The gorgeous flowers were done by Jen at Fleur de Lys in New Haven. (www.fleurdelysfloral.com) The lighting and room décor were done by the incredibly talented Darin and his crew at the New Haven Lawn Club. ( www.nhlccatering.com) When you walk into the Lawn Club and see the vintage chandeliers and original fixtures, you feel like you have walked into a classic old-Hollywood mansion. And with all the flowers and lights picking up the steel blue and fuchsia color palette, there was no other word to describe the room… it was magical.

I’m loving putting together these inspiration boards! It’s so much fun to look back at some of our weddings and admire all the details and colors we’ve seen at weddings. We completely understand how much work it is to plan a wedding (we were there not too long ago ourselves). I remember one of the most amazing feelings was the first time we saw our reception room on our wedding day – to see it all together and perfect, it was incredible. That’s why I love these boards so much – a great way to give our couples a little touch of that feeling all over again.

We’d love your feedback – what do you want to see for our March board?

WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding technology company, just announced that RJT Pictures has won the 2009 Bride’s Choice Awards™!

In its inaugural year, the Bride’s Choice Awards recognizes and honors vendors from the WeddingWire Network that demonstrate excellent quality of service, responsiveness, professionalism, value of cost and flexibility. This year’s recipients represent the top three percent of WeddingWire’s vendor community, which includes over 100,000 wedding vendors from across the US. That means RJT Pictures is one of the very best Connecticut Wedding Photographers.

Unlike other awards in which winners are selected by the company, the Bride’s Choice Awards are determined exclusively by recent newlyweds through surveys and reviews.

“We are excited to launch this annual award program to honor high-performing vendors based solely on the experiences of our WeddingWire community,” according to Timothy Chi, WeddingWire’s Chief Executive Officer. “This year’s recipients have set the bar high, exhibiting excellent service and expertise in the wedding industry.”

Also check this POST out to see a few of her from last Christmas, I LOVE the Santa Hat one!!

HAPPY FRIDAY EVERYONE!!

It has long been a goal of ours to enter some national and international photography competitions. We aren’t as concerned at the outcome of the competitions as we are about actually entering. As a photographer, it is a very valunerable thing to put your work out there in the sole purpose of being judged by your peers. By doing this, we feel that it is one way that we continually learn and continually improve on our work. This way we can be better and better for all of our clients.

So that being said, I am so excited to share with you that one of my images was selected as a finalist in the Best of Weddings Competition. We will know if it makes it higher while we are out at the WPPI (Wedding and Portrait Photographers International) Conference in a few weeks. This image that was selected made it as a finalist in the Wedding Humor category, and hopefully you can see why. It is one of those images that makes me laugh every time. Here is the image:

I also have to give a shout-out to another great CT photographer, Sam Chinigo who also is a finalist in this competition. Congratulations Sam!

Kathleen and I also entered 11 of our prints into the WPPI 16×20 competition which we will also know how we placed while we are out in Vegas in a few weeks. Keep your fingers crossed :). We will keep you posted.

Hope everyone is having a great week!!

Here are just some of the many photos that Kathleen and I took today.