Stephanie & Mike

Stephanie & Mike had a classically beautiful wedding in every way-- Stephanie was wearing an heirloom engagement ring, a dress and veil stylized to match her one-of-a-kind ring, a lovely church ceremony and gorgeous weather for her park and beach sessions! We truly lucked out on locations because we got to return to Spring Lake, a tried and true favorite, and we hit the beach in two locations!

We ended up at The Breakers where the Vintage-Glam look continued. We truly love the Breakers because of its location-- right by Spring Lake and directly across from the ocean! It's always fun for us to shoot there and this day was no exception.

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Victoria & Vincent

Saturday we had the pleasure of shooting Victoria and Vincent's wedding. The day was planned to include touches from "Breakfast At Tiffany's" and so we had to include some Audrey Hepburn glamor shots and of course a pose in front of Tiffany's in Red Bank. Their first dance song was even "Moon River"!

We were at St. James for the church ceremony before we headed to Deep Cut Park. Deep Cut is definitely one of our favorite parks of all time because it has a few versatile spots: the open greenery in front, the pond in the middle and the maze/bonsai garden in the back. This time around we really got to play with the giant Bonsai tree and the images absolutely popped!

We finished up the day at the Molly Pitcher where the couple danced the night away among their family and friends.

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Denise & Nick .... & Stop Motion!

Denise and Nick were also a Saturday wedding for Heyn Photography and they also had gorgeous weather (our October brides have been pretty lucky so far!). We started at a quaint little B&B in Spring Lake which put us only a block from the lake itself-- we can't stress enough how convenient a location it is with the lake, town, and beach all so close together. Unfortunately we didn't get to the town this time but we more than made up for it with the park and beach session!

Denise had that Jennifer Love Hewitt-movie star-glam look going for her AND she was willing to sit on sand, roll around on a bed, climb off-limits stairways and generally do anything we asked so we had an absolute ball shooting her.

Here at the studio we are always looking into new ideas for ourselves and our clients to enjoy. One thing that we haven't applied to a wedding before was stop motion photography. Don't know what stop motion is? Well we suggest watching Denise's slideshow and when you hit the beach section focus and prepare to be amazed! It is almost like a video-photo hybrid and we liked this first trial into it at a wedding.

Future brides can look forward to our company evolving this new art form as we get more and more familiar with it!

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Kelly & Mike

There's nothing we like more than pretty weather and a laid back bride-- Saturday our studio was lucky enough to have TWO relaxed ladies to photograph! The first was Kelly who charmed us instantly with striking blue eyes and a mellow personality. We expected as much from her-- she was a former student of John's and he was so excited to photograph yet another student of his! She married Mike and they had all the makings of excellent pictures-- good temperatures, interesting location, and the right attitude :)

After pictures they had a sunset ceremony and danced the night away! We hope they continue to dance through their lives together with that much enthusiasm!

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Erin & Ted were a gift from a past bride, Bobbi, and had an E-session with us this past Sunday. They were very rock and roll and gave us plenty to work with---including their 1 year old pup Chloe! We really love it when couples personalize a shoot with something like a dog or a unique setting so that it becomes theirs and Sunday was really a day apart. We walked all around Spring Lake and then moved onto the little town section.

The great thing about towns is that you can find new spots in them every single time you shoot-- we managed to do all new locations at this E-Session that we hadn't done in previous E-Sessions in the same locations!

We are kinda bummed that we have to wait until 2012 to shoot Erin and Ted's wedding but we know it will be an amazing wedding when we do get there!

Meghan & Matt

After you do weddings for over twenty years it gets to the point where you feel like you've shot everywhere. Last Saturday we were actually at a location that nobody in the studio had ever shot a wedding at before! Talk about excited-- we couldn't wait to see new sites!

The Sandy Hook Chapel in the historical end of Sandy Hook beach was stunning-- a little white chapel on the edge of a grassy and rocky outcropping probably less than twenty feet from the ocean. It was gorgeous inside and outside we found all of our favorite things: the sky, the ocean, big empty stretches of grass, and one-of-a-kind historical buildings that really added some spice into the wedding shots.

If you haven't found your perfect chapel we suggest giving this one a tour!

Meghan & Matt were lucky to have a gorgeous day-- 70 degrees, light breeze, and fun-loving attitudes complimented an already gorgeous couple! They wound up at the Navesink Country Club and partied their night away :) We chose a particular song for them because they walked out of the church to the artist's music AND had a cover band at their cocktail hour so we're thinking this means that they like his tunes.

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Theresa & Shawn

We just love it when we get the joy of returning to a great family for a second wedding and we got that experience at Theresa Brennan's wedding. We had previously photographed her sister Kathleen who is due any day now with a bouncing baby boy! We loved their family the first time around and this wedding was really icing on the cake :)

Theresa was a bride who thought of fabulous little details like feathered shoes (yes, we adored them instantly) and extra bling in her cathedral length veil. It can't be repeated enough that its little details like those that will inevitably make your day look different from any other.

October started out with pouring rain but some of our past brides will remember that we love a stormy day ;) The rain broke JUST as we were getting to the beach (and we mean just-- we clocked it at five minutes before the limo arrived) but WOW look at the waves and the sky! October started off with a bang and we hope the trend continues!!

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