Eternal Vows
A two-day wedding shot the way the couple actually experienced it: quiet, unposed, and lit almost entirely by the day itself.
Ana and Marcus wanted a record of their wedding rather than a performance of one. No shot list of arranged groups, no hour taken out of the day for portraits, and nothing lit that the room was not already lighting. We shot both days as observers, close enough to hear what was being said and far enough not to change it.
The result is 340 frames covering the preparation, the ceremony and a reception that ran until two in the morning, delivered as one sequence rather than as categories.
A ceremony held indoors at four in the afternoon in November, in a room with one window and no possibility of adding light. Two families who had not met before that weekend, and a couple who had told us plainly that they did not want to be directed.
We worked fast lenses wide open and accepted the grain that came with it rather than introducing flash into a room where it would have been the loudest thing present. For the families we spent the morning in the preparation rooms, so that by the ceremony we were already part of the furniture, and the grade holds the warmth of the available light instead of correcting it away.
