We started our morning off with a family of four. Becky whom was married on September 23rd, 2006 wanted to give one of her brides’ maids a gift that they would cherish forever in which brought them into our studio for some memorable family portraits!
To our wonderful bride and groom, Shannon and Vincent! Of course honoring Shannon’s Irish heritage in which certainly was the perfect day to do so. Linda Merritt with Heaven On Earth Wedding Flowers blessed her with a beautiful unique bouquet.
We could not resist the cute Banaga shot! Love the name and the way it roles off the tongue!
The two make an extremely gourgeous couple as Vincent appears as if he were right off the set of Dancing with the Stars! Shannon certainly knew what she was doing when she spilt hot coffee all over herself to reel that one in (You have to find Shannon and ask her for the rest of the info on that one!). By the way Shannon and Vincent’s couples shots took off you cetainly know that it will truly be a happily ever after with much gold at the end of their rainbow! Congratulations to our newlyweds as they embark on a life full of happiness!
Marybeth and Rich are our to be wed couple for June 9th, 2007! While we started their session off in Downtown Charlottesville, Virginia we wrapped it up on the campus of UVA! Marybeth and Rich are college blind date sweethearts you could say, having met just as Marybeth was about to wrap up her degree at the University. We are certainly looking forward to working with both of them in June as they tie the knot!
We just loved Marybeth’s green coat as it added so much to the images, it was a great way to add a splash of color just enough to set the images off, even though Rich may not agree!
Congratulations to Allison and Brian on their engagement! Brian and Allison were lucky enough to jump into one of our cancellation slots as Brian’s deployment was causing them to relocate before their actual scheduled session with us. We were happy to be able to capture the two of them and some really touching moments. This session was one where we can say “The truth is in the pictures!”
For those of you accessing this link to view the images from the MDA Gala, the link is currently being redirected here to our blog until the images are edited and uploaded for viewing. You will be able to see a few of our (RP) favorites from the event that we wanted to share. The full proofs for the event will be available by Friday of this week for viewing/purchase out of which all proceeds will be donated to the MDA in hopes of sending just a few more of the kids to camp! Once the images are ready the link will then take you directly to the online gallery for viewing.
For our loyal blog viewers and newbies to our blog we are going to share a little bit about the Gala and our experience while behind the scenes of it all and the reason why we felt the need to contribute to the MDA in 2006 and 2007.
For those of you who have been following you are most likely aware that we donated our time to photograph a little of “Camp Maria” in Leonardtown, MD last year in 2006. Let me just tell you that the immense appreciation that the children have for this camp is just profound.
We were approached by a past client, dear friend, and employee of the MDA who asked us if we would cover the event. We immediately stepped up and declined any payment from the MDA in return for our services. As a young girl growing up I can vividly remember watching the Jerry Lewis 21 1/2 hour telethon as my Mother would remind us of how grateful we should be for our lives and health. My Mother would wait it out till almost the end and then pick up the phone, even if only to donate very little to the fund as my parents themselves struggled. Although sometimes I thought it was more in hopes that she was able to speak with Jerry! But either way through that telethon we as children were able to see how much these children really needed the money to help improve the quality of their lives while here with us. I did not really think too much more about the telethon or the MDA while living my life day to day till eventually becoming a nurse for Hospice in which I saw so many different diagnoses that seemed so horrible to have to live through. It was not until I took care of my first patient with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (AKA: ALS or Lou Gehrigs’s Disease.) He was an employee of the United States Postal Service, until he could no longer perform the daily tasks needed to do his job. He was newly married with step-children that he loved as if they were his own when shortly after he was diagnosed with the disease. I watched as he and his wife coped day to day, as he vastly withered away losing control over all the muscles in his body becoming helpless and in such pain as the days went on until he and his family lost the fight to ALS. I attended his funeral on behalf of Hospice and cried with his family over such a great loss. Up until last May I thought that there was nothing I could do to help in his fight against ALS, other then make him comfortable until it hit me that finally we as a family could give of ourselves in order to help that fight continue for that family and all the families and individuals who are still enduring the fight to find a cure for the 43 known muscular diseases that are out there. So we took our kids and headed out to camp for the day in order to help document and allow the MDA to show everyone just how much this camp means to these children who attend and benefit from it each year. Something our children have the opportunity to do every day of their lives.
