I recentley completed the beautiful, masterpiece album for Lindsay & Taylor. Their wedding was in St. Croix, US Virgin Islands and it was an event to remember as you will see!
Follow this link to view their video album and see the full album, 260 beautiful photographs story telling their 4 day wedding event.
Below are a couple of pages for instant viewing!
Enjoy,
David Wright
Wedding gowns are not standard clothing items and require some thought and careful preparation before traveling to your wedding wether it is across town or to some island paradise. I have seen brides carry gowns in every way imaginable. Most keep them in the large protective garment bags they were delivered in.
Before you choose and purchase your gown, you should plan the gown's design, size and fabric around the location of your wedding venue. Traveling across town any gown can safetly travel to your destination. But if your wedding is in another state or in another country airlines, airline handlers, and airline security must be considered. Choosing a fabric that doesn't wrinkle easily and a design that is more managable for packing is key. Think about the location and how the design of the gown works with the scenery and time of day for the wedding. A large ballroom gown is not easy to transport and really doesn't look the part of a daytime island wedding or the rolling hills of Tuscany. Warmer climates call for lighter weight fabric and comfortable gowns.
Traveling by car across country is challenging enough for a destination wedding. So Packing your gown correctly is key. Using your original garment bag, hang your gown up in the car and let the train flow smoothly across the back seat or floor board depending on the size of your gown. Do not place any items on or near the dress for fear of wrinkling or damaging your gown. And by all means keep all food and drinks away from your precious cargo!
Airlines are a major consideration for your destination weddings. Even if flying to another city, similar care must be considered as if you were having your wedding in another country or island. It is not recommended that you check your gown like you do your luggage, but rather see if you can talk with the airlines and hang the gown up in one of the first-class or flight crew closets. Letting your dream gown be checked in like a piece of luggage is a disaster in the making. The gown might be lost, late in arrival, even damaged by conveyor machines or soiled beyond recognition by traveling beverages of other passengers.
Before the days of high security measures, the airlines had many vacant seats and one could actually carry the gown onboard and place in the seat next to you. 911 has forever changed this for us. Today, you may have to purchase an extra ticket for your gown as a travelling companion or use a personal courier to assist with your gown.Talkto your travel planner and wedding planner for more advice and ideas as every location and airline has different needs. And if you are looking for the best wedding photographer for travel, give me a shout. I love traveling despite the security and the many different country requirements placed on photographers. This is another story to be told later!
In the case where I photographed Angie's wedding in Italy, Alice Hendry, wedding planner was able to roll Angie's gown up and not wrinkle it. Alice helped Angie choose a streamline gown of lace and medium-length train to enable travelling to a foreign country. Alice hand carried the gown on the different planes with her!
Thecla's wedding a couple of weeks ago in East Tennessee at Whitestone Inn all the guests either drove across country or flew in from Norway for the wedding. A large steamer was waiting for the arrival of all the bridesmaid's gowns, Thecla's gown and family wedding attire. In the below photograph you can barely see the large commerical steamer. Her Maggie Sottero gown was unpacked and allowed to hang a couple of days before the wedding giving it a perfect look for the wedding.
A little forethought in choosing the right travel wedding gown and some precautions in packing and travel are a must for a picture perfect wedding gown on one's very special day!
Thecla & Kenneth celebrating after the ceremony at their destination wedding in East Tennessee.
View of Lindsay's fabulous Priscilla of Boston wedding gown purchased from The Bride Room. Lindsay and her mom really took in the consideration of their travel to St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, as a major criteria in choosing her gorgeous gown.
Ashley also chose a Priscilla of Boston from The Bride Room for its clean lines, streamlined gown and managable train. Her veil was long and terrific and with careful packing it traveled perfectly to Los Cabos, Mexico.for their perfect wedding with the ocean pounding its sea blue waves onto the pure white beaches. What an event!
I hope this article is helpful to you. It is something I have been wanting to write for some time and will probably elaborate more on it another time.
