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Slavic + Marina: Wedding

Oleksandr — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:47:35 +0000

Congratulations to Slavic and Marina! They got married in Sulamita Church last weekend in Portland. Check out a few images from their wedding day! The rest will be available later at http://clients.theoleksandr.com. Thank you for letting me create beautiful pictures on your wedding day. Let me know how do you like them.

Have a great honeymoon!

The wedding and reception took place in Sulamita Church.

PS. Check out their wedding album: Marina and Slavic Wedding Album.

The credit for this picture goes to Marina Magalyuk, my past bride who had an idea of this photo.

Home Projects

Oleksandr — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:10:32 +0000

Last weekend we did a few projects with kids. Pavlo was learning how to draw. We picked our little Michael as a model (look at the picture, how he is trying to pose ). The goal was to draw a person with as much details as possible. Pavlo even colored Michael’s socks and stripes on his t-shirt.

The next project was to make traditional Ukrainian Easter Egg – Pysanka. Pysanka is a real egg with painted ornament on it. The technique is to cover the color you would like to keep with hot wax. The egg goes trough several dye coasts in the process. At the end the wax is removed and the whole ornament is reveiled. The whole process takes a lot of time and I have to give Pavlo a credit for beeing so interested and dedicated to the process.

Some of my previous posts about Ukrainian Ester Eggs:

The art of Ukrainian Easter Eggs

Ukrainian Easter Eggs

Have a nice day!

Jessica + Jake = Wedding

Oleksandr — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:58:13 +0000

I have special feelings about this wedding. First of all, Jessica and Jake are our parishioners from St. Irene Byzantine Catholic Church in Portland and I am really glad, that I was able to be a part of their wedding day, document it and get amazing shots. Second, they decided to have their ceremony performed according to traditional catholic orthodox wedding. This is the same ceremony what we have in Ukraine and what I am my wife had when we were getting married. And there was a reason for that. Jessica’s father has Ukrainian roots and tries to keep Ukrainian traditions and even say a few words in Ukrainian.I have to say that the ceremony itself is very old, long and has many parts. The wedding starts on the back of the church where priest (father) does some reading blesses the rings and put them on bride and groom’s fingers. They don’t exchange the rings, the father puts them on. Then they walk down to the altar for the rest of the ceremony.One of the parts is when father, covers bride and groom’s hands and basically declares them husband and wife.Then they are are getting crowned as king and queen and father walks them three times around the altar.The special part is when father blesses the bride and does some readings for her.After the wedding ceremony is over there is a traditional Divine Liturgy with communion at the end. The whole ceremony took almost two hours.Congratulations to Jessica and Jake!PS. All wedding images are available at http://clients.theoleksandr.com. Access code to the gallery is the groom’s last name. Early Bird discount is active for one month.

The rings:

The dress:

Some dress details:

Gorgeous bride:

The groom:

The happy couple:

Some typical Ukrainian patterns, red and black:

Beginning of the ceremony. Father puts the rings on:

Then everybody moves to the altar

I like how they look at each other:

Tied together for ever:

The very important part of the ceremony – the crowning:

And walking around the altar:

Ukrainian wedding bread – Caraway:

The first dance:

Father and daughter dancing: