Real Weddings: Sean + Jessica

Sean and Jess were married two weeks ago in Madison, where they had what was both a very fun and very emotional wedding in their home state. With a ceremony in downtown Madison and a reception on the shore of Lake Monona, it was a lovely celebration that I was honored to be a part of. I spoke to Sean and Jessica on the phone a few times before booking, and we always had such great rapport-Sean and Jessica are both fun, kind and have a great, sarcastic sense of humour, traits that I personally saw for the first time back in March when I shot their engagement session in Brooklyn, their home base now.

Thank you again for choosing me to share in your day, and to be allowed to experience two new cities as a result of being your photographer (somehow had never been to Madison or NYC before this year!). Hope you love the photos! Thanks also to Luis Bueno for driving up to Madison with me, doing a great job shooting groom’s prep and details.

Ceremony - St. Patrick’s Church

Reception - University of Wisconsin, Memorial Union

I feel like this is the only picture you need to see to know that I loved this wedding! Love all the purple.

I was curious to see what Sean would wear, not being able to picture him in a standard black suit or tux, and he definitely impressed.

Sean + Sean’s dad

Sean and Jess’s theme throughout their printed pieces was about merging the Wisconsin parts of them and their friends and family with all of those from New York, so the place cards used graphic elements from these (including things like rats and trash cans for NYC).

This is always one of my favourite moments to look for-to see who is looking at the bride or groom during a speech. To me, it implies such a sense of intimacy and care among the friend or family member that will check in on who is being toasted rather than watching the speechgiver.

So the priest (yes, the priest) and I were standing on the terrace during dinner when we saw this group of ridiculously costumed people. “Who are they,” he asked? “I think the band?” I said. “That cannot be the band.” “Oh, I think it is. Couldn’t you see Sean choosing someone like them?” “You are right,” he said. Sean had chosen this ridiculous disco band-so crazy, but it was such a fun dance floor.