A lot of wedding days are a variation of a beautiful and joyous fairytale brought to life. In late May, however, at the jaw-dropping Fonthill Castle (Mercer Museum) in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, Sarah and Sam were as close to a real-life fairytale as I’ve ever seen.  Their wedding was influenced by favorite story Alice in Wonderland […]

I’ve been talking with Cara off and on since January this year! She and Charlie were engaged on Christmas Eve and she reached out to me shortly after to set up an engagement session while the two of them decided on a wedding date.  Originally, these two Tonawanda residents wanted a beautiful wintery snowfall enagement […]

Sometimes, all the pieces just fall into place to bring a photographer and an amazing couple together. In a transition period of moving to our home in Rochester and restarting my photography business here in Western New York, Lisa and Jamie reached out to me inquiring about their April 2017 wedding in my hometown in […]

I am quickly falling in love with Highland Park in Rochester NY as an amazing engagement session location. It just sprawls on seemingly forever, with little pockets of beauty and surprises around every corner. Moody pine tree forests, stone castles, and blooms of every shape and color as far as the eye can see.  Then, […]

There is something about a lifestyle engagement session — one that’s all about the couple and their love and not about distracting props or too stiff of poses. It’s a session that lets their story and their personalities truly shine — and nothing more exemplifies that realness than a session in a brand new home. Christine […]

I only just met Nicole and John and yet I feel like we’ve been friends for years. They just exude kindness, sincerity, humor and joy. Being made to feel like a friend made our downtown Buffalo engagement session together even more special.  When I first chatted with Nicole via Skype last year, I was packing […]

6 Tips to Planning Your Best Engagement Session

A few suggestions on what you should ask your potential wedding photographer.

Some wedding days are a compilation of hundreds of moments of pure magic. Moments that make you let out a little gasp as a sunset lights up a kiss in a field on a family farm; moments that make you laugh with the pure joy being had by 100 people surrounding you on a crowded […]

Dear Future Brides — Recent Wendy Zook Photography Brides offer advice on planning and preparing for your special day — what they would have done differently and all of their favorite memories. This is Part One of a two-part series.