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Sometimes I wish I had more time to spend putting up some of the more amazing wedding vendors I have worked with this past year. Some of the stuff going on in the industry right now is just pretty much a plate full of awesome. A few weeks ago I emailed
Caroline Colóm Vásquez of Paloma’s Nest and asked if I could throw some blog love her way. From a photographers perspective or at least this photographers perspective weddings are all about the little details. The more eye candy I have to get my camera lost in the better. Last year Kristy Rice from Momental Designs introduced me to her work when we all collaborated on a tablescape session and I have fallen in love with Carolin’s work ever since.

Be sure to check out her shop here and her amazing blog here.

Brides…. Get on over and check out her work. I would love to see some of these deigns in some photographs this year.

~Daniel~

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Yesterday I had the opportunity to work with some of my favorite wedding vendors in NEPA. The collaboration and creative process behind such sessions give me such a brush of fresh air in a ridiculously busy schedule. I just love sitting around and watching some of my favorite peers have at it. It such a beautiful process to watch.

When I showed up for the afternoon I was introduced to the kindest man I have met in some time. He was knee deep in work setting up the table and bringing in all the items we were including in the shoot on his tractor. I could tell he just had this spirit about him I was drown to. As the day moved on I pointed my camera at him a few times….

I couldn’t resist getting a few quick portraits of him.

Every now and again as I began taking pictures he would head out into the woods and go fetch something for us.

I just kept thinking that I wish he was my grandfather.

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The following vendors made this happen.

Table Designer and Stationer: Kristy Rice of Momental Designs

Floral Design: Central Park Flowers

Linens: LaTavola Linens

Feather designs: Metrogypsy

A big thank-you to all involved

~Daniel~

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Kristy Rice over at Momental Designs had a 10 year reunion this past Friday and although I was not able to shoot the event on Saturday I was asked to come and photograph the venue the day before. The following is a sneak peak at just some of the details I was brought in to capture.  Creating editorial storyboards is something I am getting accustomed to as magazines require this particular style for print. It’s also a style I really enjoy shooting for so I thought I would post a few collages I made for this particular event.

Hope everyone enjoys the vintage cream palate. I know I got lost in all the details…..

The cake was a Sylvia Weinstock and let me say I am a huge fan of her work.

Her cakes are legendary.

Happy 10 years to Kristy & Adam

~Daniel~

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This past week I collaborated with Kristy Rice from Momental Designs and Anne-Marie Scali from Perfect bound on a sculpted bloom session in and around Scranton PA. Both Kristy and Anne-Marie have incredible taste and contacted me about a month ago to begin the process of thinking about how we wanted to portray their designs.

Big shout out to my assistants “The Bryan” and “The Bradley” for helping me out with this shoot and taking some awesome images.

Love these hand made paper blooms.  Truly an inspirational concept I have  not seen being done anywhere in the wedding industry today.

Architecturegasm

Anne Marie’s sense of color and style is unmatched as far as I am concerned.

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~Daniel~

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    A few months back I was contacted by my friend and colleague Kristy Rice from Momental Designs here in NEPA to photograph a few tablescape ideas that had been rolling around in her head for the better part of a year. Living here in NEPA can be tough when trying to collaborate with other wedding vendors in the area. NEPA seems to be 10 years behind everything around here.  I met Kristy about a year ago when she contacted me to get some pictures for her website and immediately found a kindred spirit of sorts. Kristy introduced me to Dorian Butovich from Central Park Flowers here in Scranton and we ended up designing two tablescape sessions of which I am sharing one of today. Those of you who follow my blog may have seen the ridiculously awesome designs he comes up with. If you haven’t seen his work you can see some of it by clicking  here on my blog.

    This morning I was made aware that these pictures are featured on the Ruffledblog.com. For those of you in the wedding industry the Ruffledblog is probably one of the top 10 blogs to follow in the U.S. If you’re feeling short of inspiration and need to find something inspiring to get the creative juices flowing Ruffledblog is the place to go.

You can see the full blog post on TheRuffledblog by clicking here.

There are so many pictures from this session that could be shared so I thought I would post a few more for those who want to see them….

