Oragne County Wedding Photographer Jen OSullivan » Boutique Wedding Photography based out of Orange County, California with studios in Irvine, Beverly Hills, and Pasadena.

Santa Clarita Local Named myfoxla HOTLIST’s 2008 Best Wedding Photographer
Jen O’Sullivan’s Unique Photography Style Takes Top Honor on LA’S HOTLIST!

Santa Clarita, CA November 20, 2008 – Santa Clarita resident and local business owner, Jen O’Sullivan of Save The Date Photo has won first place in myfoxla HOTLIST’s contest for the Best Wedding Photographer in Los Angeles. The winners were announced on November 21st and can be found on the myfoxla HOTLIST’s website. The contest, held from September 8, 2008 to November 7, 2008 allows consumers to vote via the web for their favorite service provider in individual categories. Nominated by her clients, Save The Date Photo, was selected out of an estimated 159 local Los Angeles area wedding photographers vying for the award.

“I am honored and feel extremely blessed to have been chosen as this year’s “Best Wedding Photographer” by my clients and fans in a contest that has some of the most sought after photographers in Southern California.” states Jen O’Sullivan. “It means a lot to be recognized by myfoxla’s HOTLIST, and to have such a loyal clientèle!”

Save The Date Photo’s unique ability to capture the magic, happiness, and romance of each wedding day in an unobtrusive way have made Jen O’Sullivan’s work popular among Los Angeles consumers. Save The Date Photo is a strong community supporter – offering free services to the Boy Scouts of America, Crossroads Community Church, the Battered Women’s Shelter, Saugus Union School District and many other of the Santa Clarita’s small businesses.

Save The Date Photo is a full service wedding and portrait photography studio specializing in captured moments with a story book feel. Go to www.savethedatephoto.com to see more of Jen’s work. Contact Jen directly at jen@savethedatephoto.com or call 661-513-0253.

It’s official! Save The Date Photography has been voted the Best Wedding Photographer in Los Angeles through My Fox LA. Words cannot express how much everyone’s support and dedication to my success means to me. I am blessed beyond my own imagination. Thank you all for making it happen! In celebration I would like to extend to all brides a free photo booth upgrade with their booked package. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Here is to a wonderfully beautiful and magical 2009 season!

At practically every wedding I shoot that has a garter toss, there is always, and I mean ALWAYS, a little boy who catches the garter. My guess: no man actually wants to catch it and the little boy is the most eager. If you watch the garter fly through the air you will miss the comedy happening with the clump of men that quickly turns into the parting of the sea revealing the lone boy poised and ready. Marcy and Miguel, one of my couple’s who got married at the end of October had a great idea. They did a pre-toss for the kids. The girls got a cute stuffed animal toss, and the boys, Sponge Bob, of course. Great idea to get the men into the game!

Shay Thomason, one of my principal shooters, shot a beautiful double ceremony Hindu wedding on Saturday. While I was fighting traffic to get out of town with the fires to get to Santa Maria, Shay was fighting traffic road blocks to get to Santa Monica. It took him 3 hours to get 40 miles finally finding a route through the Angeles National Forest. Once there, he worked his magic and captured some truly beautiful imagery. Kara and Sri were married through a Hindu ceremony in an intimate backyard setting and then re-married in a not-so-traditional American ceremony at The Broad Stage in the Santa Monica Performing Arts Center. Congrats Kara & Sri!

On Saturday, November 15th I drove up to Santa Maria at 6 am in order to make my way out of town with all the crazy fires (Sylmar and Montecito both in my path!). It took me 2 hours just to go around the fires by way of the 126. 4 hours later, at 9:59, I arrived at my destination with 1 minute to spare. Phew! It turned out to be a beautiful day, almost like summer. The ceremony was held at the St. Louis de Montfort Church and the reception at a truly transformed Elk’s Lodge. Joe told me in the morning he was surprising Julie with a 2 week getaway to Italy! I had to keep my mouth closed the entire day. Even when I said my good-bys, all I could say was to have a really great time! The are probably flying above us as I write this… Congratulazioni Jow and Julie!

Remember the days of Zip drives? Or, better yet, SyQuest drives??? If you don’t remember these, they were the predecessors to the DVD. I still have stacks of Zip drives somewhere in my garage. I now have spindle upon spindle and book upon book of DVDs. While fairly inexpensive they are not infallible. If you want to archive your files without fear of your archives being corrupt and unreadable in a few years, you might consider investing in the slightly more expensive, yet more time efficient and reliable hard drive. DVDs typically will run you 20 to 50 cents each for 4.7 gigabytes of space. I have several hard drives in my studio ranging from 640 gigs to 1 terabyte. The terabyte ran me $200 at Best Buy however, I just went to Costco for the regular shopping excursion and found 1 teras (same product) for $179 (18 cents per gig). The even better deal was a 640 gig for $95 which works out to about 15 cents per gig. Consider this: a DVD at it’s cheapest is 5 cents per gig and takes more time and space than a My Book Western Digital hard drive. I can “burn” 30 gigs of image files in about 25 minutes without operator assistance where that would take 7 DVDs, about an hour of time depending on your write speed and the issue of my needing to babysit the DVD burner, loading, unloading, writing on the DVD, inserting a new one, starting over for currupt DVDs that wouldn’t burn correctly. You have all experienced this. Isn’t our time more valuable? I know mine is, especially with a baby who is at the cusp of walking, YIKES! So get over to Costco (they don’t have the $95 640 gig or the $180 1000 gig online.) Tip: all hard drives are not created equally. From my research I have found Western Digital to be of the most reliable on the market.