Hi everyone! It has been a while since we have blogged – this is the first post of 2010. We have many great things in the works and some big announcements to make soon. For now, Erik and I wanted to thank all of our amazing brides and grooms from 2009. We had an incredible year with you and feel so honored to have been a part of your wedding day! We also want to thank you for saying great things about us to WeddingWire, as we were recently selected to receive the WeddingWire 2010 Bride’s Choice Awards™ for Photography.

From WeddingWire:
“The annual Bride’s Choice Awards recognizes and celebrates excellence in quality and service within the wedding industry, as determined by recent reviews and extensive surveys from over 500,000 newlyweds. Victoria Souza Photography is among the top five percent of all vendors in the WeddingWire community, which includes over 100,000 wedding professionals across the US and Canada. Awards were given to winners across 19 different service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers. We are happy to announce that Victoria Souza Photography is among the very best Photographers within the WeddingWire Network, which includes WeddingWire and Martha Stewart Weddings.”

Erik and I were so excited to see Amaris and Brendan and Sugar again!! Have I mentioned how we fall in love with our clients/friends? You may remember their engagement session last December, or their incredible wedding this past June. Amaris e-mailed me not too long after the wedding and was telling me how she wanted to wear it again. Their wedding day went by so fast, and there were so many more photos they wanted. One location was the little league baseball field where Amaris and Brendan met for the first time in grade school. Cute, huh? We had way too much fun, and I was so happy to get my Sugar-fix (I will find a way to clone her!).

Amaris and Brendan you R-O-C-K!! We love you both
xoxo,
Vicki + Erik

While Erik and I were in West Palm Beach we also had the opportunity to meet up with Lana. She is an incredibly stunning model that we had the pleasure of working with. Originally we had planned on only working with her at at Sunquest Aviation, but since Rob and Kathleen rocked that already, we spent a limited time with the plane, and decided to get some images of Lana in a wedding gown and veil at the beautiful Coral Cove Park in Jupiter, FL.

I LOVE traveling. Love it. Love going to new places, and seeing and experiencing new things. However, I am not the greatest flyer. BUT I also refuse to give in to my (irrational) fears, and refuse to be limited by it. The farthest I have flown was with Erik on our honeymoon to New Zealand. (Thanks Mom & Dad Souza!) It was well worth the 13 hour in-flight time! Not to mention the fact that we bungee jumped in New Zealand too. Like I said, I am not one to miss out on an opportunity because of fear. I am telling you this because as we were working with the amazing folks at Sunquest Aviation and one of the gentlemen asked if I would like to sit in the two seater plane as he was moving it from one side of the field to the other for our photo session. Little did I know that we were going for a flight! It really was a blast, as scared as I was ; ) Even when he turned around while flying to show me “no hands!” Needless to say, he may have talked me in to taking some flight lessons some time in the future (in my spare time). What better way to face my fears.

Ok – back to the session. Here are a few with the plane.

Off to Coral Cove Park!

Lana is wearing a birdcage veil from Brenda’s Bridal Veils. All of the hair fasteners, and this veil are from Brenda. She is amazing!

The rocks at Coral Cove Park were really interesting. It reminded me of cooled lava.

LOVE this shot. That is actually the veil I wore at my wedding ; )

Love these next two as well!

We figured we would have some fun in the water.

And of course laying down too. Splash!

Lana we had a blast with you! Wish we could have joined you on your trip to Austria. Maybe next time!