This year started off with a “first” for me since I had an assignment in Paris to photograph a couple on their honeymoon.  Wedding photos on your honeymoon is slightly unusual.  Linda and Johnny contacted me the middle of last year about their plans to have a quiet wedding ceremony in Amsterdam (yes, they are Dutch) on December 31st which most of their friends and family didn’t know about.  They were then heading to Paris for their honeymoon and wanted to do their wedding portraits there.  Paris was in the middle of an extreme cold snap with temperatures at zero degrees celsius during the holiday week, but we were fortunate that the sun came out for the morning to help warm things up. What we didn’t count on was Linda and Johnny being something of a tourist attraction during the session. They ended up in countless tourists’ vacation photos and at one point had an Italian school group sing to them in the courtyard of the Louvre and mob them to congratulate them (see below).

To any bride getting married in the winter you might want to take note of Linda’s smart use of long johns under her wedding dress.

Locations: The Louvre, Pont Neuf, Eiffel Tower