Last night I was on Sanibel Island- doing a wedding photoshoot for Jennifer and Cody. I am great friends with their families and was very disappointed when I was already booked for their wedding date. They are getting married at the Burroughs Home in downtown Fort Myers in a few weeks. It will be a great wedding and I am sorry I can’t be there to help them celebrate. They wanted some beach pictures in their wedding attire so we went over to Sanibel down by the lighthouse to do their pictures. We had a great time and got tons of great images. It was very chilly and windy out. They were both troopers and did great. Their aunt Bonnie is my great friend, she was my lighting assistant for the night and kept Jennifer warm and entertained too. Here are a few images from last night. Congratulations Jennifer and Cody!

Naples, Florida- January 19, 2010

Wedding Wire, the Nation’s Leading Wedding Technology company, just announced Doreen Kline Photography has been selected to receive the 2010 Bride’s Choice Award for Outstanding Quality and Service for Wedding Photography for 2010.

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 newleyweds.

Doreen Kline Photography is amoung 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 tope wedding professionals with 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 Doreen Kline Photography of Fort Myers/Naples, Florida 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.

This week I was in Nashville, TN for the Annual Digital Wedding Forum Conference.  It is a great convention with wedding photographers from all over the world with all kinds of new concepts and ideas.  I always go to these conferences with my 3 best friends in the world- Deb, Stacey and Wanda.  We met 5 years ago in Montana while we all were attending the Rocky Mountain School of Photography and have been great friends ever since.  The four of us live in very different parts of the US, so it’s always fun to travel to one place or another-together .  We all love photography and travel and none of our husbands ever want to come along and hear all the girl talk, so we have a wonderful time on our get togethers.  Nashville was a balmy 10 degrees and snowing during our visit.  Living in Florida I didn’t have a winter jacket – but I do now.  We took the tour of Nashville and saw all the famous country music sites like the Grand Ole Opry, the Country Music Hall of Fame and all the country entertainment clubs, downtown.  We were on the lookout for some country music stars but didn’t spot any.  Part of our conference was downtown by Vanderbilt and the other part was at the Opryland hotel.    We saw all the latest wedding photography products and albums from all over the world.  I didn’t bring my camera so all the pictures of Nashville were done by my friends Stacey, Deb and Wanda.  Now I am back in town and back to work.  Stay tuned for some images of some gorgeous new products we just received.   Doreen

This week Dave and I were visiting our family in San Antonio, Texas. We had so much fun with our grandkids, Austin and Annabelle.
It was Steve’s 30th birthday so we all got together to celebrate. Austin loved building a fire in Steve and Lynne’s backyard and his favorite was being totally buried in leaves.

Here are some images of the family… Doreen

Happy New Year! We are looking forward to a Happy, Healthy, Prosperous New Year and wish you and your family THE BEST for 2010!

Becky and Michael were married this week at The Marco Beach Ocean Resort in a sunset, beach wedding performed by Bob Mitchell of  A Beautiful Florida Wedding.  It was a breezy, overcast evening on Marco Beach.  The ceremony and reception were lovely and Becky was radiant.  The Charisma Band entertained for the reception on the Marco Beach Ocean Resort Terrace while the sun set over the Gulf.  Wedding Cake was by Ella’s Cakes of Naples and the flowers were done by The Marco Island Florist.    Here is the slideshow from Becky and Michael’s Wedding.  Click on the arrow in the middle of the screen and be patient while it takes a minute for the slideshow to load.  Or you can click on the following link to view the slideshow in another window.   Becky and Michael’s Wedding Slideshow at the Marco Beach Ocean Resort

Last night Becky and Michael were married on the beach at the Marco Beach Ocean Resort. Here is a sneak peek at a few of
their wedding images. Later this week I will have more images and their slideshow. Stay tuned! Doreen

Last night I had the pleasure of photographing Meredith and Gary’s Engagement Session on Fort Myers Beach. Gary and Meredith are here for the Christmas holiday vacationing from Illinois. They are getting married in June and wanted some beach images while they were here. We were surprised there were 2 weddings going on at sunset, but managed to find some isolated areas with the driftwood for some romantic pictures. They are a wonderful couple and are having lots of fun on their winter vacation. Here are a few of my favorite images from last night.

Earlier this week I did an engagement photoshoot with Meredith and Gary at Bowditch Park on Fort Myers Beach. Here is a slideshow of some of their images. Click on the arrow in the middle of the screen to start the slideshow. Be patient, it takes a minute to load. Or you can click on the following link and it will open the slideshow in a different window. Fort Myers Beach Sunset Engagement Photography Slideshow- Meredith and Gary

Here is the slideshow from Fort Myers Beach yesterday with Miles, Amy and Ian.  Click on the arrow in the middle of the slideshow to play (be patient, it takes a minute to load) or click on the following link to open the slideshow in another window  Miles Slideshow at Fort Myers Beach