Washington DC Wedding Photographer | Jessie Mary Photography
Washington DC Wedding Photography and Lifestyle Portraits
The wedding cake has been cut, everyone is hanging out eating cupcakes and chatting, on a gorgeous, slightly stormy day in Longview Washington. A group is forming back in the field near the arch where the ceremony was held. The groom gets told to go out there for a surprise. As I follow Adam and Melanie across the field, I hear him tell her that it's something he started at his best man's … [Read more...]
A few more formals here, of the bride and groom. Melanie & Adam really seemed to forget I was there, except for an occasional blushing of the bride. The setting for their wedding was so amazing. Having grown up in New Jersey just outside New York City, I'm a city girl but just love the country too. When I was 20, I drove upstate New York for the first time to a small town, New Paltz, to … [Read more...]
I usually don't blog wedding formals. It's no secret that my brides hire me for my candid photography, and typically don't want to dedicate a lot of time to formals. After a busy summer of weddings, I have had a lot of brides ask me if we even have to do formal shots. My answer is that we don't have to but I strongly recommend it. In a few years you, or your parents, may really wish a few shots of … [Read more...]
It drizzled on and off throughout the morning of Melanie and Adam's wedding day. As a wedding photographer, I really prefer the cloudy days but this bordered on stormy. The sky was a threatening dark gray. Right before the wedding ceremony, it started to rain pretty hard. Then all of a sudden as the bride was about to walk down the aisle, the sun broke through! … [Read more...]