Ranae and T.J.’s beautiful wedding this past October at the Townsend Hotel in Birmingham. The wedding was fit for magazine publication as you will see. We worked with some of the top vendors in the area. Carolyn Hefner of The China Closet, Ray Anthony of Ray Anthony Photography, Ralph Bellisario of Bellisario Florist, Luigi Bruni, Gown by Roma Sposa, Arabic Singer Sawsan Kizi and the Simone Vitale Band to name a few.
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.
Kim and Freddie are both personal friends of mine and when they asked me to document their wedding day I could not have been happier. I enjoyed every minute of the 15 hour day I spent with their families and I wish them all the best in their marriage. My team for the day consisted of Ryan, Jeff, and Katie. Ryan shot the pre-ceremony starting at Freddie’s about 11am, and I started at the salon about 930am. Here is a snippet of their wedding day which took place at Orchard Lake St Mary’s with a reception at Laurel Manor in Livonia.
Jake and Ai had a beautiful wedding day this past Saturday despite the rain. Jake and Ai actually live in Japan, and this was their second wedding! Their first was over in Japan a few weeks prior. The day started off at Todd’s Room with the Ai and her bridesmaids getting their makeup done. Jake and his groomsmen did their pre-ceremony preparations at the Orchard Lake Country Club where the ceremony and reception were taking place. The 530pm ceremony was supposed to take place down near the water however, mother nature had different plans for that afternoon and thanks to the team put together by Carolyn Hefner of The China Closet (www.thechinacloset.com), the ballroom was transformed into the new location for the ceremony and it went off on time without a hitch. We had the pleasure of shooting with Ray Anthony again (www.rayanthonyphoto.com), and as usual, we were able to work in the background and capture images naturally without imposing our presence. This same day edit was created by Alex during the cocktail hour and dinner toasts while Louis and Ryan continued with the filming of the events. The same day edit was displayed during the last half of the reception in the lounge area. Hope you 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!
