It was such an honor to be a part of Deanna and Dave’s wedding. Not only did I get to  go to  Waikiki Hawaii but I got to go with  amazing people. Everyone knows and loves Susanne Cutuli from Susanne’s Weddings, it’s an exclusive wedding floral shop in Hampstead NH across the street from The Granite Rose function facility. The wedding was for her daughter Deanna and wow, we had an incredible time.

We did an engagement session on the beach, a bachelor / bachelorette party in the city, an authentic Hawaiian Luau on New Years Eve then finally the ceremony on the beach on the first day of 2010.

One of the really neat things that caught my attention was the Blue Moon in Hawaii on New Years Eve. I was photographing the night time part of the Luau by adjusting the kelvin temperature color balance to around 2500k to match the incandescent lighting of the stage spotlights. Incandescent is naturally much cooler than direct sunlight which is around 5200k so when the sun reflected off the full moon, it actually appeared to look blue! Once in a blue moon!

I took the second to last photo at the Shorebird Restaurant. It’s my new happy place.

Dee and Dave will be having a reception a month after back here in New Hampshire at Zorvino Vineyards.