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Olmsted Restaurant Wedding - Brooklyn, NYC - Sonya & Sage
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Olmsted Restaurant Wedding - Brooklyn, NYC - Sonya & Sage

Sonya & Sage had an intimate wedding at their favorite restaurant Olmsted, right around the corner from their Brooklyn apartment!

Sonya got ready in their apartment with a couple friends, and Sage got ready literally one door down at their neighborโ€™s apartment who were also attending the wedding. We then had their first look on the steps of their brownstone, and took some portraits on their tree-lined street.

The chosen vibe for their wedding: โ€œWe want it to feel like a low-key botanical garden disco. Is a low-key disco a thing? We're making it one.โ€ I think they succeeded. The casual backyard space where they got married is literally a garden- the restaurant actually grows some of their produce right on-site! It made for an intimate sweet ceremony space, and when we moved inside for dinner, they used it as a cozy lounge area complete with string lights and sโ€™mores.

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Green Building Wedding - Brooklyn, NY - Jenah & Joe
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Green Building Wedding - Brooklyn, NY - Jenah & Joe

I knew we were the perfect fit from our first phone call. They both work for non-profits in the city- Joe is in environmental engineering, and Jenah is a screenwriter. Their friends call them the โ€œKing & Queen of South Slope.โ€ Theyโ€™re all about community. โ€œWe want to live our lives not just โ€˜doing no harmโ€™ but leave it a better place for the people around us.โ€

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Brooklyn Bridge Park Elopement - Brooklyn, NYC - Lauren & Kathleen
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Brooklyn Bridge Park Elopement - Brooklyn, NYC - Lauren & Kathleen

Coincidentally, Kathleen & Lauren first reached out to me on that fateful day in March 2020 that New York closed its state borders due to COVID-19. We couldnโ€™t have imagined what the world would look like just a few days later, let alone how to plan a wedding in this โ€œnew normal.โ€ Despite the overarching fear & uncertainty, the 2 were able to celebrate their love by holding a down-sized, COVID-conscious, ceremony outside at Brooklyn Bridge Park, with a larger reception a couple years later, both of which I had the pleasure and honor of photographing! 

The couple decided to keep the original date of their nuptials (10/20/20 is a pretty magical number), opting to elope on the waterfront in DUMBO with the Manhattan skyline behind them, witnessed by an intimate group of their closest NYC friends. 

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