For various reasons, I never met up with Jennifer and Craig prior to their wedding date - so it was a pleasant surprise to meet Jennifer in person for the first time on her wedding day, and find a stunningly photogenic bride …

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Jennifer even braved the cold outside for a few portraits in the late afternoon winter sun.

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From earlier on, a moment between mom and daughter during final preparation …

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One of several aaaaw! moments during the day. This one was when the flowergirl, (Craig’s little niece), forgot all about sprinkling flower petals down the aisle, and just ran into his arms when she saw him.

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And another joyful embrace …

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Jennifer and Craig, congratulations. It was a genuine pleasure meeting the both of you. And yeah … again, congrats!

Claudia Kronenberg is a photographer fast rising to prominence -most noticeably as a successful wedding photographer based in  Nantucket. But also as a Nikon-sponsored photographer; as a speaker at WPPI; and a recent feature in Grace Ormonde magazine.

So it was with great pleasure that I finally met Claudia in person at the Photo Expo in NYC in Nov, after a few tangential emails and phone calls over the past year or two.  Our conversations at the NYC Photo Expo eventually lead to discussing the possibilities of working together in the future. 

And continuing in this direction, I visited her studio in Nantucket over the past weekend. This coincided with the famed Nantucket Christmas Stroll, and I also had time to explore the island a little bit, and take a few portraits of the charming Ms Claudia K …