Well I love how Angelyn and Kenny designed an island-style, laid back wedding!  It fit their personalities perfect – from the steel drums to the Tommy Bahama shirts – and 7/7/07 turned out to be  an AMAZING day to get married on the water! 

Angelyn got ready at her parents’ home:

Kenny got ready at The New Haven Hotel with his groomsmen.  No tux shoes for these guys!

I don’t know what second-shooter Mike is saying to the guys lately, but I love this shot of Shaun, the best man, and Kenny:

For such a laid-back, relaxed wedding, we actually did a lot and I was thrilled that Angelyn wanted to do a photo shoot at Yale before the wedding!

The bridal party with sun spots on Yale Green.  (I know a lot of photographers try to avoid sun spots no matter what but I love them and will pursue them!) For any amateur photographers out there who are interested – just tilt your lens up enough that the sun actually hits the lens and you can see the spots when you take it!  I really liked this session as we got plenty of normal shots but we also got some really cool lighting with sun streaming down on Angelyn and Kenny!

We let the bridal party go back to the a/c’d bus and we went on our Yale tour to capture Angelyn and Kenny with some of the great architecture:

How lucky are we (7/7/07?)?  …most of the inner dorms and courtyards are closed off, but we found a courtyard that was open:

My favorite portrait of the day:

This is one of my favorite pics as we are on the bus going to the ceremony at Amarante’s with Angelyn’s sister, Alison, and Kenny’s brother, Matt, in the background.  The light on Angelyn’s face is really dramatic and beautiful:

Look at this day as Angelyn’s dad walks her down the aisle!

Kids being kids makes a much more interesting picture:

A cocktail party on the deck complete with a steel drum band … very island…I like how Mike got the blue umbrella’s in sharp focus on Shaun’s glasses:

The cake flowers were done by Flowers by Candy:

Not your typical first dance shot but I want to know why everyone is cracking up!

Not sure what they are looking at … anyone?

Then we went off for a mini-shoot near the end of the reception – can you say relaxed…

Thank you guys for such a fun, beautiful day and for collaborating on such a great shoot!  You were both just lovely to work with and please have a margarita for me down in Mexico…I am so jealous!