September 11, 2018
Once again, I get to announce how excited and proud I am to have a Long Beach Island Fall wedding editorial featured in the pages of Bay Magazine’s Fall 2018 magazine. LBI’s premiere wedding and lifestyle publication, this wedding editorial in their is meant to inspire and arouse your creative senses. I know that planning and designing the Long Beach Island Fall wedding editorial photo shoot did for me! It was such a pleasure to work with an incredible team of wedding professionals. And I am feeling super-lucky to once again be given the opportunity by the magazine editors to stretch creatively. They really let me run with my ideas, and the end results are something that continues to make me so happy and proud. In addition, I get to help showcase venues and vendors from the local Long Beach Island wedding community. I love working on projects that also benefit the many wonderful small businesses around LBI, New Jersey!
The inspiration for this project came about pretty simply. I was searching on Etsy for a beautiful table runner for another project and came across a photo featuring a beautiful mustard yellow silk runner. I quickly became obsessed. The shoot’s design began to revolve around that color. And by chance, this summer, while driving my daughter to work each morning in Ship Bottom, I noticed a beautiful yellow classic Mercedes in the same yellow color. I suppose the creative gods were smiling, because the car was for sale. I reached out to the owner, and was able to arrange borrowing the car for the shoot (I even got to drive it!). Some shoots just “come together” and this was one of those. Some shoots feature alpacas, some stunning white horses, others… a 1968 classic Mercedes 450 convertible in mustard yellow. I can’t explain how these things happen in my world, it’s just simple enough to say that sometimes they do. And it makes me happy.
PUBLISHER | Bay Magazine
PLANNER | Bogath Weddings & Events
PLANNER ASSISTANT | Sophia Hogan
PHOTOGRAPHER | Susan Elizabeth Photography
RECEPTION VENUE | Parkers Garage and Oyster Saloon
FLORIST | Reynolds Garden Shop, Kortney Maurus
RENTALS | Rustic Drift
HAIR | Lavish Salon
MAKEUP | CIA Artists
BRIDE’S DRESS SHOP | Free Love Bridal
RECEPTION DRESS DESIGNER | French Knot Couture
INVITATIONS | Stephanie Somodi
CAKE & DESSERT BAR | Sweet Melissa
JEWELRY | Atlantic City Jewelry
MODELS | Jillian Spano and Billy Spano
GROOM’s ATTIRE | The Black Tux
Thank you to the photographers who allow us to use their images on our site:
Ashley Mac Photographs, Heather Palecek Photography, Idalia Photography, Jessica Erb Photography, Susan Elizabeth Photography, Delaney Dobson Photography, Ann Coen Photography, Lovesick Inc., K Hulett Photography & Melanie Cassie Photography
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