I have only done a couple bridal portraits ever, but they sure are fun!! This one is special because I designed her dress! I am not shooting her wedding, she came to me for the dress and decided to have me do the bridal portrait too!! She looked amazing!!
I was so excited to shoot my first Manhattan wedding. I was right, it proved to be a super fun group of people, a very stylish couple, and a great party!!
Great wedding, Beth & Eric!! Thanks for bringing me out!!
Jennifer and Will are the perfect couple! They are both calm and elegant. Their day went perfectly, of course, with Sandy as their coordinator!! The decor was beautiful, and they had several unique elements to their wedding. Here goes…
Beautiful gown from Mon Amie…
Smokin’ shoes!!…
Helping her excited mom…
Jennifer & Will decided to see each other before the wedding; this is their first moment together….love it!! Look how happy she is; she’s just beaming!!
Another tender moment….these two must be in love or something!!
I love this shot of a father and son…melts my heart!!
Here are the ladies….and a boy!! I told you there were unique features!!
Jennifer and her mom are so excited this day is finally here…
Good thing the crew is here to wipe their tears!!
Another precious moment!!
We can’t leave out dad!!
Makeup!! Jennifer is losing it again!! Love it!!
Get ready…there is a lot of these two!! Too much good stuff to not share it with you!!
Mom can’t believe her baby is getting married!!
Perfect weather!!
A unique feather ceremony before the vows are exchanged…
She does!!
They’re one big happy family now!!
More good stuff of these two!!
Sheeesh!! Get a room….oh, wait….you have one!!
We got a runaway bride!!
Oh, thank goodness…Will caught her!! I don’t think she minds…
Nope…she doesn’t mind!!
I love the cupcake bar in lieu of a cake!! Cute!!
Dad’s touching toast..
Caused some happy tears….
as mom looked on…
It was a great day with tons of great emotions caught on “film”!! it was my pleasure to be the one to do it!!
Their engagement session came out so nicely, I was so looking forward to their wedding!! Sure enough, it was great!! Amy looked amazing, the details of the wedding were beautiful, and their families were wonderful!!
Yaaa!! What a great night!!
I know, a parent shouldn’t take their kids out of school, but I thought this would be a good exception. Jim had a bride and groom last month who both work in DC, one for Bush and one for Biden. They hooked us up with all the good tours…ones only offered to White House staff!! It was awesome!!
We stayed at Hotel Rouge. It was about 6 blocks from the White House, so we walked a lot. It had a super cute lobby…Matt enjoys a Starbucks…
Ready for our first tour!! In front of the Executive Office Building, where our bride works…next door to the White House…it was a beautiful building!! It used to be the Department of war.
We weren’t allowed to take photos on our first tour of the White House, but afterwards we went to a summit on International Development, with a speech by Bush!! They had a group of African kids dancing and singing…they were fabulous!!
George was introduced by the president of Liberia…
The kids and I were only about 10 rows from him…and he looked right at us…after all, they were the only kids in there…he must have been surprised to see kids!!
These were a row of homes near the White House….they were all so cute…Matt was emerging from one in his suit…he fit right in!!
From there, we walked over to the Washington Monument…
How cute is this kid!?
Then on to Jefferson Monument….it was farther than it looked!!
We walked all the way from there!
On to Lincoln Memorial…we could see it just acrss the lake…we decided to walk…and on the way we got some great photos!!
Lincoln Memorial was also farther than we thought, and along the way, we came across the Roosevelt Momument…
Jim decided to tell him a ting or two…
After miles of walking, we came to the Lincoln Memorial and were treated to a nice view of where we started at the Washington Monument!!
After all that walking, we still weren’t done for the day!! We still had one more tour with Susan, Jim’s bride< at the West Wing of the White House!! We couldn't take photos inside, but this was the rose garden with the Oval Office behind us...
Outside he West Wing…
Inside the Press Debriefing room…the same one we see on TV!! It was way smaller than it seems on TV..
I had a really good question….
