Photographed By Roy

St Mary Armenian Church Ritz Carlton Ft Lauderdale Wedding

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I am so excited as I am about to experience Stacy and Haig’s St Mary Armenian Church wedding and  Ritz Carlton Ft Lauderdale celebration this coming weekend!!!

Tomorrow I will witness love in it’s most perfect moment ~ the beginning of a life of adventures, moments shared, other lives created ~ but let’s focus on the wedding day! Tomorrow I’ll capture the first look of a Father as he sees his daughter in her wedding gown, I’ll hold forever in my camera the moment that Haig sees Stacy as his Bride! The first kiss as husband and wife, a first dance ~ notice how tomorrow there will be so many firsts as it truly is a new beginning!

Stay tuned for another great wedding Blog post featuring these two in the very near future!

Looking forward to so many amazing moments!

Roy ~ Contact Me

Photography By Roy and Laura

Temple Judea Miami Wedding and Ocean Club Reception

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Planning your wedding should be a blast! You get engaged, you run out and buy a magazine or two. Your Mom, Sister, Grandmother and best friends chime in…you’ve been looking at a few too many wedding blogs and it can just be too much ~ too many choices, ideas ~ too much inspiration! So how do you make this wedding yours?

Quite often I ask a Bride if she and her fiance have sat down and discussed with each other what kind of wedding they want to have. Quite often that questions is met with a brief pause and usually I hear “no we haven’t”.

So to make this process a little less stressful, I suggest that they have that chat and choose maybe 4-6 words that describe their idea of their unique wedding experience. Those words can range from formal to casual, traditional to contemporary, elegant to relaxed, fun, crazy, sophisticated ~ you get the idea but think of what makes this wedding a reflection of you and your fiance. I think you’ll find decision making a little easier.

Today I want to share with you Deborah and Jeremy’s Temple Judea Miami wedding! Their wedding had so many beautiful moments to capture. But it all started the moment that Deborah met Jeremy ~ then the parents met the girlfriend/boyfriend and then there’s the ” I want to marry your daughter” discussion and so began a series of special events that bring us to their wedding experience!

Once a love story that’s right begins its journey it’s always in a state of perpetual motion ~ so once Jeremy proposed, Deborah responded in the affirmative (see their engagement session) then the phones calls to Mom’s, girlfriends and best of friends are placed and the wedding planning begins in earnest!

The Rabbi and witnesses had just left the Rabbi’s study after the signing of the Ketubah. I find myself alone with Deborah and Jeremy. For me this moment is so wonderful! It’s a time on their wedding day where it’s just the two of them, quiet, pensive and you can see by Deborah’s expression joyful with the anticipation of the moment their are united under their Chupah.

A wonderful sendoff as the happy couple leave Temple Judea Miami ~ I like to think that the hundreds of bubbles floating around are wishes of joy and love from each and every guest for the newlyweds.

The wedding ceremony took place at the beautiful Temple Judea in Coral Gables and was performed by Rabbi Edwin Goldberg. The celebration followed at the Ocean Club on Key Biscayne. Floral decor was designed by Raffi of Petal Productions and the party was an amazing celebration with Drew T Productions keeping everyone on their toes all night long! Now keeping this all flowing in harmony was the amazing planner Robyn Bruck!

So planning your wedding can and should be an amazing experience! Finding the right team to take your wedding dreams to reality successfully is a must! Look carefully, ask for referrals from those that have had the wedding experience be they a friend who just got married, the Mom who helped planned her daughter’s wedding, that amazing wedding planner that knows the value of a great team working together in harmony to bring it all together perfectly. You won’t be sorry doing your homework and choosing wisely!

Looking forward to being on your wedding dream team!

Roy ~ Contact Me

Victoria + Randy  |  Married

Photography By Roy and Cristobal

Cathedral of St Mary Miami Wedding And Moore Building Reception

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Every wedding and event I have the good fortunate to experience and capture with my eyes and feelings is for me a unique moment in time. Unique in the exclusivity of the couple that I am photographing ~ their love story ~ their love of family and friends. True that these are common factors in many weddings but as individual as there are grains of sand in the ocean. My pleasure in capturing weddings that make each one a joy to photograph is the individuality of each Bride and Groom and what they bring to their wedding story. Now let me share with you what makes Victoria and Randy’s  Cathedral of St Mary Miami wedding and Moore Building reception so unique!

