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Christine & Daniel’s River Café wedding

A Brooklyn church ceremony, then dinner on the water. The River Café, Brooklyn.

The groom holds the bride close on a brownstone stoop in Brooklyn Heights.
Venue
The River Café
Photography
Haseok Chung Studio

The day belonged to Brooklyn. Christine & Daniel married at Queen of All Saints, a church with white flowers climbing its steps and doors.

Afterwards, they walked through Brooklyn for portraits on brownstone streets and the cobblestones of DUMBO.

Dinner was at The River Café, a Brooklyn landmark for nearly fifty years, right on the water beneath the Brooklyn Bridge. It was an intimate evening in soft lavender: round tables dressed in white, green chargers, and floral napkins picking up the palette. An illustrator sketched guests’ portraits throughout the evening. As night fell, the bridge lit up above the restaurant and Lower Manhattan glowed across the river.

The invitation suite laid out with white calla lilies, ivory heels, a ring box and a bottle of perfume.The wedding gown hanging in a sunlit hotel window.The groom's patent leather shoes with a black bow tie, a watch and a white boutonniere.The carved wooden doors of Queen of All Saints church in Brooklyn, the stone steps and railings trailing white flowers.Queen of All Saints, in Brooklyn.A marble altar of carved Gothic spires, an urn of white flowers on a pedestal before it.The soaring Gothic nave of the church, stained glass along the aisles.The couple stand at the white marble altar beneath gilded paintings, white flowers on either side and guests in the pews.At the altar.The bride and groom walk down the stairs toward the church doors beneath a rose window.The couple walk back up the long aisle between the pews as guests stand and applaud. Black and white.Up the aisle, married.A cascade of white flowers and greenery along the railing of the church steps.At the church door, the couple kiss as petals fall around them, white flowers climbing the stone beside them.Married, at the church door.The bride looks out from the window of a white car, smiling, her bouquet in her lap. Black and white.On the way to the church.The bride and groom walk hand in hand through a stone courtyard. Black and white.The groom holds the bride close on a brownstone stoop in Brooklyn Heights.The couple stand on a leafy brownstone sidewalk in Brooklyn, the bride's long train spread across the pavement.Portraits on a brownstone street.The garden at The River Café beneath the Brooklyn Bridge, leafy trees overhead.The groom talks with guests at cocktail hour, a striped umbrella and the Lower Manhattan skyline behind.A round table dressed in white with rattan chairs, candles and white flowers, beneath the striped ceiling of the restaurant.The dining room, set.On a green charger, a place card carries a small illustrated portrait of the guest.A portrait for every guest.The couple kiss beneath a striped awning by the water, the Brooklyn Bridge soft in the haze behind them.By the water, before dinner.Round tables with rattan chairs and tall glass candle holders by the windows.The sweetheart table by the window, white and lavender flowers and tall glass candles around it.Guests applaud as the bride and groom enter the dining room among palms and candlelit tables.The groom dances with his mother, in a pale blue hanbok, as the bride dances nearby.The bride dances with guests beneath the striped awning ceiling. Black and white.The River Café glowing at the water's edge at night, the Brooklyn Bridge lit above it and Lower Manhattan across the river.The bride and groom cut a white cake decorated with lavender flowers.

Credits

Photography
Haseok Chung Studio
Venue
The River Café

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