The ceremony was photographed from every angle the space permitted: from the back of the room with the aisle visible behind the couple, from the front where the expressions were readable, and from the side where the body language between them told the story that the vows were also telling.
The telephoto frame from the back of the room — the two women in their black gowns at the altar, the aisle receding toward them — placed the ceremony in its architectural context and gave it the scale that a closer lens couldn’t.
Two women stand in the centre of their wedding ceremony. The ceremony beginning in a venue decorated for the day.
Two women face each other at their wedding ceremony, their hands joined, the vows about to be exchanged.
A bride in a black dress with a veil stands at a wooden podium, holding the hand of her partner during vows.
The first kiss sequence — from the telephoto back-of-room frame to the close medium shot — is the session’s most emotionally resolved sequence. Two women embracing at the altar in black wedding attire, the room visible behind them.
A wedding ceremony in progress. A bride in a long black wedding dress with a matching veil at the altar.
Wedding ceremony moment captured from the back of the room. Two women in black at the altar, aisle behind.
A close medium-up shot of two women kissing — the first kiss as a married couple.
The portrait session in the garden after dark produced the session’s most editorial images. The brick path under the pergola, the overhead light, the black lace against the dark garden: the combination looked less like conventional wedding photography and more like a fashion editorial shot on a wedding day.
A medium shot captures the two women kissing during what appears to be their wedding ceremony — a moment of joy.
A medium telephoto shot captures the same-sex wedding ceremony in progress. The bride in black lace, veil forward.
A medium shot of the wedding ceremony from a seated guest’s perspective, looking toward the couple.
Same-sex wedding ceremony — two women in black at the altar, October 2024
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