Wedding

Lizzy and Max's Bomoseen Lake Vermont Wedding

As a NY based wedding photographer, it’s a real treat to photograph a simple Vermont Summer Wedding.

In the southern part of Vermont’s Green Mountains sits Lake Bomoseen Lodge and Taproom. The lodge features an unobstructed view of the pristine undeveloped lake and its simple accommodations. The lake is perfect for paddling and small watercraft; an ideal backdrop for their wedding. For Max and Lizzy’s wedding day, the waters of Lake Bomoseen were almost mirror-like in the morning and throughout the day.

Where to get married in Vermont? … Where to get married period.

Lizzy and Max chose Lake Bomoseen Lodge because it would be a mini-vacation for both of their families and their guests after a year of quarantine. Lizzy’s family travelled from Rochester, NY and Max’s family from Central New Jersey. Neither family would have the “home field advantage” as Lizzy informed me.

A full wedding weekend.

The weekend kicked off lake side with a family barbecue at Lake Bomoseen Lodge and Tap Room on Friday night. Guests arrived from all over the northeast as the smell of BBQ, bonfire, and s’mores filled the air. The next morning, Family and friends gathered early in the morning for water-sports, while the girls started to get ready.

Venue: Lake Bomoseen Lodge

Bomoseen Lake Vermont Wedding Welcome BBQ

What it means to be a NYC Wedding Photographer.

The weekend kicked off lake side with a family barbecue at Lake Bomoseen Lodge and Tap Room on Friday night. Guests arrived from all over the northeast as the smell of BBQ, bonfire, and s’mores filled the air. Just like many wedding weekends, I started photographing before the wedding day. As a NYC Wedding Photographer and destination photographer, I love documenting wedding weekends as much as I love photographing a single wedding day. Photographing the full weekend, starting with the rehearsal dinner tells the whole story of your wedding. The moments outside of your ceremony and reception provide a ton of amazing and fun photos where guests are relaxed, and comfortable in their regular every day clothing.

Why should you have a Wedding Rehearsal Dinner Photographer?

If you google “Wedding Photographers” you’ll most often see “Wedding Rehearsal Dinner Photographer” as well. The best way to describe your search result is the following analogy, “you wouldn’t turn your car on in 0* weather and crank it up to 100mph all at once. Your car needs time to warmup.” Photographing a wedding for a wedding photographer is very similar. A wedding photographer needs some time to get to know everyone and see who is who. This is super helpful on your wedding day as your photographer will already know or have a sense of who the cousins are, the grandparents, siblings, and bridal party.

Jacek and Sarah's Wedding at the Triple B Ranch

I was very excited to photograph Jacek and Sarah’s wedding at the Triple B Ranch in Rutherfordton, NC. They chose the Trip B Ranch, an AirBNB, for their super intimate wedding with just their family, so they could all spend the weekend together. The venue located in the mountains of North Carolina not too far from Asheville and Charlotte, provided beautiful venues, amenities, and pre-wedding activities; hiking, shooting clays, a fully stocked game room.

North Carolina spring time wedding photography is not dependent on weather.

When planning a wedding months in advanced you never know what type of weather you’ll get. However, Jacek and Sarah chose perfectly. It was sunny, warm, and not humid at all in western North Carolina for their mid April wedding. The couple, from Upstate New York, thought about selecting a venue close to where they live, but even in mid-April New York can still receive snow. They wanted their wedding to be outside in the open air, and have the reception indoors as the evening cooled down.

wedding photography is about capturing a story. as a wedding photographer it is my job to capture all of the moments and all of the details. no moment, no detail is too small to not photograph. these details make your wedding unique and you as a couple unique.


As their wedding photographer, I was hired to document their wedding day as it unfolded. Sarah, the bride, chose us, Jonathan Heisler Photography, because she did not want being photographed to be the main focus of the day. I respected that and captured things as they happened, and gave instruction when appropriate.

Prior the wedding day, I knew what the couple wanted photographed on their wedding day; the bride getting ready, details, ceremony, family photos, candids, romantic photos of just the couple. Jacek and Sarah’s wedding at the end of COVID, as everyone was finally vaccinated, finally brought us all some normalcy.

Congrats!

Kris and Alina Wedding - Nassau Inn Princeton, NJ

Alina and Kris knew their wedding was going to be simple, elegant, and stress free: there would be no bridesmaids and groomsmen, there would be only close friends and family, and there would be plenty of delicious dessert. Their wedding at the Nassau Inn, located in the heart of Princeton, New Jersey adjacent to Princeton University proved to be the perfect venue for their fall wedding.

wedding photographers often highlight the over the top elements and miss the subtle little details.

Just family and a few friends is what Kris and Alina said. 45 people people at their wedding in Princeton, NJ was the perfect recipe for a great time with their closest family members and friends. A great weekend for a wedding and a great place for a wedding. The hotel, weekend activities for guests, and the venue were all perfect.

Venue: Nassau Inn

Church: MOGOC

Lisa + Ralph Long Island Backyard Wedding

“Simple. We’re really simple and we’re an easy going couple, Jonathan. We don’t want flashy! We’re going to have BBQ, so please eat, and our friend’s band will play. It’ll be fun!”, is exactly what Lisa told me over the phone back in February. Post wedding, I 100% agree.

Any wedding with dogs is a GREAT wedding in my book!

Location: Mt. Sinai, NY - Lisa and Ralph’s Backyard

Mark + Robyn Ketubah Signing

Venue: Kimpton Hotel Eventi

One hot summer Friday evening in July I met Robyn and Mark in their beautiful hotel room at the Eventi Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. Robyn and Mark, with family at their sides were busy getting ready. They were about to start their wedding weekend by signing a very important license signifying their marriage through Jewish law and tradition.