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$99 Engagement Special – and a Chance to Win FREE Wedding Photography!

Jill — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:07:18 +0000

I know that it’s hard to plan your wedding – and in this economy, it’s even harder to plan a wedding on a budget. So, for the first time, I am offering Wedding Photography to ONE lucky couple – completely FREE!

That’s right – you’ll get:
*8 hours of photography on your wedding day
*Online password protected gallery for viewing and ordering
*Pre-Wedding walk-through at wedding and reception sites
*CD of images
*FREE 2nd Photographer!

HOW will you win this package? Easy….First, email a short note and a picture that you think BEST EXPRESSES your ‘Couple Personality’ to me and I will post it here on this blog! Next, book and pay for a Custom Engagement Portrait Session (Paypal is preferred). Couples will be voted on by visitors to the site — want your mom to vote for you? Give her a link! Have 86 cousins around the world and they want to vote? Send them here! The more votes you get, the better! (Of course!)

For $99, you have a chance to win a professional photography package for your wedding…all you have to do is email a picture of the two of you to Jill@PortraitsbyJ.org along with a brief note that tells us a little about yourselves (please include your wedding date/place) and pay for your Engagement Session within 3 days….then get your friends, family, and anyone you know to VOTE for you!

The lucky couple with the most votes will win their wedding photography for FREE!

One last thing, if at least 25 couples enter my little contest, I’ll upgrade the contest prize to my top tier wedding package (a $4595 value), which includes everything above PLUS:
*an additional 4 hours of photography on your wedding day (for a total of 12 hours!)
*4 hours of photography at your rehearsal event
*12inx12in 40-page Storybook Album of your day
*2 – 8inx8in 20 page Parents’ Album copies
*16×20 Gallery Wrapped Canvas Print

So…Do YOU want to win your wedding photographer for FREE?

**Official Rules:
-All entries must be submitted by midnight, August 31, 2010.
-All Engagement Sessions need to be paid within 3 days of contest entry or your entry will be removed.
-All events are subject to photographer availability.
-Engagement session fees are considered a deposit on your session and are non-refundable.

Kellie and Greg

Jill — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:08:21 +0000

This beautiful couple got married last spring at People’s Church Chapel….it was a beautiful day, and things couldn’t have been any better! The reception was at Ft. Washington. Here’s a few of my favorites from that day:

Wedding Coordinators…..

Jill — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:11:07 +0000

One of my good friends is getting into wedding coordination, and I took some shots of one of her recent weddings for her to use in promotional materials! If you’re getting married and want someone to handle the details for you, let me know – she and her team are organized, thorough, and professional!

A GREAT Start to the New Year!

Jill — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:00:01 +0000

This is Joel and Cathleen – I had the extreme pleasure of shooting their wedding just a couple weeks ago! I had a REALLY good time hanging out at Ulta with Cathleen and her mom, sister, and the rest of the bridesmaids – it’s amazing how fast a couple hours can fly by!

We got back to the church in time to get formal pictures done, and then it was time to get married – which they accomplished with a beautiful and touching style….and then celebrated with fireworks after the ceremony! That was absolutely fantastic!

The reception combined Mexican food, Disney music, classic rock, and cheesecake! It was the perfect way to kick off the New Year!

Fall Wedding….

Jill — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 23:05:56 +0000

I love fall – the colors, the smells, the colors, the holidays, the colors….have I said I love the colors?? Here in Central California there’s a common misconception that we don’t have fall – that we jump straight from ‘hot enough for ya?’ to ‘yes, the school is on fog delay!’ It’s not true, though. Fresno, has a beautiful fall. It only lasts a few weeks, but we do have fall; and how much you see of it depends on where you are, and on where you’re looking. I live south of the city limits – in the middle of orchards and vineyards. Right now, the orchards are a cacophony of reds and yellows with lingering flashes of green. The one across the street from has gone from green to yellow to orange just in the last week. I had the honor this morning of taking portraits for couple who is getting married tomorrow night. We did their pictures in the Japanese Gardens of Woodward Park – and Fall gave Woodward a double dose of color this year! I’m hoping to be doing some portrait work over the next 2 weeks at the park before the colors fade and blow away. In the meantime, here are a few I got this morning!

Busy, Busy, Busy!!

webmaster — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:23:15 +0000

Whew! Been a while (a month?) since I posted anything new here! Well, between vacationing in Morro Bay for a week (I lovelovelove the coast!), I’ve shot 2 weddings and a vow renewal ceremony…processing has kept me up late nights! Of c ourse, it’s been feast or famine, I suppose — nothing at all scheduled for the month of July….might have to offer a ’special’ or something…..hmmmm. Anyway, I haven’t gotten my vacation pictures processed yet (because they’re waiting for me to finish my weddings!), but here’s a little something from one of the weddings I’m done with!

Great Weekend!

webmaster — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:42:00 +0000

I just had one of the best wedding experiences of my life this last weekend! It was a local couple – very nice people who know how to have a great time! I was the photographer for their wedding day and it was so much fun! First off, the wedding was at their house – a cute, older home that looks like it’s a lot of fun to live in. I got there and Motley Crue was rockin’ upstairs….which was a good start! The wedding party was starting to get ready, so I jumped right in and started clickin’ away – groom/groomsmen in the bathroom, bride/bridesmaid in the bedroom doing hair, steaming the dress….all the usual stuff! The whole day was a super blast and way to much fun to just describe with words, so here’s a few pictures to kind get you started….if you like them, visit the whole slideshow at www.portraitsbyj.org/wedding_5.htm