Wedding Wire Brides Choice Award! 3 years running!

Thank you sooo much to all our couples. This is our 3rd year in a row receiving this award. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!

The official press release:

WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding technology company, just announced J. Castro Photography has been selected to receive the 2010 Bride’s Choice Awards™ for photography!

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.

J. Castro 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 excited to recognize and honor the success of the top wedding professionals within the WeddingWire Community” said Timothy Chi, WeddingWire’s Chief Executive Officer. “The annual Bride’s Choice Awards™ program has given us the unique opportunity to highlight the best wedding professionals in each region as reviewed by brides and grooms who have utilized their services in the past year.”

We are happy to announce that J. Castro Photography is among the very best wedding photographers within the WeddingWire Network, which includes WeddingWire and Martha Stewart Weddings. We would like to thank our past newlyweds for nominating us for the 2010 Bride’s Choice Awards™.

For more information, please visit our WeddingWire Storefront today at http://www.weddingwire.com/biz/castro-photography-southbury/f9398172b5124b10.html.

About WeddingWire, Inc.
WeddingWire is the only online wedding planning resource designed to empower both engaged couples and wedding vendors. WeddingWire enables engaged couples to search, compare and book over 100,000 reviewed wedding vendors nationwide, from wedding photographers to wedding cakes. WeddingWire also offers an online community and a suite of cutting-edge planning tools, including wedding websites and wedding checklists, all at no charge. For wedding vendors, WeddingWire provides free online management tools creating the only market opportunity that gives businesses control over their clients, reviews, leads and performance. In addition, WeddingWire has partnered with Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. (NYSE: MSO) to provide its network of local vendors and online wedding-planning tools in the Weddings section of www.MarthaStewartWeddings.com. For additional information, please visit www.WeddingWire.com.

Black Friday Print Sale

Hi Everyone

This Thanksgiving, we'd like to show our appreciation to all our clients and their guests for being the awesomest customers around. From today until midnight friday, we will be offering 50% off of all prints, gallery wraps, and digital downloads with a minimum purchase of $25.

All you have to do is choose your images here and enter the code: blackfriday when you check out.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

-Jaymie

2010 Wedding photography giveaway!

That's right folks we're doing again!

We're giving away a free wedding photography collection to one lucky bride and groom. Here's what you get:

Up to 12 hours of coverage on your wedding day
2 Photographers and an assistant to ensure maximum coverage
An online slideshow to see the highlights of your wedding day
A private website for you and your guests to view your photos
100 Custom made cards with your personal web address
A DVD of all images taken on your wedding day

To qualify couples must have a signed contract and retainer with J. Castro Photography submitted no later than December 31, 2009. Your retainer will be credited back to you as an album credit to purchase your wedding album. Our 2010 calendar is filling up fast so call or write us today!

To see our 2009 winners check out Pam and Dave's slideshow here!
For more information send us an email at info@jcastrophotography.com

J. Castro email is currently down

Sorry for the inconvenience everyone. If you absolutely need to get a hold of me, you can send me an email at my hotmail account:

jaymie.batoon@hotmail.com

Or send me a message on facebook. If you have sent me a message in the past 48 hours and have not been replied to yet, please resend, as I may have not received it.

Hopefully it will be back on line soon.

Happy Friday everyone!

Miscellaneous Monday

Here's this weeks Misc. Monday entry...

- We shot our first wedding of the season this saturday up in a sleepy upstate NY town just outside of Albany. We had a great time, Millie, the brides mom made us an awesome lunch of chicken salad sandwiches and red velvet cupcakes... How awesome is that? We love our clients!

-Speaking of client love, on friday, Audrey and I came home to a mysterious black box at our doorstep. As it turns out it was a box of tulips from Christina and Robert. Yeah, you know, the hot couple on my blog header! =) We were so stoked by this that we even took pictures of the box! LOL... I'm a dork. Christina and Robert, from the bottom of our hearts, THANK YOU!









-This weekend was my first weekend at home alone without Addi and Audrey. On Saturday they headed to Audrey's parents house to attend a birthday party and spent the night there. After I came home from Laura and Matt's wedding I arrived to an empty apartment. I haven't been without either one of their company since Addi was born... and I really missed them! But I gotta tell ya, I slept really good having our bed all to myself! =)

-Hey couples! If you booked with us for 2009, call or email me to schedule your engagement session... Spring is here and summer is just around the corner! GITERDUN!

Have an awesomely awesome week everyone! Hey, and if you've been blogstalking us for a while, don't be shy! Leave a comment and let me know you're out there.

Our first portrait session

During our visit to Washington DC this past weekend we visited Kim and Trevor of Photos Unscripted for a family portrait session. We met Kim and Trevor over 2 years ago when we... no Audrey... volunteered us to model at a photography workshop. We had so much fun with them that we just couldn't do the shoot with anyone else but them.

Here's a some of Kim's amazing images of our family! If your ever in the DC area and need a photographer, You need to call her!

I have a myspace page!

Hey everyone! I finally got around to creating a myspace page to further enhance our visibility. Click here

Welcome to J. Castro Photography!

Hi everyone! Welcome to my blog. I created this blog for perspective clients to see some of my work and really get a chance to know who I am. I feel that it is of the utmost importance that you get to know your photographers personality before signing a contract for any type of event you have in mind, be it a basic portrait session, a wedding, a birthday party, or even those corporate holiday parties (we all love those don't we?)... What better way than to share my life's happenings and some photo's of some events I have done. Please stay and enjoy the view. I hope to hear from you all soon!

For starters let me introduce you to the two most important people of my life.

This is my wife Audrey and our cutest little yorkie... JoJo.


and of course here is a picture that Audrey took of me when she visited me while I was in Dresden, Germany for a month. Mmmmm escargot!