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Devonn & Tim’s Wedding at The Chelsea Atlantic City

Ray Hennessy — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 13:59:56 +0000

It’s really a great experience to be a part of a friend’s wedding and that’s exactly what Kim and I had on Devonn & Tim’s wedding. As I mentioned in the post about their engagement session Tim and I went to high school together. They had their wedding at The Chelsea in Atlantic City, which is an incredible location. They both got ready in a different penthouse suite with incredible views of Atlantic City (the girls got the beach view!). We had plenty of time with both of them and it has great to just hang out with everyone while they got all ready for the wedding day. Everybody was so relaxed and fun it made the job really easy.

Devonn and Tim had decided to have a first look which as I’m sure you know by now, we love! After everybody was ready Kim and I found a nice location in one of the empty restaurants in The Chelsea for them to have a private moment together and see each other for the first time. Next we took advantage of the many places this hotel has to offer for great photographs. We didn’t venture outside too much since it was a bit on the warm side and the ceremony was outside right on the beach so we got to enjoy the beautiful sunshine and blue skies.

The ceremony was followed up with an awesome party right at the hotel and we even got a chance to sneak Devonn and Tim away for a few minutes of sunset photos which turned out great. It was a wonderful day and Kim and I are both so happy they chose us to be a part of their wedding day. Below are a few of my favorite photos from the day, I hope you enjoy.

Christine & Tom’s Wildwood Engagement

Ray Hennessy — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:42:45 +0000

When Christine suggested that Kim and I photograph her and Tom at the Wildwood boardwalk I immediately thought it was a great idea for something a little different. We originally picked a date it April but it turned out to be a bit on the freezing cold side that day so we pushed it back to this past weekend which worked out perfectly. We got great weather that day and the boardwalk and rides were all open! We started out taking a walk down to the beach and the sun cooperated perfectly and gave us some nice warm light as Christine and Tom played around near the edge of the water. After that we headed up to a few colorful building on the boardwalk which made for some great backgrounds. It started to get dark so we headed over to one of the piers that had rides on them and managed to work around the tight crowds to get a few shots with the colorful lights of the boardwalk in them. We had a great time hanging out with Christine and Tom, they are both always joking around and have a great sense of humor that is dare I say a bit twisted just like mine! Kim and I are really looking forward to this wedding coming up at the Fonthill Castle and Museum which looks to be an awesome location. Below are a few of my favorites from our night in Wildwood.

Kate & Josh’s Cape May Engagement

Ray Hennessy — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:36:27 +0000

I’ll set the scene…. Kim and I are hanging out next to the car on Beach Avenue in Cape May, NJ right in front of Congress Hall. We see Kate and Josh walking down the sidewalk to meet up with us for their engagement shoot. It’s not hard to spot them Kate is literally jumping up and down and waving as she walks down the side walk. That’s pretty much how this engagement shoot went, these two are constantly having fun and keeping each other laughing. There was climbing in a tree, “can we get a shot in front of the giant beer sign?” (of course), and fun on the beach to finish things off. The evening ended with one of the nicest sunsets I’ve seen in quite some time, without a single other person on the beach! Below are a few of my favorites from the day, we hit a lot of locations and got a lot of variety. I’m really looking forward to their wedding coming up this September at the Carriage House in Galloway, NJ. On to the photos….

Angela & Mike’s Wedding at the Chalfonte in Cape May NJ

Ray Hennessy — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:37:33 +0000

Angela & Mikes’ wedding in Cape May, NJ was incredible. We had great weather, it was a little hot but not too bad and once we got down to Cape May it was perfect out. Photography was important to Angela and Mike and they allowed us plenty of time for pictures. The beautiful flowers came from The Secret Garden Florist in Lindwood and Kim and I got some great photos of Angela getting ready. Then it was off to the beautiful ceremony at St. Bernadette’s church in Northfield, you can see some of the gorgeous stained glass window in the photo of Angela and her father walking down the isle. The bride and groom were picked up by a horse carriage from Cape May Carriage Company and were taken to the reception. Mike had some friends at a house in Cape May and we stopped there for some more amazing photos on the way to the beautiful Chalfonte were the night ended with a non-stop party. Many of the perfect details were taken care of by the fabulous wedding planner Val from Events by Val, who was great to work with and the cake was from La Patisserie Bakery
Kim and I both had an amazing time and we hope that Angela and Mike enjoy the photos as much as we do.

Love that veil!

Angela was such a pretty bride

Cool stained glass window at St. Bernadette's in Northfield, NJ

WHAT A PARTY!!!!

Another Trip to Cape May

Ray Hennessy — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:00:54 +0000

There is nothing like walking along the beach when the sun is just coming up over the horizon. There are barely any people on the beach (but surprisingly there are some) and it’s so nice and quiet and peaceful. It was another great morning in Cape May, NJ for my father and I. We got there right after the sunrise and the birds were really active. After a few hours in Cape May, we stopped by Reeds Beach on the Delaware Bay to watch all the birds (specifically Red Knots) eating the horseshoe crab eggs. As you can see below there were thousands of birds gathered on the shores for the feast, it was quite a sight. You can view more pics at my dad’s blog along with a lot more info.

Cape May Lighthouse in the early morning

Swan Fly-By

Least Tern with a fish

Least Tern smacking another with a fish. I don't know what the hell they were doing but it was really funny to watch.

I gotta say this Least Tern looks really pissed off at me - haha

Female (in front) and Male Purple Martins

I love this shot of the Cardinal it's got the 3 primary colors going on

Cedar Waxwing

Female Red-WInged Blackbird

Eastern Kingbird in front of the Cape May Lighthouse

Red Knot flying

It was a really crowded beach this day. All these birds come to the coastline in the Delaware Bay to feed on the Horseshoe crab eggs.

Heather & Jim – Engagement

Ray Hennessy — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:11:49 +0000

I met up with Heather & Jim this past Sunday afternoon. They drove down from north Jersey to see their family and to meet with me and their videographer Extra Step to finalize all of their details. Kim and I went over to Kennedy Park in Somers Point, NJ to take few shots for their engagement portraits. It was a perfect day out, it was ridiculously warm for this time of year and a perfect day for it. This couple was great and a blast hang out with. I know they were really nice because for some stupid reason I kept calling Jim (sorry Jim) the wrong name and only after about the 5th time they corrected me and they laughed right through it. Sometimes I’m just not good with names, but I’m glad it was with these two because they continued having fun and we got some great photos. Anyway, on to a few of the shots.