{"id":1505,"date":"2013-05-15T01:40:50","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T05:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allebach.goodgallery.com\/blog\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2013-05-15T02:02:32","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T06:02:32","slug":"the-reception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allebachphotography.com\/blog\/the-reception\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wedding Reception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite parts of a wedding to photograph are the receptions. I love photographing receptions! I truly enjoy capturing people dancing and having a genuinely fun time with their friends and family. They give me the opportunity to photograph great candid and spontaneous moments between loved ones, often without ever being noticed.<\/p>\n<p>The sequence of photos below are from a wedding I photographed in Lancaster, PA that was held in a barn.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1506\" title=\"DanceSequence\" src=\"http:\/\/allebach.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DanceSequence.jpg\" alt=\"Dancing at Reception in Lancaster, pa\" width=\"800\" height=\"4000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.allebachphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DanceSequence.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.allebachphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DanceSequence-60x300.jpg 60w, https:\/\/www.allebachphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DanceSequence-260x1300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.allebachphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/DanceSequence-360x1800.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<dl id=\"attachment_1506\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 810px;\">\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">Dance Sequence by Allebach Photography<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite parts of a wedding to photograph are the receptions. 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The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.allebachphotography.com\/blog\/the-reception\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Wedding Reception&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[103,102,104],"class_list":["post-1505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wedding-planning-tips","tag-wedding-dancing","tag-wedding-reception","tag-wedding-series"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Wedding Reception<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.allebachphotography.com\/blog\/the-reception\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Wedding Reception\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"One of my favorite parts of a wedding to photograph are the receptions. 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