Wedding
I loved this reception for two reasons-
At the end, Thomas and I were even able to put down our cameras and boogie down for one song! Receptions with lots of dancing always seem to be more of a celebration and more of a party to me.... and Jordan and Mike definitely went all out getting down with their bad selves!
I love Park City! When I grow up someday, I want to be a Park City-ite. It's a place that has a feel and an atmosphere very similar to my home-town Austin.
Any time I have an LDS temple wedding, I always try to show up at or right before the sealing time is scheduled to start. I take some photos of the temple itself (so that the bride and groom can see how it looked the exact moment they were getting married), and usually there are lots of family members hanging around outside waiting for the wedding party to exit.
I liked a lot of the candids we got this time, but am ABSOLUTELY in love with this first one above. Whenever I end up having a little boy of my own, he will definitely be dressed in suspenders and a bowtie. Every day. He can sleep in them. SO... DARN... CUTE!
I love wedding photography. I love happy people. I love real moments. And I love being there to capture them. As the bride and groom walk out of the temple and kiss for the first time publicly as husband and wife, I love seeing the look in their eyes and the expressions of their parents and family. This is why I do what I do.
I think my brain melted a little from the cuteness of this next one... little kids when they are all dressed up are also some of the best parts of a wedding day.
♪ "Caaaan you feel the loooooove, toniiiight?" ♪♪
Congratulations on a beautiful wedding you two!
First time to Newport Beach for a wedding. It was gorgeous, and so was the couple! We got to Newport after driving for two days down the west coast from Portland, OR. I shot a wedding there the week before, and we took the scenic route. We took the 101 for part of it to see the redwoods. And yes, they are as tall as your middle school textbook claimed. The trip was awesome! We rented a car for the drive (we had weddings Thursday and Friday in Utah, and so we flew out Saturday morning for the Portland wedding- CRAZINESS!), and the car we ended up getting sort-of-by-accident was this "premium car". Thomas made the rental car reservations, and the coupon code we found online gave us a "free upgrade." Ok, we were going to be driving 1100 miles, so he figured "premium" meant a nice comfy Cadillac or something. We ended up getting a Mercury Grand Marquis, and it was powder blue. Really... Total land yacht, and we felt like we should be about 80 years old driving that thing. It was comfy to drive though. Especially with that big bench front seat- I curled up and napped most of the way down... Good way to recover from three days of weddings.
**Note: I had heard of other photographers doing several weddings right in a row, even multiple on the same day. Figured I could do 3 in a row as I thought I was superwoman... but alas, I discovered otherwise. The weddings were AMAZING, but the recovery was not. Don't try this at home, kids.
Erin is a newscaster by profession, and she is such a friendly, outgoing, and bubbly person. She was so happy, just look at that perfect smile! She was beaming.
Evidently when they built the Newport Beach temple, they had to work with the city to make sure it kind of blended in with the rest of the landscape. So they ended up using this gorgeous stone that had almost a sandstone look to it. The architecture was also very Southern California- almost spanish mission-esque. I loved how unique it was!
After the luncheon, we were able to go over to the marina in Laguna Niguel and wheedle our way down onto the docks... Now, I have a confession to make. I'm a little bit obsessed with sailboats. We had a 2 man boat growing up and I actually cried when my dad sold it. Now as a photographer, I cannot imagine a better location than on a dock. I loved all the boats and the texture of the masts in the background. Two really nice guys let us use their boat for the photoshoot when they noticed we were taking pictures (People always give me stuff when I have a bride and groom following me. Something about weddings make even the tough guys sentimental). And as you can see, Erin and Cole's wedding day was "Just Dandy."
Talk about an amazing backyard!
Erin and Cole, thank you so much for letting me be part of your day! Everything was spectacular, and ya'll are amazing!
Such a great day.
This was easily the most delicious luncheon I have ever been to, bar none. The best man did the cooking and it was the magical combination of his super-secret family barbeque chicken recipie with his completely AWESOME brown sugar pineapple that made the day for me.
Brooklyn and Kagan are such fun people, and I am so happy we've been able to become friends with them through shooting their wedding- they are great to just hang out with and laugh....
Erin and Todd at the Salt Lake City Temple- a perfect day.
I just noticed this part of temple square (below)- I LOVE IT.
I'm finally getting to the blog post for Allison and Darron Fors' wedding in Los Angeles. ... Aaaaand ignore the fact that I posted the pre-wedding formal session two months ago. Let's just keep moving, shall we?
Sunshine. Traffic. Palm trees. Crepes. Sparklers.
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P.S. We also made it to Universal Studios that week. It was awesome.
^ The fact that Darron's dad is grinning dead straight at the camera, and he is the ONLY one to do so, kind of cracks me up. I don't know why.
See Allison and Darron's complete wedding, start to finish and everything in between, here.
