Beautiful wedding weekend of Juhi + Vivek at the Shenandoah Country Club. We shot some of the mehendi done by Ekta Kansara on Thursday , sangeet on Friday, and the wedding day on Saturday. It was great working with Juhi and Vivek’s family and it was also a pleasure by working with some of the most professional vendors in the business. Rajul of Blissful Weddings and Events,, Aali of Q Studio, and we were able to get pristine audio by plugging into DJ Robby’s sound board (djrobby@gmail.com) .
We have had the pleasure of doing work for an organization called The Pink Fund, whose mission is to provide short-term financial aid to women and men (and therefore their families) who are in active treatment for and recovery from breast cancer. Below is a snippet of a fundraiser at the Bloomfield/Birmingham Art Center in early July featuring Miss USA Rima Fakih who is a strong supporter of the Pink Fund.
We had a blast working with Kelly and Steven on their wedding day. Although it rained early in the day it cleared by mid-afternoon. We worked with Robert Bruce who coincidentally shot my wedding six years prior, always a blast to work with Bruce!
When Niki & Varun came to us in early August with a request for us to document their traditional Indian wedding day up in Bay Harbor, I could not have been more excited. We began our coverage with the Ganesh Puja on Tuesday morning in Troy, shot some film of the Mehndi on Tuesday evening, covered the cocktail party up in Bay Harbor Friday night, and the actual wedding day on Saturday. Although it was more like mid October weather wise with 50 degrees and rain on Saturday, we worked around it along side Photographer Scarlett Piedmonte from Traverse City. The reception dancing was amazing with two dance performances, the DJ, Naveen Sharma, kept the party going by mixing a continuous blend of various types of music. Below is a short trailer from the four days.
We had the pleasure of filming Tamara and Todd’s wedding day this past Saturday at the Great Oaks Country Club in Rochester, Michigan. It was a cool day in the 70s with some stratus overcast layers which is unusual for late August in Michigan however, it was perfect weather for Tamara and Todd’s outdoor wedding ceremony. Tamara & Todd were referred to us by two of our previous clients and friends, KellyAnn and Tim, whom we had the pleasure of filming on their wedding day a few years back. My crew for the day started off with Ryan and myself and we ended the day with Katie and Louis. We worked along side the professional photographer crew of Sheila and Branko from Laurie Tennent Studio, (www.laurietennentstudio.com). We knew that Tamara and Todd were leaving for their honeymoon on Thursday so we made sure we had this trailer out to them before their departure. Enjoy!
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!
