Chris Giles Wedding Photography Archives - Smashing the Glass

“My best Jewish wedding photo” by Chris Giles Photography

03/04/2016 by Karen

A weekly series where I ask some of the world’s best wedding photographers to pick out their favourite shot from their Jewish wedding portfolio. This week it’s the turn of Chris Giles from Chris Giles Photography.

‘Lost in a Moment’ by Chris Giles Photography

It’s difficult to pick my favourite photo, but here it is. Imperfect in places, but an image I love because Shoshana is completely lost in a moment where unusually all eyes were not on them. In fact, these sorts of shots win out most of the time.

Jewish weddings are such that couples are rarely left alone to themselves. I’ve lots of hero dance floor shots and beautiful ceremony ones but the pure emotion and raw love is what I aim for, moments in isolation are a beautiful thing for me.’.”

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18/08/2014 by Karen

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Rachel & Zach | Intimate City Chic Jewish Winter Wedding at Old Finsbury Town Hall, Islington, London

11/08/2014 by Karen

Rachel and Zach were married at Old Finsbury Town Hall, which has to be one of the most beautiful wedding venues in London. They threw a really relaxed, fun wedding party and organised most of it via the wonders of the internet from their home in New York.

They ditched a lot of the traditional wedding formalities too: they chose not to have a bridal party, wedding cake, expensive dress or favours, and had some brilliant ideas, like using Rachel’s enormous collection of New Yorker magazines as individual place cards for each guest. They also devised a very traditional, but totally egalitarian, Jewish ceremony with tons of personal twists, and an utterly unique ketubah. They also wrote an inspired wedding program. The beautiful bride, Rachel, elaborates below.

Chris Giles, their photographer, does city chic romance effortlessly, and even the way he captures Rachel’s shoes perched on a side table is like something out of a modern fairytale. Enjoy every one of Chris (and his wife, Laura)’s gorgeous images, and whisk yourself away to a warm-hearted wintery December in London.