A Joyous Nashville Wedding

This was a brilliant wedding–apart from the flight across Florida during hurricane season–but that’s a long, long story and probably for another blog.  But let’s just say it’s entirely possible I still have a little residual PTSD from the sky around the plane turning a thunderous bluish black, and hearing the strained calm in the pilot’s announcements over the PA before he made an emergency landing nowhere near our destination and then spending the first night of my stay on an airport lounge floor after initially being told that my next flight would be in 24 hours time, after I was due to start shooting the welcome drinks the night before the wedding.  Door to door, I’ve actually flown to weddings in Australia and Hong Kong quicker.   But the fact that this really did only register as a blip in the long weekend I was out there is testament to effortlessly warm bride and groom, Dan and Mara.

The brilliantly effervescent bride, Mara, somehow found this interview I had done with Rangefinder magazine which must have been quite the deep dive, because it took me a few gos to find it myself!

The wedding and reception took place at the opulent Art Deco Noelle Hotel in Nashville.

As a footnote, I’m aware that a number of brides and grooms don’t go with their first choice photographer because they haven’t shot at the venue previously. If you’re interested I wrote a blog about why that is a myth perpetuated by wedding magazines offering wrong-headed advice to justify the existence of their rehashed articles trotting out the same old tropes, year in, year out…