A wedding at Hotel Bristol in Belgrade — wood panelling, bookshelves, floral wallpaper and lamplight, photographed on the same afternoon as the ceremony at Salon 1905, ten minutes away.
The rooms at Hotel Bristol
Bristol is a hotel from 1912 and it photographs like one. The rooms are close and warm rather than grand: dark wood, shelves of books, patterned wallpaper, and lamps that do most of the work once the afternoon light drops. A dress reads completely differently here than it does under a marble staircase — softer, closer, with the room pressing in around it.
Photographing a wedding at Hotel Bristol
The rooms are small, which means no lighting rigs and no rearranging furniture. I work with the lamps that are already there and with whatever comes through the windows, and I stay out of the way — a room this size does not take two photographers and a light stand. What it gives back is intimacy: the couple, the detail of the wallpaper behind them, and nothing else in the frame.
Weddings at Hotel Bristol and in Belgrade
If you are planning a wedding at Hotel Bristol or anywhere in Belgrade, write to me with the date and the venue.
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