Wild Wedding Photos

I hope you all had a nice, relaxing long weekend. Me, no weddings, no kids. Just hung out and worked on the house and it was so rewarding. But this weekend coming up is another wedding at the beach, which means partying into the night. I realize a lot of the wedding photos I post are lovely staged photos, in beautiful light, perfectly timed, romantic and stoic. But just as important to the bride & groom are those crazy party photos showing the guests having a great time. Now sometimes (and by ‘sometimes’ I mean ‘often’) some guests go a little overboard and get carried away. Part of my job is to jump right there in the middle of it all and get those crazy shots. And I’ll get the overly-conservative parent or aunt who declares, “Ohhh! This is not appropriate for wedding photography! Weddings are suppose to be classy, and elegant and mature and embody the sophistication of married adults…” Bah! Go back to Cape Cod you old-school, overly-conservative party pooper! I’m 90% of the time using bounce flash on the ceiling and holding the camera way above my head, angled down to get these shots and need to predict when these moments occur. So it’s part luck and part skill intuition. Here are just a few of the many, many moments from my first 115 or so weddings so go check it!