St. Pete Beach Family Session | Treasure Island

Treasure Island is a nice location to capture memories. This beach has easy parking, nice bathrooms, and playgrounds for the kids.

The Fi family came from the north to our warm beach for family photos. This family was so much fun to capture. They really showed their personality in this shoot. Especially the girls, they had so much sass and spunk when posing for each photo. Just adorable! The Fi family ended the session with a beautiful sunset on the beach.

“Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It’s the little things that make happy moments, not the grand events. Joy comes in sips, not gulps.” – Sharon Draper

St. Pete Beach

Treasure Island

St. Pete. Photographer

www.mirsalgado.com

Madeira Beach, Florida - Oceanfront Beach Wedding | Ciera and Nicholas

Ciera and Nicholas

While a cloudy sky may have worried some bride and grooms, Ciera and Nicholas didn’t seem to mind as the rain waited patiently until the ceremony had ended, to fall on their Madeira Beach wedding. Instead, the couple kissed, smiled, and laughed throughout their day. Regardless of the weather, the ceremony left no dry eye in the audience of Ciera and Nicholas’ outdoor ceremony.

Ciera and Nicholas first met in middle school, but it wasn’t until after high school, where their love began. They have been together for six years and engaged for one year before their wedding. The beach holds a special place in their heart for this couple. Based in Las Vegas, Nicholas and his family took yearly summer vacations to Madeira beach. His family fell in love with the ocean and it even became the place that Nicholas took his first steps as a baby. When Ciera and Nicholas were dating, she joined along for their trip as well. Falling in love just as deeply with both her love of Nicholas and his family and the ocean. Ciera and Nicholas were planning to elope, however, circumstances changed. This past year, Nicholas’ mom passed away due to cancer, they knew her favorite place was the ocean and decided that there was no better place to have their ceremony and to have her there in spirit. The ocean became the place where many of their memories reside. It was the place where Ciera and Nicholas became boyfriend/girlfriend, where the couple got engaged and now, the place they got married.

We captured their entire day, from the couple getting ready to their first pictures in the sunset as husband and wife.

An empty seat reserved for the Groom’s mother who recently passed away.

“We knew her favorite place was the ocean. So there wasn’t a better place to do it, to have her there in spirit.”

Venue: Madeira Beach

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Cypress Park Family Session | Crystal, James & Their Family

Toes in The Sand for the Spring Season

This beautiful family arrived bright an early for an amazing and fun session. With pale yellows and pastel baby blues and pinks, they welcome a very Florida spring season with the beach!

James and Crystal are welcoming more memories through my photography and have frequented my business since their oldest was just a baby. Then, their first session was at the Sunken Gardens but this time, we ventured to Cypress Point Park, closer to the beach area. They have years of documented memories by my work and I am so glad to have done so.

Enjoy the photos below- they’ll make you feel the cool shady sand in their adorable family portraits!

Location: Cypress Point Park

Child’s Dress: Gymboree Kids

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Hyatt Regency | Clearwater Beach Wedding | Crystal & Philip

At the Hyatt Regency, flowers were blooming and birds were chanting hymns of joy. On the shore of Clearwater Beach, the coquina clams dug into the sand near the water with their muscled foot and boats rushed across the waves. The sky was getting sleepy, the clouds a blur by wind in the upper atmosphere, the sun closing its eyes on the east coast, but this sweet couple’s love never rested. Meet Crystal and Phillip, they first started dating on September 30, 2010. After seven glorious years of being together, on March 28, 2017, they got engaged. A year later of being engaged, it is finally official; “The Best Day” as seen on their board with the previous two dates is their wedding day, June 10, 2018. This heart warming aura kept the night young and full.

The lovely purple theme with accents of silver and gold inspired elegance and class just as the bride aspired to have. She said,“The wedding is small…, it allowed me to create a lot of personalized details. I wanted the wedding to be very personalized and unique to us as a couple.” She achieved this goal and surpassed the expectation; every detail was so beautiful and unparalleled. Even the cake was dazzling with the crystal cut appearance down the middle of the cake and garnished with the sweetest cake topper.

The bride wore a captivating dress, it was designed with shiny beads stitched in a luxurious pattern. Her ruffled train followed her everywhere beautifully. Her veil was lined with the same silvery beads at the end. The groom wore a navy blue, griseous tuxedo with a white dress shirt and tie and very special cuff links that were a sweet little surprise gift from the bride. “He doesn't know it yet but I bought Philip a special pair of cufflinks…, engraved with our initials, wedding date and coordinates of the wedding venue.”

Vendors:

CAKE & DESSERTS - The Artistic Whisk

MAKEUP/HAIR - Priscilla Marie

CATERING - Hyatt Regency Clearwater Beach

VIDEOGRAPHY - Allura Studios - Crystal and Philip

FLORIST - Hilda’s Flower Company

MUSIC - Grant Hemond

GOWN - Bearer of the Bling

BRIDESMAIDS’ DRESSES - Something Blue Bridal

SHOES - Amazon

JELEWRY/RINGS - I.D. Jewelry

MEN’S ATTIRE - Men’s Warehouse

SAVE THE DATES, INVITATIONS, AND/OR PROGRAMS - Invitations from Basic Invite

PLANNER - Pastor Rich with Sensational Ceremonies

FAVORS/GIFTS - Luggage tag favors from Etsy & Jordan almond favors are DIY

“I met you, I wanted you, I got you, I love you”