Happy Holidays, everyone! It’s Christmas day and I just wrapped up Larry and Laura’s fantastic Tulum wedding at Ana Y Jose’s, just down the coast from Cancun and Playa del Carmen. Tulum is one of my favorite places to get married on the Mexican Riviera due to its laid back atmosphere and lack of high rise megaresorts. Larry and Laura had my wife and I down there to shoot their wedding, and we had so much fun with their friends and family.
I’m going to embarrass Larry for a minute because he’s got one of the coolest proposal stories I’ve ever heard: the two were at a parade, where every year, ping pong balls are shot into the crowd with certain deals for local businesses printed on the balls. Larry was about ten steps ahead, so he found himself a ping pong ball beforehand, split it in half, and hid Laura’s ring within. Then he pocketed it and headed out to the parade. Sure enough, the ping pong balls were shot into the crowd and Larry enthusiastically jumped to the ground on his hands and knees to find one. In a stroke of luck, a newspaper photographer was standing right behind them and captured the whole thing. Once down, Larry rose to one knee and showed Laura his hollowed out ping pong ball with the ring. Well played, sir. Well played.
At any rate, the destination wedding lasted for a couple of days, with a welcome lunch and dinner, a beautiful beach front wedding, and a day-after trip to Hidden Worlds, a cool cenote adventure park in the jungle. What follows are some favorites from the wedding day itself. Larry & Laura, congratulations, and thanks so much for having us down there. You’ll be pleased to know that those goodie bags you left us with were most appreciated! We’d love to connect again, so if you’re out in Colorado you have to give a shout.
What a stunning set of pictures. Pam and I so wish that we could have made it down, but our own new arrival made it impossible.
Thank you for capturing the great spirit embodied by this couple not only in their choice of wedding venue, but their choosing one another.
Unto them has befallen a great friendship.
I love Tulum also, the beaches down there are beautiful, love the shot of the “sunset” good job!
Great job as always 🙂 Love it.
Love the framing, excellent set of images!
those pictures are beautiful. how do i go about getting access to see all the photos you took and ordering some? i would like to put together an album of the trip for my family. i am thinking this is nathan and i cannot remember how to spell your wife’s name.
mc rothwell
we were the family of michael and the two girls–skye and madison
Beautiful pictures. I love destination weddings and I wish ALL of my friends would have them… and that could afford to go. lol.
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Just stumbled across your site – a fantastic set of images. Everyone was clearly having a lot of fun! Yet at the same time you’ve produced artistically creative wedding photography – balancing the two is quite an accomplishment!
Nice set. Love the proposal story too! I came across this blog through your other one, it appears you do weddings just as well as you do everything else! I’ll be checking back regularly.