I can’t believe it’s taken me so long to get back to blogging but the pre-holiday season has kept me more than a little bit busy. But, I am determined to catch up on all of the weddings and portraits that I have yet to blog. So let’s go back to October and my 2nd to last wedding of the year. Cynthia & Ross came to my via wedding planner extraordinaire, Sara Muchnick and once again, she knocked it out of the park. Kim Seidl was kind enough to come along to shoot this wedding with me.
The couple got ready at the brand new W Hotel, which has recently opened where the Hotel Washington used to be. Now I’m a fan of the way that the W is decorated but the biggest bummer about this DC newcomer is the fact that they do not allow any photographs to be taken in any public area of the hotel. As a photographer, that is one big strike against them for me. Especially since it poured the whole day of Cynthia & Ross’s wedding. We were still not allowed to do any shooting in the lobby of the hotel. But luckily my good friend Mike from Mie N Yu in Georgetown opened their doors to us so that we would have a location to do some fun portraits. The weather is one of the few things you just can’t exactly plan for, so I suggest that if you are in the midst of planning your wedding, be sure that you pick a hotel that will be accommodating to your needs on such an important day. Okay, I’ll get off my soapbox now and show some images…
Cynthia’s gorgeous Judd Waddell gown was purchased at Hitched.
Makeup by Pattie Martin.
Hair by Susie Ruckstuhl.
While photographing Cynthia with her bridesmaids, I asked them to get “nice & close”. So close in fact that Cynthia accidentally transferred her flower hairpiece to one of the other girls…this was the reaction when they realized what had happened.
Flowers by Amaryllis
Catering by Occasions
Chocolate miniatures of DC monuments by Truffles Belgian Chocolates of Georgetown
Tags: Amaryllis Flowers, DC Wedding, Engaging Affairs, Hitched Bridal Salon, US Chamber of Commerce Wedding, w hotel
These pics are terrific! Missed your updates. Wish you were my wedding photographer. But, that was a long, long, long time ago.