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Welcome!

Hello and welcome to the Onada Photography blog where I will be making regular updates on my wedding, lifestyle and personal photography.

You can use the "category" buttons above to filter the posts for what you are most interested in seeing i.e. "Weddings", "Engagement Sessions" etc.

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Feel free to leave your thoughts and comments and thank you so much for stopping by!

(Special thanks to Kathryn Croskey for my fab profile pictures!)

About me

I'm addicted to the following things:
Fashion magazines, mint tea, shoes and purses. I'm your typical girly girl.

I love having girl's night out with my close friends and spending QT with my fiance.

I think nothing beats ending a hectic day than snuggling up with a great book.

One of the most important things in the world to me is family.

I love with reckless abandon and make an effort everyday to live my life to the fullest!

Engagement Session: Biola + Kunle (and introducing little Zoe)

Say hello to my first engagement session of 2010! I shot this session several weeks back but wanted to wait for them to send out their “surprise” save the dates before I made the blog post.

Biola and Kunle are good friends of mine and they are getting married two weeks before me in fabulous San Juan Capistrano California! For a change I get to be on the other side of the camera as I’ll have a role in their wedding and I’m pretty excited about it : )

It’s always nice to have someone share the same amazing experiences as you at the same time i.e. wedding planning – Biola and I have been dress shopping together, gone on online shoe stalking missions, discussed DIY projects and have generally had a lot of fun so far planning our weddings.

Their engagement session was a lot of fun and took place close to the Philadelphia Art Museum along Boat House Row in Philadelphia which is a historic site located  on the east bank of the Schuylkill that consists of a row of boathouses housing racing shells (It looks absolutely gorgeous at night). I love how the pictures look like it was a nice and warm day when in actual fact were were freezing!

Congratulations Biola and Kunle – I’m so excited for you guys and I can’t wait to be a part of your special day – Love you loads :)

Biola + Kunle, Philadelphia PA

Biola + Kunle, Philadelphia PA

Biola + Kunle, Philadelphia PA

Biola + Kunle, Philadelphia PA

Biola + Kunle, Philadelphia PA

Biola + Kunle, Philadelphia PA

Biola + Kunle, Philadelphia PA

Check out Zoe’s close up!

Biola + Kunle, Philadelphia PA

And Biola’s gorgeous shoes
Biola + Kunle, Boat House Row Philadelphia

Biola + Kunle, Philadelphia PA

Biola + Kunle, Philadelphia PA

Biola + Kunle, Philadelphia PA

Biola + Kunle, Philadelphia PA

Biola + Kunle, Philadelphia PA

Biola + Kunle, Philadelphia PA

Biola + Kunle, Philadelphia PA

Biola + Kunle, Philadelphia PA

Biola + Kunle, Philadelphia PA

We threw in this umbrella just for fun :)

Biola + Kunle, Philadelphia PA

Biola + Kunle, Philadelphia PA

A fab engagement session – coming soon

I just loved this shoe shot. I’ll be posting images from this engagement session soon. Stay tuned!

Biola + Kunle, Boat House Row Philadelphia

Featured on MoiraeAffairs.com

I’m so excited to see my work featured again so soon and this time on MoiraeAffairs.com!

Sherry, one of the co-founders, sent me an email a couple weeks back saying they would like to include my work in a feature on their blog in celebration of Black History Month and so of course I said Yes! and told Sherry how excited I was! I’m very grateful that people out there enjoy looking at my pictures and features like this really humble me.

Moirae Affairs is a unique event planning firm, specializing in weddings, corporate and social events and they just recently launched their website and new blog. It’s definitely a wonderful resource for all you brides to be out there so make sure you stop by and check it out.

Click here to see out my feature!

Featured on moiraeaffairs.com/blog
Featured on moiraeaffairs.com/blog

Thanks for stopping by!

Wedding: Christina + Rich

Christina and Rich’s wedding was the last wedding I shot in 2009. They got married in an intimate late evening ceremony at David’s country Inn in Hackettsown NJ and celebrated with cocktails and dinner with their closest family and friends.  It was raining that evening and pretty dark outside so we did all of their pictures inside prior to  their ceremony. Christina was a gorgeous bride and I just love the bridal portraits I captured of her – check out a few of my favorite images below.

Now that I’m finally done with posting my 2009 images – I’m officially ready for 2010 :) – Stay tuned!

p.s. Congratulations to Christina and Rich – I wish you a happy and blissful married life together!

Christina + Rich, David's Country Inn Hackettstown NJ

Christina + Rich, David's Country Inn Hackettstown NJ

Christina + Rich, David's Country Inn Hackettstown NJ

Christina + Rich, David's Country Inn Hackettstown NJ

Christina + Rich, David's Country Inn Hackettstown NJ

Christina + Rich, David's Country Inn Hackettstown NJ

Christina + Rich, David's Country Inn Hackettstown NJ

Christina + Rich, David's Country Inn Hackettstown NJ

Christina + Rich, David's Country Inn Hackettstown NJ

Christina + Rich, David's Country Inn Hackettstown NJ

Christina + Rich, David's Country Inn Hackettstown NJ

Christina + Rich, David's Country Inn Hackettstown NJ

Some random updates and a preview!

I can’t believe it’s February already. Sometimes I wake up feeling like I’m still in December. Dear time I need you to slow down a little bit, just a little bit – Knowing my wedding is coming up soon and I still have so much left to do makes me a bit nervous however I’m really grateful to have a fabulous wedding planner – Kathy Bado – who has been all the help I can ever imagine. I’m also working with the most accommodating and talented stationery maker Debra Saba of Luxe Expressions who I did a blog post on over at my lookbook (see it here) and so things are going well in the wedding planning zone :)

2010 is going to be a very exciting year for me – God willing! Aside from my own wedding, a couple of my close friends just got engaged (Fissy and ChaCha), I’ll be a guest at quite a few weddings (I only attended 2 weddings as a guest in 2009) and I’m taking my businesses in new directions. I’m also excited to see my friends following their dreams by starting out their own businesses and becoming their own bosses – So proud of you ladies!

As always I’m grateful for all the blessings in my life and for my amazing friends and for everyone’s support :) I’ll be blogging my last wedding from 2009 (Christina  + Rich) very soon – Yay! In the meantime here’s a preview of beautiful bride Christina. Full post coming soon.

Christina + Rich, David's Country Inn Hackettstown NJ

Featured on TheBridesCafe.com!

The Bride’s Cafe is one of my favorite wedding planning blogs and I visit it everyday – It’s on my list of favorite wedding blogs that I posted here on the photoblog and also on my look book. So when I got an email from Janie, the fabulous lady behind The Brides Cafe blog,  asking if it was ok for Nadege and Joe’s engagement session to be featured I was absolutely blown away and of course super excited!

Not only is Janie the mind behind The Bride’s Cafe, she also owns an amazing floral design business – Janie Medley Flora Design. If you are a bride to be definitely stop by The Bride’s Cafe for some wedding inspiration and check out Janie’s website as well – She’s sooo talented and amazing at what she does!

Click here to see my feature :)

Thank you so much for  showcasing my work, Janie!

Featured on TheBridesCafe.comFeatured on TheBridesCafe.com