Rick and Melissa were an awesome couple to work for! Coincidentally, their wedding date was the anniversary of their first date, their eighth grade farewell party! Their ceremony was at St Mathews Roman Catholic Church in Flint, followed by the reception at the Lafayette Grande. We shot alongside Mary from Church Street Studio. Tony and his band from 56Daze played some really cool tunes at the reception.
Assaf, Lindsey, and their families could not have been a more enjoyable group of people to work for and it was a privilege to document their wedding day celebration. My crew for the day consisted of Louis, Ryan, Jeff, and Katie. On the day of, Louis and I started at about 10am with our pre-ceremony coverage of Assaf and Lindsey. Ryan and Katie joined the team around 5 in the afternoon, just before the Ketubah signing and the ceremony. The beautiful ceremony took place at Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington Hills. The day was planned by Dee Dee Hoffman and her assistants (www.ddhpartydesign.com) and not a detail was overlooked. The lighting and flowers were provided by Gerychs Flowers (www.gerychsflowers.com) and they were some of the best we have seen. We really enjoyed working alongside an extremely professional crew of photographers led by David M Deutsch (http://www.davidmdeutsch.com/index.html). Of course there was the Simone Vitale Band (http://simonevitaleband.com) who had the crowd dancing late into the evening.
We accomplished the same-day edit with a lot of pre-planning and good team work. Some of the pre-ceremony coverage was edited by Louis and the bulk was taken care of during the cocktail hour. We did some shooting with a 5D Markii to achieve a narrow depth of focus on certain shots. There was a lot of advice given to us by our friend Ray Anthony, www.RayAnthonyPhoto.com, as to the types of lenses that would be most useful to us and we thank him for that. We hope you enjoy this short recap of events!
