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So here it is! The third and probably best episode of David Tutera’s new show My Fair Wedding on WE TV. Now that it has aired, I can finally show you the pictures that Critsey and I took. And honestly: the TV show doesn’t do the event justice! It was absolutely kick ass. If you haven’t watched it – make sure you do!

Upcoming Air Dates:
Monday, November 10 at 1am | 12c
Monday, November 10 at 4am | 3c
Monday, November 10 at 11pm | 10c
Tuesday, November 11 at 2am | 1c
Sunday, November 16 at 12pm | 11c
Sunday, November 16 at 11pm | 10c
Monday, November 17 at 2am | 1c
Sunday, November 23 at 1pm | 12c
Friday, November 28 at 8pm | 7c
Sunday, December 7 at 5pm | 4c

This is a lot of pictures. But bear with me – it’s so worth it!

Mandy’s portrait session at Faviana.

Mike’s dream: walk to the wedding on the railroads.

The coolest officiant we’ve ever seen!

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When we met Jessica and Mike we fell in love with them immediately! They are the nicest couple ever. Both are totally into photography (which makes me very happy!) and they are easy going and super romantic.
In our usual manner, we didn’t make it far – so many great places to take photos at! Well, no wonder Manhattan is one of our favorite. We had an awesome time with the two and can’t wait to photograph their wedding next June!

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You’ve got to see this!

Lisa Hoffman and her staff from Ceci New York are offering full service in couture invitation and stationery design for weddings and events. Their quality and style is outrageously phenomenal!

Lisa Hoffman
(photo: Barnaby Draper)

Critsey Rowe, David Lee and I met Lisa today and we were blown away by her presentation of Ceci’s work. They characterize it as “downtown style meets classic elegance” but only seeing the actual samples can do their work justice and it made it clear: Ceci is top notch!

Ok, I had to post this one first! GG-Images color!

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Critsey Rowe and David Lee today went to photograph a portrait session with David Tutera.

David Tutera is the event planner extraordinaire, he is being titled “The Prince of Style”.

He hosts two TV shows, get married and Party Planner, he owns the floral and gift boutique stem, is the writer of numerous books and has teamed up with Disney for Disney’s Couture Wedding Collection.

And the list goes on and on …

Critsey and David Lee did a stunning job, the pictures they showed me were beyond impressive. Check out Critsey’s blog to see some .

The next task in Manhattan was an engagement session that Critsey had scheduled. I photographed it with her, and we met Kelly and Tom at DUMBO in Brooklyn.

Kelly is an artist and Tom is in IT. It was so nice to watch and photograph this cute couple!

Right when we arrived there was this amazing willow tree lit by the sun …

I recommend a visit at Critsey’s blog to again see the different perspectives that two photographers get.

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Chris and Otakar are an eye catching couple, they got married last year in Texas, and now it was time for a Day After session in Manhattan.

A Day After session is pictures taken some time after the actual wedding. The couple wears their wedding attire and now has time to go to great locations and take wonderful photos.

Critsey Rowe, Dave Lee and I photographed this Day After session on a cold and windy evening in New York’s West Village, but Chris and Otakar couldn’t care less for the temperature – they were all in for great photos!

It is amazing how three photographers get so different images from the same setting! Take a look at Critsey’s and David’s blogs to see their interpretations.

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I will be going to the Big Apple from March 26 to 30. Together with two fabulous Next Set photographers, Critsey Rowe and David Lee (from Allegro Photography) we will meet with some vendors and photograph some.

Critsey and David are outstanding and talented photographers and this is going to be one rockin’ trip!

Make sure to check the GG-Blog for more!

A happy New Year to everybody!
My business partner Thomas has contributed to our Blog all the time. My new year’s resolution is to be more active here, too.

While I was archiving last year’s images, I came across some amazing pictures. I want to share them with you, since this wedding was so much fun!

It all started with a letter from a wonderful client:

And they actually used one of the wedding pictures as their stamp! That is so cool. I didn’t even know that you can do this.

So next are a few of Natalia & Klaus’ wedding images. As a matter of fact, you don’t get booked for a wedding in Kiev every day …

And this is the story:
The atmospheric and traditional ceremony took place in an Ukraine-orthodox chapel.

Next, we went to the reception which was held in Ukraine tradition. An awesome experience!
I would love to see and photograph some more tradition and regional customs in German wedding.
They give the day a very individual note.

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In September I had the pleasure of coming along on an E-session shoot with Andrena Douglass from Los Angeles.
Together with David Mielcarek from Cinematic we shot in the heart of Manhattan.
But to make things a bit more interesting I chose my cell phone’s camera for the entire shoot!

It’s not the tools …

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Chicago is a wonderful city and we had the great pleasure to photograph Sophia & Peter’s engagement session there.

They are a lovely couple and together with them we hit the “Windy City” for a day long session!

The Bean was a must. And it actually is awesome!
(Its real name is Cloud Gate …)

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