Wedding at Jackson’s Bistro, Bar & Sushi

Jennifer and Raphael were married at a small intimate wedding and reception at Jackson’s Bistro on June 2, 2018, surrounded by family and friends. Small gatherings like these are great because everyone has the opportunity to celebrate the moment with the bride and groom. The family surprised the Bride and Groom at the end of the night with a Bentley to chauffeur them around Tampa on their first night married. Congrats to Raphael and Jennifer as they start their journey as husband and wife.

• DJ – DNero

• Venue – Jackson’s Bistro, Bar & Sushi

• Officiant –

• Photographer – Donnie Jones

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Armature Works Sunday Wedding

What an awesome wedding! On March 11, 2018, we had the honor of capturing Julissa Portella & Jordan Palzer beautiful wedding at the new Armature Works venue in downtown Tampa. Julissa & Jordan exchanged vowels in front of all their friends and family on a warm beautiful evening on Tampa’s Riverwalk. Small intimate weddings are the perfect way to celebrate your day. Surround yourself with your closest friends and family and forget the world around you. That’s exactly what happened at this wedding. After the ceremony, the families joined together to dance the night away in the upstairs theater room. Its always refreshing to see two families coming together where everyone loves each other and they are excited for the future together.

We were joined by some other awesome vendors to create this wonderful experience for Jordan & Julissa at the Armature Works building. Please check out their sites if you are planning on hosting a wedding or any other events. They truly are some of the best companies to work within the Tampa Bay area.

• Cake – Trudy Melissa Cakes

• Hair and Makeup – Lasting Luxe

• DJ – Daniel Varga

• Venue – Armature Works

• Catering – Puff n Stuff

• Florals – Save the Date Florida

• WeddingCoordinator –Carol Vega

• Video – Charles Fowler (CJ)

• Officiant – Rev. Chris Marien

• Photographer – Donnie Jones & Brandon Hunter

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Andrew Memorial Chapel Wedding

I had the honor of capturing Centree and Crystal’s March 10th wedding at

Andrew Memorial Chapel in Dunedin, Florida. This is a very historic chapel located less

than a mile from Florida west coastline. It was built in 1888 and has been home to hundreds of weddings in the area.

You can actually find everyone that was married there by looking for their brick stone just along the outside of the chapel.

After the ceremony, the celebration shifted to Bon Appetite for a lovely brunch style reception.

The new couple enjoyed their first dance while the band Juanjamon played a lovely tune for them.

Later that night, the couple and their loving family and friends joined them for a pub crawl to bars in the historic Dunedin area.

• Cake – Corey’s Bakery

• Hair and Makeup – Destiny and Light

• DJ – Complete Weddings and Events

• Venue – Andrew Memorial Chapel

• Catering/Reception – Bon Appetite

• Florals – 2Birds Events

• WeddingPlanner – Blue Skies Events (Heather)

• Officiant – A Personal Wedding Officiant Rev. Nicholas

• Photographer – Donnie Jones & Brandon Hunter

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Destination Weddings

We had our first destination wedding of the year this pastweekend. I had the pleasure to shoot a wedding in one of the most beautiful places in the South. We packed up our bags and headed to the lovely city of Savannah, GA to capture the ceremony Brandy & Eddie. It was a very small private wedding that included only the Bride-to-be and groom. The wedding location was at the Georgia State Railroad Museum. In today’s weddings of large wedding parties and hundreds of guest, it was quite nice to be able to capture more intimate moments during the wedding because the bride and groom had fewer people to interact with.

To my future brides to be, everyone loves large weddings, but nothing is wrong with a small personable wedding either. Smaller weddings give you the opportunity to spend your special day that you have been dreaming of with all of your closest loved ones. We do specialize in all size weddings, but we always recommend smaller ones when asked by our brides. When you are planning your wedding, reach out to us and we would love to give you some tips and pointers to make sure your wedding day runs smoothly as possible that day.

• Photographer - Donnie Jones Photography

• Video - CJ Bryant Photography

• Venue - Georgia State Railroad Museum

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Bride & Groom: Evelyn & Anthony
Date: November 24, 2017
Location: North Tampa, Florida

I had the honor of capturing Evelyn’s and Anthony’s beautiful day after Thanksgiving wedding. It was located on one of the most beautiful golf course in the Tampa Metro area. I teamed up with my good friend CJ Bryant to capture this epic event.

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Event: TheXpos
Date: October 29, 2017
Location: Marriott, St Petersburg – Clearwater

I had the pleasure of working with TheXpos and Truly Forever Bridal during a Bridal Expo at the Marriott in St. Petersburg. I captured a few of their beautiful wedding dresses that they were displaying for brides in the Tampa metro area. Even with the large amount of dresses that they had displayed, this was still only scratching the surface of the amount and variety of dress that they have available for brides to try on for their big day. They also have a large selection of dresses available for bridesmaid dresses, as well as mother of the bridal dresses. If you are still looking for your dress, check out Truly Forever Bridal, you won’t be disappointed.

Truly Forever Bridal
1102 E. Busch Blvd
Tampa, FL 33612
http://www.trulyforeverbridal.com
(813)931-8991

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Bride & Groom: Nancy & David
Date: September 29, 2017
Location: National Harbor, Oxon, Maryland (Washington D.C.)
https://www.nationalharbor.com

I had the extreme pleasure of capturing Nancy’s & David’s beautiful fall wedding at the National Harbor in Washington D.C. I’ve traveled to many locations and captured countless amounts of beautiful weddings, but I had never done a wedding in the Washington D.C. area before. I must say that it was truly a great experience to have the ability to take wedding photos with Capital as the backdrop. There really are some truly beautiful places to visit and shoot there. I appreciated working with my great friend and one of the best photographers in the industry, Brandon Hunter. We have worked together on a few projects, but we have started working together a lot more as of let. Look out for the two of us in 2018. We have a few plans that we are going to put into motion. Check his page out below. You will be truly blown away.

Brandon S. Hunter
http://www.bshunterimages.com
https://www.instagram.com/bshunterimages/

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