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Cairo Egypt Wedding Photographer | Joe and Marina’s Wedding | Timothy E Kaldas Photography

kaldasia — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:38:01 +0000

Last month I shot the largest wedding of my career. 1000 guests filled the ballroom of Dusit Thani to celebrate the marriage of Joe and Marina. I’ve been working with Joe and Marina since their engagement last summer and it’s been a great experience. They’re two of the most chill and kind people I know and I was honored to be a part of their special day. Marina selected one of my favorite makeup artists Mohamed Abdelhamid and we all had a great time during prep. Marina’s mother and father were gracious hosts while we were working and the hours leading up to the wedding were a pleasure I think for everyone involved. The church, Al Malak Mikhail was beautiful and Karim Sobh and his team at Glimpse did a great job with the planning and decorations. Managing a wedding of 1000 people is no easy task but things came together wonderfully. Samba did an incredible job spinning and keeping the wedding party moving. I’d like to thank the two photographers who assisted me that evening. Boraie and Nagy. I’m very pleased with how the photos turned out. I hope you are as well.

Oh and while this may look like a crazy party that went late into the night, don’t be fooled. It ended very early… I, for one, got home at 7 in the morning

Cairo Egypt Wedding Photographer | Atiaf and Ben: The Wedding | Timothy E Kaldas Photography

kaldasia — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:44:58 +0000

This was one of the most challenging weddings I’ve ever shot. That said, it was extremely fun and at times extremely confusing. This wedding had a traditional Egyptian Wedding Zaffa (Wedding Entrance), Western speeches, Arabic poetry, a Yemeni Zaffa and wedding guests who spoke more languages than a UN translator would be able to swing. At various points in the evening I was instructing guests in English, Arabic and occasionally my very broken French (I would like to once again apologize to all the French guests for my horrendous accent and butchery of their language). Ben’s poor little brother, in my confusion, found me giving him instructions in Spanish; a language no one at the wedding actually spoke, but I had lost track at that point really. This wedding celebrated the union of Ben from France and Atiaf from Yemen. They brought with them their friends and families from uh, just about everywhere. The wedding also took place just about everywhere. I started shooting the prep at Hotel Safir in Zamalek (across the street from my apartment, pretty convenient). Then we took a van with the bride and her siblings (you’ll see) to the Swiss Club in Giza and about 14 hours after I started I found myself standing on the October 6th bridge shooting the afterparty somewhere between Zamalek and Downtown Cairo.

Like the wedding itself, this is a very long post, but if it’s any consolation when I first went through the roughly 5000 pictures I took that day it was quite a bit longer I hope you enjoy the images as much as I enjoyed photographing the wedding. If possible I hope you’re nearly as confused as I found myself as well…

Now for just a quick costume change…

Just Kidding! It’s not over yet! Don’t you remember? I said AFTERPARTY on a bridge.

Ok, ok now you can leave a comment and move on with your lives Congrats Ben and Atiaf!