Michelle and Clay were an absolute blast to work with. I had the privilege of spending the first few hours of the day with Michelle as she got ready at the Hotel Monaco. The Monaco offers so many great video and photo opportunities, as well as giving you a great space to spend time in while preparing for your wedding day.
Michelle and Clay also took advantage of the city and spent a few hours immediately after the ceremony to take a series of photos at different locations. I would have to say that spending this amount of time with the couple is not only always the highlight of my day, but it also allows for so many great opportunities for photo and video. Hint Hint brides This was my second time shooting a reception at the National Museum of Women in the Artsand it once again proved to be perfect.
Every aspect of this wedding was so AMAZING. From the preparation all the way through to the reception at the Corcoran. I met Denaye and David through my good friends Nicole and Brad from SOTA Dzine (photos below) at the Washingtonian ‘Best Of’ Summer Party. I am so glad I did, they were such a pleasure to work with.
The night before we shot the rehersal dinner on the rooftop terrace restaurant at The Kennedy Center. This was something new for Monachetti, and it was so much fun. Getting the chance to do shoot video for that event helped us feel even more a part of the actual wedding day. I honestly don’t know what I enjoyed more during the day. We spent a lot of time taking pictures with the SOTA team outside in DC and that always helps us get great candid footage (we highly recommend this brides)!
We wanted to say thanks to Denaye and David for such a great time, and wish them the best future together!
I am super excited to bring you this post today! When we did the Dream Wedding, we had the privilege of capturing a beautiful and emotional performance from Van’s sister and cousin during the ceremony. Van and I talked recently about putting together an edit of this performance, and I got to say I was delighted to do so. I asked Van to tell us a little about the performance, so after you take a look, be sure to read what she wrote below.
“Its hard to explain the significance of the song because the peformance was all a surprise to us. It all started when Eric and I decided we wanted Eric’s sister, Andrea, to be the one who marries us. Andrea and I grew particularly close while Eric was deployed– she was always there to comfort me and understood our situation well, being an army wife herself. So while putting together our wedding ceremony, Andrea wanted to personalize the program by incooperating the letters we exchanged during Eric’s deployment and enlisted my talented sister and maid of honor, Bao for musical help. Bao recruited Linh, my cousin, to sing as she accompanied on piano. Andrea told them the general concept, and Bao and Linh put their heads together and selected “Lucky” by Jason Mraz to be a wedding appropriate song but also just the perfect song to describe our story. What they didn’t know at the time is that Eric and I listened to the Jason Mraz CD all the way out to Shenandoah the day he asked me to marry him, so the song selection was perfect.”
Couple (Van and Eric) wins a Celebrity Inspired Wedding from The Wedding Channel and US Magazine and Monachetti was there to cover it! I just got word that they made the video live this morning, so go there now to see what they’ve said about the video and the wedding. Earlier in the summer we announced that we were asked by Amy Shey Jacobs to cover the Dream Wedding. We worked with Amy when we covered the Lisa and Roey wedding (video to come), and she reached out to us as she began to plan this special event. See the prep segment below!
Meet winners Van Ngo and Eric Oberly! Photography by Robert Evans.
Monachetti had the privelage of covering the video for this special event but for more info on all the other amazing people who contributed to make it all happen, check out the links below!
So we’ve been a bit backed up and because so are blogging has been a little behind. However, we have some exciting videos in line to push out, so stay tuned! One of the first is a wedding we were super excited to do. Alexandra contacted me and said that our great friendJustine Ungaro referred her to us. With Justine on board for doing the photography, and a ceremony and reception at the National Musuem of Women in the Arts, we were sure it was going to be a fun night. We put some of the people below who helped make it all come together.
This was my second time shooting a reception at the National Museum of Women in the Arts and it once again proved to be perfect.
