Stephanie and Spencer were married at Cipriani 42nd Street, the former Bowery Savings Bank on East 42nd. The room does most of the work: sixty-five foot ceilings, marble columns and a light that turns warm the moment the candles go on.We photograph a room like this the way we photograph any other, by staying out of the way and waiting. The building is the setting, not the subject.

Stephanie and Spencer, married under the vaulted ceilings of Cipriani 42nd Street.

Cipriani 42

Elizabeth and Michael married at the American Museum of Natural History, with dinner served in the Hall of Ocean Life under the blue whale. The bride wore a vintage Valentino gown that was later featured in Vogue.The day ran from a quiet morning of getting ready through to a portrait session that took in the museum halls and, briefly, the subway platform underneath it.

Elizabeth and Michael, beneath the whale in the Hall of Ocean Life. The gown, a vintage Valentino, was later featured in Vogue.

Museum of Natural History

Jenna and Jeff were married at the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue. Astor Hall in the early evening is all stone and shadow, which suits a camera far better than it suits the eye.

Jenna and Jeff, married among the stone and the reading lamps on Fifth Avenue.

New York Public Library

Elizabeth and Kyle were married at The Plaza. A hotel wedding gives you a whole building to work with, and the best frames of the day are usually the ones found in a corridor between two scheduled moments.

Elizabeth and Kyle, at the corner of Fifth and Central Park South.

The Plaza Hotel

Brian and Sebastian were married at The Rainbow Room on the sixty-fifth floor of 30 Rockefeller Plaza, with the evening produced by Colin Cowie. The room revolves, the city sits below it, and by the end of the night both are part of the picture.

Brian and Sebastian, sixty-five floors above Rockefeller Center, with Colin Cowie.

The Rainbow Room

Katie Couric and John Molner were married at a private home in the Hamptons. A wedding at a house rather than a venue moves at its own pace, which is usually the best thing that can happen to the photographs.

Katie Couric and John Molner, married at a private home on the East End.

A Hamptons Home

The Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild sits on the narrowest part of the Cap Ferrat headland with water on both sides, which means the light changes character several times between the ceremony and the last dance.Destination weddings are photographed across the whole stay rather than the single day, so the pictures include the arrivals, the dinners either side, and the mornings in between.

A wedding on the Cap Ferrat headland, in the gardens above the Mediterranean.

Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild

Kylie and Alex were married at La Posta Vecchia, a seventeenth-century house on the Tyrrhenian coast an hour outside Rome. The wedding was featured in Vogue.

Kylie and Alex, married on the coast outside Rome. Featured in Vogue.

La Posta Vecchia

Erin and Jeff were married at Rock House on Harbour Island. The island is three miles long, the sand is genuinely pink at either end of the day, and almost everything worth photographing happens outdoors.

Erin and Jeff, on the pink sand at Harbour Island.

Rock House

Lauren and Keith were married at The Everglades Club at the end of Worth Avenue. The Addison Mizner architecture gives you arched loggias and courtyards, and a Florida evening gives you about twenty minutes of the light you actually want.

Lauren and Keith, married on Worth Avenue in Palm Beach.

The Everglades Club

Ellie and Mark were married at Cedar Lakes Estate, where the whole party stays on site and the wedding spreads across a weekend rather than an afternoon. That extra time is where most of the honest pictures come from.

Ellie and Mark, over a weekend in the Hudson Valley.

Cedar Lakes Estate

Alongside weddings the studio photographs families and couples while they travel, in Anguilla and elsewhere. It is the same approach as a wedding day, without the schedule.

Destination portraiture in the Caribbean.

Anguilla

An engagement session photographed on a hike upstate. These are the most useful two hours a couple can spend before a wedding, because it is where they get used to being photographed and we get used to them.

An engagement session walked out through the woods upstate.

Hudson Valley

An engagement session photographed ahead of the wedding. Sessions like this are included with most of the studio's wedding collections, and the frames from them go on to become save-the-dates and the opening spread of the album.

Van Metre

An engagement session photographed ahead of the wedding day, and the first time most couples find out what it is like to have a camera on them for an afternoon.