Destination Wedding Photographer, Wedding Photographers New York City, NY

Another epic wedding, this time from Denver, Colorado, the home of the Broncos, Rockies, and much more.

Did we mention that we love travelling and photographing destination weddings? Well, we do! It was our very first trip to Denver and we were stunned by the sheer natural beauty of Colorado. As we were landing in DEN, Denver’s International Airport (which is an art piece by itself), we enjoyed some really terrific views: one one side of the plane beautiful snowcapped Rocky Mountains and on the other side of the plane complete gloomy desert. We could not believe our own eyes. The contrast was stunning. So much so, that when time came to shoot this wedding we made sure to keep the “contrast” theme in mind.

The getting ready was shot entirely at The Inn At Cherry Creek, a cute boutique hotel in one of Denver’s finest neighborhoods. The bride, Pavlina, who is originally from Ukraine, turned out to be lovely, inventive, and energetic with great sense of humor, and Sergei (aka Sergio), originally from Russia, who happens to be a photographer himself, was happy to oblige his fiance. And so these wonderful wedding photographs were created..

The first part of the “together” photo session was shot at Denver’s City Park, just around Duck Lake, and for the contrast we filmed the rest of the photo session downtown with the more urban brick-and-mortar look.

We absolutely love the kids in these pictures, their unique energy, almost sadness and quite possible boredom contrasting starkly with explosive behavior of the bride and groom.

The bride was a true gift to any wedding photographer, pretty, playful, full of energy and ideas, willing to go an extra mile for a great shot.

The ceremony took place at a really cute church in Aurora, however the groom brought his own pastor, a Russian Orthodox priest, who gave a very passionate, lengthy, fire-and-brimstone sermon before he performed the actual wedding ceremony. All services were conducted in Russian language, and according to rather dated Russian wedding traditions.

Back to The Inn At Cherry Creek, the party started with a bang as soon as the bride and groom made their very energetic entrance. Dances, great food, traditional Russian wedding games, and some American wedding traditions followed. One of the funny quirks of this wedding happened when the bride tossed her bridal bouquet, only she did it so hard that it flew way over the heads of the single ladies, right into the hands of one of the guys sitting by the wall, enjoying his piece of the wedding cake.

We shot this wedding in out signature style which could be simply described as candid, natural, beautiful and photojournalistic. For comprehensive wedding photo coverage around Denver, Colorado Springs, Boulder, Vail, Aspen, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, or for Destination Weddings please contact Lux Photo Studios and we will be happy to create a custom package for you. Please keep in mind that besides wedding photography we also do children photos, maternity and prenatal photography, family and boudoir portraits.