Continuing with my series on my brother-in-law's wedding a week ago, the previous post, "Shogo and Namiko's Wedding: Reception, Part II", many drinks and photo ops gave way to the cutting-of-the cake ceremony, after which the couple were to step out to prepare for the next phase of the event. Part of this "stepping out" involved the bride and groom each being individually escorted out.

Namiko's escort was her mother's mother, and above was when she had gone to collect her granddaughter.

I did a good job with the photo above achieving what I was attempting at the time, which [...]

At the end of "Shogo and Namiko's Wedding: Reception, Part 1", about my brother-in-law's wedding last weekend, guests were swarming the couple to pour them drinks, and this soon turned into a seemingly-unending turn of photo ops.

My hope as a photographer at this wedding was not to document the events (there were more than enough cameras there to handle that), but to get shots that somehow uniquely added to the memory, beyond just a straightforward documentation. I could do this, I hoped, by using my better-than-average equipment and skill to turn a bland shot into something special, and by [...]

Continuing from my earlier posts about my brother-in-law's wedding on Saturday, after the hors d'oeuvre reception, there was the full-on banquet reception.

Update: the crop above was suggested by reader Parv, and indeed it's better of the FOB. I'd also wanted to share a sense of the room, but perhaps there's not much sense gained (so to speak) by avoiding the crop, so I'll use it. For reference, the original version I posted, sans crop, follows...

I was seated at the back end of the front-left table, so again I was happy to be at the edge out of everyone's [...]

Picking up from yesterday's post about my brother-in-law Shogo getting married, after the "chapel wedding" and outside photo ops, we moved inside for a short hors d'oeuvre reception before the main banquet reception.

Soon the couple was whisked away for some backstage preparations or other, and the guests were left to fend for themselves with an open bar and a wide variety of apparently-delicious hors d'oeuvres that I didn't get around to enjoying myself because I preferred to enjoy the camera.

However, the room made it really challenging, with direct sunlight streaming in on one side, over to dark and [...]

Fumie's brother (my brother-in-law), Shogo, got married yesterday, to Namiko Shimoya, in Nagoya Japan.

I was there as a guest, but of course I had my camera, so took a few snapshots (about 1,200). I hold out hope that at least a few came out.

The day's events started with a short ceremony in a Western-esque chapel, then a short hors d'oeuvre reception, then the full-on wedding reception party. I've only glanced at the photos from the first part so far, so that's what I'll present in today's post.

I've written before about Japanese chapel weddings here, though this time [...]