Wedding Photographer in Bergen County

Bergen County has more road than almost anywhere in the state, and it is still where Mauricio builds the most slack into a timeline. Route 17 and Route 4 carry the middle of the county and cross at Paramus, which is heavily congested on a Saturday afternoon. The Garden State Parkway and I-80 handle the long moves, Route 208 feeds the northwest toward Franklin Lakes and Oakland, and the Palisades Interstate Parkway is the quiet way up to Alpine, Closter and Rockleigh.

Guests coming from Manhattan cross the George Washington Bridge, and on a Friday or Sunday afternoon that approach alone can eat forty minutes, which is worth stating plainly on your directions card. One local quirk works in your favor: Paramus retail is closed on Sundays under long-standing town ordinances, and Route 4 and Route 17 move like a different county as a result. If you are weighing a Saturday against a Sunday at a venue near that corridor, Sunday is the easier day to move a bridal party across town.

When Mauricio takes you off-site for portraits, whether to the Palisades overlooks, Fort Lee Historic Park or the ridge above the river, he treats it as its own trip with its own buffer, because those few miles are the least predictable in the county.

The Palisades Interstate Park overlooks, the tree-lined streets of downtown Ridgewood and the trails of Ramapo Valley County Reservation are all inside the county and give three very different looks: cliff and river, small-town street, and woods. Couples who want something more urban can cross the George Washington Bridge to Fort Tryon Park.