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Sweet Sixteens just keep getting better and better. With every Sweet Sixteen I photograph, I’m amazed by the amount of though, creativity and preparation birthday girls, parents and friends put into it. This Masquerade inspired Sweet Sixteen was nothing short of gorgeous. Thank you Chastidy for being so Sweet and amazing.
Chastidy Sweet Sixteen Pictures – Images by Gabriela Fuentes
Last year, I got three phone calls for a May 2nd wedding. What a popular date I thought at first, as I got more details, it turned out, it was the same wedding. When I finally meet Kimberley and Brendan, I felt like I knew the family already, and we were immediately hooked. They had their wedding at the Coral House in Long Island New York. Kimberley and Brendan are such a lovely couple, and their love shinned on every step of the way. Congratulations!
Kimberley is one the sweetest brides I’ve met. She is so kind and beautiful. I’m really thrilled to have been her photographer.
I have no words for this picture. I just love it.
Kimberley and her bridesmaids working it.
I have to thank the groomsman for being so totally awesome and willing to try everything I told them to do.
If a picture says more than a thousand words, these two pictures say, LOVE two thousand times.
Kimberly looks so beautiful and radiant.
Thanks to our second photographer Jarlen who took these two beautiful pictures.
This picture goes to my collection of favorite bouquet toss pictures.
As a photographer, and a mother of a twenty month old, I love photographing children at weddings. They look super cute on their grown-up outfits, they’re the first ones on the dance floor, and they are simply fun to be around and photograph. On the other hand, it is important to remember that above all, they are children, and their needs and schedules are different than ours. They get tired, hungry, bored and when that happens, they will not be happy, and unhappy children not always cooperate the way adults want, which is specially critical if you have children on your bridal party, and you want them to walk down the aisle, throw petals before you walk, carry rings, and smile during formal pictures.
If you treat them like guests and think ahead of time of ways to make them comfortable and keep them entertained, you can concentrate on you and your fiance and enjoy your wedding. Here are the Top Ten Things you can do to keep children entertained and happy on your wedding.
1. Bubbles. Thank God for Bubbles; they are a modern marvel. They are inexpensive, easy to carry and will keep children of all ages happy and entertained for hours. Just make sure you bring extra, specially for the children on the bridal party.
2. Flowers. Ask your florist for extra petals, and tell your flower girls they can have more petals, but after they throw the petals on their baskets down the aisle.
3. Food and water. It is important that children are fed, specially if your event extends for many hours, church, photo shoot, and then reception. So check with their parents for their meal schedule, what is OK for you to give them, and create small favor bags for them, with one small bottle of water, the approved snack, utensils, if needed, and napkins or wipes. Avoid snacks with too much sugar because it will give them extra much energy; thus making it difficult to stay put. Avoid chocolate or foods with fillings to avoid getting their clothes dirty.
4. Offer them a gift. If you know a child is going through a “phase,” or you are afraid he or she will “act” certain way, check with the parents for their favorite character. Buy a small gift with that character, and tell them they will get it if they help you do the thing you want them to do, carry rings, etc. Just make sure the gift is appropriate to their age and don’t forget the batteries.
5. Washable and nontoxic crayons and coloring books. If you are worried that children will get bored at the reception hall -most likely they will have more fun than anyone else – washable non-toxic crayons are the way to go; they will keep kids busy for a while, and they act as your wedding favor for them. Just make sure their age is appropriate as you don’t want to give crayons to babies or small children.
6. Make sure all children get something. Whatever you are giving out, bubbles, crayons, or a gift, make sure all children get one.
7. Hire a baby sitter. I don’t pretend to tell parents what to do, but if you are the bride or groom and have kids, it may be a good idea to hire a baby sitter you trust. That way, you know your children are safe and can concentrate on your wedding. Your parents and siblings get more time to enjoy the party too.
8. Keep your promises. If you promise a child something, please be sure to do it. Nothing breaks the heart of a child more, than hearing they will get something, and then not receiving it.
9. Get down to their level, and ask nicely.
10. Have fun with them.
Always check with parents and get their approval before you give or offer something to them.
There is something about taking Sweet Sixteen Pictures that I simply love. I ask them about the type of photography they have in mind, their interest, and their likes. Normally, they don’t say much, so I try to put myself in their shoes. I remember when I was fifteen, I didn’t much to say to old people. Yeah, thirty something felt so old when I was a teenager. So my teenage memory tells me: Come on lady do you really expect me to say that I want to look like a model, and that I want my pictures to look like they were taken out from a magazine; not in a million years, especially with mom in the room. But yeah, my teenage memory tells me. They all want to look beautiful, hot, fabulous and like stars. So I secretly try all the above.
Sometimes, the girls laugh when I ask them to give a pose, or attitude; they laugh even harder when I ask them for a sexy face. Their friends laugh even harder in the background, and I feel like I’m putting them on the spot.
I couldn’t have asked more from Camila. She is so pretty and sweet, and she did fabulous. I also have to give up to her friends who were a big help. They made her comfortable and helped me get fabulous poses from Camila.
Camila getting ready for her big day.
Chilling out with her friends before leaving to the Reception Hall.
This is one of my favorite pictures.
Camila looked beautiful and gave me very nice pictures.
Work it out.
With the girls…
And the family
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Today is the Open House of my friend’s Paolo beautiful Colonial House in Brookfield Connecticut. I’m sure homebuyers visiting his house today will fall in love with its charms and coziness.
We had a wonderful time with Paolo’s family and Connecticut friends last night. It was sort of a farewell get together. I felt like I was in Europe listening to so many languages. Paolo and his gorgeous wife Alessandra were the perfect hosts. She made the most delicious meat lasagnas I’ve had.
