New Orleans Pharmacy Museum wedding featuring Doc & Windy

Up next on the blog, a sultry, summer wedding featuring Doc and Windy. Their wedding was far from the traditional. They had very unique, personal touches added all throughout; like using a pheasant that the family dog caught as part of their wedding decor and also using the feathers in Doc’s wedding hair, custom stickers, and this awesome piece of artwork that their guests signed in lieu of a guestbook that Windy created. Windy met Doc in the middle of the aisle and they walked together the rest of the way. That was cool as fuck. During the vows, they also made a blood pact. A Jewish Klezmer band, that was fucking awesome, provided the music for the hot & sweaty dance party that took place in the courtyard of the Pharmacy Museum. The entire wedding emanated with their personality and fun.

As usual, Alchemy Events had everything looking wonderful. They were able to take these unique touches and sprinkle them throughout the Pharmacy Museum to create the vibe Doc and Windy were going for.

Vendor List:

Planning & Coordination - Alchemy Events

Venue - New Orleans Pharmacy Museum

Officiant - Sid Patrick Medium

MUA - Verde Beauty

Catering - Toulouse Gourmet

Super Personal New Orleans Elopement at Jack Rose with Sara and Scott

When you think of a low-key, no stress, wedding, Sara and Scott’s wedding is what you should be envisioning. The couple spent most of the day together, Sara made her own bouquet from beautiful flowers she got at Trader Joe’s; there was no bridal party, no guests, and they wrote their own vows. It was just Sara and Scott. This was a deeply personal elopement at Jack Rose. After the ceremony, we stopped at Hot Tin for a drink, then took a walk down St. Charles on the perfect April afternoon to create beautiful memories throughout Lower Garden District. We honestly can’t think of a better way to start the rest of your life with the one you love.

New Orleans Weddings before the time of Covid-19, featuring Allison and Cody.

We closed 2019 out not knowing that this would have been one of the last full weddings we would ever photograph, at least for the foreseeable future. It’s weird to think that the way we celebrate love has fundamentally changed, whether we like it or not, and we’re incredibly thankful that we have been able to experience such amazing events, especially when they are often with our amazing clients and friends, like Allison and Cody, whose wedding we will certainly not forget.

We will always cherish these times that we’ve taken for granted and we’re beyond thankful for all the couples, families, and events that have rocked our socks off and left us picking ourselves up off the floor the next day. There may be a real possibility that we may never get to be a part of another wedding where the dance floor is slammed with friends and family elbow to elbow sweating it out on top of each other, or where we parade through the streets with an entire city in tow.

Hotel: The Roosevelt New Orleans

Church: Immaculate Conception Jesuit Church

Reception: The Federal Ballroom

Music: The Boogiemen

Video: Film Thread Productions

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.

Uptown New Orleans Wedding - Madeline & Jared

We've got a certain emotional attachment to the kind of wedding where families come together in celebration of two peoples love for one another.

Madeline and Jared took us on a roller coaster of feel good emotions from the second we arrived to her at The Ponchatrain Hotel. Madeline wanted to have some alone time with her father, and we she did, the room was just overflowing with happiness. Madeline's entire family waited for her on at the roof top bar, including her 90 year old grandmother. It was just incredible.

Across town, Jared waited in anticipation with his family at The Audubon Tea Room. Seeing each other for the first time in the garden was amazing. For us it's difficult to describe the emotions in these kind of moments, they make you feel warm inside and nothing else matters.

The ceremony was so heart felt and full of joy. Grandparents and parents, friends and family all mixed together holding hands, hugging, cuddling, crying and kissing. It was overwhelming in the best possible way.

In typical New Orleans fashion, they completed their commitment to one another with a second line into their reception. BRW played an amazing set throughout the entire night. Y'all everyone danced, and I mean everyone including Madeline's grandmother. It was awesome, they ended the night by busting out the Tea Room doors cheering, shouting and being present in the moment.

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!

New Orleans Engagement - Corey & Sophie

Sophie and Corey got in contact with us earlier this year. The thought to have some portraits taken of the two of them before their wedding hadn't come across their mind until they saw our work. We were floored, and extremely honored to have the privilege of photographing them.

Going into it, we knew that the vibe and feel for their session had to be true to their love for each other. We wanted to avoid the traditional style of portraits while shooting at Audubon Park in New Orleans and kept it as real as they were, focusing on the heart and soul of their relationship, their love of one another. 

We couldn't be more thrilled to have had the opportunity to capture their love, and we're absolutely stoked to be able to photograph their wedding in March this year. Spring time, it's for lovers y'all.