Photojournalistic Wedding Photography in New Jersey

Documentary coverage of a wedding is easy to claim and hard to do, because the honest version of it means giving up control. Nobody is asked to do anything again. Nobody is arranged. The photographer's entire job becomes anticipating where the next real thing is going to happen and already being there, which requires knowing the evening well enough to see it coming.

That is the argument for shooting the simcha you actually know rather than a wedding in the abstract. We can tell you thirty seconds beforehand that the kallah's mother is about to reach for her, because we have watched it happen several hundred times. The formals still get done — every family wants them and they are not the enemy — but they are done quickly and early, and the remaining six hours are spent watching rather than directing.