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Greetings!

I am desperately in love with people in love and I want to photograph this phenomenon in every form, against every backdrop this earth has to offer. I am a documentarian of the nuance, essence, and the perfectly positioned spontaneous moments that describe what deep love makes people. I also love my Husband, my cats, a bunny, dresses from Anthropologie and the summertime. I so very long for a Bulldog, and eventually, perhaps, some wide open spaces... maybe a chicken coop. And some pigs. But for now I'll have to do with my struggling-to-live garden of herbs on my too shady porch. Mojitos, I say - before the mint goes bad!

Many things. Thank you for being here.


For all photo inquiries, email me at contact{at}punambean.com. For all other inquiries or comments, email me at weddings{at}punambean.com

Caroline + Sungho; married!

It’s always so sweet when I get to shoot weddings within a family. Sungho, Donna’s brother, and Caroline are amazing together. It was pretty much the most laid back and relaxed wedding day I think I’ve ever been a part of, and believe me, that’s really saying a lot. Most of my brides ad grooms are pretty laid back, and for that I am thankful. But even on this Saturday, there was a lot of time to relax, and also, for hilarity to ensue in the form of goofy mustaches.

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Luckily it only rained for a few minutes, but yikes!

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There is one mustache here that I think is a little borderline WWII.

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Sungho’s Mother is one of the most glamourous mother of the Groom I’ve ever met!caroline and sung hocaroline and sung ho

Jennifer + Mark; engaged! …then married!

You may remember Tiffany and Jared. Well, Jennifer, Tiffany’s sister, and Mark, her man, got engaged just days after Tiffany’s Jamaica wedding. I’m so excited and honored that they chose me as their photographer, too, for their wedding in the Riviera Maya in a couple of weeks! Time flies!! 

Their union last Monday was a perfect example of the extremely efficient process of getting hitched in New York City. I was supposed to meet them in the morning and it turned out that they forgot to get the marriage license! Woops! So the first item on the list was to take a number, and Mark’s sister was kind enough to wait in line for our number to be called while we went around and took some photos. Then it turned out that they had to petition to a judge at the courthouse next door to get married on that day because Mark’s sister was in town from Chicago, so they wouldn’t have to wait the mandatory 24 hour period. And so, while I took a nap sitting up in City Hall Park (I was a little tired - I had just shot Cailen and Sean’s engagement session that morning and had woken up at 5am), they managed to get everything taken care of in a surprisingly short amount of time. And as cranky and cold as many New York City officials can be, you really have to hand it to them that they run a tight ship. A tight, and cranky ship.

In any case, it was great to get out with these lovely folks - and I’ll be shooting their wedding on 4 of July weekend, and I’m so stoked to see Tiffany and Jared again, and to hang out with their lovely and fashionably well dressed family!

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I was completely salivating over Jennifer’s AMAZING shoes!!!

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Cailen + Sean; engaged!

First of all, Cailen and Sean are great sports. They flew in from Chicago for their engagement session, and with a limited window we were able to make do with a (sort of) sunrise session last Monday morning. Unfortunately, when they arrived at my place at 6 am, it was a downpour so torrential that I wasn’t sure I could make do, and so we decided to start the day off at my local diner for breakfast, with the hopes that the skies would clear. I was so glad to share the early morning with these two lovely people that Husbone and I will be spending a lot of time with, when we shoot their wedding at her uncles AMAZING chateau in France, this September. And ok. France is my favorite country, and I’m pretty much having seizures of excitement that we get to shoot a wedding there. And now, I think I might vomit, I’m so excited that Cailen and Sean are up for my vintage inspired day after shoot through the wiles of France!!! And NOW I am vomiting, having seizures and passing out while doing jumping jacks with excitement that these two are so amazingly awesome, in love and fantastic, and will be so in my favorite country, as I make pictures beside my favorite person (that would be Husbone!). So yeah. Awesome.

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Melissa + Paul; married!

Melissa and Paul. They met at a bar in London, and little did Melissa know that it would make her into a Londoner. Melissa and Paul are a couple of extremely beautiful people, and their wedding was a blast. And umm.. GORGEOUS, with amazing views of Manhattan glittering over the river all day long, on a rare lucky sunny day in this rainy rainy June. I’m so lucky that I get to shoot these beautiful weddings among all these beautiful people!!

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Nina + Mark; married!

Whew!

Nina and Mark. Sadly, we never quite had the time for an engagement session, but I look forward to their friendship in the future. What lovely, in love people. It was one of those, where we just hit it off completely and found ourselves a few drinks in a few hours later than planned. And that was just the first meeting - they hadn’t even hired me yet! They are the best kind of couple I ever get to work with, and I feel honored to have been a part of this emotional, beautiful day.

Did I mention Nina is GORGEOUS!!?

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A Raffle!

I’m so excited to be putting in an offering for a raffle tomorrow at a get together hosted by Vané Broussard from Brooklyn Bride for the Brooklyn Pop Up Chapel Series, tomorrow, June 13th, from 6-10pm!

The Prize!!:

A one hour engagement session with yours truly, the DVD of proofs from your session and a framed 8×10 print! 

For more info, be sure to check out this link.

Puppies! (film)

I just got a few rolls of film back from many various shoots in the past month or so. Way up in Alaska, at the home of Andrea and Jack, I was invited to share dinner with them in their home, with their dearest friends. We ate Salmon and fern sprouts they picked from the river behind their house. Ed was there, and we decided to go down to the lake with the dogs. I made pictures with the Contax. 

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I thought my film had spooled and I opened the film hatch and oops! I burnt it! But I like surprises.

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Tiffany + Jared: Destination Weddings and Honeymoons!

Tiffany and Jared’s GORgeous Jamaica wedding from last November is being featured on the Destination Weddings and Honeymoons Magazine website, as the wedding of the week! Congratulations guys!!

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Ada + Ben; married!

I am sitting here at three-thirty in the morning, and I can’t stop editing these images. Ada and Ben are awesome, to begin with, so I had a sneaking suspicion that today, the day of their wedding, was just going to be out of control with awesomeness. And. It. Was.

It was such a gift to be able to witness these two, amazing families totally and wholly embrace each other. Ada’s father gave the best wedding speech I’ve ever heard and was met with a standing ovation. There was such a humming of enthusiasm at this entire wedding, and it was a true sign that everyone couldn’t be more excited that these two remarkable people found each other.

Love was hemorrhaging from everyone all over the friggin place. But it was nothing to the way Ada and Ben look at each other, like the maid of honor mentioned in her speech. They look at each other as if they’ve found their perfect match.

I feel privileged to know them, and to have been chosen for the noble task of making pictures of their abundant love for each other, their families and their friends.

Venue: Prince George Ballroom
DOC: Hollie from Exquisite Affairs Productions
Caterer: Real Food Catering

And also, a thanks to Alicia , the best assistant ever! You rock!

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In the spirit of something like a Tea Ceremony, Ada’s closest friends invented challenges for Ben to overcome in order to meet his future wife, and tied each challenge to a string, which he then had to choose at random. The challenges consisted of : a song and dance, a hula getup, a sonnet, a man kiss, and other fun prizes! Ada and BenAda and BenAda and BenAda and BenAda and BenAda and BenAda and BenAda and BenAda and BenAda and BenAda and BenAda and BenAda and Ben

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AJAXed with AWP