Our Wedding

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Well, it finally happened! John D’Agostino and Mariealena Calabrese (that’s me) were married on August 1, 2009 on the beach in Ocean City, NJ. It was an amazing day in so many ways. All of the effort and planning that had me pulling my hair out for the past five months had finally come to fruition and I was able to enjoy it!

John and I have 2 children; Isabella Rose (will be 3 yrs old on August 15), and John Peter, IV (who is 7 1/2 months old). Although they were not physically supposed to be in the wedding Isabella of course made herself part of the ceremony…

There are so many pictures that were taken. I placed camera on each table for the guests to take candid shots, and I had two of the best professional photographers to capture the most important moments of our day. Tim Dinofa, of Dinofa Photography was the lead photographer. He is one of the most talented photographers that I have seen in a long time. You can visit his site and read his blog to see everything he has to offer, and view his talent for yourself. Some of our pictures will be posted there soon! Usually his 2nd shooter is his wife, Lauren, but they are getting ready to have their 3rd child so for this event he was able to bring out someone else all the way from Orange County, CA. Christoper Becker and his talents are well known in the photography world and we were ecstatic to have him be a part of our wedding. “Becker”, as he is affectionately referred to by most, also has a blog and some of our pictures will be posted there as well. You can view Becker’s Blog here.

I made all of the jewelry for the wedding. I want to wait until I see Tim and Becker’s professional photos of my pieces before I post them, because my pictures never do the jewelry justice. In fact, it isn’t even close most times. But, that’s why I am a professional poker player who happens to make jewelry! For now, I want to thank my sisters for being beautiful Bridesmaids, my Niece for being the most beautiful Jr. Bridesmaid ever, the Groomsmen and Best Man, and of course my Niece Gabrielle for doing our lovely reading. We have another shoot scheduled with Tim as part of our “Engagement” package, and hopefully we can do that soon.

We are postponing the Honeymoon until later in the year, which is a better time to go to our selected destination, Italy. For now it’s back to making jewelry for me! Maybe on Tim’s downtime (yeah right….like he has ANY of that) I can get him to take pics of my jewelry!

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