It’s always a unexpected surprise when I’m photographing candidly at the reception and looking for people interacting and reacting, and as I’m zeroing in my camera on someone, I realize I’m looking at someone famous or notable in my viewfinder, and I’m like, “wow, look who’s here!”
Over the years at weddings, I’ve come across, among others:
- Deborah Gibson (what a sweetheart!),
- Michael Stipe (from R.E.M.),
- John Leguizamo (this guy can cut up a dance floor let me tell ya),
- Mario Batali (and yes, he was wearing his customary shorts at the affair),
- and Peter Duchin (the society band leader, and he has this wild story about John and Robert Kennedy chasing a naked Marilyn Monroe around a piano while he’s playing that piano with just his tuxedo pants and bowtie on).
If you’re going to discuss politicians over a meal, this is an interesting way to do that…
- Daniel Day Kim (what a gent!)
- William F. Buckley (party animal)
- They get upset if I mention Willow Bay, because, you know, I have such clout… so I won’t mention her.
and someone who really, really looked like Diana Ross, though I can’t say it was her.
