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We’ve won an award in this quarter’s WPJA Photo Competition for a shot from Vanessa Britting and David Krumholtz’s celebrity packed wedding at The Plaza Hotel.

I’m a fan of the WPJA since the way they run their competition puts every Wedding Photojournalist on even footing.  Every member get’s the same limited number of entries so you can’t buy yourself an advantage like …

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great wedding this weekend with David Krumholtz, star of Numb3rs marrying Vanessa Britting, from The Young and the Restless and Without a Trace.

the celebrity filled bridal party (that’s Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel,  Gregg Bello and Martin Starr above) and guest list made things a bit interesting – i’m not really used to going on shoots in central park with a security detail and hiding in the rambles… but we love changing things up.

but i had sussed out well in advance that this hot dog vendor posed no threat…

and a great party – and one of my faves…  we all had a really great time working together.

many thanks to the multitalented (and even more importantly – fun to work with) Michelle Rago who did a great job planning the wedding.

more to come…

i like to think of the work my photographers and I do as capturing the feeling and spirit of an event more than anything else.        feelings are so ephemeral – like smells – you can’t really describe them, you can’t really preserve them, yet every once in a while something hits you and voila you’re instantly transported right back to that moment.

i like to think these images will do that for our bride when she looks back on them years from now.

If there were such a thing as a confectionary heirarchy, I’d have to place things like stale gumball-machine gumballs pretty close to the bottom. Candy dots on paper would have to be a close second. As you slide up the ladder, you pass necklaces you can eat, candy cigarettes (imagine that!?), oatmeal cookies without raisins, and twinkies.

It’s a pretty big middle ground after that (e.g. oreo cookies through godiva chocolates)

Then up near the top, you get into some pretty nice chocolatiers, a few great dessert/pastry chefs, and then the ranks get pretty rarefied.

As you approach the nadir (man, I’ve waited since 7th grade to use that word and, well, there you go), you get the real artistes. They’re so good that english words aren’t good enough – you need to use a french word (it must be a better word, it’s french, no?)

Ron Ben Israel is one of those precious few baker/artistes.

For the 100th birthday of the Plaza, Ron was commissioned to create a cake that was a 6 foot high exact replica of the Plaza. Probably one of the most exquisite confectionary projects ever.

I was honored to have been asked to help document this historic undertaking.

Now, right now you’re thinking, “Well, exact replica is a pretty relative term. The Plaza is a pretty special building. This cake is probably a big beige rectangle with green peaks on top”, right?

Guess again. In his studio, teams of artists labored on the details for weeks. Drawings to scale in the background.

Here’s the man himself, making it all happen.

The finished result was assembled over two days under a tent in front of the Plaza. Here’s the result:

Now would you have the heart to break off a piece and eat it?

That’s sugar!

And to give you a sense of the scale of this thing.

You judge how exact a replica it is….

The proud father….

The festivities were capped off with fireworks by Grucci – set off on the Plaza itself (the real one).

HB, Plaza. Glad you’ll be back in action soon. We’ve missed you.

And of course, if you need a truly exceptional cake, who you gonna call?