Connecticut Wedding Photographer Bruce Plotkin

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Welcome To Our New Blog!

I'm truly excited to welcome you to our new bigger, better, brighter, bolder, did I say better, BLOG. Long in the planning, finally it's here. And what better timing, than with the recent announcement by the Knot that we've been once again included in their Best of Weddings issue, selected by our very own brides and grooms as one of the Northeast's top wedding professionals. What an honor for us, but truly a testament to the many wonderful couples that we've had the good fortune to meet, who've allowed us into their lives on their most special of days, and with whom we've truly developed life-long friendships. Thanks to all of them, and thanks for taking a peak at our new site. I hope you'll continue to follow the action (which will of course encourages us to post the newest and the latest on a regular basis) and I hope that you'll let us know what you think of what we're doing. Peace and best wishes, Bruce

A Brief History

You might say that it all began with a certain very distinctive fragrance creeping up the stairs from the basement. You see my dad-the infamous and beloved and talented Sid Plotkin-was a wedding and portrait photographer for more than forty years in Worcester, Massachusetts, my home town. In addition to having his studio over the garage, his office and darkroom were in the basement. And while it was far from an everyday occurrence, every time he'd mix that sepia toner to make those beautiful brown-toned prints, the smell was not unlike rotten eggs. And while this may sound like a rather inauspicious manner of being drawn into the family business, something about knowing that at those key moments "magic" was happening downstairs clearly made a lasting impression. Miles travelled and years later, having spent considerable time as a magazine and advertising photographer in New York, having shot covers for the likes of Time and Us News and World Reports, the wheels have come full circle. For the last decade I've had the unique privilege of photographing hundreds of wedding celebrations, sharing in the lives and stories of countless brides and grooms at the start of their extraordinary journeys. The magic happens every weekend and my thrill is being there to record the moments when it does. As famed director Mike Nichols told Vanity Fair Magazine in talking about the making of "The Graduate", "There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love".

Jeannette and Sean’s Winter Wedding

Tuesday, March 23, 2010 Posted in Weddings

Sometimes it can be all in the timing. Before there was the great nor’easter of last weekend that soaked New England with rain and wind, left homes without power for days and schools closed for the week, there was the equally exciting nor’easter at the end of February (how quickly we forget) that hit NYC and vicinity with record breaking snow fall. And it was in the aftermath of this great storm, starting on Thursday and lasting well into Friday, that we found ourselves heading to the City for Jeannette and Sean’s Saturday wedding extravaganza. The storm had subsided, the sun was out, the clean up had begun. Destination Brooklyn and the house where Jeannette grew up and was getting ready for her wedding day.

But first a little bit about Jeannette and Sean. They first met through mutual friends at a bar in the City and then a week later again at a Christmas party in Staten Island, where Sean grew up. As they were leaving the party (separately) and Jeannette and her friends were deciding where to go next, Jeannette declared, somewhat in jest I gather, “I don’t know where you guys are going, but I’m going wherever Sean Driscoll is going” (check out the poster on the front door of her dad’s house), not just once but several times. Funny to all at the time, but by their first real date back in 2002, back in the city at City Crab, it quickly became obvious to all their friends that following Sean Driscoll was exactly what was going to happen. First moving to Staten Island, then to Baltimore and finally back to New York just in time for their wedding day.

With the sun shining and Brooklyn covered in that beautiful white snow that never lasts for more than a day or two in the City before turning grey or melting, and somehow their friends and family all making it to both their ceremony and ultimately to their reception an hour away (that became two) in New Jersey, the day was truly a celebration of the fact that Jeannette and Sean’s life together continues to be an adventure, never without a high degree of excitement, not always within their control, but always going” wherever Sean” (and Jeannette) Driscoll choose to take it.

Congratulations to both of you, J&S. Thanks for including us in your journey.