Here are some images from one of my favorite moments to shoot at a wedding. I just love capturing a bride & groom seeing each other for the first time. On this blog you’ll hear me constantly praise couples who do this. It just makes the day flow great. Now I understand some couples don’t want to do a first look too and thats totally fine with me, it is your wedding day. So choose your favorite below by clicking “vote”.

Peace,
JP

Ok, here we go. Its time for some of that best of stuff. In this post we’re doing the rings. You might notice “vote” buttons above each image. Thats how you can vote for your favorite. Lets see what shots people are digging.

Peace,
JP

I know, I know, it’s been forever since I blogged. Actually it’s only been 15 days, I guess thats long. It is a half month! Let me say sorry. Sorry. Anyway, last week we we’re all in Las Vegas for WPPI, it’s an annual convention/trade show/party thing all of us photographers attend. I all learned some new stuff, got some great ideas and met and hung out some really great people in the industry. I always feel some sort of a refreshed perspective when I get home. I’m all charged up and ready for this 2009 season to get into full swing. I also gambled a little bit, come on it’s vegas. I’m already looking forward to next years event. So since I talked about Vegas, heres a picture of my favorite neon. Something vegasy for ya!

Ok so on with the blog. I wanted to share some of my favorite images of the brides of 2008 and their bridesmaids. This collection of images can definitely fall into the relaxed or fun category. Typically when we’re photographing the bride and her bridesmaids we get those “safe” shots and then try to have a little bit of fun and get everyone to loosen up. Those are images I tend to blog because the ladies always seem to look more natural and relaxed to me. With this blog I wanted it to be all fresh images so I didn’t just grab an image from a past blog. Some may be similar but this is the first time I blogged them. So enjoy them.

By the way, I got some cool ideas, and fun posts coming real soon. So you know the deal, check back often.

Peace, 
JP

These green dresses were too cool. What a fun color to photograph.
 

About 30 minutes after this image was taken the lake got pounded with rain. So the ceremony got moved indoors but later in the evening I caught a small window of time when it stopped raining. Love the images.
 

From the second we walked into the bridal suite this crew was all energy. Seriously they had the music cranking and were all about the fun factor. I highly recommend this mood. It sets things off on a high note and calms the nerves a bride might have.
 

I know Amys bridesmaids thanked her for the short dresses on this hot July day.

I swear they were all blowing me kisses. Ok, so maybe they were blowing kisses to big Joe.
 

Sometimes we tell the bride to pick a few girls for different combos, for example the college friends.
 

I gotta tell you, the color Lindsay picked for her bridesmaids gowns was my favorite to photograph. Something about that color against almost anything was sweet. It just popped.
 

Another fun color straight out of Jcrew.
 

At Kate’s wedding the rain came out only for a short time which forced us inside but the window light was sensational.
 

Is there room for one more?
 

The classic September look and feel.
 

I think party shots are an overlooked category in the blog scene so I feel like sharing some with you. I like to shoot my party shots a certain way to show the movement and energy of what’s happening I think this is the way party images should look, fun. It goes like this, the intro’s are over and the toasts are done. What’s next on the reception agenda besides food? It’s time to get doooown, cut a rug, and act a fool or just dance. So at this point of the night your probably rocking out to sweet caroline, love shack, or sexy back and we’re right there to capture it all. There are no slow songs in this post. It’s all about that party energy and we definitely enjoy capturing this stuff.

By the way, we’ll be in Vegas next week for our annual photo convention. Maybe I’ll blog something while I’m our there so stay tuned.

Peace,
JP

 You’ve heard me say brides and grooms that dance can make a party. Well heres proof.

This dude was off the hook all night.
 

Upcoming bride of ours getting down with her lil sis.
 

There’s usually a guest that break dances…
 

Or one that does the worm…