In front of the Debriefing room…
The next day was the coolest tour ever!! We gotto climb 300 stairs to the top of the capital dome!! This is once we got halfway up, looking down at where all the other tours stop….
These are the paintings on the top of the dome, with George Washington in the center, surrounded by 13 ladies, representing the 13 colonies, and all the important areas of commerce at the time….war, machines, medical, agriculture, etc….
Here is the view from the top!!
From halfway down, looking up…
There was a gap between the inner and outer dome, where the staircases were…this is the door going back into the buliding at the bottom of the dome…
For the tour of the inside of the capital building, you have to be guest of someone, so we were guests of Biden!!
This is where the Senate used to meet, before it got too big….what a beautiful room!!
This is the dome from all the way down at floor level!!
Some old iron doors that were to be the first doors to the capital….but it never happened for some reason….they were HUGE!
Wow!! We went all the way to the top of there!!
Matt got himself into a bit of a pickle on the way to lunch!!
We had a little time on our hands, so we went to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum…
After the Air & Space Museum, we had a scheduled lecture at the Supreme Court and learned about how that works, and we went into the Library of Congress right next door…it was a beautiful building!!
And off to the Natural History Museum…
Outside of the Smithsonian visitor center….looks like a castle…
Later that day, we went over to Georgetown to check out the cute streets…
The next day, we went to see the Richard Avedon exhibit near the White House…
walking to the Metro, we saw this beautiful building..
Taking the Metro to Arlington Cemetery…
We walked (MORE!!) around the cemetery and saw Kennedy’s graves, the Tomb of the Unknown, Robert E Lee’s house and a lot of graves…..
On our way back to the Metro….family “portrait” time…
Back on the Metro for a trip to Alexandria, Virginia….such a cute town!!
Gadsby’s Tavern….where George Washington used to eat when he hung out here…
It was only a 3 1/2 day trip, but we sure managed to pack a lot in!! We even ran into the Archives on our way to the airport to get a look at the actual Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights…. they were all bigger than we thought and pretty faded, but it was super cool to see them!! After that, we stopped into the National Geographic Museum and checked out the Whales and National Geographic photographers….another great museum!! I was amazed at all we were able to pack into one trip!! And all that walking!! Sheesh!!
I can’t believe my daughter is 13 already!! My mom and I took her and a couple friends to a concert at Staples Center with her favorite band, Panic at the Disco. Also there were Plain White T’s and Dashboard Confessional. We all loved it!!
Gotta have burgers before!
Nadine has a pretty hip grandma to get her these tickets…AND rock out all night too!!
I wonder where she gets her curls!!
Happy birthday, Nadine!!
This was a wild group of partyers at this wedding!! What a blast!
Celena with her mom and sister!!
Not a bad looking group of guys!!
My favorite part of the day!! Right when they walk back down the aisle…
Wow!! This takes skill!!
This might be the prettiest cake ever!!
They’re having a good time!!
Love the lighting….up lights make a huge difference!! Great choice!! What a super fun wedding!!
I ran into Jennifer at a wedding I was shooting a few years ago. She and I went to high school together, so when she got married, she just had to call me!! It was such a great wedding….check it out!!…
Another fabulous dress from Mon Amie!
Jennifer and her twin brother, Mike…
Mom…
Jennifer is the youngest of 8 kids!! Here’s mom and her “kids”!!
Jennifer & Brad had a friend who took them to the reception site in their boat…fun!!
Way to make an entrance!!
The best man made this great shirt for Jennifer to show just how close he and Brad were before Jennifer ca,e along..
“Before there was Jen, there was Jim”
Their engagement was so fun with the surfboards and bikes, so I was looking forward to their wedding. It was very classy and a ton of fun….just like I thought it would be!!
These might be the cutest shoes ever!! I love that she dyed them blue…Kate Spade…in case you were wondering!!
Another gorgeous dress from Mon Amie!!
It was a great night!!
They decided to have their shoot at the pier in San Clamente. It was a pretty cool place!!
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