Showing posts with label wedding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wedding. Show all posts

9.30.2013

A Tahoe Wedding - on Film

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The past two months have been filled with magical moments, love, tears and oh so much joy and promise. I have gotten to witness and capture five amazing wedding days. Each unique and special in their own way. I have had the honor of shooting with some fantastic local talent and I can't thank Jessi LeMay, Chris Werner and Corey Fox enough for trusting in my work.
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On Saturday, the 28th of September, I joined up again with Corey Fox and Johnny B of Corey Fox Photography & Johnny B Films to capture a lovely wedding at Lake Tahoe.
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I loaded up my new DSLR along side my Polaroid Land Camera as I prepared for the day. Shooting with the Mark ii is pretty amazing, but to be honest, I could hardly wait to snap with a few frames of film, too.
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Little did I know that I was going take one of my all time film photos to date. Isn't Alex gorgeous?!

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A huge congratulations to the newlyweds! 

6.06.2012

going to the chappel...

Or really more like the Danville Library and Community Center. Which sounds funny at first, but couldn't have been a more pretty and perfect place. Danville is a sweet little town, the down town is quaint and has a ton of great shops and places to eat. I wish I would have had a bit more time to wander. Word on the street is that there is a killer candy store, we avoided that for fear of a complete freakout session....
Getting good at this hotel living'. Comfy.
We checked into the hotel and then headed straight for the pool to cool off.
Last Friday was hot, hot, hot and we needed the dip.
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A quick clean up after our swim, and we headed to the rehearsal. Neither of the girls would give the wagon the time of day, but we let them run around and get used to the area and the people. We crossed our fingers that tomorrow, they would get in and ride down the isle with smiles on their faces.
From there, we headed to the restaurant down town.
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The kids did more running around and did their best to each spill at least one drink. 

Braylon and O, racing
Fifi, keeping up with the boys

Dinner was delish and the company was pretty sweet too.
dinner mmmm, cake bar staff
napkin wabbit

I snuck up on the soon to be newly-weds as they were catching a quite moment alone...
aren't they adorable?
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Saturday involved a really nice run with my SIL (she said we did 5+ miles! ahh, that low elevation stuff rocks) and swimming and then a quick nap for the kids. I didn't give Fifi much time to wake up, and totally didn't give her time to think about me putting a clip in her hair, fancy shoes and a pretty pink dress on her, all of which she had been fighting me on back at home.
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I think she was adorable in all that pink.
Her cousin, was equally as sweet in her pink too!
The girls got in (I think the flower petals helped) and rode down the isle perfectly.
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B and the oldest of the cousins E, enjoying the wagon post-ceremony

The ceremony was short, but sweet and then it was on to the party!
I really enjoyed watching the two photographers do their work. Since we had to hang around for Fifi to be in the photos, I got to be in the mix a little more than I normally would have for that part and not feel like a creeper doing so.

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Can you handle that veil?! If I would have worn something like that in Reno I would have been halfway across town before the end of the ceremony because of the wind!
I can hardly wait to see the end result of the shot the photographer was getting in the last shot here.

so sweet
I was teary eyed all afternoon with how sweet the wedding was.
Their first dance about put me over the edge.
Good thing she dance with her dad to "Sweet Child of Mine"- set the party going just right!!

good, good words
JT and Lo, we thank you for having us be a part of your special day.
You have something magical between you.
Hold it, care for it and may you have a beautiful and long life together!

6.05.2012

153:366, flower girl


here they come
 There was a wedding in the family over the weekend.
My little Fifi got to be one the flower girls.
She and her cousin rode down the isle in a wagon filled with rose petals...
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After the ceremony the wagon was a big hit with all the other cousins.
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Funny how we could hardly get the two girls in the wagon for the ceremony, but afterward we could hardly get them, or the other cousins, out of it!
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8.23.2011

sweetness

If you have been following along from yesterday's post, you know we just went to a wedding over the weekend.
 All that was sweet, but not as literally sweet as the fact that they had a doughnut man to serve dessert instead of the traditional cake.
Yes, you read that right, a doughnut man!!

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do you love his hat, perfect, no?

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It didn't matter if you were a little kid, or a big one- these little bits of fried dough were so melt-in-your-mouth yummy, it was hard to not go back for seconds, ahem.
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I loved this idea (and the doughnuts too!) and am now hunting down a reason to hire a crew to come and make these sweet, bites of joy for us.

8.22.2011

231:365, a wedding

We haven't been to a wedding in 3 or 4 years, all pre-kids..which makes for a very different wedding going experience...but that is neither here-nor-there, this summer/fall we are making up for our break in assigned seating, bouqet tossing and aisle walking. We have three ceremonies to attend. This was the first of the batch and it was so very sweet.

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I snuck a peak in the church after the ceremony while they were doing photos. I sort of wanted to stalk the photographer around and learn the ropes of shooting a wedding, but held myself back. I really do need to find a local photographer I can second shoot for...
I was in love with the stained glass work in this church and the pastor had such nice things to say. It made me cry, in a good way.
After the ceremony we blew caution to the wind and almost totally skipped nap time.
We let the kids sleep for only about half an hour while we checked into the hotel and then headed to the receoption. We visited with everyone out in the court yard. Drinks were served and horsdevours passed around.
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Don't worry, his was just lemonade, though the amount of 'body art' he had on by the end of the night might have suggested there was something else besides lemonade in his cup.

The cousins all got to run around and play while the adults visited and enjoyed the wonderful Bay Area weather.
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I was so excited to see they had an instax camera 'photo booth' set up.
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It was a very sweet afternoon/evening indeed.

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