Orthodox & Jewish Weddings
Most weekends, we are photographing a Jewish wedding somewhere between Manhattan and Long Island. The tisch and kabbalat panim running at the same time in different rooms. A badeken that lasts ninety seconds and matters more than an hour of portraits. A chuppah where every grandparent’s face deserves a frame. Separate dancing that a single photographer physically cannot cover. This is the day we built our team around.
The tisch and the kabbalat panim happen simultaneously — so we split. One photographer works the singing and the l’chaims; another stays with the bride, her mother, and the moments before the badeken.
Our team includes women photographers. The women’s side of the dance floor is photographed from inside it — the circles, the shtick, the bride lifted on shoulders — not from a polite distance.
Badeken choreography agreed with the planner in advance. The ring, the ketubah, the breaking of the glass — positioned for, not chased. Yichud protected absolutely. Mazinka, sheva brachot, and a second-dance set that gets covered even when it starts at eleven.
A badeken surrounded by three generations, then a lawn chuppah in white and green.
A waterfront chuppah and a hora that took the whole room with it.
A candlelit aisle and a rose chuppah on Fifth Avenue.
A synagogue wedding on Long Island, from ketubah to the last dance.
We also photograph often at Woodbury Jewish Center, The Rockleigh, Glen Island Harbour Club and The Lannin — and our Jewish wedding vendor guide lists the planners, bands and caterers we trust from the days we have shot beside them.
Most weekends. The team shoots Jewish weddings across New York, Westchester, New Jersey and Long Island — from modern Orthodox celebrations to Chabad and Yeshivish weddings — and our wedding-day briefs are built around the halachic timeline, not squeezed around it.
With photographers on both sides of the mechitza. Our team includes women photographers, so the women’s side is photographed from inside the celebration — not over a divider or from the doorway.
It is the timeline we plan around. Kabbalat panim and the tisch run simultaneously, so we split the team; the badeken is choreographed in advance with the planner so the walk, the veiling and the mothers’ faces are all covered; and we protect yichud completely — no cameras, just the two of you.
Yes. Sunday and weekday weddings are our normal rhythm, and for motzei Shabbat celebrations we plan coverage to begin after havdalah. Nothing about observance is a complication to us — it is simply how the day works.
Planning an Orthodox or Jewish wedding in New York? Book a 30-minute call or send us your date — we’ll tell you honestly if it’s open.