Let me start off with stating that it takes a team to execute all this awesomeness and Eric Trelles of ET Events to see that it went off without a hitch ~

Now you’ll need to see the slide show to understand ~ but the day started with me being introduced to Claymore! Now Claymore is Victoria’s baby ~ pooch! Why is it that couples get a dog in the beginning as if maybe their practicing for parenthood?

Next ~ It’s not everyday that your wedding ceremony is performed by an Archbishop! Yes, Archbishop Thomas Wenski of the Archdiocese of Miami conducted this wedding mass at the beautiful Cathedral of St Mary in Miami!

Now when we arrived at the very cool Moore Building in the Design District Miami all were amazed by the beauty and WOW factor of this very chic location!

Now what took this wedding over the top was the food! Victoria decided to surprise Randy with his favorite Chef John Sorensen of Sorensen Catering in Napa Valley. Now Chef Sorensen is famous for his Lobster Feeds in Napa Valley. I know your wondering what’s a Lobster Feed…well there are no plates, dishes or utensils well except for these claw crackers to break open the claws with and the really cool bibs so your black tie attire doesn’t get stuff on it! Now it wasn’t just great food ~ the surprise at the end was churros from Victoria’s bridesmaid ~ Nicole Valls whose family owns the worlds most famous Cuban restaurant ~ Versailles!

Now a few more details to make this Blog post complete! Invitations were created by Invitations By Leston, Floral Design by Avant Gardens, Transportation provided by Meilan Limousines, Cake by Edda’s Cake Design, Music by DJRobDinero

Now if you’re planning a wedding ~ call me as I would love to capture that which is yours alone!

Hugs,

Roy ~ Contact Me

Photographed by Laura  |  Written By Roy

The Palms Hotel and Spa, Miami Beach Wedding

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You’re engaged and you begin to visualize the wedding that prior to your engagement was but a dream ~ but now it’s really happening! So when Todd proposed to Lareshska the planning started with the questions “what do we want this wedding to be?” and ” what experience do we want for our family and friends?”

Today’s I share with you their Palms Hotel Miami Beach wedding that was the essence of a beautiful, elegant but very simple affair. As destination weddings go you can count on family and your most intimate of friends to be there and this is exactly what Lareshka and Todd wanted ~ an intimate weekend of joy and celebration that transcends the typical wedding.

And what more exciting location for a wedding than in a tropical setting that takes your senses to some far away paradise and my partner, Laura Massa had an amazing time capturing the essence of their wedding!

A delightful first dance ~ oh the hours of rehearsal that went into this moment!

Lareshka and Todd’s dream wedding featured the talents of the incredible staff at the Palms Hotel~ Miami Beach, St Jude Counseling Ministries officiating the ceremony, Ana Paz Cakes creating delicious art as always and beautiful floral design by Bayfront Floral and Event Design

Have a great day!

Roy ~ Contact Me

Hillary + Jonathan  |  Married

Photographed By Roy and Laura

A Westin Diplomat Golf  Resort Wedding

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Planning your wedding should be a blast! You get engaged, you run out and buy a magazine or two. Your Mom, Sister, Grandmother and best friends chime in…you’ve been looking at a few too many wedding blogs and it can just be too much ~ too many choices, ideas ~ too much inspiration! So how do you make this wedding yours?

Quite often I ask a Bride if she and her fiance have sat down and discussed with each other what kind of wedding they want to have. Quite often that questions is met with a brief pause and usually I hear “no we haven’t”.

So to make this process a little less stressful, I suggest that they have that chat and choose maybe 4-6 words that describe their idea of their unique wedding experience. Those words can range from formal to casual, traditional to contemporary, elegant to relaxed, fun, crazy, sophisticated ~ you get the idea but think of what makes this wedding a reflection of you and your fiance. I think you’ll find decision making a little easier.

So I have this amazing wedding to share with you today! Hillary and Jonathan enjoyed perfect weather for their outdoor Jewish ceremony at the lovely Westin Diplomat Golf Resort. From the moment Dad had a look at his daughter in a wedding gown I knew we were in for a wonderfully emotional, touching wedding!

Hillary and Jonathan decided on having a first look and we took advantage of the opportunity to create some beautiful portraits all over the resort.

And they took advantage of some quiet moments to reflect on the experience they were living in this moment and relax knowing that this is just the beginning of an amazing adventure of love and life!

Without a doubt this wedding spoke of the love and respect of family, for each other and the experience for all those involved.

A moment every Jewish parent of a Bride dreams of ~ escorting their daughter to the Chuppah to be joined as one with her husband.

Surrounded by family and loved ones this moment is timeless in all that is promises.

