A Tudor revival estate on the edge of Doylestown, with brick paths and walled gardens that hold light late into the afternoon.This one was walked rather than posed. The veil did the work on its own, and the frame is the one where neither of them looked back.

A Tudor estate wedding in Bucks County, walked out into hard afternoon light.

Aldie Mansion

Cescaphe at the Downtown Club sits in the middle of Old City, which means the portraits happen on real streets with real stone behind them.Flat overcast light, a short walk between the ceremony and the room, and the whole block to work with.

Cescaphe at the Downtown Club, on the steps of Old City Philadelphia.

The Downtown Club

A working farm estate in Andover, and one of the few places in New Jersey where the light stays soft all the way to the treeline.Photographed at the last usable half hour of the day, backlit through the trees.

Golden hour on the lawn at a New Jersey farm estate.

Crossed Keys Estate

Skytop sits on 5,500 acres in the Poconos, with the lake on one side and the lodge on the other.Autumn, hazy backlight, and the long walk down toward the gate.

An autumn wedding in the Poconos, the lake and the lodge behind them.

Skytop Lodge

The Merchant Exchange is the oldest stock exchange building in the country, and its curved colonnade is the best set of steps in Philadelphia.Orchids, white roses, and a grey sky that flattered all of it.

Under the columns of the Merchant Exchange, a few blocks from the Delaware.

Merchant Exchange

Henry Mercer built Fonthill out of poured concrete in 1912, and nothing else in Bucks County looks remotely like it.This is the end of the night, close in, at the point where the two of them stopped noticing the camera.

Dusk at the concrete castle in Doylestown.

Fonthill Castle

The Masonic Temple in Scranton: dark panelling, tall windows, and almost no light to spare.Blush roses, white anemones and cedar, photographed against the wood on the little that came through the glass.

The Masonic Temple in Scranton, all dark wood and low window light.

Scranton Cultural Center

Hunting Hill Mansion sits inside Ridley Creek State Park, so the drive up to the house is the portrait location.The wind arrived at the right moment and the veil took it.

Hunting Hill Mansion, with the veil taking the wind on the drive.

Parque at Ridley Creek

The Ivy sits on the old Ellis Preserve grounds in Newtown Square.Nothing wide here. Just the two of them, eyes closed, in the quiet stretch before the reception opened.

The Ivy at Ellis Preserve

Lawnhaven is the ridge-top ceremony site at Stroudsmoor, looking out over the Poconos.She had the patio to herself for about ninety seconds, and this is what the veil did with it.

Lawnhaven, on the ridge above Stroudsburg.

Stroudsmoor Country Inn

A stone country house outside New Hope, with dining rooms small enough that a toast carries.Roses, taper candles, chandeliers turned most of the way down, and every glass in the room up at once.

Hotel du Village

The same Andover wedding, later, away from the lawn and into the dark edge of the property.Black and white because the colour was doing nothing the light was not already doing better.

The second half of an Andover wedding, in black and white.

Crossed Keys Estate, Veil

The ballroom floor at the Scranton Cultural Center, guests pulled back to the round tables, sconces and balcony above.A wide frame on purpose. The room is half the picture.

The ballroom floor, guests pulled back to the tables.

Scranton Cultural Center, First Dance

Before the doors opened and the room filled, with one window doing all the work.A pearl earring, a tulle veil held across the face, and nothing else in focus.

The Downtown Club, Portrait

The panelled reception room at The Ivy, polished concrete underfoot and pendants overhead.White orchids, a long train, and both of them looking somewhere off to the side of the lens.

Orchids, panelled walls and pendant light.

The Ivy at Ellis Preserve, Ballroom

City Hall, then the cobbles of Old City. No wedding party, no timeline to speak of, and a whole afternoon to walk it.A short feather-hemmed dress, an open collar, and the two of them moving the entire time.

Two of them, City Hall, and the cobbles of Old City.

City Hall Elopement

A micro wedding up in the Pocono Mountains at Thornhurst, with a guest list you could seat at two tables.Bright soft daylight, a veil across the frame, and him laughing behind it.

A small day in the mountains at Thornhurst.