Tag Archives: The Grandview

Purple, Orange, Lime Green, Yellow, and Color Color Color

Kristina gets the award for my sexiest wedding dress of the year!  An amazing Anne Barge dress with jeweled straps crisscrossing the back.  Kristina looked stunning.  A short and sweet ceremony at Marist College Chapel then on to photos on the college campus, where Mike and Kristina had graduated from a few years back.  Each...

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Regina & Rory, a wedding, a farm and a couple of guinea hens…

Well this is the first time I have ever photographed guinea hens at a wedding and I really don’t think that this is a photo I’ll ever be able to duplicate. (so no requests for guinea hen photos please!)  Rory and Regina are very cool people who I immediately bonded with over exchanging photos of...

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Margaret and Nick and thier Black White and Red Wedding

Margaret and Nick’s wedding was one I have been eagerly waiting for all year.  As the banquet manager at The Grandview, Margaret has seen hundreds, maybe even thousands of weddings.  So when you’ve seen it all, how do you top everything for your own wedding?  And as Nick is an executive chef, I was definitely...

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Meghan and Ryan at The Grandview

Dress by Mori Lee
Flowers by Marianne’s Floral Garden
Ceremony and Reception at The Grandview
Music by Third Stone Blues Band
Meghan and Ryan wrote me a little note just after booking me telling me how they had met and how excited they were about their upcoming wedding.  It was so sweet and I loved how I had a...

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The 4th of July with Sherida and Luke!

Sherida told me she almost flew off a four-wheeler the night before her wedding.  So how perfect was it that the path thru the woods at Vassar was muddy and torn up with atv tracks.   Some brides would have said, nope, I’m not going down there.  But Sherida was fine with going on and Luke...

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Rain, more rain, and the Poughkeepsie T Rain Station!

It didn’t just rain on Lauren and David’s wedding day.  It POURED.  There was thunder, there was lightning, it rained sideways, and at one point, I even think it was raining upwards from the pavement.  Photo plan A was scrapped, Plan B was scrapped, we went with Photo plan Q I think.  I have always...

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Lauren and Gene at The Grandview

Wedding Ceremony at Our Lady of the Rosary Chapel, Poughkeepsie, New York
Dress by Tara Keely
Flowers by Weddings by David Anthony
Music by DJ Teddy Rauert
Photobooth by That’s Entertainment
Reception at The Grandview in Poughkeepsie, New York
Lauren’s emerald cut half eternity diamond wedding band still has me captivated.  I can still see it sparkling across the room!   Our...

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Vanderbilt Mansion and Vassar College

Jackie had always wanted wedding photos at Vanderbilt Mansion in Hyde Park, but I ended up shooting their engagement session there instead. A hot June day with a very cool couple.

The wedding day itself seemed to come up pretty quickly after Jackie and Tony’s engagement session.  A touching ceremony was performed by Jackie’s cousin at...

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Matt and Laura at The Grandview in Poughkeepsie

I knew Matt and Laura were going to be fun when I saw them at Kelly and Jaime’s wedding last year, and they did not let me down!  Laura and Matt wanted cool and artsy photos and that’s right up my alley.  Laura arrived at the church in a vintage Bentley and after a beautiful...

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Kristin and Hunter at The Grandview in Poughkeepsie

When Kristin mentioned Wethersfield as the place she’d like to do her wedding photographs, I became seriously excited!  I had photographed in the gardens years ago when I was with the Poughkeepsie Journal, but hadn’t been able to get abride there yet.  It took some hard work on Kristin’s part, but she got permission and...

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