A belle-epoque villa set on the narrow neck of the Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat peninsula, with the sea on both sides and nine gardens laid out around the house. The light turns over quickly here in the late afternoon, which is a large part of why the coast has drawn weddings to it for more than a century.Covered the documentary way we cover every wedding: two photographers, no restaging, and the day allowed to run at its own pace. Full galleries and album options follow.

A belle-epoque villa above the water on Cap Ferrat, photographed through a long Riviera afternoon.

Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild

A seventeenth-century house on the Tyrrhenian coast north of Rome, built over Roman foundations and later restored as a private residence. Stone, water, and a very short walk between the ceremony and the sea.Destination weddings are photographed by the same team that shoots our New York work, travelling in and staying through the whole weekend rather than arriving for the ceremony alone.

A seventeenth-century house on the Tyrrhenian coast outside Rome.

La Posta Vecchia

One of the most closely studied gardens in Tuscany, laid out in long water parterres on the hillside at Settignano with Florence below it. The geometry does most of the work in a photograph here, so the coverage stays wide and lets the place hold the frame.Photographed by Brian Dorsey Studios. Albums, proof magazines and full galleries follow every wedding we shoot.

Terraced Renaissance gardens above Florence, photographed at the turn of the evening.

Villa Gamberaia

A Palm Beach club in the Mizner idiom, and an exit photographed at the very end of the night. Frames like this one are a question of being in position early and staying there while everything else moves.Late-night coverage is part of the commission rather than an extra, because the last hour of a wedding is usually the loosest and the most worth having.

A sparkler exit at the close of a Palm Beach wedding.

The Everglades Club

A small island in the British West Indies with very hard midday light and a long, forgiving evening. Weddings here tend to be built around the second half of the day, and the photography follows that.We travel for destination commissions worldwide from the studio in Chelsea, New York.

A wedding in the British West Indies, photographed across a single island day.

Anguilla

The staircase at the Plaza has been photographed for a hundred years, which is exactly the reason to be careful with it. This one was made quietly, between rooms, with no crowd in the hall.New York hotel weddings are a large part of the studio calendar, and we know the buildings well enough to work quickly inside them.

A bride on the staircase at the Plaza, New York.

The Plaza

Made on the West Side with a vintage checkered cab, in the gap between the ceremony and the reception that most couples assume is dead time. It rarely is.Portraits on the move through the city are part of how we cover a New York wedding, worked around the traffic rather than against it.

A vintage checkered cab on the West Side, photographed between venues.

Chelsea Piers

Midtown from height, with Central Park opening out behind the frame. Rooms like this give you roughly one good window of light a day, and the whole portrait sequence is built around it.Photographed by Brian Dorsey Studios over a New York wedding weekend.

Midtown, the park and the skyline from above.

Le Parker Meridien

Gramercy is the only private park left in Manhattan, and it stays quiet in a way almost nowhere else downtown does. That quiet is worth photographing directly rather than filling.Covered by our photojournalists, who have worked most corners of this city for years and know where the light lands at which hour.

A wedding at the last private square in Manhattan.

Gramercy Park

Rain, umbrellas and a park in the middle of the city, photographed in black and white. Weather is not a problem to be solved on a wedding day so much as something to use while it lasts.We shoot through rain as a matter of course, and some of the strongest frames in the studio archive came out of days that started badly.

Umbrellas and rain in Madison Square Park, in black and white.

Madison Square Park

A former estate on ninety acres of New Jersey countryside, now a hotel and restaurant with the original house at the centre of it. Room enough that a wedding can spread out across the grounds for most of the day.Dogs are welcome in the coverage, and turn up more often than people expect.

Ninety acres of New Jersey countryside, and a dog in a tuxedo.

Natirar

A former summer camp in the Hudson Valley, which is why weddings here tend to run for a whole weekend and involve rather more organised competition than most.Multi-day coverage is straightforward to arrange, and works particularly well at venues where guests stay on site.

A colour war across an estate in the Hudson Valley.

Cedar Lakes Estate

A working horse farm, photographed with the barn doing the job a studio backdrop would otherwise have to. Group portraits go faster in a space like this, because there is somewhere obvious for everyone to stand.Photographed by Brian Dorsey Studios.