Jonathan + Ambika {Wedding} | Lake Placid Lodge, New York

I would like to start this post by thanking a few people;

Thank you Jon and Ambika for giving us the opportunity to be at your wedding (Sorry we had to leave in the wee hours of the morning the next day and missed the escapade on the lake).

Thank you Abby and Neil for making that 5 and half hour drive with us the month before to scout the location in Lake Placid and for hosting Gbenga and I before the wedding. Your hospitality was perfect and you do have a gift for taking care of people. We should go back to Chair 6 sometime.

Thank you Brens, my lovely wife for supporting the idea of driving up there the month before, all my good ideas come from you.

Thank you Gbenga being there and for filling Ayinde’s shoes. (You do remember Gbenga right? From this post) I know they were big but you did an excellent Job. Gbenga was my second shooter for the wedding after Ayinde couldn’t make it. He took a four hour bus ride from DC just to shoot it with me. PLUS he was the best company ever on the long drive upstate in a cramped Toyota Corolla (I love Toyotas but I’m 6′6.5″, thus most cars are cramped), not to mention a stellar low maintenance assistant

Every time we experience a milestone we have to stop, look back and be appreciative because at the end of the day relationship is more important than photography.

About the photos:

The wedding happened over two days, the first day was a dinner lime and the wedding was the following day

There are many photos and we had a hard time short listing for this post but this is still longest post we’ve ever done.

There are also various interjected detail photos to give context, each one of course will be explained.

DAY 1

The Guy from Adirondack Raptors with his birds of prey…he wanted me to hold the owl…but my hand was filled with a DSLR

Gbenga’s shots…great anticipation and patience.

Gbenga’s shot of the lake, love the candle in the foreground and no we did not see any crocs.

WEDDING DAY

Like we what usually happens when I shoot with Ayinde, Gbenga had groom duty while I was with the bride.

There were also Star Trek cuff links but these green lantern ones…noice!

This is the temperature outside on the day of the wedding, a toasty 6 degrees…by the time we actually went downstairs for portraits with all the cloud cover and the setting of the sun, I’m sure it was about 3 degrees and later that night…lets just say were were glad the reception was indoors.

If you didn’t notice, Gbenga almost got poked in his camera here.

Ross…the best man and his shenanigans on the signing tree.

I had to go back to my fine art roots for this one. As you can imagine, I’m the slightly taller stick man.