On September 2, 2011, my in-laws celebrated 50 years of marriage and my closest friends celebrated their 5th wedding anniversary. I celebrated by photographing an amazing couple and the start of their life together.
It was apropos: to celebrate a day that has such personal significance by photographing a couple who has a special bond and whose wedding was a true celebration of everything a wedding should be.
I could list a hundred reasons why it was one of the most special events I’ve ever witnessed: the point in the ceremony when Patroski stopped, stepped over and hugged a teary-eyed Kerryn, the toasts filled with everything the couple embodies: humor, joy and love, or the way the focus wasn’t on the cake, the decorations or the other insignificant details that are forgotten shortly after the day passes but, instead, on Kerryn and Patroski, their journey to this point and the celebration of the start of their life together.
It was a perfect day, a perfect wedding and a perfect way to celebrate.
(A huge thanks to my second shooter and assistant, Dave Martinez without whom I couldn’t do this ordinarily but especially at 6 months pregnant – you rock, my friend.)
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