Alex and John • Ithaca Wedding Photography

This Friday I took the beautiful drive down to Ithaca to photograph Alex and John's wedding at Cornell's Sage Chapel. I absolutely love it when my couples love photography as much as I do, so after exchanging a bunch of emails about cameras with Alex (and receiving her contract inside of an awesome Wonder Woman greeting card) I was extra excited to meet her! Alex and John are such a sweet couple, and I immediately felt at home with them, their friends and their families and enjoyed spending the day celebrating with them.

I love Alex's dress, so simple, so pretty...
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Loving the movement, color and expression as Alex gets out of the limo on the way to the chapel.
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Alex and John saw eachother before the ceremony, and I was so excited to take advantage of the beautiful light pouring into the crypts.. drool...
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Sweet.
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The ceremony was full of cute moments (and don't you LOVE her hair??)
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I love this shot, the looks on their faces... they were waiting for their rings to be passed around amongst the guests before exchanging them, which was really charming.
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How can you help but smile along with this picture?
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The wedding party, workin' it on campus...
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We had such a beautiful day!
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Then we headed to the Fontainebleau Inn for the cocktail hour. The reception was catered by The Heights in Ithaca, which did a fabulous job. The hors d' oeuvres were gorgeous (and tasty) as was the entree, and everyone was incredibly friendly.
Yum!
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Pretty cake.
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First dance...
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The way he's looking at her reminds me of the 1995 Pride and Prejudice (or as I call it, the Colin Firth Love Eyes™ ha ha) it's so sweet!
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This picture keeps cracking me up... and the airplane comes into the hangar ptthhhhhbbbbbttttt
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DJ Fuzzy Duck kept everyone moving all night (can't believe I heard MGMT and Blur at a wedding... awesome!)
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We also did some portraits on the grounds at Fontainebleau, just catching the last of the sunlight... Alex had been asking me about flare, and yes, we flared!
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And they dipped.
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And then I almost fell over laughing... I am not sure how this happened, but I think John asked Alex to return the favor and carry him around a bit, so we ended up with something that was a little bit Titanic, a little bit awkward, and a whole lot awesome.
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Alex mentioned that she liked one of the workshop shots that's on my site, so we did our own version of it.
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Love this one.
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Alex and John, it was such a pleasure to work with you and spend the day with your amazing family and friends... have an amazing time in Jamaica! We'll talk soon. 🙂