Before I removed the camera from my eye, I already knew I had it. “This is ridiculous…” I whispered under my breath. “…ridiculously AWESOME!” As my mind raced through the previous 24 hours, I couldn’t believe how I scored the perfect location with the perfect couple who was willing to jump into this last-minute adventure…
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Soiti and Bryan met at a Halloween party a few years ago, where Bryan was dressed as Wolverine and Soiti was dressed as a “sexy nurse”. The first thing that came to mind was yellow-tights Wolverine or leather-jacket Wolverine? And then the second thing that came mind was Soiti wearing blue/green scrubs with Peanuts characters…
Somber elegance. Those two words ran through my head the entire day as I restrained myself from asking them to jump into the air to high-five each other. I can’t imagine it’d be easy to jump in 5 inch heels anyway :). Soiti and Bryan contacted us sometime during the flurries of the engagement season….
Though most guys will not admit it, we all had childhood crushes: our friend Matt here just so happened to marry his :). Matt and Ginger were school mates when their ages were still in the single digits; according to their friends, Matt had been planning this marriage for almost 20 years. Of course we…
Happy New Year folks! As I had mentioned in previous posts, Mark and Kelly had come all the way from across the pond to get married in the “City So Nice, They Named It Twice!”. As a native non-local (sorta-kinda), I always keep forgetting that it’s a destination wedding for my out-of-town clients, much like…
Ginger and Matthew have the awesome distinction of being Ben Lau Photography’s last city hall wedding of the year! Let me tell you something, I LOVE City Hall weddings – especially New York City Hall weddings! There’s something about the ambiance of Manhattan Clerk’s Office that doesn’t make it feel so Vegas-y :). Granted, there’s…
Remember this dapper couple who came all the way from the UK to get hitched in my neck of the woods? Well, our shooting marathon continued bright and early the very next morning! If they didn’t get enough clickity-click action from the previous evening’s adventures, they would certainly get their fair share on this special…
My first meeting with Sarah and Matt was memorable for a number of reasons. Probably the most memorable, is the fact I was able to score free parking in the city and ultimately learned that free parking is available everywhere in the city after 7pm. Again, I’m probably the worst local non-local you will ever…
When we first met, they asked if there was any way possible for me to attend/work at their engagement party the following month. With the promise of food and dancing (for the guests, of course), how was I to decline such a generous offer? “I’ll be there with bells on…with my dancing shoes!” I replied…
In the time I’ve been a wedding photographer in the New York City area, I’ve seen an increase in the number of boutique weddings in this megapolis jungle of concrete, steel, and a whole lotta people. My exponentially growing portfolio of city hall weddings is proof of this phenomenon (it’s either that, or I’m simply…
