Monica & Alejandro’s Day After/Trash The Dress Session
Quinta Real Hotel, Acapulco, Mexico

We are blogging in reverse - first up, Monica & Alejandro’s Trash The Dress / Day After Session at the beautiful Quinta Real Acapulco Resort.  We promise to get photos from their wedding day on the blog as well, but couldn’t wait to post a taste of Mexico!

First off, we give these two serious credit for actually being awake the day after their wedding.  These two partied hard until 6am, (even we didn’t last that long)!  But there they were, smiling and raring to go.  We took Monica & Alejandro to a bunch of spots around the resort that we had scoped out in the days prior and still found new places along the way.  We began our journey at the top, in the hotel’s lobby and wound our way down toward moonlight on Punta Diamante Beach.

Outside the main entrance, sitting pretty by the Quinta Real sign.

Check out the spectacular view from the outdoor lobby.

Poolside.

And finally we made our way down to Punta Diamante Beach!  Love these two images - dancing in the surf.

I was so convinced we were going to get hit by a giant wave taking this series.  But if Monica & Alejandro could get in the ocean, it’s only fair that we should too.

Love on the rocks?

Some nighttime romance amongst the waves.

Yay!  An amazing destination dress trashing in Mexico!

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We’ve skipped the country… well at least for a few days.

Steven and I are on our way to Acapulco, Mexico to document Alejandro & Monica’s Destination Wedding and Trash The Dress Session.  We will be spending the next few days shooting at the amazing Quinta Real Hotel right on the beach!

We will do our best to answer emails while away, but in case we do not have internet access, we expect to be back in the office mid to late day on Tuesday.

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Larissa & Joe’s Wedding
Seasons Catering, Washington Township, New Jersey

We started off with Larissa and her bridesmaids.  This girl has some serious taste.  Her dress was beautiful and oh those Jimmy Choos!  ;)   Then off to St. Catherine’s of Sienna in Cedar Grove for the ceremony.  On the way to the church, one of the limos got lost and Larissa and her father had to sit outside the church and wait for some relatives to arrive.  Two things worth mentioning - one is that Larissa was amazingly calm and patient.  The other is that in that extra time we’re normally not afforded, we were able to take a bunch of extra limo photos.  Looking into the limo through the windows…  Larissa and her father from inside the limo…  coming out of the limo…  so from a less than ideal situation we turned it into something productive and fun.

After the ceremony we headed to Verona Park with the bridal party for some fun, casual park photos.

Larissa and Joe had a gorgeous wedding… an amazing beach bash, despite it being the fall and not being anywhere near the ocean!  They decked Seasons out with all sorts of whimsical seaside accents.  Instead of traditional place cards they used starfish placed in little sandboxes.  Instead of traditional favors they had a photo booth like you’d find on the boardwalk.   The bars and tables were decorated with seashells and candles (everywhere).  We loved the ice sculpture sand castle and the endless amounts of seafood during the cocktail hour.  We loved how all the reception tables were named after beaches.  And we very much loved their wedding cake covered in sugary seashells.  This wedding was visually delicious!

We just added a new Spotlight Gallery to our website!  Take a moment to check out some highlights from Astaire and Ray’s beautiful wedding at the Westin Governor Morris, by clicking here!

We hope to add a few more spotlights in the coming weeks.

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Ray & Astaire’s Trash The Dress Session
Pier A Park (and beyond), Hoboken, New Jersey

We received a message from Astaire while she was still on her honeymoon asking if we’d go out with them upon their arrival to trash her dress.  How could we refuse?  As mentioned in the previous post, Ray & Astaire were so much fun on their wedding day, plus we love a good day after session, so we were extremely excited to hit the streets of Hoboken with these two looking for adventure!

Well, we found it!  We met at Pier A Park looking for a quiet skyline view and ended up in the middle of a big running race.  We still got some nice skyline photos, but photos of Astaire & Ray stretching and hanging out with the runners…  well that’s why we love how unexpected environmental portraiture can be. 

We give credit where credit is due.  Astaire & Ray were amazing sports running through the fountain.  The water was freezing and they really put a great face on it!

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