A little over a week ago I had the pleasure of temporarily working for Entertainment Television, better known as E!.
More specifically, one of their subsidiary stations, The Style Network.
More specifically than that, the show “Whose Wedding Is It Anyway?”.
You can read about the show, watch clips, and keep up with the summer schedule by clicking here.
They were shooting a show in Rhode Island at the Providence Biltmore Hotel and I was lucky enough to photograph it. It was my first wedding working with a 15 person film crew. It was both awesome and stressful at the same time.
Basically the show selects a couple and usually keeps one or two people in the loop throughout the wedding plans, but in this case, the bride was not one of those people. She had no idea she was getting married until 4 days before when they completely surprised her! I know, sounds crazy, but for all you brides out there, I think you’d get over it when they say “oh and by the way, everything is now free”.
And not just free… totally upgraded. This couple was going to have a $25,000 wedding, but instead they get a $150,000 wedding, an awesome experience, and it’s all captured on film!
I treated the photography for the day like any other wedding, except I had to make sure I wasn’t getting in the way of any important shots for the show, and I had to avoid getting any cameramen or sound guys in my shots… which as you can see from the photo below, was almost impossible for wide angle shots.
But overall an awesome experience. I guess I’ve got style after all. The show will air sometime late this summer. I’ll be getting an exact date from the producer sometime within the next few weeks and I’ll update with another post. Until next time…
Not a great photo, but you can see all three cameramen and a couple of sound guys in this one:
The cake and table settings:
The bride and her flowers:
All the flowers:
The director having a little fun with a stressed out bride:
The lovely couple:
And the couple with their director:
HI GREGORY,THESE PHOTOS YOU TOOK, ARE BEAUTIFUL. I CANNOT WAIT TO SEE MORE. MICHAEL AND JENN CRUGNALE, ARE A SPECIAL COUPLE. NOT BECAUSE WERE FAMILY, BUT THEY TRUELY ARE. A HUGE THANK YOU, FOR TAKING PART, IN MAKING THIS COUPLES DAY, A SUCCESS IN PICTURES. I HOPE YOU HAD A PLEASANT VISIT WITH US R.I. PEOPLE. IF AT ALL YOU HAVE A EXTRA PHOTO OF THIS HANDSOME COUPLE, PLEASE SEND IT TO ME. IT WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED. THANK YOU, SINCERELY, DONNA CRUGNALE ETHIER
greg omg thank you so much for this it is great and the picture are beautiful……..you are awesome!!!!
my sons wedding was great
You Did a fantastic job in these pics as far as im concerned. & as for Jenn & Mike you guys were both STUNNING… ♥ i love you both & wish you many years of happiness…
the pictures are beautiful..keep us up dated