I've been photographing weddings for 8 years, and I still get butterflies on the morning of every one. I started with a borrowed camera and a couple who trusted me completely — and somewhere in that first dance, I understood what this work really was. Not documentation. Witnessing.

Over two hundred weddings later, my approach hasn't changed: I stay quiet, I stay close, and I wait. The images I'm proudest of are the ones nobody planned — a grandmother laughing with her eyes closed, the groom's hands shaking slightly as he reads his vows, two people forgetting entirely that I'm in the room.