It’s been almost a whole year since Adam and Lila were last in front of our cameras. There have been so many life changes since their incredible engagement session. They each have new jobs. Lila is working at Visa (yes, THAT Visa) and Adam has returned to the Senate. They bought a house in the city, adopted an adorable puppy, are raising rabbits, and GOT MARRIED!
A lot of crazy things also happened in the wedding industry last year, too. Far more destructive than the actual pandemic, forced shutdowns drove 40-50% of small businesses serving the wedding industry to close permanently. And right in the middle of it all, Lila and Adam were planning their wedding. They missed out on their dream wedding venue, booked another venue, lost THAT venue, then the venue they had originally wanted had a cancellation and they were able to snatch up the new date before it disappeared again - but tragically, we were already contracted for another wedding on the new date. They had to go find another photography team for their wedding day.
As badly as we wanted to be there for their wedding, we had taken consolation in the hope that they had found some amazing local photographers in D.C. to serve them well. A few months later, they got their wedding photos back. They were, well… awful. Unusable. They were so embarrassingly bad, the pictures never saw the light of day. It broke our hearts. As soon as we found out what happened, we started making plans to come to D.C. Even if we couldn’t reclaim their wedding day, we hoped we could at least give them some wedding portraits that they loved and were worthy of their beautiful and unique D.C. love story.
And that’s exactly what happened. At the Lincoln Memorial, at the crack of dawn, in almost freezing temperatures, they got dressed back up in their wedding dress and tux. And they had such a good time being able to soak up some more beautiful moments as husband and wife, reclaim their wedding memories and get cheered and congratulated by strangers all over again. 🥳 Lila even brought their wedding details with them - the invitation suite; her beautiful Korean norigae wedding tassel wrapped around the bouquet that her and Adam had assembled themselves the night before; and of course their wedding bands with her engagement ring, which seems self-evident but their other photographers had not even bothered to take a photo of them on their wedding day.
Adam & Lila have a flair for the unique. Their engagement session was the first and ONLY time anyone has ever been allowed to take engagement photos in the Senate Finance Committee hearing room. And while many, many couples have taken wedding portraits at the Lincoln Memorial, and much fewer have done it at sunrise—but have you ever seen it done with REAL LIVE ADORABLE PET RABBITS? I bet not. ðŸ¤
Enjoy some of these highlights from their sunrise session at the Lincoln Memorial!
