Intimate Wedding at Oak Alley Plantation
– Diandra and Daniel –

This wonderful Texas couple traveled to Vacherie, Louisiana to get married in an intimate wedding ceremony at beautiful and historic Oak Alley Plantation. Their ceremony took place at Oak Alley’s alternate ceremony location near the reception pavilion, which features a gorgeous and magnificent old oak tree and a newly constructed gazebo. This spot is perfect for ceremonies that are a bit bigger than an elopement, where the couple desires to have seating for a small number of guests, which is generally not possible for daytime ceremonies taking place at the plantation’s traditional location out in front of the big house on the brick-paved walkway.

After the ceremony and some quick group shots with the family and friends in attendance (including Daniel’s cousin, whose elopement I coincidentally photographed last year in the French Quarter), we took some time for my favorite part of these kinds of smaller weddings, portraits of the newly-married couple up on the second floor gallery (balcony), and elsewhere around the grounds of the plantation. While couples with bigger weddings often try to make time for these kinds of portraits, sometimes the packed schedule means these pictures end up not getting as much time as we’d like, but with elopements and intimate weddings, there’s almost always at least 30-60 minutes set aside for this session.