Wedding Photographer in South Jersey

South Jersey runs on a handful of routes and a set of bridges, and knowing which is which saves an hour. The Atlantic City Expressway and Route 42 carry traffic southeast toward the shore, Route 55 drops down through Gloucester and Cumberland toward the Cape May peninsula, and Route 73, Route 70 and Route 30 handle the local work across Camden and Burlington.

Guests arriving from Philadelphia have four ways over the Delaware (the Ben Franklin, the Walt Whitman, the Betsy Ross and the Tacony-Palmyra) and they are not interchangeable. The Tacony-Palmyra is a movable bridge that opens for river traffic, which makes it the wrong one to route a shuttle across on a tight schedule. PATCO runs from Center City out to Lindenwold and is often the simplest way in for a Philadelphia guest without a car.

From Memorial Day through Labor Day, everything headed to the shore is on the Expressway and the Parkway on Friday afternoon and coming back Sunday evening, so a summer wedding in Atlantic or Cape May County needs its guest arrivals set ahead of that wave. Distances run longer down here than in the north, too: Cherry Hill to Cape May is close to two hours in clear conditions, so when a ceremony and reception sit in different counties, Mauricio treats that transfer as a real leg of the day.

South Jersey’s wedding settings range from the historic main streets of Haddonfield and Moorestown to waterfront venues along the Delaware, vineyards near Egg Harbor and the beach towns of Cape May County. Mauricio travels from Sparta for South Jersey weddings; travel within New Jersey is included.

Mauricio starts with a short call about your plans, then builds your timeline with you so nothing is rushed. For engagement sessions, Historic Smithville, the beaches of Cape May, the trails through Wharton State Forest and Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, are all good options.