Aug 27 2010

Wedding Slideshow for Alana & Matt

Alana & Matt were married on August 21st at Terrace on the Park in New York CIty. Alana is a Rockette dancer at Radio City Music Hall, and former ballerina…and she had the most perfect light pink ball-gown of a wedding dress… the train was so long and the bustle was incredible. Matt is a working actor and proposed to her onstage after a show… these two were featured on the New York Times wedding section and if you click on them you should totally watch their video interview, it’s pretty cute. Needless to say, they had a dramatic wedding, complete with heartfelt personal vows delivered loudly enough so everyone could hear them (actors project!) and what may have been the best first dance number i’ll ever see… there was a spinning LIFT involved, need I say more? (ok, i don’t know the term for what they did but it looked like something you’d see in the olympic pairs skating competition, or in a scene from dirty dancing!)

I met Alana over a year ago when I was looking for my own wedding dress- we were shopping at the same sale (both of us bought amazing dresses that day) and after chatting for a bit and hearing that I was a wedding photographer she wanted to see my work… the rest is history. I was so glad to be there to shoot this excellent wedding– A big thanks to Dmitry for his excellent 2nd shooting.

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By the way, this was a departure from my typical slideshow style. I had so many images I wanted to feature but couldn’t fit them in my typical format– this Lightroom 3 slideshow allows you to ‘fit to music’ so though they go by pretty fast I think it works. Watch it on facebook for larger High Quality version! Let me know what you think– it’s much simpler than the other ones but can hold more pictures…