If you read the comments I get on my blog posts you might be thinking the name Marie sounds familiar and you’re right. Marie is one of our biggest fans. She’s always leaving love. I call her a Mona in the making too. Just so you all know Marie has been leaving love long before she put a ring on it. I think it was a year ago when I first met Marie, she was working at Saratoga National. Big Joe and I had a weeknight job there and as we were entering she was like “hi JP I’m Marie Fuda”. Since I moderate all my blog comments I knew immediately who she was. It wasn’t till many blog comments and many months later until I’d see Marie again. It was June 13, 2010 and we were shooting a wedding at Saratoga National (surprise surprise). As we were photographing the guys outdoors I felt these people watching us under the car port thing. Once we had a second she said hi. Only this time Marie wasn’t working. She had the infamous “I’m getting married” book in hand. I have a radar for newly engaged women ;) I was like “you’re engaged huh?” Then I said “well, gimme a bling shot will ya?” After I took the shot I said something like “let me know when you wanna make that an official bling shot.” Before I knew it Marie and Chris were sitting in this very office I’m blogging from right now and we were on like donkey kong for May 7th 2011…
I quickly upped this shot to Maries facebook page which then I instantly received the email saying “Marie Fuda made your photo her profile picture.” I love that email. Especially when I go check and see that my logo has not been cropped! ;) One of my pet peeves. No worries Marie kept the “E” in there.
Onto September 29, 2010… We flip flopped on dates for a little bit trying to lock down a date where I was available and the weather wasn’t an issue. Fortunately Marie was able to move things around and I had the go ahead to head on up to Lake George for a killer engagement session. This is the part where I mention Chris. Poor Chris this whole posts been all about Marie so far. Chris is just a great guy who’s always smiling. I could tell how crazy he is about his lady about 2 minutes into the shoot. Why Lake George? Well, a few years ago right in the “fall” they had their first date in Lake George. Sometimes my blog titles are so clever lol.. Anyway they walked the strip, hit the arcade and unfortunately watched a baseball game involving a team I cannot mention on this blog. Lets just say after Sunday this team gets the rest of the year off ;) So Marie wanted a different location and we established this idea back in early August I think. Needless to say it was a wonderful location and I very much enjoyed shooting there. I could go on and on but I have a wedding to shoot today so I’m going to shut up and start adding photos to this post. Marie and Chris, thanks for the good time! Love these images…
Peace,
JP
Setting things off with a pop of color..
and a little love.
I asked them to sit. Chris sit down first. I saw this and I liked Marie standing for one..
I love some b&w..
So relaxed..
I love these “beach” shots.. ;)
Hey now!
everything just jives. the clothing, the color, the light & the couple.
Marie has those eyes that pull ya right in.
Look at that color!
It was really beautiful in Lake George.
He just did that. I didn’t ask..
We had to stop in the arcade for a couple since they were there on that first date
I’m the man at skee ball.. I have it on my iPhone lol..
BOOM! We’re kicking it up a notch with my facebook teaser. I love everything about this. I knew when I was shooting here I was going to tease this one.
This was real fun too..
It was so quiet up there. We had the whole place to ourselves..
I told Marie to hang her legs off.. the water was a little high or her legs are really long.
Haha
This duck begged me to be on the blog.
Oh man I love this!!
I couldn’t decide if I liked b&w…
or color..
Fun.
how sweet is that background?
Just beautiful.
crazy about this image too.
Ah the “Elario configuration”
and here is the official “bling shot”
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Okay so I just found your blog via the winter weddings 2010 contest (I went to the same high school as Kristen and Dan DiBlasi), and I was flipping through engagement posts looking for Kristen and Dan, and I found this one on the way. I LOVE Lake George so so much, I spent every summer there, as my family had a vacation house there until we moved out of state. I miss the lake, but beautiful shots!
The fall colors are very nice,the way they look@ each other,my favorite is the one of them under the fall trees.Love the poses,very crisp contrasts in the b&w photos.They are having fun .Love the colors and the shots,love it,love it,love it..
Love all these shots! Love the black dress w. red shoes and that moving image too. Awesome session :)
I LOVE the duck picture in motion – hahaha! So cute and I think he should be in every shoot. These are wonderful photos and why I just love the FALL in Update NY! Congrats!
YEAH!!!! ah you made my day with this post! its soooo beautiful!!! the colors… the configuration… the arcade and of course the bling shot! i hope that ONE DAY my husband and I can go to NYC and have you “shoot” us! much love!!! <3
Marie’s family and my family have been close friends for decades! My family is so excited for Marie and Chris, and I cannot wait to share these photos with them. Marie, you look absolutely gorgeous! Seriously, breath-taking. I had tears in my eyes…I am a HUGE baby when it comes to weddings and happy things :o) I am so happy for you and your future husband!
