Published Weddings
Okay. Sit back in your seats. Continue only if you have a lot of time to oooh and ahhh over an AMAZING location, PERFECT weather and an AMAZING couple.
Ready?
Labor Day Weekend, I traveled to Long Beach NY (go there. now. it’s incredible!) to photograph the wedding of Jocelyn and Joe at the newly opened Allegria Hotel. What made it difficult, like so many of my weddings, was that it got picked up by the gorgeous Merci New York Style Blog — and because they wanted to wait until warmer weather to showcase a beach wedding — we had to wait to talk about it…although a FEW images sneaked out here and there because, frankly, I couldn’t wait perfectly. 
I want you to look at the photographs and think about the fact that Jocelyn conceived the concept of sea glass and wove it through the entire wedding. Blues, greens, that soft color that only comes from years of being washed in the ocean — were featured throughout all the details of their wedding. They also got up the next morning at sunrise with the entire wedding party to do a day after session — and both “events” received rave reviews from the blog writers over at Merci New York. Special Thanks to Jessica Weiser for coming all the way from Maine to shoot this wedding with me!!
Things that were cool:
Aforementioned decor and design — Joce even designed, printed and HAND DYED the ribbon on her invites. Sooo beautiful.
Perfect weather. Loving family and friends.
A large crowd on the board walk that participated in the ceremony — seriously, like hundreds of people were watching. It was fun!
Jocelyn and Joe practiced not one but TWO choreographed dances at their reception. I’m talking “Dancing with the Stars” level dances. Super impressive!
A Chinese Tea Ceremony integrated both families
Sparklers at the end of the night.
A Day After Session that ROCKED!
So you can see…it was hard to wait to share these. If you want to peek at the write up on Merci New York click the pic:
Some fun pics from the wedding (wait. day after session also coming!)
And then we all got up at Sunrise. But TOTALLY WORTH IT!
Sometimes It’s Hard to Wait | Rochester NY Wedding Photographer
February 14, 2011Be warned: This is a long one!!
Ashley and Gil got married at the end of July at the Genesee Valley Club — an amazing and beautiful venue. It was a perfect day and I was ready to go with my cracker jack team of support in the form of uber talented Jessica Weiser who came in from Maine a couple of times this summer to help me — and Erich Camping who tagged along to do some video and playful shots.
When all that mixes together – how can you have anything BUT the most amazing wedding? Ashley worked super hard to pull ALL of the details together, Stacy K Floral put together GORGEOUS yellow center pieces and bouquets.
Because the venue was the location for both the ceremony and the reception, Ashley and Gil opted to have a first look — to see each other ahead of time and do most of the portraits before the wedding. It was an amazing choice. When a couple builds in enough time to REALLY get photographs — that’s when we can all play. And oh my goodness, play we did. Ashley was a champ — despite a deep fear of bees (farm on a hot day in July = bees) she and Gil ROCKED out the photographs — and that was before the real action of the day began.
A note about the wellies. Ashley early on mentioned that she grew up on a horse farm — can you imagine me NOT getting excited? So I SUGGESTED that having pics in a barn with wellies would be an absolute DREAM — and Ashley LISTENED! She got these for a bridal shower gift — and I about cried when I saw them. Truly — trusting your photographer and being willing to try things because of that trust = amazing.
Grey Likes Weddings Blog agreed when they published this wedding as an amazing use of grey and yellow — see more about it here. We couldn’t agree more!!
We were off to the most gorgeous wedding at the aforementioned Genesee Valley Club. Now I am a complete nerd when it comes to emotion. If you see me photographing a wedding – -don’t LOOK. Most likely I will be crying my eyes out. This one – I really needed some kleenex. ::grin:: Happiness + Loving Family and Friends + Wedding = Complete Bliss. An excellent ceremony delivered by Pastor Jack (as usual!)!
The reception was beautiful and I had so much fun with everyone. Truly an amazing blending of two totally cool families.
And the waiting part? We knew that this wedding was going to be published — so we couldn’t share on the internets until it showed up — which it did on Friday! We couldn’t be happier. Ashley did an amazing job pulling everything together and we all had a TOTAL blast working with everyone! A special shout out to Jessica and Erich for helping me document this PERFECT day!
Finally — I HAVE to share this. (Sorry Ash). Best Cake Moment. EVER. Watch it and tell me you can’t just hear Ashley tell Gil — “please don’t put cake on my face”…and then the consequences which are hilarious. I was laughing so hard I could barely hold the camera still!
Take an extra 10 seconds. It’s totally worth it. Link: The Cake Boss.
Thanks to everyone who made this an amazing experience: and remember I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!
Beautiful Tammy! I’ve never seen Rochester look so good and I spent 3 years there!! What a fun wedding!!
Thanks Deb! ::grin:: Rochester really IS beautiful!!
gorgeous wedding
Oh Tammy………SO wish I could have experienced this one with you…..what a beautiful, beautiful wedding…..and YOU totally knocked it out of the part. The dream trio. wow. just wow…..
Congratulations on being featured in Grey Likes Weddings! Those wellies are awesome. What beautiful and fun photos!
Very cleverly photographed and put together Tammy, there’s a story behind it and just the right touch of fun !
wow.. these photos are amazing what a beautiful wedding.. love the yellow wellies.. and well everything about it actually
Very creative photo compositions – two last ones !
I also like the idea to play with the matching color of bride’s flowers and wellies 
5.29.2011
Awesome wedding images! Love the day after session!