This amazing Lower west side Micro Wedding was such a blast to shoot, I remember talking with the client for a few weeks before hand coordinating lighting and elopement portrait settings. She really wanted to encapsulate the city vibes and I think Delancey street is a great place to do that. I have always been personally obsessed with old graffiti and even more so the old iconic store fronts of NYC, as I was born and raised here. We only had two hours and spent the first hour or so getting family portraits around the lower east side and then off to her friends restaurant near by for the ceremony. Even with little planning and not much time we got such amazing photos and I had such a great time working with them. I totally encourage people to seek out alternative-ideas for the big crazy expensive weddings, micro weddings and elopements are an amazing way to save money and get to experience your day in a truly intimate stress free way.
Photo taken of me by my 6 year old daughter luchiana, back in my old hood, on the upper west side, my own small town, its weird to be a new yorker and think like that, but when you grew up here thats truly what its like, your apt and the 5 block radius around it becomes your own small town and in many ways as a small kid its all that exists. I love this place it gave me so much awareness of culture art and the reality of the world we live in, since you are confronted with that daily, i still have the pleasure of coming back here often to drop film at @proimagephoto and our kids pediatrician is still here. Walking around yesterday with my kids was so bitter sweet. Ultimately i think we made a good choice to live more rural, but grateful i will always have my ties and roots here and still get to work here..