I love Halloween. Love it. And one of my absolute favorite things about the United States is the sheer, unwavering enthusiasm that people seem to have for celebrating it. You go for the gusto, my American chums, and I salute you for it.

You can imagine my delight, then, when I got the call to shoot a Halloween-themed wedding reception for Erin and Alex. I had first met Erin when she was a bridesmaid at a wedding earlier this year, a wedding which was actually the subject of my very first blog post on this site. Anyway, she and Alex were married in the summer, and I'm not sure if it was their intention all along to have a Halloween wedding reception, or if it just transpired that way because of the date. Either way, I now kind of wish that all wedding receptions were Halloween-themed. It was fantastic.

I can't even begin to describe how amazing the place looked. Dry ice in the hot-tub, skeletons in the swimming pool, gravestones and cobwebs everywhere. The bar was even serving pumpkin-pie martinis. As a lover of all things Halloweeny, I couldn't have envisioned a better party.