Wow Mona!! That was quite the comment :) No doubt you have everyone blog stalker beat on length. I too love the b&w “crazy about this image too” shot, I also love the elario configuration. Thanks everyone for the comments!
So cute!! The red shoes are so hot!
These pictures are beautiful! What a great place to shoot! It looks like they had so much fun! Can’t wait to see the wedding pictures!!
Awwww, yayyyyyy!!! So excited to see these images! Marie, again I’m gonna say from one curly haired girl to another – love your hair :) I need some tips as anyone who knows me knows that I don’t know what to do with bobby pins, and I like that cute little pinning up. :)
Ok, onto commenting. First of all, OH how I miss upstate! Right about early-mid october is that peak for the leaves, and boy did you guys get a lot of the colors there. I love fall upstate. I love that you guys revisit where your love story began. So sweet :) I love the fun with the arcade (I adore the skee ball shoot and JP I bet I could kick your butt in skee ball!!!). So fun. The shots with you guys with the crazy yellow and orange – amazing.
One thing I’m noticing – how Chris can’t take his eyes off you in all the pics. So sweet, it’s clear looking at you two how in love you are. :)
Love them all! I love the first one of you guys sitting on the dock – actually I really love all of them, it’s hard to choose. I LOVE the one where the duck makes a cameo swimming through. QUACK! And the shoes dipping in the water is just cool as hell.
Seriously you guys look gorgeous against the gorgeous backdrops – amazing. I love these all!!!! You two look really at ease with the camera too, no doubt next year’s shots will be incredible as well! I wish I could comment individually on each picture… Love the outfit choices (and shoes!) too!!
So Marie I hope you’ve enjoyed this comment :-D I’m going to finish off by voting my choices for your save the date. The teaser is one option for sure, it’s awesome, but I’d like to throw in two others… I like the close up of you two in B&W where JP says “crazy about this image too”… and I also like the one with the live love laugh billboard in the background. Also cool for a save the date. So those are my three pics (including the teaser). Actually, that was really hard to narrow down because really any of these would look amazing on a card. :)
Congrats again, and enjoy planning!!! For now, take a break and just revel in your gorgeous pics!!!
The kids are beautiful together!! The quality of these pics are amazing! The background and the colors are perfect!!!
What a great location for an E shoot – especially this time of year – the colors are awesome! Beautiful pictures, as always, JP!
JP…The pics are amazing! I’m definitely impressed but not at all surprised by the quality…It certainly helps when you have a beautiful, sexy future wife by your side and the best photgrapher! We had a blast working with you! Next up is the wedding…It is going to be off the hook! And I must say the official “bling shot” is much better!;)
PS…You are one terrific photographer, JP…I look forward to meeting you at the wedding! Great job!
Absolutely breathtaking!!! My cousin is so beaitiful words cannot describe…and the way her and Chris look at one another it makes my heart jump, bc you can feel the love…an amazing job capturing them…I cant pick just one!!! its too hard to chose! I love them all! :)
Loveeee themm!! Absolutely gorgeous! Definately tough to pick just one for the save the dates, but I think I have my two favorite in mind, maybeee three. haha Awesome work JP! :)
Beautiful twosome , on a beautiful day – now off for a slice of “Dom’s” pizza .
Love the sitting on the dock shots the best – but they’re all great. Congrats Marie!! Oh, and Chris too ;)
Holy sweetness!! I love the details of the red shoes & the duck, but my ultimate favorite is the ring shot just before the Elario Configuration. The love just radiates from them!!
LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!!!!!! Can’t wait for 5.7.2011 <3
Ummm…I need those blue shoes and that black dress, STAT. Beautiful pics.
I love that you are cranking out the blogs!! I love it when the ladies wear colored shoes during the engagement sessions…it really adds some flavor to it. I love the picture of her dangling her feet on the water. Looks like you were blessed with great weather and it shows in the pictures- the colors of fall are just popping!
aw, i like this story! love the shots with the falls colors…great locations!
AHHH!!! JP!!! I LOVE THEM ALL!!! These are so great. Thanks for an amazing shoot AND for blogging this almost immediately…maybe I should thank the rain for giving you the time to!! Now I have to pick just ONE for the save the dates… IMPOSSIBLE!!! Thanks again!
I LOVE IT!!! The fall colors are amazing!!!! Beautiful shoot… Although, all of your pictures are gorgeous, so that’s definitely not a surprise.
I love how in the pictures on the beach her heels are in the sand :)
These are amazing!!!!!!!! :)