A Destination Wedding in New York City

Like most photographers, I love destination weddings. A few months ago, I photographed a destination wedding, but it happened to be a destination right next door: New York City. Yoko, the bride, used to live in New York with her family. While she has moved back to Japan, New York is still a special place for her, so that’s where she wanted to get married.

It seemed like it never snowed at all this past winter, but Yoko and Yusuke’s wedding happened to be on one of the very rare snow days. New York City is always magical in the snow. And the bride and the groom were troopers — they wanted to get the most out of their short stay in the city, so we took portraits everywhere from the Waldorf Astoria to the New York Public Library to Rockefeller Center to Times Square, and then all they way up to Riverside Church for their ceremony.