Author: Rich Leighton
•8:17 AM


This is going to be a fun post! Recently, I had the distinct pleasure of photographing a beautiful wedding in Southwest Florida for Carissa and Anthony Martinez.


Last winter, I'd done a photoshoot for a friend of mine, and a month or two later, her cousin called me and told me she was getting married over the summer, and asked if I'd like to photograph her wedding. Of course I said yes! Not only did I take an immediate liking to Carissa over the phone, it would also take me back to my old stomping grounds in the Fort Myers/Naples area. I was delighted!




Finally as the months passed and the big day got closer, I headed south from my home in Tallahassee and rolled into town the night before the wedding. After doing a last-minute inventory check on all my lenses, batteries, memory cards, and cameras, and all those other miscellaneous but necessary items, I was all set. The agenda was to do a quick session of all those involved getting ready for the ceremony at the Trianon Hotel in the Promenade at Bonita Bay, then to shoot over to the Hope Lutheran Church, followed by the reception back at the hotel.






For this post, I'll let the rest of photos speak for themselves......



Since I was working solo on this wedding, I had my remote trigger set up on one camera, so I was essentially shooting two different cameras at the same time.









Here is my favorite part of wedding photography - the part where I get to let my artistic side loose .... the group portraits!














It turned out to be a very beautiful day, complete with the nicest people, a stunning location, and the most pleasant couple I think I've ever photographed. It was a day they will remember forever, and I am very happy to have been a little part of it, in my own "behind-the-scenes" way!


Carissa and Anthony Martinez

~ Married June 27th, 2009 ~

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