Ceremony: Our Lady Of Solace Parish www.wikipedia.org
Wedding Music: DJ NYC www.djnyc.com
Wedding Cake: Gail Watson Cake www.gailwatsoncake.com
Wedding Dress: Vera Wang www.verawang.com/wedding
Wedding Shoes: Fendi www.fendi.com
A Vietnamese bride from the Bronx, a Vietnamese-Italian groom from New Jersey, a wedding in Queens – it it New York in all its multicultural, wonderfully-ethnic glory. The day started bright and early at bride’s parents house in the Bronx. Massimo, the groom, arrived with his closest friends and family carrying gifts to ask permission to “receive” the bride. The procession of the groom’s family was led in specific order. The first person would be the representative of the groom’s house followed by the groom’s father, the groom, then the rest of his family and close friends. They were met out on the street in front of the house by bride’s sisters. Once everyone settled in the living room of the house Jasmine, the bride, led by her father walked in, wearing traditional Vietnamese wedding dress.
A Vietnamese Tea Ceremony followed. The bride and groom, in front of all their guests, served tea to their parents and relatives. Each parent gave advice about marriage and family to the couple. A candle ceremony followed, symbolizing the joining of the bride and groom and the joining of the two families. The groom’s gift boxes filled with jewelry were opened by the bride’s mother, who then put each piece on the bride for good fortune.
The bride, Jasmine, changed from her red Áo dài into a very elegant white wedding dress, with the help of her two younger sisters. Jasmine turned out to be absolutely stress-free bride, very wise, calm and composed, her lovely good-humored sisters by her side, and always ready with a helping hand.
The layout for this blog post is our traditional crisp and clean album layout, something that most of our clients want when ordering an album. You can view more of our wedding album design and layouts here: http://luxphotostudios.com/category/albums/. To see our current wedding photo book collection see our album pages on the main website: http://luxphotos.com/category/riviera-album/
The wedding reception continued at the Sheraton LaGuardia East Hotel in Queens. One of the things we loved about this wedding venue was the large outdoor garden, perfect for family portraits and bridal portraits. Inside the balroom everything turned out to be traditionally-styled, in good taste and sparkling clean.
Looking back there is one thing that we wanted to do at this wedding but just could not accomplish because of time constraints – a vogue magazine-like photograph of the family sitting at this long and picturesque dinner table, all facing the camera, almost like the Last Supper but definitely more Vogue. That would have been spectacular!
The DJs from DJNYC deserve a special mention as they put on great show that evening – the wedding party kept on rocking till late night, dancing, jumping, drinking, partying, doing conga lines, breakdancing.. you name it!
A quiet moment with bride and groom alone – the newlyweds ran away from the guests for a few brief moments to catch a breath from all the wild dancing and electrified wedding celebration. Anticipating a nice photo opp we followed and this is what came out.
For those of you who follow our blog you will probably recognize that this is the same couple form the lovely and refreshing engagement photo session we did at the South Street Seaport sometime in the spring.
