I can’t find a better day to show you Veronica & Andrew Atlantic Beach engagement photographs!! It’s their wedding day today!!! And I can’t wait to be there!

Veronica wasn’t sure what she wanted for her engagement but she wanted diversity and few pictures at the beach. We decided that Atlantic Beach in Jacksonville Florida was perfect for beautiful engagement photos as it has lots of variety and we can play with multicolor background. Veronica is originally from Italy and the small streets of Atlantic Beach remind her (and me…) of Europe.

We started by the water for few beautiful shots. It wasn’t easy to walk with heels on the sand 🙂 Then we walked slowly around looking for beautiful and colorful backdrop and composition. I really like shooting Atlantic Beach engagement photographs because we can find so many options that create wall art that Veronica & Andrew will cherish forever.

If you wonder why Andrew has his sunglasses on some pictures it’s because he has extremely sensitive eyes and even it was 6pm the sun was still too bright for him. He also told me that the sunglasses are a part of who he is. He always has his glasses and his friends don’t know him without.

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When Alexia told me that she wanted some vintage engagement pictures I was super excited. I like the idea that she had for the location; the bed & breakfast in River Side, The Riverdale Inn. On top of it, it’s where Eric proposed to Alexia! That was the perfect location for them.

We were really happy to have an inside location to start the photographs because it was one of this super hot days in Florida… the one that you can’t stay 2 minutes outside without being all wet. We started the session in the exact same room Eric proposed!! Here is the story of the engagement written by Alexia

The Proposal

Eric proposed on March 29, 2013. We had dinner at a restaurant called Black Sheep and had a wonderful time. He had planned to walk through memorial park after dinner and propose, but it was a cold night in Florida. Since the park overlooks the St. John’s River, there was a robust breeze that night. When I thought we were on our way back home, he told me we were not going home. He had reserved the Windsor Suite at the Riverdale Inn, a beautiful Victorian mansion turned B&B in the heart of Riverside, one of Jacksonville’s historic districts. The room was in the third floor, so I was taking in the mansion’s architecture and décor the entire trip upstairs. When we got to the room, he sat me down in an antique chair and asked me to be his wife. Even though it wasn’t a surprise for me because I saw it coming, what he said to me when he proposed was what took my breath away.
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Photographs by wedding and portrait photographer Severine Photography, 100 North Laura street, Suite 803, Jacksonville, Florida, 32202

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Our second stop was in Fukuoka – Japan. It’s the city where Jennifer & Shinji got married.

The trip between Tokyo and Fukuoka was an experience by itself. First, I saw my first Japanese style restroom. It’s a hole in the floor. (See the cell phone picture HERE). I haven’t seen that type of restroom since a trip in Turkey and I had no idea that it was common in Japan! I don’t need to say that I used the Western style that they had… lol!

Jennifer & Shinji picked us up at the airport and helped us check-in in our hotel. Shinji is Japanese and grew up close to Fukuoka. Once again it was really helpful to have a translator J

We spent the evening eating delicious noodle soups by the river in really small open shops. I am not sure how to describe them. It’s an outside kitchen with few benches in front. It was delicious! Jennifer’s family was there too and it was nice to get to know each other.

The next day we started with a visit of a temple dedicated to students. You should have seen how many of them where there praying for good results for their exams! We also saw a wedding and I couldn’t resist to take a picture, as I know the bride had the typical white dress (Jennifer had the kimono and a western style gown).

After visiting the temple we went to some Hot Springs. We had a delicious lunch with multiple plates. I can’t really describe because we had so many!! I forgot to mention that before the lunch we all change our clothes for a yukata (summer kimono). It was so comfortable that I decided to buy one for my house!  The lunch was in a big room with tatamis as floor. After lunch, we all went to the hot springs. As usual in Japan, there are lots of rituals to follow. You take your clothes off and put them in a wooden basket. You enter the bath entirely nude with only a very small towel. But first, you take a shower and wash your hair. You have a shower with a seat and a small recipient where you put the water. When you are clean you can go in the water. When you are done with the hot water, you take a new shower (better to take it cold because the bath was really hot!). When you are ready you can go back in the room where you eat and rest on the tatamis.

