How to make a wedding day timeline | Brooklyn Wedding Photographer & Iceland Elopement Photographer

Ok, let's talk about the wedding day timeline. You are planning a wedding, though it might even be small and intimate wedding, you still are trying to pull all of the pieces together. Or maybe you are even eloping in a far off destination.

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Iceland Beer Spa Experience | Reykjavik Photographer

Yes, you read that right. Beerspa. Beer + Spa. A Beerspa in Iceland. A wonderful, magic place where you sit your whole body in a wooden tub filled with fresh beer while you get cold beer out of a tap to drink as you sit in this glorious, warm, beer. This magical wonderland is called Bjórböðin.

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Zakas Photography 2017 Round Up | Adventure Elopements & Intimate Weddings

"What you focus on, you create more of. Choose what to focus on to strengthen your faith and patience and you will be victorious."- Jen Sincero

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Snohomish, Washington Intimate Wedding | Seattle Wedding Photographer

Last year I was fortunate enough to live out an amazing dream of getting flown from Brooklyn to shoot this Seattle intimate wedding in the woods for Marissa and Pete. Well, just a bit outside of Seattle in Snohomish, Washington.

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Catskills Hiking Engagement Session | Catskills Elopement Photographer

As an Adventure Elopement Photographer for modern couples, I shoot a lot of alternative engagement sessions in some really fun locations. I get to travel around and go to places that are unique to the couple, finding spots at the location that look killer. When Beckah, who is a wedding photographer herself, told me she wanted me to shoot her engagement session with Steve, who is a photographer by degree, in the Catskills- I was super pumped and honored.

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Boro Hotel Wedding in Long Island City | Brooklyn Wedding Photographer

THIS WEDDING WAS FEATURED AS A RANGEFINDER WEDDING OF THE WEEK! CHECK IT OUT HERE!
Lu and Tony's intimate wedding at the Boro Hotel in Long Island City was one for the books. Their wedding was just perfect, to be honest. They had an intimate, romantic wedding where there was more of an emphasis on their guests than themselves.

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White Sands New Mexico Elopement | Adventure Elopement Photographer

One of my biggest passions in life is to be able to adventure and travel to amazing places. When couples give me the honor of shooting their elopement or intimate wedding, it really lights the fire deep within my soul.

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Iceland Fashion Shoot in Storm | Reykjavik Photographer

When you are scheduled to shoot a fashion shoot along the coast of a fjord in Iceland, but the weather is not ideal, what do you do? You use your wedding photographer skills and shoot anyways. On my last visit to Iceland in May of this year, I had scheduled some shoots that are a bit outside of my usual wedding, however, because of my expertise in shooting weddings I was able to pull off this specific shoot. When life gives you lemons, or a storm, you make stormy lemonade. Or, an epic fashion shoot.

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Iceland Geothermal Engagement Session | Iceland Engagement Photographer

Ah, love in Iceland. I got the absolute pleasure to capture the love between Björg and Hreiðar on a gloomy Icelandic day in Iceland. We went out to a geothermal area in Reykjanesbær that is about an hour outside of Reykjavík.

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Eloping in Iceland part 3 | Iceland Elopement Photographer

So you are having an Iceland elopement and looking for Iceland elopement costs and general information? As an Iceland elopement photographer: I got you, friend. Welcome back to the third edition of my series to get you to your elopement in Iceland as flawlessly as possible! 

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Eloping in Iceland part 2 | Iceland Elopement Photographer

So, you want want to elope in Iceland but don't know what to do next?? I got you. (Pt. II)  Hello again, daydreamer! Welcome back to planning your elopement in Iceland! 

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Eloping in Iceland part 1 | Iceland Elopement Photographer

So, you want want to Elope in Iceland but don't know what to do next?? You have been day-dreaming of an elopement in Iceland and having a real, whimsical, life altering adventure and because doing the traditional walk down the aisle just isn't your style. But, you don't know where to start?? It's ok, I got you. 

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How to Pick Your Wedding Photographer | Adventure Elopement & Intimate Wedding Photographer

I'll be honest. I was inspired to write this after reading a few really terrible articles from magazines / blogs in the wedding industry that are aimed at couples planning their weddings. A few of these articles offered really awful advice which was more like uneducated opinions from people who have never actually attempted to find their perfect photographer. One of the issues I have with these articles that offer 'expert' advice to vulnerable engaged couples about photography is: they are not photographers.

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Puerto Rico Adventure | Adventure Photographer

Puerto Rico is my warm go-to-get-out-of-the-city spot. I was first introduced to the island by shooting a destination wedding there. We all stayed in Isabela, which is on the North West side of the island and about an hour and a half from San Juan. I fell in love. So when I started to get the itch to leave New York City and have a bestfriendcation with my BFF I knew exactly where we needed to go.

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