An Intimate New Orleans Wedding at Bevolo - Alayna & Justin

Our awesome clients Alayna and Justin got married at the Bevolo Gas and Electric Lighting Museum in the French Quarter. It was a smaller, more intimate affair which is always a treat because the pace is a little more casual and relaxed, which really allows us time to focus in on all the feelings and emotions going around. They both began they day at the Ace Hotel downtown; the girls from PreauxFace putting the finishing touches on Alayna as we arrived. They met each other in front of the hotel for a emotional first look, where there were some definite tears, before heading into the French Quarter for beautiful intimate ceremony in the Bevolo Museum, in which only their closest friends and family attended.

Venue: Bevolo Gas & Electric Lights

Coordination: Clark & Kelly

MUA: PreauxFace

Hotel: Ace Hotel

Entertainment: Aaron Lane

A New Orleans Wedding at The Marigny Opera House starring Maura & Deegan

“Do whatcha wanna.”

That’s probably the best way to describe Maura & Deegan, and their swanky celebration at The Marigny Opera House.

It was the kind of celebration that was true to who they are with a full embrace of what New Orleans is all about, and that’s just not giving a damn and being yourself.

So it made sense that Maura, an architect, and Deegan a chef in New York, would host their friends and family from all over the world in Deegan’s hometown of New Orleans. They created their own traditions, did things their way and created their own unique slice of history that they’ll never forget.

There was a realness with this wedding that kind of really hit home with us and we’re forever thankful we were able to be there and share those memories with them.

Here are the amazing groups of professionals that made this happen:

Planning & Coordination - Swan Blue Events

Food / Catering - Calcasieu

Floral Arrangements - Pistil & Stamen

Music - The Essentials

Brass Band - Where Ya At Brass Band

A New Orleans Wedding at Broussard's - Denver & Lexie

A little throwback to what I used to photograph some 5 years ago before I fell in love with documenting people’s lives and the start of their families. Fun fact, this is how I first met Denver. On a blazing asphalt track during the peak of summer in New Orleans, the ground was probably close to 200 degrees and I could literally feel it burning through my jeans.

That’s the kind of crazy shit photographers do to get the shot.

Fast forward a couple of years and we hear from Denver again, this time it’s not about his Porsche, but this time it was about something far more important. It was about how he found the love of his life, Lexie and wanted us to document the start of the next chapter of their lives together.

Thankfully their wedding was at the end of December; the weather much cooler and no scorching asphalt to contend with. Instead, we got the moody misty weather that is pretty typical of winter in the south.

These two are some of the greatest people we’ve ever had the pleasure of working with and call friends. We’re so incredibly thankful and excited to share what we see as a lifetime of happiness and love.

Vendor love:

Venue: Broussards

Dress: Wedding Belles Nola

Flowers: Meade Wenzel

Coordinator: Weddings Taylor Made

Cake: Oh my gosh Ganache!

Live Painting: Pappion Artistry

Music: The Nola Dukes Band

Intimate New Orleans Wedding at The Degas House - Heather & Eric

We don’t really love writing blogs, it’s kinda’ dreadful. We love sharing our work for everyone to see, but finding the right set of words that best describe how incredible one night was, especially when that one night is the night that two amazing people celebrated their love for one another, eludes us. We’re not great at it, we’re more of the kind of folks who say, “hey, let me show you” versus “hey, let me tell you.” That’s probably why we’re better photographers than we are writers. But we owe it to the world to share just a little sliver of how incredibly good the world can be when times seem rough or when life has you down.

And so we’ll do our best to tell you the story of how an engineer named Eric and a social worker named Heather came down from Chicago, friends and family in tow, to witness and celebrate their love between one another.

Their beautiful ceremony took place in the courtyard of The Degas House on a chilly New Orleans evening in November. There was happy tears, smiles, love and happiness, a gumbo of all the best emotions. And of course, nothing caps off an incredibly intimate and joyous ceremony like a second line. The Big Fun Brass Band led the way with Heather and Eric at the front of the parade that headed down Esplanade.

Anyways if you’ve kept reading we applaud you and we’ll stop trying to tell you about how awesome their wedding was and and we’ll just show you how incredible it all really was.

New Orleans Wedding - Jimmy & Adrienne

The best weddings, are the one's that really make you work for it. The type of wedding where everyone is an absolute mess of emotions, filled with the best people laughing, loving and crying their eyes out. It's freaking rad. It's what we live for.

Jimmy and Adrienne gave us that full experience when they got married back in November., and left us leaving with what Adrienne called it, a "healthy sweat", and some very awesome new friends.

Their emotion filled, love packed ceremony at Our Lady of the Rosary was incredible. Jimmy and Adrienne both had these amazingly awesome smiles throughout, and you could just tell that they were having the time of their lives. That raw excitement of just being present in the moment carried over ten fold when we made our way over to Pat O'Brien's on the River for one hell of a dance party. 

We had an incredible time, one that left us feeling crazy tired, sweaty and probably a little smelly, but we wouldn't trade that experience with them for the world.

Thank you Jimmy & Adrienne! Stay awesome!

New Orleans Proposal - Logan & Hannah

We had a plan. Logan and I had come up with this plan on where he could propose to Hannah, including a stiff drink to take the nerves off, and meeting on this pier along the river.

All of that went to shit when New Orleans decided to have one of those "screw everything you had to do" days with it's traffic, even despite leaving almost 45 minutes ahead of time. I parked unpaid in a lot and prayed my car wouldn't get towed for it.

So in a mad panic, I scrambled to get to the location and passed Logan and Hannah walking hand in hand, heading the opposite direction of where we were going to meet. I gave him a nod and a probably ridiculous looking wink to let him know I was ready as I passed them. He instantly dropped to one knee and popped the question, I'm pretty sure at that point I was like, "NOOOO!" But despite being a little thrown off, it was beautiful and it was worth every last drop of stress.

The momentous amount of joy and love they share between the two of them made up for it in stride. It's couples like this that make us truly appreciate what we do, and why we do it. We're not in it to make the next "epic" image, we're in it to get our heart filled documenting love and the gorgeous souls that share it.

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New Orleans Botanical Garden Wedding - Corey & Sophie

These two were by far one of my favorite couples that I've had the pleasure to photograph. After photographing their engagement session on a whim, they decided to ditch the family friend who they had planned to have photograph their wedding and gave us the honor of doing so.

We were floored. These two are some of the nicest, down to earth people I've ever met, and their love for one another fills the air around them in the best of ways. 

Their wedding at the gorgeous New Orleans Botanical Gardens was full of love and smiles throughout the day. The weather was terrible earlier that day, but it's like the heaven's knew that these two were getting married and cleared out with a gorgeous sunset for these two love birds.

Cheers to our new friends and the awesomest of people, Corey and Sophie!

Kenny & Marley - Chateau Country Club Wedding

As a wedding photographer in New Orleans, we see a lot of weddings and meet a ton of really great people. Every now and then, we get the privilege of being able to photograph the wedding of some really close friends, like Kenny and Marley.

We were ecstatic when we first found out that Kenny and Marley were engaged, and even more so when they decided to entrust us with telling their wedding story. We knew going into this, that it was going to be a long and wild party till the very end, one filled with love and passion that bind the two together.

This is their story, and it's f***ing awesome.