We spent the evening in a delicious restaurant with Jennifer extended family that arrived for the next day wedding.

I will write a post about their wedding in a few weeks when the pictures are ready!!!

As you can see below I took some pictures during our trips. I also took a lot of cellphones but I didn’t want to put them in the same post. You can see them HERE.

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During my trip in Japan and Korea I didn’t have my digital camera with me all the time so I use my cell phone. Those pictures are not done to exhibit but to share some of the culture that I discovered there.  When I travel I don’t take my DSLR all the time with me. I like to discover a new country with my eyes and my senses and not through my camera 🙂

Johny Deep in JapaneseJapanese style restroom!  I had no idea that restroom were like this there. I have already seen them in Turkey but I was surprised to find them at Tokyo main airport!Japanese restroomIt’s the main quarter of a beer company. The main building is a glass of beer with the mousse on the top and a drop on the right.Beer building TokyoCab in TokyoJapanese dishJapanese fishJapanese foodNo idea what is written 🙂  But it was delicious!!Japanese menuIf you look in the plate you can see some small round pearls. They are candies and they made the plate sweet and delicious!Japanese foodI am in love with those lunch boxes! I wish we would have this kind of choice in the US!!Lunch boxes in FukuokaDelicious meal in KyotoJapanese foodIt was working! I had never seen one old like this 🙂 I thought that Japan was on top of the technology… lol!Old phone in JapanThen even have special trash for the lunch boxes
trash in JapanYou can find vending machines everywhere in Japan!!! And lots of them side by side.Vending machines in TokyoOn the left picture you can see the vending machine where you order your food. You usually find it at the entrance of the restaurant. On the right you can see a view of the restaurant. We had the only table for 4 people. As you can see people come, eat and go back to work.Restaurant in TokyoOur room in Kyoto. Tatamis everywhere in the room. When it’s time to sleep they come, push the table on the side and put a small mattress on top of the tatamis. It was very comfortable.

In Japan, you can’t keep your shoes inside houses/room. You leave them at the entrance and go bare food. In the toilet, you have special shoes that you put only there.Hotel in Kyoto JapanIt wasn’t easy to read… but thankfully they had the English translation tooTrain in JapanTransportation in JapanPictures with cell phone by Severine. Severine Photography

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The very first step of our trip in Tokyo – Japan. We spent there 2 days and visited temples but also the city and its small streets, markets, shops, restaurant.

To give you a little bit of a story, my husband and I are in Japan for Jennifer & Shinji’s wedding. I am the official photographer for the wedding and my husband will be assisting me. We decided to arrive few days earlier to be sure to be on time but also because of the jet lag.  We didn’t want to miss Tokyo so we stopped 2 days there on our way to Fukuoka (where the wedding will be).

Tokyo is a beautiful city not really different from  a big busy city like New York, Paris or Rome. Very modern, but it keeps its charm and secret. The main different is the language. Obviously it is more difficult to travel in a country where you can’t understand anything neither read the alphabet.  We realized with our first taxi from the train station to the hotel that it would be challenging. The taxi driver didn’t speak any English (or any of the 4 other languages we speak…) and couldn’t even read the address in English. We didn’t have the Japanese version written anywhere! We finally pull up the page in Internet and show him where we wanted to go.

Arriving at the hotel, I was thrilled to realize that next door was the main Nikon shop for Tokyo! I didn’t buy anything but asked them to clean my camera and my lenses.

Thankfully, we had a friend, Yoko, who nicely spent 2 days with us to show us the city and translate for us each time we needed. The first day, we visited the outside of the presidential palace and we walk back to our hotel. We also had our first experience of fine Japanese. It was composed by lots of small dishes, one after the other, all different. We had lots of raw fish, soup, beef cook in water, and much more!

The second day, we visited temples, and walk to discover the small streets with the market, the manga district and finally Ganza (the more touristic high fashion part of the city). Our first temple in Japan was an experience. We learned how to clean our hands, how to use the smoke to heal our body, how to pray, how to show respect to the deities, how to read the future and what to do if it was a bad prevision.

Thank you so so much to Yoko who spent those days with us! Here are few pictures of your first two days in Tokyo Japan.

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