Love and Marriage: Our Policy on Same-Sex Weddings

Marriage isn't a piece of paper, or even just a celebration. Marriage is a path through life, a promise to take those steps with your partner through the good times and the bad.

Last week, the president took a step toward opening that path to all couples. At Ryan Richardson Photography, we'd like to reaffirm our support for all couples that want to share the rest of their lives together - whether their wedding has a bride and groom, two brides or two grooms.

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Brewster Wedding: Sarah and Tom

Late March is risky for a Cape Cod Wedding, but as Sarah and Tom stood in front of their gathered family and friends at the Brewster Ladies' Library they knew it had been a risk worth taking.

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5 Things Your Photographer Must Know About Your Wedding

Last week we looked at what brides should be asking their photographers, so this week we're turning the tables. While at their heart, most weddings are the same, each couple has their own spin on the traditions that come together and make their celebration so special. With that in mind, your photographer needs to know a few things headed into your wedding in order to provide the best coverage of this important milestone.

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5 Questions for Your Wedding Photographer and Why You Should Ask Them

What questions should you ask your wedding photographer? Lists as long as your arm float around on blogs and in wedding magazines, often hastily cribbed and recycled from one another. Most of the questions tend toward the obscure and the meaningless, just to pad out the experience a little bit more.

The truth is that there are only five truly important questions you need to ask your wedding photographer. More importantly, I'll let you know what answers you should be looking for to help you separate the wheat from the chaff.

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Let Them Eat Cake

The wedding cake is often the zenith of our pastry experience. Birthday cakes come and go, but it's not often in our lives that we lavish so much attention and thought into one confection. Whether a cake is modern and elegant, Rococo or fuly of whimsy, a great wedding cake will leave a lasting impression on your wedding day.

In fairness, I might be biased (sometimes I like to think of myself as a professional cake-eater who takes pictures, rather than a wedding photographer). Still, the wedding cake stands tall amidst our wedding traditions in New England even as others wax and wane with fashions. A wedding cake also looks amazing nestled amidst a wedding a album, a tower and edible work of art amidst the thousand other details that make up a wedding.

So how do you get the most out of your wedding cake?

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