ABOUT EDWARD DYE
Based in New York City & New Jersey.
Hello and welcome! 
I'm Edward Dye. I've photographed more than 600 weddings since 2008 — most around New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, and Connecticut, and some as far as California and Canada.
Photography is the family trade. My father was a photographer, so there were cameras in the house before I could hold one steady. I turned it into a profession more than twenty years ago, and spent my first three years as a photojournalist — over 700 assignments before I ever photographed a wedding. That work taught me one thing above everything else: the moment happens once. It doesn't wait, and I either see it coming or I miss it. It also taught me that something always goes wrong — the light, the weather, the schedule — and that my job is to come home with the story anyway.
In 2008, one of my best friends asked me to photograph his wedding. I spent that day realizing a wedding is the best story anyone had ever handed me: a whole life changing in a single day, with everyone who matters in one room. I switched to weddings that year, and it's still one of the best decisions I've ever made.
Like the photojournalist I started as: I watch, I anticipate, and I don't interrupt. Most couples tell me afterward they forgot I was there — which is the goal. Your wedding day belongs to you, not to a photo schedule. I keep the posed portraits short and beautiful, then get out of the way and let the day happen. When you need direction, I give it clearly, with enough humor that nobody freezes up.
I've photographed hundreds of Catholic and Jewish weddings. I know how to shoot a full Mass quietly, from the right places, in light I can't control, and at a Jewish wedding I'm in position before the chairs go up. Some of my favorite days on the job are Indian weddings: a baraat at full volume, a sangeet that runs late, traditions I've photographed often enough to know their rhythm without a schedule. Nigerian receptions, Orthodox processions, tea ceremonies — if your day carries traditions, chances are I've already photographed them. And if it carries none at all — just the two of you and the people you love — that's a story I know how to tell too.
I'd love to hear about your day. Let me know your date and venue, and I'll reply the same day.
Edward Dye
