Now I’m no big city interior designer, but I know what I like. When I arrived to see the decorated hall I was blown away by the detail and how amazing everything looked. I mean, they thought of everything! There was even a do-it-yourself sundae bar and a popcorn machine (which were both awesome!).

It was pretty dark in the hall, and as luck would have it, just as I was starting to take pictures they turned the lights down and lit all the candles to see how it looked. The mood in the room completely changed and I immediately started shooting before the lights came back on! It was a good thing I brought my tripod, because these all required long exposures of 2 or 3 seconds. Plus setting up on the tripod allowed me to really think about composition and setup for every shot rather than running around snapping quick shots.

I felt bad for moving some things around on the tables to remove distractions, and I broke a picture frame that was used for a name plate at one of the tables while trying to set it up… but it was worth it! And my wife was kind enough to fix everything I messed up so nobody was the wiser… except whoever was sitting where I broke the picture frame probably… sorry whoever that was.