|| kelly + brian || 03.13.09 | the mill @ spring lake

kelly + brian are the type couples we just love to hang out with. they are fun, spontaneous, and they even thought i was kinda funny... (no easy task in itself, just ask Lovina). Kelly looked great, her make-up by Melissa from Pink comb. AND of course always a pleasure when Mike Simons is behind the video lens! Lovina was with us @ this wedding too which is always a special treat, for our Kelly & Brian, not me as all she seems to do is show me up and make fun of me!!! haha!! Our friends @ the Mill did a SPECTACULAR job as usual.
lotsa good fun as you will see from the slideshow below!

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|| amy + john || the molly pitcher | red bank

Whenever we are @ the molly pitcher, we just feel so comfortable and happy. They really make us feel like a part of their family over there and for amy + john's wedding, they just proved again why Amanda, Jim, Shari, Jeanne, janice, and all the rest of the staff are among the greatest ever. What a perfect day too. Small chill, little breeze, and the clouds.. Oh the clouds, just check out the ridiculous skies we had this day. Amy + John are a radical fun couple. The morning of the wedding john & the boys went and got shaves & the to the , ready for this, Firing Range. WOW I wanna wake up and shoot guns before a wedding one day. I totally would have shot (photographed) that. So cool. Well guys thanks for a wonderful day and although I don't have an M1 Garand to shoot , I did just pick up a paintball gun, so if you wanna go, just tell us...

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Blackhawk Down@lightfighter

this is soooo sick too

|| meredith + vincent | 03.28.09 | @ Seasons in Washington

So a few weeks ago we were blessed with shooting another Rapolla wedding. Meredith + Vincent were married in Suffern NY, and then had an amazing reception @ Seasons in Washington, NJ. Now we also photographed Vin's brother Dan's wedding to Melanie just on September 12, 2008, @ the Channel Club in Monmouth Beach. You may also not know this awesome little tid-bit, but my Dad photographed Vin & Dan's parents wedding in June of 1973, as well as their uncles wedding. So you can really say that we feel like a part of this family. Another little known Arcara fun fact is that Vincent and Dan's parents purchased their home in Middletown from my grandparents. My Dad was actually raised in the same house as Vin & Dan. AND Oh My God, LAST connection I promise, Dan does our landscaping @ our home in Tinton Falls. This is rediculous... The entire reason that we love what we do sooo much is that we get to share what we do with the people we love and have known since forever. OK enough of all that crap, the Rapollas are pretty funny looking too so thank goodness Vin had Meredith for a wife! ( Nice segway back to the real reason we're here huh?) She looked spectacular. We had so much fun and what a radical day. The entire staff @ Seasons we top notch and made sure everything went perfectly smooth. I was hoping to get Meredith in her gown on the Hog in the her Dad's garage, but time was not our friend that day. Even so , I think it all went off famously. See what you think in their slideshow below!

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|| Truly Humbled || the knot best of weddings !!!

I know that we talk about it all the time, but, we just have to say again that we are truly humbled and blessed to have so many brides and grooms hire us to perform a service that we hold so near to our hearts. I mean first you all voted us as " The Knot Best of 2007 AND now 2008/2009" which just makes us love what we do even more. The Knot Best of Weddings is a coast-to-coast guide to the entire country's top florists, venues, photographers, cakes, and everything in between. Whats really amazing about this is that The Knot really had nothing to do with it at all (well except for be associated with it, and the fact that it is their site that this is coming from) but that an independent company came in and polled brides. It was all the brides doing! Which to me is even bigger and better. There were something like 25,000 brides polled. Now our 2009 season is booking up faster than any other year. Its just so flattering. We are getting so many inquiries from some really exciting weddings, its really working out to be a fantastic year. Its just so much fun to see these things happen to our little studio here in Red Bank, and what is also so amazing is all the referrals we have been getting from our prior couples. I mean its all because of you guys talking about us that has really made it happen for Lovina , Molly, Lilly and I. If you are a 2010 couple please don't hesitate to call us. Our season is booking up quick and we want to make sure all of you are well taken care of.
We also have some other exciting things going on at John Arcara Photography. Lovina has redesigned our branding and logos, as some of you may have noticed on the newer blog images. We just want to portray a cleaner image and really let the photographs do the talking. we will be adding many new images to the website, so be on the lookout for that. Lovina has designed some new promotional materials as well, including, postcards, business cards, a newly designed simplified price list, and new note cards as well. We also have some radical new albums that we are designing sample layouts for that will be ready real soon.

|| amanda + nick | 03.14.09 | the stone house @ stirling ridge ||

Amanda + Nick had such an awesome wedding that we had to do not one but 2 different slideshows. The first one is the type that we always put here on our blog. Its to their wedding song making memories of us by keith urban. the second one is our newest offering called "FotoFusion". It's a blending of stills and motion using the mot cutting edge technology & techniques in photography. A revolutionary way to unobtrusively capture your beautiful day.
So Amanda + Nick had their whole day @ the stonehouse. Rebecca and her staff are just amazing and we always have a blast when we are blessed with a wedding there. Amanda of course looked radiant , and what a goof her handsome husband nick is. Dude you clean up nice... The whole bridal party as a matter of fact looked like a bunch of celebrities. Well check them out in both of our signature slideshow below.

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