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Big blog post with lots of wedding photographs from Megan and Tony’s wedding in Scranton, Pennsylvania. This was an exciting photography assignment and I can’t wait till the album is finished.

I had photographed Megan’s brother’s wedding a few years ago and she loved those photographs so she flew me out to Pennsylvania to photograph their New Year’s Eve wedding. I will confess – it is fun to travel for a wedding. I can see new locations and it is fun to travel.

So here are a number of photographs starting with wedding preparations then the wedding ceremony at a Catholic church. The wedding reception was held at a country club and then fireworks welcomed the New Year.

And I have to OK to link to the SmugMug gallery – it is a big gallery including rehearsal, rehearsal dinner, wedding, wedding reception and the last 140 images are edited for the wedding album.

Wedding details are very important – and when the bride makes her own shoes with little touches of fancy it just helps make some amazing photographs.

Capturing weddings on photographs is more about telling a story these days than just taking pretty pictures. It is part photo journalist and part story teller. Capturing moments of the bride reading a note from her soon to be husband is one of those many moments I look for.

Gage and Tony pose for some photographs. Gage was Tony’s engagement gift to Megan. Gage is a sweet heart and he turns out does not like cameras. So we had to be quick to get some photographs.

I have already posted some of Megan’s bridal photographs here.

Megan planned everything down to the last detail – the wedding was very organized and ran like clockwork. She also had a large limo to carry the wedding party to and from the wedding to the wedding reception. This way everyone could have a few beverages and not worry about transportation.

Megan was excited to have black and white photographs – and so I probably created more black and white photographs than I normal would.

Tony is not Catholic so the wedding ceremony was not the full Catholic wedding ceremony. The whole ceremony was beautiful and I chose to work with available light in the church as to not disrupt the ceremony. I did check with the priest before the wedding to know what guidelines to follow – it is always important to put the ceremony first and photography second – my job is to be a ninja photographer. I don’t want to detract from what is happening.

Best exit from a church ever!

I had planned this photograph in my mind before the wedding ever began. I had my lighting setup planned out in my mind and I think this is one of my favorite photographs from the wedding. I really believe in having some formal portraits with the bride and groom – even if we spend about 10 minutes I can work some magic. I don’t like the idea of full photo journalism and I do like to create a few formal portraits.

Yes, wedding photography should be 90% bride and groom but I do love to photograph the wedding details such as wedding bouquet, rings, cake, decorations and more. If I ever try to get published in a wedding magazine they editors love wedding details – and they want to see a lot and they want variety and unique approaches.

I did photograph the wedding rings in a number of different locations and always tried to create some variety. This photograph the wedding rings are also paired with Megan’s sister’s ring.

The first dance photographs – I can’t wait to show off the spread in the wedding album that features their first dance.

Fireworks at the stroke of midnight – these photographs were a challenge but I pulled it off. If I ever photograph a bride and groom beneath fireworks again I will know exactly what to do.

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