Two families accompanied by close friends traveled from parts all over to celebrate the love and marriage of Natasha and Brian in a 143 year old mansion located in the heart of the garden district in New Orleans known as the Elms Mansion. It was the perfect setting for their beautiful and joyous celebration. A second line, led by New Orleans’ best The Kinfolk Brass Band, started the party off right with a tradition unique only to New Orleans as revelers stomped and paraded down St. Charles underneath the century old oak trees. Natasha’s mother regaled guests with stories of her pregnancy with Natasha during the Chernobyl disaster and other hilarious as well as sentimental personal stories. The party continued with an awesome hora that had nearly everyone in attendance ending up in a chair high above everyone’s head.
New Orleans Engagement - Anthony & Darius
Anthony and Darius frequently visited New Orleans while they dated, so it was cruicial that we decided to meet them in an area that they've spent far less time in, and admittedly us as well. We've always enjoyed afternoon strolls through the Marigny/Bywater, and Crescent Park seemed like the most obivious choice for a sunny summer afternoon engagement session. The breeze rolled off the Mississippi river providing us a much needed reprieve from the stiffling heat and humidity that is notorious for a New Orleans summer. As we talked and got to know their relationship better, the excitement for their wedding this fall grew even more. Here we have two amazing people bringing their families from all over the country to come celebrate their love together in our hometown, it's a welcoming treat to have the honor and privilege of being able to document their marriage to one another. We don't want to spoil all the details about it because we want it to be a surprise when we get share it with the world, but we can say it's going to be really freaking awesome.
New Orleans Riverfront Wedding - Eva & Kyle
New Orleans Garden District Engagement - Maura & Deegan
Summer has rolled around here in New Orleans and everything tends to get a little slower around here in an attempt to get a handle on the heat and humidity. So that's the excuse we're going to use for not blogging this rad engagement session of a chef from New Orleans, and an architect from New York.
Really good times with new friends is how we'd sum up this engagement session with Maura and Deegan. The weather, despite summer being in full swing, was actually pleasant and the light was absolutely gorgeous, draping everything in a golden glow as the sun began setting during our stroll , exploring all the hidden little gems the garden district has to offer.
Algeirs Point Wedding - Josh & Julia
We love those weddings full of really great vibes and really good people. It's the kind of place when as soon as you get there you can feel the warmth, and you just smile. It's the kind of wedding we love to attend, it reminds us of all the great memories in life and where they all began on our journey together.
Underneath the gorgeous oak tree at Compass Point Events, Josh and Julia celebrated their love to one another. It was perfect. They stood together under a beautiful handmade chuppah, hand in hand as their closest friends and family experienced it with them.
It was an amazing celebration between two beautiful people and we are incredibly thankful to have been able to document it for them. Don't just take our word for it, check out their story below.
Race & Religious Wedding - Sami & Monika
Creating beautiful photographs is always an easy task when you're able to photograph at Race & Religious. It's easily one of the most sought after and unique venues in New Orleans, as well as the rest of the country, and with it's iconic styling and decor it's easy to see why. It was the perfect setting for such an amazing couple.
When you pair such and incredible venue with an amazing couple, everything just seems to fall right into place. What truly makes this place come to life, are the folks that come from around the world, family and friends in tow, to celebrate their love, life and passion for one another right here in the heart of New Orleans. Sami and Monkia brought their families together, from different parts of the world to experience their marriage here in New Orleans, and with the help of some incredible vendors such as Antigua Floral and Love Good Rentals, their vision for their wedding was able to come to life in the best of ways.
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 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 Elopement - Kait & Alex
Yesterday we celebrated Thanksgiving, and we took a long hard look at what we're thankful for. One of the most important things that we constantly find ourselves being thankful for is our clients. Without them, we wouldn't the career of our dreams. Kait and Alex are the exact kind of people, clients, and friends that we absolutely love and are ever thankful for.
There is a real soft spot in our hearts for the type of weddings that aren't focused on all the bells and whistles, but instead focus on the emotion, the love, and the intimacy of the couple.That was certainly the case with Kait and Alex's elopement at the iconic Napolean House located in the heart of the French Quarter.
Their celebration of love for one another was downright heart-filling and out-right incredible. When we're able to show up to a wedding and really capture the exact way the couple feels about one another without having to be rushed off into other segments of a wedding, to take it slow and just really feel what they feel for one another, that's just incredibly rare and it's one of the best feelings in the world.
We could write all day about how incredible these two are, but it still wouldn't do them any justice. The photographs we were able to create, the moments we were able to capture, they're as real as it gets and that's all we'll ever need to say about these two.
Thank you for the experience Kait and Alex, y'all are freaking amazing!
French Quarter Wedding - Jackie & Cody
This wedding, the one you're about to relive, has to be one of the most crazy, love filled, and emotional weddings that we've ever had the privilege of photographing.
It started on the Thursday before the wedding. We got the announcement that a hurricane, the first week of October, was rolling in the gulf and headed straight for New Orleans. In my head, I was like, "oh that's just fucking perfect." We had been looking forward to Jackie and Cody's wedding for months, these two amazing people were coming in with all their family and friends from Chicago, and it was the first to kick off our season.
The girls at Unique Weddings & Events, kept it together like the professionals they are and made sure everything went off without a hitch, despite having to move the entire wedding up. The city of New Orleans issued a mandatory curfew in the city that forced everyone to be closed up at 5 pm. That totally threw things, considering their ceremony was set to start for 6pm.
Nothing stops New Orleans from having a party, not even a hurricane, and so we made do and it turned out even better than I had ever expected.
Jackie and Cody shared their love for one another inside of a beautifully candle lit Broussard's. There were so many tears and emotions, the love, the passion it filled the room with the best vibes ever. This is the kinda' stuff we live for, the kind of people we love to be around. Thank you Jackie and Cody, y'all are amazing!
