One of our fabulous photographers (Andrea Jacobson of The Observatory) submitted this fabulous recent wedding to us! Take a look!
Shannon and Matt were married on March 14 in Old Town Alexandria –the town they also call home. The day began at the ever stylish Hotel Monaco in Alexandria, where the couple saw each other for the first time that day.

The weather did not cooperate quite as much as we had hoped, but with umbrellas in hand we were still able to enjoy the Old Town scenery for portraits. The first biggest smiles of the day actually surfaced when the couple braved the elements to walk down King Street towards Torpedo Factory where they would be married.

This was another “March Madness” wedding and I don’t mean basketball. The madness this month for us came in form of photographing spectacular dancing. Shannon and Matt gave an incredible performance for the first dance and continued to cut up the dance floor to tunes played by DJ Evan Reitmeyer of MyDeejay.com. It’s always a treat to work with Evan, a fellow member of the DC Couture Wedding Consortium, because he keeps the dance floor full and lively giving us lots to capture.

Shannon and Matt met one night while out with friends at Stetson’s on U Street over, what Matt describes as, warm tequlia. They spent most of 2008 apart, as Matt was on the road with the Obama campaign, and look forward to spending a lot more time together this year. Hopefully a lot of that time will be spent dancing. They were really that good!

- Andrea Jacobson, The Observatory