Story № 01 — Gasparilla Inn · Boca Grande, Florida
A Quiet Practice
John Unrue has photographed weddings since 1995. More than a thousand of them — from a small ceremony on Banyan Street in Boca Grande to a three-day celebration at the Ritz-Carlton with fireworks over the lake.
He works as a journalist works. He watches. He waits. He gets the picture you would have missed because you were inside the moment, not outside of it. The result is not a record of what happened. It is a record of how it felt.
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Story № 01 · Gasparilla Inn · Boca Grande, Florida
A multi-generational Gasparilla Inn wedding — the kind of golden-hour, banyan-shadowed afternoon that has made Boca Grande a private American tradition.
Story № 02 · The Ritz-Carlton Orlando, Grande Lakes
A multi-day Hindu wedding photographed across mehndi, sangeet, and ceremony — with fireworks over the lake and two second shooters working alongside.
Story № 03 · Kapalua · Maui, Hawaii
The second wedding photographed for the same family — a destination return to Kapalua, with the Pacific doing its quiet, expected work as backdrop.
Story № 04 · Banyan Street · Boca Grande, Florida
A barefoot ceremony on Banyan Street — the same tree where John photographed his first Boca Grande wedding for the DuPont family in 2000.
Story № 05 · New Orleans, Louisiana
A New Orleans wedding closed the way you'd hope — with brass, parasols, and a parade that pulled half the French Quarter into the frame.
Story № 06 · Alfond Inn · Winter Park, Florida
An Alfond Inn ceremony that lingered into the small hours — pendant light, walled garden, a string quartet still playing past midnight.
“John is the only photographer I have ever met who can be invisible in a room of 300 people and somehow have a photograph from every important moment in it. His pictures are not posed. They are remembered.”
— Mother of the bride· Boca Grande, Florida
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