I feel so incredibly lucky to have been the photographer at Jamie and Ryan's wedding. Everything was gorgeous. Perfect. I was in awe the entire day. After the gorgeous ceremony - photos of which will be posted in Part II - they arranged for a limo to drive us around to the various monuments they had scoped out in Washington DC for photos.
OMG. I was in heaven. As you can see from some of the photos, we had an audience everywhere we went. It was like Jamie and Ryan were celebrities and I was their paparazzi. It was so much fun!
One thing you can't tell from most of the photos, is that it had rained all morning, it was wet, muddy and chilly and overcast. Overcast weather is perfect for photos - lots of shade and no squinting.
These photos are my favorites from our trip around the city after their wedding ceremony. There were so many I had to break their wedding preview post into 2 posts. So there are more to come...
Couple's Favorite Part of their Wedding Day: Our first dance with all our friends and family around us
Jamie's Most Memorable Moment of the Wedding Day: Being announced as husband as husband and wife for the first time
Ryan's Most Memorable Moment of the Wedding Day - Waiting for Jamie to come down the aisle
Jamie's Favorite things about the wedding: All the family and friends that traveled to be with us on our wedding day and of course, the cake! I'm a cake lover and the cake was amazing!!!
Ryan's Favorite things about the wedding: The cake, the reception location (Top of the Town), and my new wife.
What Jamie thought when she saw Ryan at the alter for the first time - "I'm the luckiest girl in the world"
What Ryan thought when he saw Jamie the first time walking down the asile - "Finally!! And, how beautiful she looked"
Jamie's Favorite Reception Moment - The toasts from our wonderful friends and family
Ryan's Favorite Reception Moment - Cutting the cake and Jamie dropping it :) (don't worry...I have photos of this in Part II!!)
So I am finding that in winter - especially a freezing cold, windy, icy, snowy winter like the one we have had around here - is hard when you are a natural light photographer and you want a change of scenery from the indoors. But today was a different story.
I was on a mission - two of my favorite clients Libby and Spencer are lawyers in DC and when they got in touch with me about wanting 6 month pictures of their daughter Elsie (who you can also see here and here) in February we needed an indoor location. They suggested Libby's work...where does she work...well in an office building. So I began to have nightmares of nasty green low pile carpet, scuffed walls and stick-on base molding. Luckily, what I found when I arrived there this morning, was an office with a view of the White House, windows everywhere, a conference room with a built in couch, a HUGE table with an awesome reflection, wood covered walls and a little bit of low pile carpet...well it couldn't be too perfect! :)
So my mission was a little easier...but take a look for yourself - do you think we were in an office building in DC??
I am thinking about writing a behind the scenes post about this session - so you can see what we did to make the photos look so not-in-a-lawyers-office-in-DC-esque. I just don't know if you all would be interested in seeing something like that??
Anyways...Libby and Spencer - thank you so much for an amazing time! I had so much fun, Elsie is so freaking adorable it was difficult to choose which pics to show here!! I can't wait until she is 9 months and we can do it all over again...well outside ;) Enjoy your sneak peek!!