Good travels to you!
Ciao,
David Wright
Thecla and Kenneth, remember their portraits a couple of blogs ago?, were married last week at the beautiful Whitestone Inn in East Tennessee. Nestled at the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, their really sweet wedding at Whitestone Inn Wedding Chapel overlooked the Watts Bar Lake and the mountains give us perfect photo opps in all directions. Deneise Lane, Whitestone Inn wedding consultant, really did a great job keeping everything flowing well and was a pleasure to work with. The bride and her family from Idaho and the groom's family from Norway truly made Tennessee a destination wedding.
One of the most beautiful things I have ever seen at a wedding was when Thecla and Kenneth sung to each other during the ceremony. Thecla's brother Ronnie also has a spectacular voice as he sung a song dedicated to the couple. Kenneth's sister, Suzanna, wore her wonderful traditional Norgewian costume as she welcomed guest to the wedding and interpreted Americanized terms to her father during the family games at the reception.
I hope you enjoy these best wedding photographs from the mountain wedding in East Tennessee. It was such a beautiful location for a really wonderful wedding.
David Wright
Recently I created the engagement portraits of Katherine and Drew. Engagement photography is a wonderful way of bringing the couple before the camera in preparing them for their big day. Also it is a great way of getting to know bride and groom, learn more about their interests and personalities, and see how they interact with each other and in front of the camera.
Katherine and Drew were the perfect couple and Drew had a great time during the whole session too! It is so much fun to have a great couple like Drew and Katherine who we can have lots of fun with, sense the passion and love they have for each other, and study their mannerisms and interactions between them.
Their wedding is coming up soon and I can't wait. Plus, I get to work with the fabulous Stephanie Alexander of You're Invited Events. Their wedding will take place at the beautiful Woodmont Christian Church followed by a stunning reception at Nashville's only Five Start Hotel, The Hermitage Hotel.
Enjoy the views of this beautiful and terribly in love couple!
David Wright
Earlier this week I meet with Thecla & Kenneth whose wedding is about 3 weeks away in the beautiful valley setting for the charming Victorian bed and breakfast Whitestone Inn near Kingston, Tennessee. Thecla is from Idaho and Kenneth is from Norway, they met through MySpace. Soon they are going to have a wonderful wedding and party so all the families can come together in this great setting for an awesome wedding! Thecla and Kenneth are such a sweet and charming couple and they love the beautiful hills and valley of this place along with its Victorian architecture overlooking the Watts Bar Lake and the Great Smoky Mountains in the distance. Gees, I might just stay a few days myself and enjoy this idylltic and peaceful setting.
Enjoy the photographs of Kenneth & Thecla and their beautiful wedding location!
David
Photographing weddings is a wonderful occupation that gives me the opportunity to meet so many interesting people from so many different places in the world. Mandy and Adam's wedding in Columbia, Tennessee was no exception.
The Morgans from Booneville, Mississippi, my hometown and oddly enough proved to be distant relatives and some high school classmates, came to Columbia for their son's wedding. Both families, the Lyons and the Morgans, are super sweet and genuiely warm people, and the wedding was not only awesome, but felt like a family reunion.
I can't wait to show you just a quick glimpse into this great wedding at the Parsons House, wonderful Carpenter Gothic Cottage c. 1855 in West Columbia, followed by the reception at the delightful and cosy Copper Kettle. We also got to meet up and work with the new video team yeahyeahcreative.com. They were a blast and very, very nice to work with.
Oh, I failed to tell you just how Romantic my distant cuz the groom really is...Adam is a huge romantic at heart...on the signature table at the wedding was an antique mirror and written in red lipstip was his message to his sweetheart "Mandy, Meet Me Upfront for A Lifetime of Happiness!" Wow, is that romantic and sweet or what!!! Way to go Adam!
Enjoy!
