WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding technology company, just announced that PhotoVlado has won the 2009 Bride’s Choice Awards™!

In its inaugural year, the Bride’s Choice Awards recognizes and honors vendors from the WeddingWire Network that demonstrate excellent quality of service, responsiveness, professionalism, value of cost and flexibility. This year’s recipients represent the top three percent of WeddingWire’s vendor community, which includes over 100,000 wedding vendors from across the US. That means PhotoVlado is one of the very best in Photography.

Unlike other awards in which winners are selected by the company, the Bride’s Choice Awards are determined exclusively by recent newlyweds through surveys and reviews.

“We are excited to launch this annual award program to honor high-performing vendors based solely on the experiences of our WeddingWire community,” according to Timothy Chi, WeddingWire’s Chief Executive Officer. “This year’s recipients have set the bar high, exhibiting excellent service and expertise in the wedding industry.”

PhotoVlado would like to thank our past clients for speaking on our behalf and helping us win the 2009 Bride’s Choice Award!

A couple of summers ago I caught these shots at Lisa’s wedding and you can see Tanah here jumping excitedly in the lineup of single gals to catch the bouquet. Well, as you can see in the next shot, she caught it. The moral of this story is that yesterday, I sat down with Tanah and her fiance to talk about her wedding photography needs for this coming August. Maybe it is true about catching the bouquet after all…I am looking forward to working with her because she has such great energy. We are going to do an engagement session early spring and I am sure it will be fun for us all. I love my job.

Last week I worked with local wedding hair and makeup stylist from Foils Salon. We had four models lined up that day. After hair and makeup we had a fun shoot for her advertizing campaign. One of the models was my daughter and when we got back to my home studio we took a few more shots in her street clothes. I’ve never seen her with curly hair and I certainly wouldn’t have recognized her from the back. She pretty much looks great all the time, but then, I am a little biased.

Happy New Year! January begins the season for planning that summer wedding for those newly engaged this winter. As an early booking bonus, I offer a free engagement photo shoot with any wedding package. Just call or email to inquire about your date.

Here is one image from yesterdays wedding at the Lakecliff Bed & Breakfast I’ll post more photos once I finish editing.

I’ve finished designing Abbey and Tom’s wedding book today. I had so many great images to work with that I had hard time selecting only 50 or so for the 30 page book. You can click here to see all the pages in high resolution.

I just finished editing photos from this fun California couple’s wedding up at Columbia Gorge Crest Winery. It is quickly becoming a popular wedding venue and there are some great spots for a wedding photographer to get those iconic bride in front of Mt. Hood photos. Click here to use the link to the slideshow.

I’ve started working on Tom and Abby’s wedding book today so here is one sneak peak of photos to come.

Last Saturday I photographed my first wedding at Gorge Crest Farms. It is in Underwood, Washington with an amazing view of Mount Hood with grounds specifically designed for wedding venues. Laura was a beautiful bride that was easy to photograph. This entire crew came up from California to enjoy our relatively new status as wine country and our drop dead gorgeous scenery. They had looked at Napa Valley, but chose what we had to offer instead in the Columbia Gorge. I will post more photos when I finish editing.

Friday afternoon I was photographing Tom and Abby’s wedding in The Dalles, Oregon until evening. Right after the wedding we went back to Hood River for the reception and were able to get few photos of the just married couple with Mount Hood in the background. Tom and Abby were excellent to work with. I photographed their engagement session earlier in the spring, so they were quite relaxed and not at all camera shy. The weather was excellent to have an outdoor wedding in the beautiful garden (there were lots of excellent backgrounds for the wedding photos). I’m always excited to see new places to photograph here in the gorgeous Columbia Gorge area with endless photo opportunities. You can see more of the wedding photos if you click on the client access and enter the gallery.