Blog - Brian Hatton Weddings - NYC Wedding Photographer

When the inquiry came in, I almost didn't answer it. A full day booking for a Monday in December has a certain too-good-to-be-true shape to it, and between the volume of blast emails photographers get, I've learned to be wary. I asked my wife if I should even bother responding. She told me to just answer the email. Good call — Emily and Anthony were about as real as it gets, ...

The Roundhouse sits right on Fishkill Creek in Beacon, old brick and timber wrapped around a waterfall loud enough to hear from the cocktail patio. Joanna got ready in the penthouse suite — mid-century sunburst chandelier, concrete beams, that low golden light sheer curtains do around midday — while her hair and makeup team worked through the room one chair at a time.

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The New York Athletic Club sits at the southeast corner of Central Park — 180 Central Park South — and it does not understate itself. The ballroom has a coffered and painted ceiling that runs the full length of the room, a dozen chandeliers, and windows that look directly into the park. It's the kind of room that sets an expectation for the evening before anyone sits down.

Some ceremonies feel written for their setting, and this one was. As the sun dropped low over the Somerset County hills, mist settling into the valley below, Jamie and Jordan stood beneath a chuppah heavy with garden roses, hydrangea, and delphinium, the kind of arrangement that looked like it had grown there. Rabbi Ethan Prosnit officiated, guests in yarmulkes filling rows o...

Jen and Nate started the day at Hunters Point South Park, out on the cantilevered pathway that seems to stretch straight across the East River, the Williamsburg Bridge towers rising up behind them and the skyline stacked in the distance — the kind of backdrop that makes a simple hand-in-hand walk look like something out of a film. From there the wedding party regrouped at Dom...