The following vendors made this happen. Without any one of them this would not have been possible.
Table Designer and Stationer: Kristy Rice of Momental Designs
Floral Design: Central Park Flowers
Cake: Cathy Reppert, Truly Scrumptious
Venue: The Cottage at Hillside Farms, Dallas, Pennsylvania
Linens: LaTavola Linens

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One of the things I love doing is collaborating with other vendors from time to time and today Dorian and I from Central Park Flowers put together a tabletop for some print advertising that he has been working on for the Scranton market. When it comes to vendors you guys know I am very stingy when it comes to recommendations. If you’re looking for floral and or table arrangements for your wedding…

Don’t even bother with anyone else

Just get in touch with Dorian.

He constantly blows my mind with his designs.

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I get a ton of questions from people about where I get the inspiration for my photography so I thought I would give you a behind the scenes look at what we do at Darkershadesofbrown photography to keep ourselves fresh and inspired.

Wedding photography is a bit behind the times here in PA. Most of the people who want to provide for a family end up moving to a warmer climate as they can work pretty much all year round and keep their schedules full every week. I tend to love Pennsylvania so my wife and I decided to make it our home a few years ago. Honestly, I am sometimes saddened by my lack of piers to share and collaborate with. About a year ago Kristy Rice from Rice Ink whom I did not know contacted and hired me to do some work for her website. For those of you who follow my blog you know that we have become friends over the last year. I think we tend to both inspire each other and I have really enjoyed getting to know the girls of rice ink over the last 12 months.

Just a quick peak at the amazing work we did that day.

Publication is due early next year and after it is released I will be sure to show you more from this amazing session.

The following vendors collaborated for this session:

The Photographer, That would be me.
http://www.darkershadesofbrown.com/

The Stationery, Kristy Rice
www.momentaldesigns.com

The Cake, Cathy Reppert
http://www.eatcakefirst.com

The Flowers, Dorian and Eloise Butovich
http://centralparkflowers.com/

I honestly wouldn’t be able to survive without having creative outlets like this…

It is like breathing to me and today I got to take deep breaths.

~Daniel~

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For those who follow my blog on a somewhat consistent basis you know that every now and then I recommend a vendor that I believe has some special sauce they can offer you on your wedding day. I am always so careful when people ask me to recommend vendors to them. I honestly don’t know what to say to someone when they ask me about a vendor that I am not familiar with. Wedding planning like photography is not something to take lightly. There are so many people out there claiming to be wedding planners that it’s hard to know who to trust and that is why I gotta give a shout out to Jan who just does some incredible work for you on your wedding day.

Jan Sokolowski is the owner of Attention 2 Pefection in Forty Fort Pa about a half hour outside of Scranton and has many years of event planning behind her belt. If someone were to ask me who the best wedding planner is in and around the Scranton/Wilkes Barre area Jan would be at the very top of my short list.

To find out more about how Jan can help you plan the most amazing day ever you can check her out via her website by following these links

Jan Sokolowski

www.attention2perfection.com

570-817-8227

Checkity it out, 

~Daniel~

A few weeks ago I received an email from Kristy Rice over at Momental Designs located in Forty Fort Pa about 15 miles from my house. Kristy mentioned that she stumbled on my website by accident and became an instant fan. At the time neither one of us knew that the other existed and after reading her email I headed over to her website to take a look at her work.

The moment my mouse clicked over my mind blew up from all the awesome I was looking at. Many of her wedding invitation designs have been featured in the Knot and she has positioned herself as an expert in the area of custom wedding invitation design so I highly recommend giving her a call to see her work and chat with her team as to how they can turn your invitations into pieces of artwork.

I spent a few hours with them yesterday collecting images for their new website launch that will be coming out shortly and was so excited when kristy specifically told me that she was looking for something different with a message that communicated what they are. A crazy fun artistic group of girls who do amazing work.

It wasn’t to difficult for them to just be who they are

The Kristy

 The Jessica

 The Joy Aka the quiet one

The Kelley

The Stephanie AKA White shirt

The Linda… AKA MOM

You can check out their work by following this link and be sure to see the new website when it gets launched

http://www.custominvitationlady.com/

You know me… When I see something that I love I have to tell people about it so here is the coolest place on the Internet to find vintage headpieces for a wedding.  I just ordered one myself for an upcoming shoot this month so please spare me some change and order one for your wedding.

You can view their cool ine of accesories by following this link

Have fun exploring.

~Daniel~