Blair and Jared got married at Mt. Princeton Hot Springs. They like to drink whiskey with me. I think they are so cool.
Love this shot of Blair's dad seeing her for the first time:
You guys are just pure fun. Congratulations!
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Katie and Scott are two of the kindest, sweetest, most joyful people probably in the entire world. I loved everything about this wedding - yes, the details were lovely, but my favorite things about this day were all of the loving smiles, happy tears, and getting to hang out with their awesome families!
Moments like this are why I adore my job- bridesmaids seeing Katie in her dress for the first time:
Katie, you are SO gorgeous!
Loved this little dude's smirk :)
Katie & Scott decided to do a first look (yay!) where they read private vows to each other in the forest behind the ceremony site. It was so lovely!
These next two shots are some of my favorites!
Katie & Scott - I just adore you guys! I can't wait to hear all about your honeymoon in Thailand!
You may remember Sarah & Ross from their sweet springtime engagement session. They recently got married at Mt. Princeton Hot Springs Resort, and although it was quite windy, their day was lovely! I loved Sarah's choice of yellows and grays. Here are a few of my favorites from their wedding :)
I was so thrilled that Sarah & Ross decided to do a First Look! It makes the entire day go so much more smoothly :)
The groomsmen wore some of Ross' old wrestling medals:
I love this shot of Sarah trying to calm her nerves right before the ceremony:
Then the dance floor got CRAAZZYY. The only other people I've met who are able to throw a dance party this good are my friends in BV ... I might just be a little biased :)
Even this little dude got in on it :
Thanks so much, Sarah & Ross! The rest of your images will be ready VERY soon! :)
This was one of those shoots that was just meant to happen. Craig is an old friend of a friend and we haven't seen each other in years, but when he and his fiancee Bernadette booked me to shoot their 2011 wedding, I was thrilled! We scheduled an engagement session for the day before I was supposed to leave to shoot a Seattle wedding. No problem, I thought. I'll just get home late, I thought. Craig and Bernadette and I talked a little bit about the engagement session and came up with some great ideas and still had everything under control for the first part of the session, which we shot at the Silver Dollar Saloon in Leadville.Then, for the second part of the shoot, we headed up to Turquoise Lake near Leadville. It turns into a dirt road, nothing extreme, but I drive a little VW Golf. With not the best clearance. Also with not the best history of keeping oil pans intact. I heard a big thunk and my stomach dropped and I thought "Oh CRAP. I hope that wasn't what I think it was." So we get down to the parking area for the site and I drop to my hands and knees and look under my car... sure enough, lots of fat black drips of oil. Yes, friends, I hit a rock and cracked my oil pan. Again. A few hours before I'm supposed to drive to the airport. Honestly, my first reaction was just to start laughing hysterically. So I'm sitting in the middle of the dirt road, just cracking up, and Craig reminded me that we should, um, you know, probably get going. We sped back to town, and in the ten or twelve minutes it takes to drive from Turquoise Lake to downtown Leadville, I lost almost HALF of the oil in my engine.
"Well," I laughed. "It's not like I'm going anywhere... we might as well head back and finish the shoot!" So they were kind enough to lend me a mixing bowl to stuff under my car, and I hopped in with them, and we produced one hell of an epic shoot while my car was slowly bleeding to death. When we got back to the house, Bernadette slapped some chewed up gum on the crack and I bought like six quarts of oil and just kept pulling over every ten minutes to pour some more back in. All in all, it was a great night :)
Seriously - these two are so kind, so laid-back, so flexible, and so so great in front of the camera. This has to be one of my favorite engagement sessions ever. Turquoise Lake is gorgeous, but so is the intimate, playful love that Craig & Bernadette share. I know I'm blogging WAY out of order but I sort of felt like I owed them :) I am so thrilled to be a part of their wedding! Congratulations!
Yay! What a great great shoot.
Abbey had such a vision for this wedding, and her romantic, nighttime shabby chic theme came together in the most beautiful way. She is so kind and sweet and considerate, and all of her emails to me have more exclamation marks than words, which makes me smile every time I read them :) Their excitement for this weekend was contagious! I always love hearing about the details and all the work that goes into such an amazing celebration, and it was wonderful to see it all come to fruition this last weekend. Abbey & Justin got married in Burlington, CO, and I was absolutely honored to travel out there to shoot it. Let me just put this out there - I love traveling for weddings. It's weird and probably unnatural to love long drives and long flights and hotel rooms, but I have to be totally honest and say that I do. Completely. Love it! I get to shoot somewhere brand new and I love seeing someplace for the first time through my photographic eyes; places that I might pass over if I lived there become amazing backdrops. Get married ANYWHERE and I will be there. We'll make it work... I'm serious!Congratulations, you two! Have fun in Mexico and thanks for the great weekend!
Ceremony: First St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Burlington, CO
Reception: Burlington Community Center
Hair & Makeup: Rachelle Burgess
Flowers: a personal friend
Cake: Sharon Pikul
Dress: Maggie Sottero
Looove all these little candles in Mason Jars - so elegant!
When Abbey was on a mission trip to Brazil a few years ago, she kept noticing these gorgeous, unusual flowers and knew she wanted to incorporate them into her future wedding - and she did! She had to special-order them for the bridesmaids bouquets, and don't they look incredible?
Just a disclaimer - the holding hands part was NOT. MY. IDEA. All the boys were so freaked out after finding some snakes in the grass, I think they were trying to console each other ;)
This girl is straight out of a magazine. Seriously.
It takes a seriously awesome bride to climb up a grain elevator in her wedding dress.
The community center looked amazing! I think they had over 360 candles hanging from the ceiling. As a photographer, it was a fun challenge to shoot in a near-dark room and still keep the intimate "candlelight" vibe.
Check out this awesome candy table!
LOVE this shot of the groom's sister catching the bouquet :)
Congratulations, Abbey & Justin! The rest of your image will be ready in a few weeks :)