Atsuko and Conrad – The Wedding
Atsuko and Conrad were married back in April in the Hummingbird Garden at the Hyatt Tamaya. You all may recognize Atsuko and Conrad from their engagement session back in March. The wedding was loads of fun and quite educational. I learned about some Japanese wedding traditions, mainly, tea, fruit trees and sake but I’ll get to that a little further down the post. Linda Mertz from Awakened Weddings presided over the ceremony and did a spectacular job as always. Thanks, Conrad and Atsuko for letting me be part of your special day.
Rick Meiers – Dry Heat Photography
The very cool tea set for the ceremony. 
These traditional wooden sake cups were pretty sweet. As was the smashing of the sake barrel. I can honestly say that in 15+ years of shooting weddings, I have never seen anything like this. Nor had I ever tasted sake, note to self, when drinking sake from a wooden box, drink from the corner otherwise you’ll end up with a little mess. 
I couldn’t resist the graphics on this one, just in case there wasn’t enough excitement in smashing a sake barrel with a wooden mallet. 
Wow that is so cool! My fiance and I just got engaged on 01/02/10 so Ive been doing some online research.
He is half Korean (w/some Japanese thrown in there for good measure) and half German and well Im just a Euro mutt (Irish, German, Czech).
I truly love the beauty and sentiment of Asian cultures.
I really want an East meets West type of wedding but living in NM, I feel a bit bewildered.
Im sure Ill figure it out!
Ill be going to the wedding expo!
I like how “crisp” the couple looks standing in front of the wilderness, they almost look 3Dish. I also really like the photo of them in the “waves of grain”, oh and that warped horizontal affect is cool as well (really shows off our NM skies).
Anyway your photos look great and the bride is beautiful!
Thanks for sharing.
~A