Last nights Gala is held every year in honor of Mattie J.T. Stephanek whose mother is also currently fighting a muscular disease after losing four of her young children to muscular disease. After hearing Mattie’s Mom speak last night it made me realize how much we as a family take for granted as well. All the luxuries we all have in life. With this said we felt the need to add the link to our website where you could go and donate money to the Association to make a difference even if it is as small as sacraficing the morning latte or even Biggie sizing your fries. Just imagine if Wendy’s would donate every .39 cents they collected from making your order Biggie size to the MDA what a difference it would make, or even Starbucks to donate every clients’ 5th friday latte to the association what a difference it would make. Or better yet if out of 20,000 hits a month that we receive from this blog if each hit/individual donated $1.00 what a difference that would make!
On behalf of Regeti’s we ask that you consider making a donation regardless of the amount:
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Here are some of the images that were shot of the Annual Heartsongs Gala held every year, created with Mattie’s vision and in his name, to carry on his passionate belief that together, we will make a difference.
(Featured country for the Gala was The Philippines)
L to R: James McWhorter (Owner of L&M Produce), Yasmin Abadian of Long & Foster’s Potomac Village, Comedian Larry Miller.
L to R: Ms. Jeni Stepanek, Ron Kuley the Representative for the International Association of Firefighters whose Fill the Boot Campaign has raised a phenomenal $275 Million since its inception in 1954.
Donald Kahn (President of Procurement for Dade Paper)
L to R: James McWhorter (Owner of L&M Produce), Yasmin Abadian of Long & Foster’s Potomac Village. Our wedding couple to be wed on March 24th, 2007. Congrats !!!
R to L: Jeni, Timothy P. O’Brien (Attorney at Law, Joseph Greenwald & Laake, P.A.) and Guest
Willy C. Gaa (Amabassador, Philippines)
Tony Perkins from FOX 5, EMCEE of the evening.
L to R: Tony Perkins and Hank Cominiello (President, Eastern Division Safeway Inc. who received the 2007 Mattie J.T. Stepanek Heartsongs Award on behalf of Safeway Inc.)
Below are images of The Philipino American Cultural Arts Society (PACAS).
We wrapped up a boudoir session in the morning, followed by a really awesome client consultation! For those of you new to the blog. Regeti’s offers Boudoir sessions only to clients who are engaged to be married or already married. Nationally recognized for our talents and ability to bring out the best in each and every client we serve regardless of whether they are a 2 or 22. Let’s just say we love what we do!
Regeti’s also offers Marathon’s nationally and internationally during our off seasons and other dates when available. Unfortunately due to high demand we are no longer available for any further travels in 2007 and will begin Boudoir Marathon booking for 2008 in December of 2007. We are currently on tour in the following cities for this year:
NYC – Jan 11-12 (2007 – over)
OHIO – Jan 19-21 (2007 – over)
FLORIDA – April 28-29
CHICAGO – June 30 and July 1 (Possible Friday opening. In consideration.)
TEXAS – July 14-15
OREGON – August 4-5
COLORADO – August 11-12
OHIO – August 25-26
Limited session dates are available for 2007. Regeti’s is currently booking sessions for June/July of 2007. We encourage all of our clients to book their sessions as early as possible due to limited availability.
Warmest Regards~
The Regeti’s!
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Little bit of e-session chat again ….
Talk about the craziness of the wedding season about to hit us full swing and every bride-to -be is now thinking about her engagement session and when and where to have it done. Well let’s just talk about these two very topics at hand.
The best time to have your e-session would be when it is not too hot and not too terribly cold thus everyone head’s to April in their calendar and then they start thinking about where and the first thing that comes to mind is the Cherry Blossom’s on the Mall. Well before we get too carried away we wanted to remind all the ladies about the intention and meaning of your e-session and why the Mall during the blossoms is not the best idea for your e-session.
While we have done many e-sessions during the blossoms on the Mall. Regeti’s stopped offering this service last year due to the hussle and bustle of downtown. The fact that most gentlemen are not completely comfortable showing PDA is also to be considered when you are trying to get moments and emotion involved in a portrait with millions of people going here and there.
We would like to offer this RP Tip in hopes that you take a moment to think about what your session means to you and the purpose behind it and see past the blossoms. The focusing point should not be where the session is, but more so who the session is of.
We were appraoched a few months back by a photographer of the name Andy Peterson whom is currently located in Austin, TX although he serves throughout the country as well as destination weddings too. He had asked us if we would like to second shoot with him for this wedding on March 4, 2007 as he would be coming in to cover the ceremony and reception. So for the first time the Regeti’s covered only the getting ready and some bridal party formals. Let’s just say it was a little wierd to walk away from our first event without seeing the ceremony take place. Andy and his assistant took the event from there and I know that they are going to get some great shots as every thing was so beautifully done! You can view more of Andy’s work at Studio 563 !
Congrats to the newly weds!
LOVE PINK !!!