A November wedding on Long Island: a church ceremony in the afternoon, then Larkfield at dusk, a wrought-iron staircase, a chandelier ballroom and a garden lit for the night.
Shannon and Michael married on November 16, 2025. The ceremony was at St. Frances de Chantal R.C. Church, and the reception followed at Larkfield in East Northport, the estate long known to couples as Larkfield Manor.
George photographed the day himself, with a second shooter, as he does at every wedding, and he books one wedding per day. His way of working is editorial direction plus real moments: portraits shaped with care, and room for the day to unfold around them. You can read more about it on The Approach.
Before the ceremony
The morning portraits are quiet ones. Michael stands by a window in his tuxedo, buttoning his jacket, with a slow exposure leaving a soft double of him at the edge of the frame. Shannon, with hair and makeup by EDA Beauty Hair and Makeup, is photographed under her sheer veil in clean window light.
St. Frances de Chantal
The ceremony ended with their first kiss at the altar, against a warm stone wall. Outside, the heavy wooden doors opened onto a cloud of bubbles from the guests on either side.
Larkfield at dusk
By the time the portraits at Larkfield began, the sky was turning deep blue. In mid-November the light goes early, so the evening was planned around it: the timber and stone entrance glowing at dusk with Shannon’s veil carried across the frame, then inside to the wrought-iron grand staircase, where her lace train ran down the steps. One frame catches the bridal party through a windshield with their phones raised, Shannon and Michael reflected in the rear-view mirror.
The ballroom before the guests
Before the doors opened, there were a few still minutes in the empty ballroom: the parquet floor, the crystal chandelier, the warm uplit ceiling. This is where intentional light matters. Larkfield’s ballrooms are rich and warm after dark, and George adds light of his own so skin tones stay clean and the room keeps its depth. The result is cinematic without losing what the room actually looks like.
Into the night
The reception opened with a grand entrance through the ballroom doors, Michael waving and Shannon lifting her bouquet, and moved into the first dance, with music by Larkfield Music Group and a dip that had guests reaching for their phones. Later came the cake cutting and the bouquet toss, caught mid-air in black and white.
The garden after dark
The last portraits were made outside. Larkfield’s formal gardens, with their clipped hedges and a reflecting pool crossed by a small bridge, are usually seen in daylight, but they hold up after dark too. Against the hedge, Shannon and Michael sprayed champagne, and the final frame of the night is the two of them on the lit bridge over the pool.
Planning a Larkfield wedding?
See the Larkfield venue guide for the gardens, gazebo and ballrooms, and Chelsea & Ryan’s garden wedding for a September day at the same venue. George photographs one wedding per day, so check your date early.
