From what I heard from Megan’s Matron of Honor, there was quite the search for a photographer for their wedding. That makes me feel even more honored to be chosen. Megan and Jason had such a heartfelt wedding. It was easy to see the love between them and their families. The ceremony and reception was held at the Inn at Longshore in Westport.

Her veil was made by her Matron of Honor.






Jason entering Megan’s room as they see eachother for the first time.



Megan’s dad seeing Megan for the first time in her dress. The tears were flowing everywhere.






















A little use of the veil that her Matron of Honor made.



The cake topper! You’d never know unless you looked at the back.





Nothing happened here! It’s all family! It’s all good! They just happened to be at that angle



Megan sang to Jason. She is a great singer!





Sparklers by request.

That was wedding #195! I’m coming up on #200!

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Ever since their awesome engagement session in Newport, I’ve been waiting for this wedding!

I love this photo. Kristi’s mom was so emotional that day!

Doug trying to hold back the tears.

I love the reactions of the guests. You can see how guests react as the bride goes by, as they are right at the bride, and the guests about to get a close up.









We went over to the Taft School grounds for some of their portraits.







Then off to the Palace Theater for the reception.







Oh my, this just may be one of my favorite photos this year.

I almost forgot! This is wedding #194!

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     Ok, so I know I said on the last post that I was going to put up more photos than usual. Let’s just repeat that, and probably double it. Stephanie and Leo had an amazing wedding between the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in Bridgeport and their reception at The Surf Club in New Rochelle, NY.


     Stephanie and Leo have been together for 8 years so everyone they know have been waiting for this day for a very long time. Stephanie is Portuguese and Leo is Greek, which brings two powerful cultures together to celebrate amazing traditions that are important to them and their guests. They really love the beach scene because it is a place they greatly relate to. The Surf Club was their perfect place for their vision of elegance and modern beauty on the ocean front. The teal accent colors of the decorations, lots of crystals, candles, branches, and lighting made their reception perfect. Stephanie says this was “A marriage of two cultures coming together based on love and happiness.”

Stephanie is in the makeup industry. Her makeup artist for the wedding trained her! She came out from Los Angeles.






I just got mesmerized by this photo.

Stephanie’s fathers has his own vineyard at his house where he makes his own wine.


Stephanie and her dad in his vineyard.




The guys where ready to go…

but not before playing a little football. They didn’t even put down the beers!









Just a few people in the wedding party. I had to go up to the church balcony to get everyone in!

I was just talking to a photographer friend of mine about the above image. She was wondering what I did with my flash to get this. I turned it off! This was natural light coming in through a window.


This is the newly remodeled staircase at the Surf Club.





We had 10 minutes of light left to take all these photos (and a lot more).












Everyone walked into the reception with a Portuguese or Greek flag.









A little lower Leo!

This has been wedding number 193!
In Portuguese? Este foi casamento número 193!
I don’t know that my Greek is any good (or if it will show properly on a web page due to all the symbols) Αυτό είναι γάμος αριθμός 193!

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I may have gotten a little out of hand on the number of photos here. The reception was at Woosley Hall on the Yale University campus. What a place for a reception! And this was quite the wedding party with a great bunch of characters and personalities. You’ll see what I mean.

The day started at JoBella in New Haven. Hair, makeup, manicures, pedicures, champagne, and Starbucks.








This above photo was not an easy shot. It was taken from 2 rooms away.



The guys… well… Having a few drinks and playing cards at the bar. A little different than the girls.

Not sure what this was about, Nolan. Are you ok? Hair problems?



A beautiful day to walk to the church.






Nolan showing off his cuff links.

A nice grab by my second shooter Greg.

Then mary turns to Nolan and starts making faces.


I just couldn’t contain them.


With the stone and columns I shot a little more of a triditional style than I normally do. It was fitting. In the above photo the sun was bouncing off the building across the street. What great light.




I don’t often show the above shots on my blog. We do both traditional and artistic photos. I usually show the more creative ones.



Here’s what I meant by characters. Everyone came into the reception wearing some “flair.” This was not a halloween theme. Just a fun crowd.

The moon was out throughout the night.


How awesome is Woosley Hall?






Taking out the Robot… oh yeah.

***UPDATE***
I have to add a little technical note. Once again I was told that my off camera flash looked great. Would you believe there were no off camera flashes used for the reception? Everything was actually flash on camera or natural light using the light designers lighting.


I almost forgot! This has been wedding number 192!

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