Marc and Lina’s wedding was at The Villa at the Ridder Country Club. The wedding was scheduled for 7 pm, outside at the gazebo.
Marc had contracted me for four hours of service. I was able to work with him and his bride an hour before the service, cover the service and then two hours of the reception party. For this wedding, four hours of coverage worked out well.
There were approximately 100 guests in attendance.
The garden area was very nice, but the facility accomadates two weddings and I had to work with the other wedding in terms of getting access to areas of the garden. Marc had given me the impression that we were the only wedding, so I had to adjust my game plan on the fly. The other wedding was scheduled a little earlier than ours, so the other photographer had grabbed the best area to work in.
I was on site early, so I had plenty of time to review the area, talk with staff and make the necessary adjustments. I was ready for our couple when they arrived. 
Marc was from Boston, Lina was from Columbia. Lina had a beautiful dark complexion and was strikingly beautiful.
Even though it was a four-hour commitment, I had help with me. I knew that there were tight timing issues that had to be worked. The photographing of families before the wedding. A very strict time line and practically no time after the service to photograph our couple in the beauty of the natural scenes all around us.
We had to work fast and I wanted to get any number of combinations and variety of images prior to the ceremony. Because the ceremony was outside, I had to be sure to finish the photographing of families a full 30 minutes before the ceremony. Our bride always needs to have a few minutes to herself before the service. I made sure that happened.
You couldn’t ask for a nicer setting. The weather was with us. We had blue skies and a cool breeze.
The sun was setting behind the gazebo and the sun was creating some difficulty in regards to lens flare, but nothing I wasn’t ready for.
The ceremony provided us with so many great images. Lina was stunning and her mother and father were so proud of her. They were a very handsome family.
Following the ceremony, we were only able to photograph outside for a few minutes. I knew time was going to be a problem, so I used all of my time and available light to photograph the couple. We photographed the families in the Villa.
Even though I only had about 90 minutes of time to finish my coverage, I was able to get all of the required images. The schedule didn’t allow much time to photograph everyone dancing and having fun, but I was able to get a good number of candid and dance scene’s to complete the coverage. It was a full package and completed the coverage.
Marc and Lina were so pleased.
They too were leaving immediately for their honeymoon. I surprised them by having a photographic slide show on the web within three days of their wedding. I was able to post all of their wedding images to the internet before the week was out.
I surprised them with gift sets of images that they could give their parents. I had these gifts available for them upon their return from their honeymoon.
Posted on March 2nd, 2010 by admin
Filed under: Recent Weddings
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