Jeff Newcum Photography – Boston and Metrowest Wedding Photographer » Engagement, Bridal, Weddings, and more….

I was thrilled to be asked to assist a great photographer and lighting genius JVS. The wedding took place in October but, I’m finally getting around to writing about it. I had written a long post about this on a forum and needed to minimize the story for the blog. The rehearsal dinner and wedding took place in Austin, Texas. My job entailed providing off camera lighting and shooting the formal pictures. The rehearsal dinner was fantastic. It was a very swanky villa with great decor and fun photographic opportunities. The dinner was well attended and had plenty of humorous speeches. It was really exciting!!! The wedding day followed and it was simply amazing! They really do it “Big” in Texas. The ceremony took place in a great church that was completely filled with family and guests. We flew through the groups and packed up quickly to head to the reception. The reception location was at the UT Golf Club. Several tents were set up for the reception and there were close to 750 people, with several food and drink stations and lots of excitement! You’ll notice below that I’m kneeling on the floor as if I’m praying….well, I’m not. This was simply Joseph’s fun attempt to grab a few frames of me in action…. Hearty har, har! The night was a great learning experience and provided a view into the platinum wedding world.

JVS and myself posing at the rehersal dinner, that’s me shooting the formals, and me praying to the light god…

Family, food, and portraits. I had a great Thanksgiving with my family today. Later in the afternoon I shoot some family portraits for a great group.

More pictures are here.

Today I had a great day of shooting with some superb local photographers; Alicia Williams, Jamison Wexler, Stacey Doyle, and Melissa Kline . Jamie Wexler had made a plan to shoot Lisa Rae prior to her wedding day in December. He had come up with a few locations to shoot her bridals. We meet up in Grafton and headed out to a few locations for the nice smiley portraits and then we headed into the woods for some… different ones. We used a couple of props that may raise a brow or two. Don’t worry, there was no ammo.

Here’s some more images

A great idea that’s been talked about is to offer an after engagement shoot after the wedding to trash your dress. We’ll not totally trash it but, do some less traditional shots. We’re working on locations and think that we’ll find a brave few to have a lil fun.