Engagement Session Part 1; Shuchi Desai and Ari Reddy.

I have been wanting to post these images for a while now, and finally got to it on the weekend of Shuchi and Ari's wedding.  The festivities begin today.  Very excited to be honored with the task of photographing their BIG day!

Serenata, The Serenade, Rome; Italy.

The serenade.  It is common for the man to serenade the woman before he proposes marriage to her.  He either performs the serenade himself or enlists the help of his musically-inclined friends.  Often he will ask her father for his daughter’s hand in marriage before proposing to her.

Paolo & Paola, our friends from Roma, took us to their friend's Serenade.  It was in a small town, about an hour from Rome.  While the Groom serenades his Wife-to-be, with classic Italian tunes, a friend takes up a single red rose to her.  When she throws the rose off the balcony to her love below, she has accepted his proposal.  Ahhh Love...

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