Alessandra and Paolo, I wish much luck with the Open House today, and to those of your looking for a house on that part of town, run to see it; you will not be disappointed.
Here is the complete listing of the House. http://www.forsalebyowner.com/listing/9H92D
The flowers are blossoming and it shows the beauty of the mature landscape. 
We had such a nice evening yesterday in this spacious family room. It is a great room for entertainment.
The gourmet kitchen is so pretty and functional.
After giving it much thought, I decided to publish this blog. I hope I don’t offend any of my fellow wedding photographers, or any photographer for that matter. But again, I said, I had given this much thought, and decided to post it with a Free Lightroom Preset.
Recently, our second photographer, Jarlen, and I were having a discussion about retouching and post processing photographs. I believe most wedding and event photographs can benefit greatly if they process their pictures either in Lightroom, Aperture or Photoshop. He is just starting in the photography world and is more of a purist photographer, so he is still not sure he agrees with this whole post processing and retouching business of Lightroom presets and Photoshop actions.
Today is Jarlen’s birthday, and I decided to post this Free Lightroom preset as a birthday gift for him – hint, hint, I hope I finally convince him that is OK to use Lightroom presets.
Happy Birthday Jay and Good Friday to you.
I really like this picture Jarlen took of the bride’s aunt dancing. She was mostly behind cameras, so getting her was really difficult, but important, and there was not much time to change color temperature and other settings.
This is a Free Ligthroom preset for Ligthroom 2. This preset was designed to remove the color red from indoor wedding pictures. It changes the color temperate and gives a cream skin tone and soften features
I was eighteen years old when I met my dear friend Paolo. I started working for a high profile businessman from my home country. Young and with little experience of Corporate America, I looked up to Paolo and learned so much from him. Not only because he is one of the most intelligent and honest men I have ever known, but also because he was willing to share his knowledge. When people were betting the market was going up, he was ahead of the crowd and was warning it could crash.
Recently, Paolo asked me to take pictures of his beautiful house in Brookfield, Connecticut, which he is putting on the market because he is moving back to New York City. I have to confess that I was a little nervous. Yes, I’m a photographer, but I have never done real estate pictures before, and there are tricks of the trade to real estate photography, or at least I believe so. Besides there was much on the table for me to play with his pictures.
I overcame my nervousness of navigating into a different field of photography because I was really excited to see my friend Paolo and his lovely wife Alessandra after many years, so Danny and I headed out to Brookfield.
As soon as I arrived at their home, I fell in love with their house. It was beautiful, cozy, huge and picture perfect. Everything was so immaculate and in mint condition (as they say in the real estate world), nothing less for a family with the most exquisite taste. Right away, some of my fear went away, and we started taking pictures and spent a wonderful afternoon with them.
Here is the link for the listing with some of the pictures we took.
Danny took this picture of the house. Paolo did an amazing job with the landscaping, and I can’t imagine how beautiful it will look in a couple of weeks once all the flowers have blossomed.
Five years ago, my dear friend Ayaiza took my wedding pictures. Today, I’m honored, nervous and thrilled to return the gesture and being her wedding photographer. I just hope that this is all that you ever wanted, and that through my pictures, I was able to capture the love you feel for each other, and the happiness this day brought you and your families. This is a work of love, and it is my gift to you guys.
I love you mi amiguita.
The spectacular beautiful view from the bridal suite at the Marriott Hotel Biscayne Bay in Downtown Miami.
Ayaiza’s favorite color is red, so we couldn’t expect anything less than red roses. Casa Diri’s did an amazing job with her bouquet and all the flower decor.
Ayaiza’s wedding dress by Mikaela was so beautiful. It fit her like a glove and accentuated her beautiful body.
If there is a person that loves being a bride that is Ayaiza. She enjoyed being a bride so much, that if this picture were video, you will be hearing Oh, my god. Oh, my god I’m getting married.
Does anyone have of a reason to prevent this marriage? No?… I didn’t think so.
I love this picture of Frank.
First dance.
I absolutely LOVE this picture. If there is a picture that shows her character, I think this is it.
Stunning view of night downtown Miami, champagne and chocolate dipped strawberries. In the mood for love?
Who said you couldn’t be glamourous and fun. I love this picture of Ayaiza and Frank entering their room. Totally goofy and nice.
Ok, so I have to admit, I was a little nervous about this photo shoot. We arrived at the beautiful Fairchild Tropical Botanical Garden in Coral Gables, a little bit before four o’clock. From the moment I saw it, I fell in love with it. The scenery was simple breathtaking. The kind of place I could roam for hours, and not be bore about. I was starting to see the possibilities. Then, reality hit; we were told the garden closed at 4:30PM, so I had a little more then half an hour to shoot day after wedding pictures in a vast Botanical Garden; no pressure right. Truth be told: I panicked, and I tried to conceal it, but I don’t know how successful I was.
We hoped into the cart and started the photo shoot. Luckily, our tour guide was so gracious. He didn’t rush us, and allowed us to stay past five o’clock. Although, I didn’t get his name, I will never forget him because he saved my day by allowing us the time to take some amazing shots of Ayaiza and Frank.
Inside Fairchild Botanical Garden, I felt I was in Paradise. Here, one can easily forgot there was is a world outside. This is one of my favorite pictures. I had this concept in mind for Aya and Frank, and it simply fit the setting.
I love this picture of Ayaiza looking at the camera. She looks so pretty.
I took the following pictures wide to appreciate the beauty of the scenery.
After a pose, there comes the laugh.
Ayaiza loves Black and White pictures; so this is for her.
If you think that they were having fun. You’re right.
Danny took the following two pictures, and they are so romantic, which is exactly what he likes.
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