Venue guides
We are writing a photographer’s field guide to every wedding venue we would happily work in, city by city. Each guide covers the light, the timing and the frames that work – and says plainly where we are drawing on craft rather than on having shot there.
Ten thousand rose bushes on a west-facing terrace with the city and Mount Hood behind. Spectacular in June, and the busiest ceremony spot in Portland. The honest answers.
Read the guideAn 1892 Renaissance Revival mansion in red brick with cast-iron detailing, on Columbia Square, operating as a small luxury inn.
Read the guideBuilt 1807 on Munjoy Hill, an octagonal maritime signal tower — the last surviving one in the United States — with views over Portland and Casco Bay.
Read the guideA 1924 dance hall in Tulsa, long the home of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, with a sprung maple dancefloor and a music-venue interior.
Read the guideA museum built within the ruins of a flour mill on the Minneapolis riverfront, combining weathered brick, steel and open courtyards.
Read the guideA Louisville factory museum — production space and gallery under one roof, lit for two different purposes.
Read the guideOpened 1923, a Georgian Revival hotel in downtown Louisville with an elaborately plastered lobby and a Crystal Ballroom on an upper floor.
Read the guideBotanical gardens within White River State Park in downtown Indianapolis, with a glass conservatory and formal planted grounds.
Read the guideFour joined townhouses on Mount Vernon Place remodelled by Stanford White for Mary Garrett — Tiffany glass, carved woodwork and Baltimore's largest Gilded Age interior.
Read the guideOpened 1927 in downtown Omaha as a vaudeville and movie palace, restored in the 1970s, with gilded plasterwork, chandeliers, a proscenium stage and a balcony.
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