It was one of those perfect March days at Oceancliff Resort and Hotel in Newport, Rhode Island.  The kind of day with blue skies hinting at the warm days to come and the brisk wind of the winter that has passed. Downtown Newport was bustling with tourists wishing for spring and Missy and Jamie were getting married!  Oceancliff proved to be the perfect backdrop for Missy & Jamie’s vintage hollywood inspired wedding.  As a young girl Missy and her sister were fascinated by their grandmother’s antique hatpin collection.  Knowing that she wouldn’t be able to travel to the wedding, Missy wanted to incorporate some of these hatpins into her bouquet and the wedding theme then blossomed. The reception area at Oceancliff was transformed from their usual set up.  Instead it was cut in half – one side a fine dining room and the other a dance floor and lounge area.  The room was littered with mercury glass, candles and gorgeous flower arrangements by Toni Chandler (who stayed all night making sure the hydrangeas kept drinking!).  From the first look to the last dance Missy and Jamie were a wonderful reminder of why we love photography.

Wedding Venue – Oceancliff Resort in Newport

Florist – Toni Chandler Flowers and Events

Lighting and Entertainment – David Anthony Music Productions

Linens – Rentals Unlimited

Hair and Makeup – Formal Hair and Makeup Design by Lynda Williams

 

We get so many thank you notes from our clients.  They are all just too amazing not to share!

“Dear Marisa and Melissa,  First of all we would like to say that we hope you had a wonderful time at our wedding, even though you were busy snapping photos.  You guys are a blast!  We can not thank you enough for the beautiful work you did on our wedding day!  We absolutely love the pictures!  We can tell that you both are best friends because you make such an awesome team!  We didn’t feel like you were there as photographers at our wedding but rather good friends who happen to be photographing us.  It is because you are both such nice people and made us feel relaxed.  We are so glad that you got pictures of everything from the landscape and the details to us, the wedding party and all the dancing.  Also we love the photobooth.  It really helped to make our wedding special.  Our guests were able to cut loose and have a great time and now we have all the pictures from it.  We can’t wait to see the official wedding album because you laid it out so perfectly!  And we know it seems like forever ago but we still look at our engagement photos and think how beautiful they are and how much fun we had at the session.  We can’t describe how wonderful your work is.  When we saw the pictures we are so happy that we had you both as photographers.  Thank you so much!  We know M.Studios is going to go far because you are both so talented.  We wish you and your families the best!  Love Kim and Justin“

Your aunt’s diamond earrings, your mother’s china, your grandmother’s quilt. Heirlooms. When we work together with you to design this book we are creating an heirloom. We are making something that will be passed down from generation to generation. When you are old and grey you can show your grandchildren how skinny and hot you once were! No detail is overlooked, time is not an issue and quality is never sacrificed. Thick pages lay beautifully flat so you don’t lose any of the image in an unsightly fold. True photographic printing on the finest Fugi Crystal Archival paper insures that your images will look exactly as we present them to you. Covers come in eight colors and are made of the finest 100% natural leathers. You can even have two lines of text engraved on the cover… with lasers! It’s not very often you have the chance to create an heirloom, now’s your chance…

Our books come in many different sizes. This white book is an 8×8 stacked on a 12×12.

All our layouts are artfully designed by the lovely Marisa…

Since our books lay flat the photos are not cut.   This ensures that the crease has no effect on the photo itself.

Our linen book is less substantial, but equally as beautiful. The pages are thinner than our leather book, but the photos are printed on the same quality paper. It makes for the perfect parent album.