David Wright
Last week I recorded the spectacular wedding of Ean & Jonathan at the Parthenon in Nashville. Ean & Jonathan wanted a fun-filled wedding on the steps of the Parthenon with the reception following inside that magnificant building. And fun we had beginning with the girls dressing and then meeting up with guys as we ventured around Hillsborough Village covering all of their favorite places including the really cool McDougal's Chicken Wings following by the trendy micro brewery Boscos and Belmont Mansion.
What an awesome event Ean & Jonathan's wedding was and their wedding party was the best, what great fun we all had!!!! Thank you Jonathan and Ean and congratulations to you both! Can't wait to begin your album, wow what a book this is going to be!
Ciao,
David Wright
Architectural photography has always interested me and is partly why I have pursued photography. Last week Porter Paints of PPG commissioned me to photograph the spectacular lobby of 1910 The Hermitage Hotel and the lobby and exterior of Frist Center for the Visual Arts. And what fun I had too!
Photographing architecture is a complicated process and requires precision in composition, exact exposures and perfectly straight lines in buildings. In setting up the camera and tripod, one must be square with building and perfectly level as well as the lens. This is why for decades the View Camera has been the choice of cameras and of late, PC Lenses (perspective control). Enough techical, lets get to the buildings.
The Hermitage Hotel and Frist Center are two of my favorite places in town. I just love the architecture of each and I if I let myself go just admire these works of art for hours as I take in all the wonderful details each have to offer. The Hermitage Hotel was built between 1908 and 1910 in the Beaux-Arts style and is Nashville's only Five Star Hotel Forbes Five Star Hotel and AAA Five Diamond Award. The Frist Center was designed and built between 1933-4 in the Art Deco style style during the Great Depression as a Post Office and converted into a world-class art museum in 2001.
The first photograph below is the exterior of the Hermitage Hotel and is the cover photograph I was commissioned to create for their 100th anniversary book The Hermitage at 100 by Ridley Wills. Enjoy the photographs of these remarkable and stately buildings.
Ciao,
David Wright
Brandi & Jared, a naval aviator, had the most beautiful wedding last Saturday at the Belle Meade Plantation in Southwest Nashville. The Autumn colors were near peak and the fall temperatures were perfect for their military wedding. All the gentlemen wore their dress blues and the swordbearers presented their swords during the introductions of the wedding party at the reception, complete with the "official" "Welcome to the Navy, Madam" as they induced her into the long standing tradition of swashing her with the broadside of the blade!
You have to check out the groom's cake, it is one of the most unusal cakes I have ever seen. The cake was made into the navy aviator manual with a bottle of Maker's Mark, also a cake, next to it. Crowning the cake in all of its glory is a cap fashioned after a Vanderbilt University cap but badly scotched as the whole ensemble rests upon a real, red grille! Only one cake maker can perform this degree of originality and artistic skill, Stacy at French Confection Cakes. I will add the wedding and reception were so well organized and implemented and that comes from the very talented Alice Hendry, wedding planner. Flowers were artistically and beautifully created by A Village of Flowers, and the food, oh my gosh, salmon, beef short ribs, grilled vegetables, Chef salad or Apple Ice Salad, all created by Chef's Market.
What a great wedding and the bridesmaids and groomsmen were such fun to hang out with. Brandi & Jared, congratulations! You both Rock!!!
Ciao,
David Wright
Night before last, I had the great previledge of listening to the Saints of Havana's performance at The Rutledge at 410 4th Ave. South in Nashville. Wow what a performance and all recorded for second longest playing radio show in Nashville, The Billy Block Show.
The Saints of Havana are a cool group composed of the Cuban born brothers, Rey & Cesar Montecristo, and the American singer Aaron Shea. Their muscial style, Pop Country with a Cuban flair. What a great and original sound these guys have created! I can't wait until their next performance and I hope you can join us all for a wonderful evening of original and inspiring Americano-Cuban music!
Disfrutar amigos,
David Wright
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