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Matthew & ChaVonne ~ Wedding in Cancun, Mexico

Sunday, January 22nd, 2012

As a wedding photographer you always dream of doing weddings in exotic places, dream locations. My dream came true last month!! The wedding was held in Cancun, Mexico at the all the inclusive Dreams Rivera Resort! This was my first destination wedding outside the United States! We had a great time. The weather was fantastic and the location was wonderful!!

Matthew and ChaVonne, are a beautiful couple so they made my job pretty easy! Beautiful couple + Great Location = Wonderful Photos. It was cool to see all the friends and family that made the trip, which allowed the reception to really rock.

Here are a few photos from the wedding. I hope to post the Trash the Dress session we did in a few days!!

Tags: Cancun Wedding, Destination wedding, Mexican Wedding, Ocean View Wedding
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Ian & Noora ~ Arabic Wedding

Thursday, December 22nd, 2011

I actually booked Ian and Noora’s wedding on the phone…. Not something I do all the time, but they were both in Dubai, and I was in the states so we had to meet and talk via way of email and phone. She told me her and her fiancee Ian were coming back to Michigan in August to get married. They had meet each other at Michigan State. To be honest when I received the first email from Noora that said that she was in Dubai and was looking for a photographer, I wasn’t sure what to think, but after a few emails from Noora and a call from Ian we seemed to click. I was able to meet Ian in East Lansing a month later because he was home on business, and that sealed the deal.

It was a wonderful wedding held at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, here in Lansing, Michigan. I have driven by the striking church several times, but this was my first time inside. Once inside the view was splendid. It was a Arabic Wedding another first for me. Here are a few photos from the celebration.

Tags: arabic wedding, Ethnic Wedding, Greek Orthodox Wedding, Lansing, Michigan Wedding
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Destination Wedding – Cancun

Saturday, December 17th, 2011

OK, it is finally here!! My first destination wedding outside the United States. I have been fortunate the last three years to photography at lease one destination wedding and my streak remains unbroken at four with this years trip to Cancun.

It is always a challenge to select the gear for the trip since you have only so much space to take equipment unless you want to pay extra or ship it down ahead. Since this was not my first time I went with enough equipment to get the job done with a few extras.

This trip I loaded up my Pelican 1510 road case with my Canon 5D Mk II, 7D, Cameras, 16-35L, 17-55 f2.8, 15 f2.8 fisheye, 100L Macro and my trusty 70-200L IS Mk II Lenes and a Canon 580 MkII and Nikon SB-28 Flash. My lovely wife was my voice activated light stand. This set up work beautifully. Yes, I could have used a bit more light during the reception, but other than that it got the job done! The 15 fisheye and the 100L macro were speciality lenes, I could have shot the wedding without them, but they spice things up a bit.

Here are a few senics I photograph during the first couple of days there. I have a lot of images to cull through and process. I hope to get a full set posted in the coming week… hopefully before Christmas.