Moments as this are enduring to all involved as it is literally the moments that will be most cherished in a lifetime.

A Few Details:

Venue: Westin Diplomat Golf Resort Hollywood

Officiant: Rabbi Edwin Goldberg of Temple Judea

Video: Broadway Video Production

Floral Design: Always Flowers

Make Up: Becoming Face Cosmetics ~ Dena Molinari

Music Ceremony: Arabesque Chamber Ensemble

Music Reception: City Limits

So looking forward to hearing all about the wedding you are planning!

Roy ~ Contact Me!

Photographed By Laura and Roy

A Delray Beach Marriott Wedding

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In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.

Janos Arnay

In a world of tension and turmoil, we search for love. And when we find it ~ the world becomes an amazing place.

Everything is a possibility and we see the world around us in a totally different light.

Our emotions reach heights never thought attainable.

These are the moments you’ll remember for all your lives ~

Sealed with a first kiss as wife and husband embraced by soft light under your first home ~ your chuppah!

Surrounded by your loving parents caressed by the  Talit ~

Moments of joy between Dad and Daughter as a they share their dance together ~ No doubt a moment he has dreamed of since Jennifer was a little girl!

A Few Details:

Venue: Delray Beach Marriott

Floral Design: Xquisite Events

Music: Libido

Vide: Broadway Video

Cake: Sugar Chef

Invite us to capture your love ~ your dreams!

Roy ~ Contact Us

Photographed By Cristobal and Roy

An Ocean Reef Club Key Largo Wedding

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What better way for a newlywed couple to start their married life together than in PARADISE! Dani + Paul created a wedding experience that shared with family and friends their love for the sea and island living! We are so blessed to live in the tropics where year round we are surrounded by lush greenery, blue skies, and amazing weather! So the temptation for that outdoor seaside wedding is pretty appealing.

We are blessed as Miami wedding photographers to share and capture the joy of love and matrimony year round ~ balmy tropical breezes, amazingly beautiful light, any flower you could imagine available. The mixture of so many beautiful cultures also adds to the excitement of the wedding experience for us as we see so many beautiful moments that make up the fabric of  life.

As the orchid grows long and beautiful so does love when nurtured and allowed to grow. It’s interesting that as I write this I am chuckling to myself realizing that I see love in so many ways…

The love of parents no doubt excited that their young son having first ring bearer experience and some day he too will be getting married and as they walk him down the aisle to marry his bride ~ I have a feeling that they will look back on this moment.

The love of family and friends lovingly lifting Dani as she celebrates with the traditional Hora ~ to me this moment symbolizes the love and support of family and friends.

Here’s a tradition that you don’t see at every Jewish wedding ~ The Mezinka (Mezinke) ~ a tradition during a Jewish wedding reception honoring the parents who have just married off their last child. It consists of a different type of circle dance where the parents are seated on chairs in the middle of the dance floor. The bride and groom stand by their side and present their parents by crowning them with flower crowns. The guests create a circle and dance around them. They first start a line and kiss each of the parents saying “Mazel Tov” and the circle formation begins. More LOVE! See what I mean when I tell you that I see so much LOVE!

Celebrating with Dani as she has just joined the “I am married” club!

Back to the “Tropics” ~ It’s a beautiful night under the stars (if you look you’ll see them) the breezes creating a rhythm that has the coconut palms swaying ~ It was truly a magical evening!

A Few Details:

Venue: Ocean Reef Club Key Largo

Bridal Gown: Amsale

Floral Decor: Avant Gardens

Music: Private Stock Band

So let us see the love in your lives ~

Roy ~ Contact Me

Mayrelis + Maurice  |  Married

Photographed By Laura, Stella + Roy

A First United Methodist of Coral Gables Grove Isle Wedding

And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true ~ Dorothy, Wizard of Oz

“OMG OMG OMG!!! Words cannot express how we feel right now…. how thankful we are for everything you did for us and how amazing those photos are!!!! You truly captured the moment we lived that evening and just having you there was a dream come true!!!“~ Mayrelis

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Dreams seem to be a common thread with Mayrelis as we touched on a 5 year old Princess dreaming of her Prince Charming in our blog post featuring Mayrelis and Maurice’s engagement portrait session.

The reality of the wedding dreams of a young girl as she becomes a beautiful woman is those dreams do become reality. Once engaged those dreams quickly become daydreams as I have no doubts the planning of a wedding becomes a consuming occupation! As the lead wedding coordinator for A Joy Wallace Catering Production and Design, Mayrelis lives the dreams of countless Brides, assuring each engaged couple execution of their wedding dreams. So imagine planning your big day a year in advance while executing the dreams of your Brides at the same time!

