Genevieve Nisly Photography Blog – Cleveland Ohio Wedding Photographers

With close to two years between the date Sean and Keri booked us and the actual wedding date, we had plenty of time to talk plans, schedules and build up a lot of anticipation. Sure enough the wedding exceeded our expectations. It was refreshing to witness such a personal and meaningful ceremony.

Large bridal parties can be hard to organize and photograph but not this group: maybe they have found a side career “bridal party for hire”. It was such a fun and cooperative group. Thanks for the good time and laughs everyone!

Our partners in crime that day include none other than 2nd Mile Productions and Scott Jones from Jerry Bruno

Now here are some of my top picks

And James’

Ryan and Kate’s wedding was the latest installment of what just might be our longest running legacy of referrals, spanning back more than five years. Amy and Chris referred Julie and Bryan who referred Stephanie and Chris who referred Erin and Dave who referred Ryan and Kate. If you dig through the blog long enough, you will probably be able to find all of those weddings, with the exception of Amy and Chris who got married before we started blogging.

What started out as a rainy, gray day broke free form some beautiful weather for photos of the bridal party and family in the flats. We finished the day at one of our favorite reception locations, The Union Club in downtown Cleveland.

One decision that Ryan made that we don’t see that often was to make his Dad the Best Man. I thought that was a really cool idea and speaks a lot about how highly Ryan and Kate regard family.

Some of my favorites:

I have a weakness for timepieces in general.

This is not something that we do very often but Ryan and I kind of hit it off as the day wore on and at the end of the night, Ryan asked for a photo with me. I happened to still be holding the video light from the series of images that we had just created so I just turned it on myself and Ryan.

Some of Genevieve’s favorites:

For Ashley and Nick’s engagement session, I got to travel out to a part of Ohio that I don’t end up in very often; Kent, Ohio. Ashley and Nick first met while attending Kent State, so it only made sense to use the campus and downtown area for their engagement session.

Evidently, one of Kent State’s long standing traditions involves a large rock which students and alumni are free to paint, spray paint, and decorate as they wish. Considering the one or two inch think layer of paint on the rock, it must be a long standing tradition. Ashley and Nick arrived early and with the help of a brother, completely white-washed the rock to give them a nice clean canvas to write their wedding date on for the save the date cards. I love it when people get creative on how to personalize things about their wedding.

Arabella enjoyed a solo portrait session without her two brother in honor of her birthday. This little girl is so expressive. I’m sure her mom sees even more variety than the stern to giggly expressions I captured during the session. Happy birthday cutie!

One of the hardest parts about shooting Rupesh and Ajanta’s wedding was trying to keep the number of blog images down to a reasonable number. With so much going on, and so many things to photograph, this blog post could go on an on for several pages. Even though the festivities officially began four or five days earlier, and were set to continue the following weekend in Texas, we were able to meet up with Ajanta and Rupesh for the climax of the wedding celebration; the baraat, ceremony, and the formal reception, all taking place at the Renaissance Hotel in downtown Cleveland.

We were lucky to get the baraat in before all of Cleveland was pummeled by on heck of a thunderstorm, which we all got to enjoy from the safety of a hotel suite between the ceremony and reception. After the ceremony, and after everyone had changed into their evening attire, we had a chance to jump back outside for a few photos on Public Square before sky started to threaten again.

We were both very grateful for how welcoming Ajanta, Rupesh, and their families were to us. They made us feel quite at ease amongst the whirlwind of transitions and customs that were for the most part foreign to us.

Enough talk, on to the images! First off, Genevieve’s handful of favorites:

And James’ favorites:

Congratulations guys, better try to rest up for next weekend!