If you haven’t registered for this coming Sunday’s Bridal Style Show please don’t wait another minute! This is an annual show and Susan Sorbello of West Main Bridal and Couture does an fantastic job of offering our community a wonderful bridal event… Go here for information and here to register now.

• Date: Sunday, February 8th
• Time: 2 PM – 5:30 PM
• Location: Farmington Country Club

… see you at the show!

Come by and say hi!  Let me know you read this blog and I’ll have a special gift for you!

I will be on vacation from January 14th through January 25th, returning to the office Monday January 26th.  I will have very limited email access and almost no telephone access so please be patient; I may not be able to respond to you until I return!

Y’all KNOW I love wedding cake right? 🙂  So this benefit is RIGHT UP my alley.

Let’s Eat Cake! is a wedding cake competition, featuring Wedding Cake confections from all over the United States. Bakers will feature their cakes to be judged by Local and National Culinary Celebrities. In addition bakers will be asked to make enough cake to feed the general public, so that they may judge the cakes as well!

Their Goal is to raise $50,000 for this extremely worthy cause, we know times are tough for everyone out there. But that doesn’t mean that doesn’t mean that kids still aren’t getting sick. Please help spread the word about the mission. If you can help financially, that’d be great, if you blogging about this right now…. your spreading the word – and that’s all we can ask for!

If you’d like to attend (and get to nibble on all those fab cakes), donate or just want more details go to:
Let’s Eat Cake Blog

AND Just for this week!!! You can make Melissa pay. She has pledged to donate $1 for any blogs on which “Let’s Eat Cake” details appears. So pass it on and be sure to send Melissa DiStephano a link (info@masterpieceweddings.net) so she can pay up!

Every first friday of the month, the Riverviews Artspace (my studio building), hosts an artists’ studio open house. Most of the artists open their studios for visitors young and old; its over three floors of artists and their work! I’m not in town for most of them but when I am, I love to see all the people who come by! Please consider this your open invitation to drop in at my studio on 901 Jefferson Street suite 207, between 6 and 8 Friday to see some of the latest work and sign up for our free portrait session give away!

While I like to anticipate the coming year, photographs are about looking back and remembering.  So, for today, I wanted to remember all of the weddings, portraits and fine art/documentary assignments from 2008 and share them with you my lovely blog readers.  Enjoy!

A new day has dawned.

Peace on Earth.

Good will toward man.

Thank you to all our wonderful client friends and families for a fantastic 2008!  We all look forward to an even more amazing 2009!  Be safe this season.

It’s just such a neat feeling to wake up to these sorts of emails!  I won 3rd place in the ISPWP Fall 2008 Competition with over 20 placements! If a photo from your wedding is featured in this post, you helped me win cash and prizes!  I want to share some of the joy so leave me a comment about the image and you will receive a free 5×7 print of the award winning image!  And to make this extra special, the image that gets the most comments by November 28, 2008 will earn the wedding couple a $100 studio gift certificate!  So hurry up and share this post with all your friends and family!  🙂

Click on the thumbnail to view full size.  Make sure to include the couple’s first names in your comment!!

Tee hee – ok I just like saying that!  But in this case, its true again!  I had sort of gotten out of the habit of entering competitions, just too busy with a toddler, moving twice in one year etc etc.  I finally buckled down this year and started entering again and I’ve already won some!!  How exciting!  Here’s what I heard about today:

From wedcomp.com I’m very pleased with these placements as this comp had some FIERCE photographers!

Back from our summer break and back at work!

One little diamond that emerged from my email this past week was this amazing photographer’s website. http://dayswithmyfather.com/ I dont post other photographer’s websites very often (in fact, this may be the first one) but I looked at his work and his commentary and felt I had to share. The image of the green chair made me cry. What do you think?