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I found a great wesbsite this past weekend- gettingmarriedonlongisland.com This is a website geared specifically to Long Island brides! It offers unique advice, tips, and all around great info. Although it is geared towards the Long Island bride, I am sure brides from all over will find a benefit to reading the posts on this blog as well!

The author of the blog Claudia Copquin is a well-known name in the bridal industry. She was the managing editor of Newsday’s Long Island Weddings, and she is now the senior editor for the national bridal website www.Chatterberries.com – She is an expert in the industry and a great resource for brides everywhere!

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The holidays are here and its the time of year that I like to give!! Some of you may remember the fresh faces contest I ran earlier this year, we had a ball doing the contest and some lucky families receieved great family portraits. This Holiday season I want to run another contest to give away a free wedding package to one lucky couple!

I am looking for a couple with a really great love story. How did met? How did he propose? What made you decide to spend the rest of you lives together! What kind of obstacles have you gone through to make this wedding happen!  Let me here your stories! Im looking for a story that is truly touching that my blog readers will love! The best story is going to win the following -

• up to 8 Hours of consecutive wedding day coverage
• 1 hour engagement session
• DVD of all digital files
• Online Proofing Gallery  for 90 days
• $500 Album Credit

This Package is Valued at $3300.

How to qualify:

Please send a recent photo of you and your fiance with your LOVE STORY and why you should be the winner of this package! Please also tell me your wedding date, and ceremony/reception locations. Please send your entry to info@joesanphoto.com by January 16th 2010.

I will be choosing a winner On January 16, 2010 – So please have your entries in By then.

Please contact me with any questions you may have, If you happen to know someone who can use a free photography package, please feel free to  pass this on!

Winners will be required to sign a contract and a model release, and agree to have your picture and story posted on my blog. If wedding is not on Long Island, travel fees May apply. Contest is not open to current clients. you can not have a photographer booked for the day, and I will be your sole photographer. To shoot your wedding I must have the day available, So if your date falls on a day that I am booked you will not be eligible for a prize. The contest holds no cash value and winnings are not redeemable for cash.

Planning on having a guest sign in book at your wedding? Why not use a beautiful sign in book custom designed with pictures from your engagement session! These books are the same style and quality as the entry -level albums that I offer! Not only do they offer a unique way to show off your awesome engagement photos but most of all its a great way to preserve the memories of your engagement and your wedding day!

Here is a sample of a book that I recently designed for one of my 2010 couples
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Here are a few shots of a sample album!

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I was sitting around this weekend looking back at all of the venues I shot at this year, I shot at so many cool locations this year but the one place that really left a huge impression on me was the west sayville country club. I have quite a few weddings scheduled at WSCC next year and thought I’d do a little write up. I may do more of these write ups in the future, I enjoy looking back at all of these weddings!

This is a great venue for photos, beautiful views of the bay and the golf course make for excellent backdrops to your wedding photos – But when you take a walk over to the maritime museum on the other side of the property, a whole other world of photographic possibilities open up!! Everyone loves the building with the green door!

Inside the house is gorgeous. Beautiful staircases, fireplaces, and chandeliers it all makes for a warm and comfortable environment. I also love how the dance floor is seperate from the main dining room. Kind of gives all the guests different placed to hang out. While you are out on the dance floor side of the house and look out one of the numerous windows, you get stunning views of the bay and the golf course, and if you catch the sunsetting – it is just amazing..

Another thing about the WSCC that I like is the food, I eat a lot of catered foods, at least 3 times a month.. and I can say WSCC and pretty all of the venues run by Lessings have a great food! Not only is the food awesome, but the service is great too. The waitstaff treat us (vendors) like guests, and the bartenders always have a smile on. Good food and good service is always good.

I cannot not wait to shoot at the West Sayville Country Club again in 2010!

These are 2 shots I was looking at this weekend, that had me thinking of this venue. You can also check out my original post from this wedding here

These shots was taken while working with Laura Ryan.

What an awesome wedding! I truly had an awesome time at this wedding. We started the day off at St. Lukes Church in Whitestone, then we headed on over to the Jericho terrace.

Here are some of my personal favorites – Also check out the awesome slideshow with some more awesome photos from the day! It can also be found at the bottom of this post.

They had this awesome rolls royce- one of the nicest ones I’ve seen this year. 

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Shot an awesome wedding today, I have a lot of shots form this wedding, but this one stood out and its probably one of my favorites of this year!

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This was a great wedding that I had the opportunity to shoot with Laura Ryan. This wedding was at Wave Hill in the Bronx. Ive never been to this venue before so I was pretty excited to check it out - Wave hill has to be one of the nicest places to shoot a wedding. The grounds are goegous and seem almost endless.

I had a great time and Nora and Jesse were awesome to work with – Check out the photos below!

As usual it was awesome getting a chance to shoot with Laura- It was awesome getting to shoot at wave hill, and I cant wait for the next wedding there!!

I recently shot this awesome wedding with Laura Ryan Photography – This was an awesome party at the Royalton at Roslyn Country Club. Very cool place to shoot a wedding!

Here are some of my favorite shots from the wedding.

I was loving these chandeliers in the stairwells…. The Royalton is filled with these great little details!

They had this awesome after party when the reception was over, VERY fun part of the night!! 

AC/DC….

It was a good time! A real fun wedding!

A recent review from a past bride, she had posted this on weddingwire - I love reading these type of reviews –  This is why I love doing what I do!

“Joe was an important part of our wedding day. From the first time we met him, he was a great partner in the entire process. Joe spent a lot of time finding out exactly what our needs and wants were for the big day. He was willing to make himself available at any time – which was important given our busy schedules.

We cannot say enough about Joe or recommend him any more highly. He was the consummate professional and a true pleasure to work with – you will not be disappointed!”