Malek and Shakira -- what a wedding!

Malek and Shakira -- what a wedding! It was very customized, had a LOT of "them" in it, had a lot of traditions in it. They had African drummers during the ceremony, what can I say, be still my heart, Wow!

Shakira was standing in front of the mirror in her parents bedroom and I asked her to look down for a second and captured this...wow!

What an amazing ceremony, what an amazing couple! We always feel honored to be rpesent when two people in love say their vows, but this ceremony was especially touching, steeped with tradition and emotion! The attention to detail was everywhere and the processional started at 3:59 for her 4:00 ceremony

The beautiful flowers were done by

Maria Pedreira of Rosa's Florist

2051 Main St. Bridgeport, CT 06604

Telephone: 203-384-6059

The sound of the drums was...

POWERFUL!

Malek's vows were every woman's dream, so much so that when he was finished Rev. Dr. Anthony Bennett proclaimed that if Shakira didn't want him that he would marry him!

Their reception was at the Waterview in Monroe

As you know...I just love Black and white and color...

These two images were amongst Tom's favorites from the day. His wonderful 70-200mm f 2.8 lens just threw the background softly out of focus and allowed the happiness of Shakira and Malek to shine through!

We had a lot of time at the Waterview outside on their patio which enabled us to capture a plethora of images of the wedding party, family, and of just the two of them.

We had so many favorites of this couple, here are just a few...

The people in the wedding party were a lot of fun

What a fun group!

Their cake was beautiful and its colors called to me to create some more black and white and color photographs.

The pictures that we took from their engagement portrait session were used for a signature album as well as for a 16x20 signature photograph. Their signature album can be seen here in an earlier post.

Their reception at the Waterview was wonderful, attention to detail evident everywhere. And I loved that each table had a framed photograph, I am hoping to use some of these in their wedding album as backgrounds.

OK, I love, love, love this last image!

The tree of love growing right of their heads, which are making a heart shape.

This photograph captures their intense love for each other.

It is going on our wall

You can view more images from their wedding here in their galleries on our website

Here is a look at their accordion book -- take a look at other accordion books, they make great gifts!

You can view a video of some of the highlights here:

Reception Signature Book

Here is a great idea for Weddings, Bar/Bat Mitzvahs, Anniversaries, Parties, etc. A Signature Book. This book was great for Malek and Shakira because they had soooo many awesome engagement photographs! But also they had a lot of friends and family celebrating their union with them so this book allowed them to capture more.

The cover of their album was a canvas photograph

The pages inside were thick, hinged and a lay flat design.

These are photographs of the actual album when it came in.

These are JPGs of the first ten pages of their 20 page album

These are JPGs of the last ten pages of their 20 page album

Save the Date

Malek and Shakira had such an amazing engagement session -- this couple has an energy between them that is wonderful to witness.

They have ordered 'save the date' cards -- here is a sneak peak.

They are very excited and we cannot wait until we get to photograph their wedding in May!

Malek and Shakira engagement photos

Here are a few more photos from our photo session with Malek and Shakira at Edgerton Park. There were sooooo many photographs from their session that I loved. They were great to work with and we had an awesome afternoon with great weather and some fun photographs.

Malek and Shakira will also pick one photograph to be their signature photograph at their reception. Will they pick color or Black and White? Tough choice --both are great, but to me The Black and white photographs just seem to me to bring out a little more of their soul. You can view the rest of their photos on our website: http://tlc.smugmug.com/Portraits/261554

They also choose a reception signature album, which was wonderful because it allowed them to pick many more photographs and allowed their guests to give them some "newleywed advice".

Malek and Shakira

Here is a sneak peak an engagement session from last weekend. We photographed Malek and Shakira at Edgerton Park in New Haven on a beautiful afternoon. They were so wonderful and easy to work with and we look forward to photographing their wedding in May!

You can see how great they are as a couple from the romantic photos.

As I said, this is just a sneak peak, we will post more photos when we process them, and provide a link to their gallery on our website.