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Karen & David | Mayflower DC wedding

Warm. Kind. Generous. Tall. Short. Loving.  The bride’s sister Liz read off a huge list of adjectives Karen and David’s friends and family had used to describe them.  I looked around the room and saw a lot of tears and a lot of nodding heads.  Some came all the way from Egypt to see these two tie the knot and it was truly an honor to be their wedding photographer.

wedding photographer Amber Wilkie

Karen and David were married at the Mayflower in DC, a beautiful historic hotel with quite a bit of history and a ton of class.  Karen was an incredibly sweet and very composed bride.  David didn’t seem the least bit nervous, an admirable trait in any groom.  I was struck by the graciousness of their families.  And even though I saw it plenty in their engagement session, they once again won me the heck over with how ridiculously cute they are once you tell them “go stand over there and hug.”

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Fershop

We wedding photographers are a weird breed. So many of us look for inspiration from other wedding photographers and the genre can get very stale, quickly. The great thing is that regular old people (you know, like brides and grooms) don’t notice because they only get married once! It’s also one of the reasons I don’t focus on anything too “trendy” at a wedding or engagement session. We play and I try new things but mostly I want my couples to be able to display their wedding photos right next to their mothers’ and their grandmothers’. I want their wedding photos to look appropriate at their 50th wedding anniversary.

shooting a wedding couple in harsh light

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Molly & Brian | Snowtober wedding at the National Press Club

2011 was kind of a nutty year for wedding weather! First we rocked the Saturday hurricane and then it for-real snowed in October (basically unheard of, for all you non-locals). The ingenious Cassidy DuHon had me out to second-shoot Molly and Brian’s relaxed but snowy wedding at the National Press Club. Lucky for us, she loves snow and we all ran outside for just a minute while the white stuff fell all around. Rad.

bride in the snow in washington, dc

Brian and his guys were rocking these glasses all night and kept saying something about Tebow… sometimes I feel I’m missing an entire world of pop-culture references by ignoring sports.

glasses at the national press club

groom gets ready at the national press club in washington, dc

groom ties his shoes on carpet

groomsmen drinking at the national press club

First look.

first look between bride and groom in washington, dc
bride and groom portraits at national press club

bride laughing with her man

And then it started snowing!

bride and groom watch the snow in washington, dc

bouquet diptych

bride and groom silhouette at national press club

bride and groom dancing at national press club

And it was still snowing when we had a bit of down time, so Molly wanted to go outside and shoot – yay!

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