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Dene Summerhouse Elopement

A Dene Summerhouse wedding ceremony for a couple who loves to birdwatch in Central Park.

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Brooklyn Rooftop Micro Wedding

Never did I dream I’d get to photograph a rooftop micro wedding in my beloved Greenpoint, Brooklyn.  Back in early 2006 my soon to be husband and I moved into a basement apartment in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. We fell in love with the neighborhood. Over two different apartments and five years we watched it change and […]

Intimate Wedding

City Vineyard Micro Wedding

When Covid-19 disrupted their wedding plans in Texas in September, this couple married with a mostly virtual audience on the terrace of City Vineyard in Manhattan. The ceremony was live-streamed to guests by the bride’s two very dedicated friends. Lindsay Rae Design provided the beautiful flowers on the tables and for the couple. A small […]

Couple eating outside at Manhattan restaurant

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Intimate Wedding Ideas in NYC

Reception ideas for an intimate wedding in NYC New York City has many, many unique and special places to celebrate your intimate wedding or elopement.I’ve made a list of intimate wedding reception ideas in NYC. Whether it is a table for two at a fine dining establishment or a private dining room for you and […]

Intimate Wedding

An Intimate Wedding in Virginia

I never dreamed, after I photographed my last wedding before the pandemic lockdown began, that it would be 3 months before I’d photograph a wedding again. Or that that wedding would be in a totally different state from its original planning!  But things change. Nothing is “normal” this year. But we must go on and […]

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South Street Seaport Elopement

When you meet commuting on Metro North, it is only fitting to take photos at Grand Central Terminal! I love when couples can include personal locations to their wedding days. They even had matching custom tennis shoes! We met there and then took the subway down to City Hall/Brooklyn Bridge for their South Street Seaport […]

Elopement Guides

NYC Adventure Elopement

Where better to have an urban adventure elopement than New York City? The option are endless.

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Pratt House Wedding

L&N’s Pratt House wedding will have you thinking of cozy fireplaces, good friends and velvet shoes! The wedding day starts off at the Lowe’s Regency a few blocks away. Lucy of Miss Harlequin and her team are present to make-over the bride and certainly her maids. Can we take a moment to talk about the bride’s […]

New York City

Ritz-Carlton New York Wedding

I received an Elopement Story Award form the Wedding Photojournalist Association for this wedding. Check out the full story here. The bride was getting ready, the officiant had arrived and it looked like this intimate wedding in a beautiful Ritz-Carlton, New York Central Park suite would happen. But then in a matter of minutes, everything […]

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Gurney’s Star Island Wedding

At the very, very end of Long Island lies a place that holds special meaning to this surf loving couple: Montauk.