My journal highlights my personal and professional adventures as a full-time wedding photojournalist! I absolutely love being a wedding photographer! My "job" is to hang out with awesome couples on the biggest day of their lives! Throughout my career I've photographed city weddings with 300 guests and small intimate Riu Ochos Rios Jamaica destination weddings with about 30 guests! My wedding photography studio is based out of Lewes Delaware, although I've traveled all over the world including Kingston Jamaica and Montego Bay Jamaica to photograph two events with Prince Charles!!!
So if you want to hang out on your wedding day, please drop me a line...even if you don't have a date set, wedding reception site picked or even if there is no fat rock on your finger! ;)
Erin and Clayton hired me to document their wedding with a reception at Bear Trap Dunes. The day started off with some rainy weather and a lost limo. The lost limo through the whole schedule off for the day! I wished that I had more time to spend with the bridal party and Erin and Clayton…but that is the way it works sometimes.
Erin having her make-up done on her wedding day.
So many choices!
Joanna and Ryan came to me by way of my Aunt’s cousin and a conversation about wedding photographers. Joanna’s friend had recommended that she check out “this guy’s” website…Rob Nicholson of Humbled Eyes Photography. That is the way it works sometimes. Two teachers chit chatting in the teacher’s lounge. Come to find out I use to hang out with Ryan back in my college years before I left for the Navy.
Well now I will be shooting their Greenville Country Club wedding in October!
Here are some pics from their engagement pictures at Valley Gardens in Wilmington.
~Rob
Becky and Ernie got married at Grace Church in downtown Milton, Delaware. With the reception following at Nassau Valley Vineyard.
Couldn’t have asked for a better day of weather!
The girls got ready in a classroom with very interesting art work on the walls.
Mom helps dad fix his tie.
The guest wait for the bride.
Guests threw bird seed!!
Didn’t look fun to me!
Becky and Ernie had the place cards in little corks…pretty cool.
I see you….
We had a good amount of time to shoot some bridal party pics and B&G pics.
The first dance…as husband and wife.
OK…this picture completely breaks many photography rules. But I wanted to keep their faces in the shadows and have the light hit Becky’s dress.
Plus I spent 6 loooooooonnnnngggg years in the Navy….I hate following rules!
Someone turned on a spot light which created a new light source.
The old man was soooooo cool!
This kid seems bored and a little tired.
Nassau Valley Vineyards is beautiful at night.
~Rob
Lauren and Dan got married at Northbeach in Dewey beach on Friday. We could not have asked for better weather! Warm with a light breeze. I do wish the sun set a bit further north….but that might be asking too much. The wedding went very smoothly and Make My Day Event Planning was a huge part of that! They did a great job with my wedding and this was the first time working with them…on the “other side!”
The morning started with make-up and hair at Bad Hair Day in Rehoboth Beach, De.
Mimosas….the breakfast of champions.
Covergirl?
Thicken those lashes up a bit.
Slip those heals on.
I hung out with the girls…shared some laughs.
I had my eye on this trailer in the middle of this field for some time now. Lauren’s mom said, “this looks like a CD cover…she also said, ” Rob…I trust you.” I was a bit nervous about her approval rating on the location of the girls portraits!
Bayside Limos laid the red carpet out to for the big entrance.
Lauren waits….
It’s go time!
Many generations show up for the party.
Not many dry eyes during the ceremony.
“Sun is shining, the weather is sweet
Make you want to move your dancing feet
To the rescue, here I am
Want you to know ya, where I stand”
~Bob Marley
First dance.
As a photographer I need to chase the light. This lamp provided me something to work with.
Some smiles…some tears….and some of this!
She missed his mouth!
Save it for later!
And then the dancing began!
And continued…
Sparklers for the big exit.
Lauren and Dan rode off in a Dewey Beach rickshaw.
Good times.
~ Rob