Imagine you have this window into so much wedding planning with all these couples. Listening, weighing the options, guiding in the decision making process that goes into planning these amazing events. Pretty amazing position to be in!

Speaking of dreams, so many Brides comment that their wedding was like  a dream and the photographs bring to mind so many moments experienced.

I know as a Dad of a son recently married that having children leads to thoughts and hopes for their future and a happily ever after when it comes to your own finding the “one”! I love the look on Dad’s face as he has the traditional Father-Daughter dance~

The moment of a gallant kiss by Dad passes in only a moment but then that’s why we are there ~ to capture these fleeting experiences!

Chic, elegant, stunning, dashing and beautiful come to mind as we view the image above ~ this was such an exciting day for us to experience with this awesome couple!

A Few Amazing Details:

Ceremony: First United Methodist Church of Coral Gables

Celebration: Grove Isle Hotel and Spa

Design, Decor and Flowers: A Joy Wallace Catering Production and Design

Music: Event Factor DJ

Video: Merge Studios Social

Cake: Elegant Temptations

As Miami wedding photographers we live and capture the dreams of each Bride that honor us with the experience of their wedding.We look forward to capturing your wedding and making your dreams a reality!

Roy ~ Chief Dreamcatcher ~ Contact Me!

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A Cape Cod Wedding

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Destination weddings can be a blast ~ we get to go to awesome locations (in one month we were in Peru, Ecuador and Cape Cod) indulge in the culture and experience some pretty amazing customs that come with the new territory. They tend to be smaller more intimate affairs with family and the very closest of friends.

Love these shoes that Christopher presented to his groomsmen just before the wedding!

Weddings are such inspirational affairs between two people in love as well as those special lifelong relationships with family. This moment captures the exuberance and joy that a father feels for his baby girl!

~ as this moment captures the excitement of a first dance as husband and wife.

“The photography sold itself. We knew Roy had covered my husband’s cousin’s wedding (and did my husband’s work head shot)and saw those results/ We wanted specific moments captured and knew that this was the right and best photographer to do this for us. I felt more comfortable flying Roy to MA from FL than I was using any local photographer whose work I had seen (I did a lot of searching).” ~ Lourdes

“It was a pleasure to work with Roy. He added to the days fun and festivities and helped wherever needed. He was a photographer, stylist and counselor all in one. Whether is was to take a great picture or ease some tension, Roy was there, got the job done and I’m very thankful for that.” ~ Lourdes

Destination weddings also give us an opportunity to create images in settings and locations that are new to us ~ presenting the challenge of coming away from these events with moments of love and celebration between family and friends but also a sense of place.

I had the wonderful experience of photographing Lourdes and Chris the next day in and around locations on Cape Cod. It seemed like every bend of the road was another beautiful scenic vista ~ a canvas with which to create some amazing wedding portraits!

I am filled with such gratitude that I get to capture moments of love, joy and celebration ~ an honor to be there for my couples and deliver these captured moments for them and future generations to delight in!

A Few Details:

Cape Cod Wedding Venue: Ocean Edge Resort

Make Up: Flawless Make Up By JCL ~ Janet Ovalle

Hair: Tracy LaSala

Cake: Casual Gourmet

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Diana + Nicholas  |  Married

Photographed By Cristobal and Stella

A Quito, Ecuador Wedding

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Although I feel so lucky to have been given the opportunity to photograph all my brides and grooms on their big day, I felt twice as fortunate to have had the opportunity to travel to Quito, Ecuador for Diana and Nick’s fairy tale wedding! Cristobal and I spent a few days in Quito, taking in the beautiful landscapes, the genuinely nice people, and a very different culture, really getting into the mood of this unique wedding.

What’s unique about this experience was that we were able to be intimate with the families before the actual wedding, which we don’t usually get to do until the wedding day. We spent days before even a day of travel afterwards with her family and so the wedding day itself felt like a family affair to even us!

For both Diana and Nick, this was a very intimate affair and letting loose was the plan. The party was over the top and every detail was paid close attention to. The food was spectacular and the variety of bands she had playing her wedding never gave anyone a chance to sit!

From top to bottom, this was one of those weddings I will never forget and one of the couples I hope to never lose touch with! In fact, we learned that they are expecting a baby and we hope to be a part of that new chapter in their lives.

A Few Details:

Caterer: Grupo Barlovento

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