Two weeks ago I was sitting on a beach in the Caribbean awaiting the wedding of my friends Brett and Michelle. I was two days removed from shooting a wedding in upstate New York, and one day removed from being up 23 straight hours from traveling and catching up with friends at the resort. Needless to say, I felt like I earned this vacation!
Brett and Michelle chose the Dreams at La Romana resort in the Dominican Republic for their big day. I was not the photographer of this wedding (in fact the two of them insisted that I be a guest and just enjoy the wedding). This didn’t stop me from bringing my camera (I did come straight from shooting another wedding to the resort afterall), but a mixup in my packing resulted in me bringing one battery with approximately 10% charge left. The result of this: over the course of four and a half days I took remarkably few pictures. In many ways I’m glad this happened. Sometimes as a photographer it’s hard to “turn off.” You are on vacation, but you just have to get that perfect image that captures wherever you are. You are a guest at a wedding, but your instincts kick in and you want to grab a photo of the scene. But if your camera is dead you don’t have a choice!
I did take a few though, as you can see, and I wanted to share them. Again I was not the photographer, and I can’t wait to see the images the photographers did get, but I thought I could show you the venue where this wonderful wedding took place.
The picture above is where the ceremony took place. Pretty decent background don’t you think? There were maybe 20 of us total at this wedding, so every setting was very intimate. The picture below was a shot of the reception area. Brett and Michelle basically rented out one of the restaurants at the resort for the evening. We had our own private deck with the massive table pictured below. Behind where I took that picture was the dance floor, and let me tell you, there was dancing!
The last shot is a view from the beach of the resort. That’s mostly there to make you jealous.
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It was a wonderful, fun, and beautiful wedding! Brett and Michelle I thank you for inviting me! Congrats to the both of you and I wish you many great years!
