Connecticut Wedding Photographer Bruce Plotkin

What a magical place New York City can be to get married. And on a beautiful September evening, on the rooftop terrace at the Bryant Park Grill, overlooking fabulous Bryant Park, The New York Public Library and the ever exciting New York sky line, Keri and Jon recited their vows.

They met at NYU Medical school, introduced by friends who knew that they both had gone to University of Michigan, but had never met. Four years later, Dr. and Dr. chose this quintessentially New York venue to celebrate with family and friends. Keri, dressed in her amazing Vera Wang gown (and with bridesmaids in Amsale), with flowers by Belle Fleur and their totally rocking band The Groove Shop, theirs was a wedding day we’ll all remember.

The stars were in perfect alignment for our good friends Jen and Tim on the day of their wedding this past October. The rain, which had been threatening all week, held off long enough for the folks at Sperry Tents to pitch their beautiful tent in New Haven’s Edgerton Park, and by the wedding day, there was no rain at all. Their ceremony took place at The Church of St. Mary in downtown New Haven, perhaps the prettiest church I’ve ever seen. With catering by Barcelona (how could you go wrong?), music by the simply outrageous Cafe Wha’s House Band, flowers by Sharon Elizabeth, wedding cake by the extraordinary Hope Wright-Martell of A Little Imagination Cakes, Jen in her amazing Lilly Pulitzer “Lindsey” gown by Beth Chapman of White Dress by the Shore and Traci Garceau of 25 Thompson coordinating the entire day, it was everything they could have hoped for. A honor, of course, to have been included in their celebration, and an added bonus having the chance to hang with some of Jen and Tim’s good friends, who we’re lucky enough to call our friends as well.

A story certainly worth retelling. They met on the tennis courts at Fairfield University. She was the captain of the team her junior and senior years, ranked # 1. He was the captain of the men’s team. They met on her very first day of college (he was a junior). It took nearly two years before they were actually able to find the time to get to really know each other, and from that point on they were (and remain) inseparable.

Against that backdrop, and all of a decade later, Diana and Sean tied the knot this past summer at Our Lady of Assumption Church in Fairfield, Ct. And of course from there we had to make a stop off at Fairfield U for a few pictures of the two of them and their wedding party before heading down to Westport and their celebration at The Inn at Longshore. Diana, ravishing in her Monique Lhuillier gown, on a beautiful evening on the Long Island sound, with the simply elegant decor by Flowers by Danielle, and the typically perfect production by the fine folks at Longshore, with the music provided by Paul Lacano from James Daniel, the evening was truly a grand slam for all. One more time, my warmest congrats to Diana and Sean!

We last visited Alyssa and Kevin for their engagement shoot on the streets of DC, part two of our Adventures in DC post, but all of the excitement and anticipation was building for their late October wedding at the beautiful Inn at Church Landing on the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee. We drove up on Thursday in what was, at times, a blinding rain storm, and drove home on Saturday, with rain that turned into snow and became the infamous New England October blizzard of ’11, but Friday, their wedding day, was a day that was about as sunny and glorious as it gets in northern New England in late October.

With cocktails lakeside under their Sperry Tent, Alyssa, in her exquisite Anne Barge gown by The Plumed Serpent, and music provided by the rocking First Class Band, it was truly a weekend to remember. Two wonderful families joined together for one perfect celebration. And we have the photos to prove it!