This post has been a long time in coming. The embargo has ended.

I was quite flattered a few months back when Susan Graham (a local wedding coordinator who I have blogged about many times) asked if I could do her a favor — but I had to keep it a secret. Her and Sean were going to elope and get married in Mexico and they wanted me to come along and photograph it. As the mid-January date got closer they did end up telling their close friends and family but it was still a surprise to most people. But that meant that I couldn’t show the images until they had their big reception party this past weekend. I thought I’d wait a few more days so I could incorporate the reception images into the slideshow.

I had a blast in Mexico pal’ing around with Tom from SCG Productions (definitely one of the better video houses in Atlanta). It was quite an experience having Susan and Sean to ourselves for the better part of a week with some incredible scenery to play with, incredible hospitality everywhere we went and summer weather in January.

If you’re impatient ** CLICK HERE ** to view the slideshow! There’s just too many images to share so I think I am going to break them up into a few posts but here are a few to start with. I’m telling ya.. it’s tough when you have scenery like this everywhere you go…

We got started at the Hacienda Puerta Campeche in Campeche, Mexico which is about 2 hours south of Merida on the east side of the Yucatan peninsula. A few details…can you really go wrong when it says Tiffany’s on the box?

For the ceremony Susan and Sean had chosen Hacienda Uayamon, which is a collection of Haciendas situated among anchient Mayan ruins. The staff had lit the area with torches and candles we all joked that we had accidentally walked onto the set of Survivor. You’ll see more images from Uayamon tomorrow…back to the ceremony. By mid-way through the ceremony it was basically dark and the glow from the candlelight was the perfect ambiance…

(for you photogs out there, the last half of the ceremony was shot at ISO 3200, f/2.8 @ 1/20 sec.)

The next day we got more shots and even went back to the place where the ceremony was the day before. I’ll post those next time…

Katie Torres and Matt Yung were on hand to help me out at the reception and they got some stellar images. They had it rough eating some of the finest Mexican food Bold American can offer and sipping margaritas.

Check out these images from Matt…

Katie rocked too, even if she still shoots Nikons (sorry, dorky photographer humor there)…

Isn’t that mariachi just amazing???

Oh yeah… I took pictures at the reception too. Did I mention that it was at the tré cool King Plow Arts Center?

Cheers!

Ben

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