous with their operations.

JP, is the second in about a half dozen other well known industry professionals , the first was Scott Kelby , Scott is the editor-in-chief for Layers Magazine, Photoshop User magazine and the president of NAPP the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. “ Not bad company to keep to be associated with “ !

We are all very proud of JP .

And here is the ad:

Ah yes Memorial Day weekend, it’s a time to think about and honor our troops, service men & women. It’s also a super busy wedding weekend around here! People we’re tying knots all over the place. Here is the post from Saturdays wedding with Sara & Matt, next up is Sundays wedding with Sara & Jordan, thats right two Sara’s.

So we started the day off with Sara & her bridesmaids at Sara’s fathers awesome home in Ballston Spa. The ladies we’re all looking good thanks to Alayne from Make Me Fabulous. We then went outside for a quick little session with the ladies. The images all came out sweet. The light was nice, the location was awesome and Sara’s smile could stop you in your tracks. Did I mention she’s a dentist? Well so is Matt. What a combo huh? The ceremony was held at The United Methodist Church in Ballston Spa where Krysta from Christine A. Wheat Special Events Firm was on site coordinating the day. Wedding planners really are good to have around, they just take care of everything. So after the ceremony we all headed out onto the course at Saratoga National to one of my favorite spots for some of those good good images. I’m loving the stuff we got here. After that it was off to the party where these two partied there butts off to the tunes of DJ Paul Malo. Seriously I think the only time they left the dance floor was when I dragged them onto the terrace for one more photo op. We also worked along side John & Diane from Video Craft, always fun times with those two.

Sara & Matt, thanks for having us capture your big day. It was nothing but fun for us.

Enjoy, leave love,
JP

Shots like this are my favorite. Big Joe snagged it and when I was editing I stopped and looked at it for a little bit. There’s just so much stuff going on. I love it.

Would you look at this bride!

A little behind the scene’s of the following image.

She can’t take a bad photograph, the smile!

A fun bunch of ladies.

Who says you cant shoot in full sun?

Here we go…

My favorite of the day. The light, the color, the moment… all good.

A fun little bridge series.

I really love these two as well. I can have more than one favorite in my blog posts.

A little silhouette for ya.

Ok, one more…

Who remembers Laura & Josh raise you hands? Josh wanted some texture love so here you go. So nice seeing you both!

Just some real moments here while these guys danced all night.

And I’ll leave you with this little evening image.

This past Sunday I had a great time photographing Katie & Brian’s engagement session in downtown Troy. I keep telling people Troy’s a hot spot for shooting. There’s fun color and gritty alleyways, it’s a photographers dream. I enjoyed hanging out with these guys and chatting with them about their wedding. Stay tuned in March of 2010 for their wedding.

Enjoy, leave love.
JP

My favorite shot from this series:

A couple nice toned b&w’s

It’s always fun to stroll…

An awesome little nook right here. Up to this point of the session the photos we’re more monochromatic…

And then BOOM! The color!

I love me some yellow..

Seriously? This is Troy?

My favorite shot from this series:

But I really like this one too.

You know I gotta get my trademark “bling shot”