We hope all of you enjoy your New Year’s Eve celebrations and all the best for a terrific 2012!

The cover:

Cover close-up:

Photo credit:

Another of our images inside the magazine:

Here is a preview of our new Splash Page at www.jasonangelini.com:

The new Wedding Site:

And the new People Site:

We are still making a few little changes but now that everything is live and on line we were excited to share!

You can also see that our blog is updated as well!  This is officially the first post of the updated blog .  We’ve made many changes since we (or actually since our son!) first started blogging our weddings and sessions back in 2005.  This is the first time that the blog isn’t written in the voice of one of our kids.  We also have new features like the Share and Enjoy buttons!  Read the header at the top of the blog for more about the changes and new features.

We hope everyone likes the new sites and updated blog!  Thanks for checking them out!

Here is a collage of some of the sessions, weddings, and events we were able to be part of this year.  We uploaded a 2010 highlights album on Facebook as well so be sure to check it out!  Have a fun and safe New Year’s Eve!

Congratulations to all the winners and thanks to all of you who entered and voted.  We hope it was fun!  And a special thanks to all of you who follow us on Facebook and here on our blog and tell your friends and family about us which allows us to continue to make a living doing something we deeply love.  We have said it before and we will say it again and again, we are so blessed to work with truly amazing couples and families!  You are all AWESOME!

Update:  *The deadline for entries has passed!  Check Facebook on Saturday July 31st to vote for the finalists, and winners for all three prizes will be announced Tuesday, August 3rd.  Thanks to everyone that entered!

We have over 500 “Likes” on our Facebook page!!  Thanks everyone!  We wanted to do some sort of contest/giveaway to celebrate.  For over 500 “Likes” we are giving away $500 worth of prizes!  There are 3 different awesome prizes, including a free session with disk, an 11×14 canvas art wrap, and a photo necklace.  Anyone who “likes” us on Facebook can enter for each and all of the prizes.  We’ll be accepting entries until Thursday at midnight.

Prize One:  A Free Session (in studio or on location in the Tampa area) With Disk of Images.

To enter for this prize, “like” us on Facebook and then email jasonangelini@aol.com and put “FB Prize 1″ in the subject line.  Let us know what special milestone or moment you want to create a memory of and what idea you have for a session that will capture this for you.  We have a panel of 3 people who will each pick a favorite.  Those top 3 will be shared on our Facebook page where it will be open for a vote.  The session idea that gets the most votes wins!

Prize Two:  An 11 x 14 Canvas Art Wrap.

This prize is for anyone who “likes” us on Facebook and who has already had a wedding or session photographed by Jason, or who is already booked for a wedding or session.  Find the Facebook Update called “Prize Two” on our Facebook page.  Comment with your favorite memory captured in your pictures, or the moment you are most looking forward to having Jason photograph.  We will randomly choose a winner from everyone who comments using a random number generator.

Prize Three:  A Photo Necklace.

This is just for anyone who “likes” us on Facebook and who has already had Jason photograph a wedding or session.  Email us at jasonangelini@aol.com with “FB Prize 3″ in the subject line.  Send us the date of your wedding or session and the image number of any picture that Jason has taken for you and tell us why you love it and what that memory means to you.  From these descriptions, a panel of 3 people will choose 2 images each and the top 6 will be shared on our Facebook page where it will be open for a vote.  The image and description that gets the most votes wins.

You can enter to win all of the prizes until midnight on Thursday, July 29th.  Voting will start on Saturday, July 31st and will end at midnight on Monday, August 2nd.  All winners will be announced on Tuesday, August 3rd.  We hope everyone has fun with this!  Thanks for getting us to (and over!) 500 “likes”!

And thanks to the other vendors from Sharon and Larry’s wedding who did a great job with the details as well!  They are listed in the magazine and include Jessica of Simply Divine Events (a special thanks to her!), Any from Not from a Box, Events in Bloom, Catering by Design, Cakes by Nomeda, Josh of Inspire Entertainment, and more.

At the end of the magazine, they used one more of our images for as their “Ever After”.  It is the gorgeous picture by the water from Michelle and Zach’s wedding!

Thanks to Sharon, Larry, Michelle, and Zach as well for having us there to photograph your weddings and allowing us to create these beautiful images!

I love seeing our images put to use.  In the mail the other day we received Caroline and David’s Save the Date card.  They are such a sweet couple and we loved the picture they chose from their engagement session!  It shows what a cute couple they are and how happy they are to be in love.  We’ve been hearing some of the planning details from Caroline’s wonderful mom and it is going to be an amazing wedding!

Also in the mail we received a thank you card from newlyweds Marisol and Neil.  It had a pretty flower cut out on the front:

and a nice message to Jason thanking him for photographing their wedding on the inside:

Elissa and Rick were also just married and are a terrific couple.  I got to meet them at our Christmas party and they were great people.  After seeing their images they wrote:

“Jason,

Thank you so much for the amazing job you did at our wedding!  Everyone (including us) was amazed at you being everywhere!  The pictures are great – I think you got a pic of everyone who was there!  Now the hard part is picking out which pictures we want   Thank you also for the Christmas party invite – it was great to meet your family!  You are great at what you do.  Thank you.

Elissa and Rick ”

It was also fun for us to see two of our pictures in Michele Renee Hair and Makeup Artist Group‘s ad in the Perfect Wedding Guide (on the right):

Wedding blogs are a great place to get ideas for your own wedding planning.  Brenda’s Wedding Blog is a great one with daily updates and lots of pictures.  We are honored that she shared a ring pictures from Stephanie and Nick’s wedding on her “Ringing in the New Year” blog post!

Seeing our pictures put to great uses, getting these terrific thank you cards…2010 is starting off wonderfully!

My wife and son ROCK!  Yesterday I got an awesome surprise.  Right at dinner time I was told that I needed to get ready because I had to leave for something special very soon.  My son and I headed out the door with tickets in a sealed envelope and all my wife told me was that I needed to go to the St. Pete Times Forum.  She had dropped a few hints making me think I was taking our son to see the Star Wars Orchestra which I wanted to see but worried might be a bit much for a 4 year old.

When I got to the Forum I saw that we really had tickets for Walking with Dinosaurs!  It is a show with a paleontologist telling the history of dinosaurs with life-size dinosaurs bringing the story to life.  The larger dinosaurs weigh 1.6 TONS!  They had a brachiosaurus that was 36 feet tall and 56 feet long!  Of course my son’s favorite was the Tyrannosaurus Rex which had a very impressive and LOUD roar.  It was a great night spending some time with my son, and my wife is the best for setting up such a terrific surprise.