...a day to remember...

We met Tana and Dominic about two years ago when they contracted with us to photograph their wedding. The long days of planning finally paid off. They had a beautiful wedding at Four Hills country club. Rain came and went, clouds gave anice comfortable shade for the ceremony, it was great. Here are twenty some odd images of the wedding. It was hard to pick so few... N-joy
Oh here is some vendor info:
DJ- Jim Gross
Decor-Distracted by Decor
Food/venue- Four Hills
Officiant- Linda @ awakened weddings
Cake- Unique Cakes by Karen


Dominoes were all laid out in the locker room as the boys were getting ready, I made them all into a heart shape but liked the look of the scattered image better!

We don't often shoot at Four Hills, I had forgotten the men get ready in the locker room downstairs!



Men often have a hard time smiling. When, however, their daughter stands in front of them for the first time, it's hard not to smile, or cry...



I don't think Dominic stopped smiling all night.











I love clouds!







I also love our little lighting secrets!!











What?


Funny how this never happens with the bouquet!

Bentley and Sean

Ok so here are some of the highlights from Bentley and Sean's session. I won't say much more than I did in the last post. Other than- we really love these two, they are such great people! other than that,... just enjoy the next few minutes!

Bentley & Sean; a walk through time

OK, so there are a few event planners that Desiree and I really like to work with. One of whom is planning her own wedding and another great coordinator is doing the day of coordinating for that wedding. Bentley with Savoir-Faire Event is gittin' hitched to the beau of her dreams- Sean.
Karen with Celebrations will be helping Bentley with all of the 'day of' coordinating.

After the crazy winds from the first week in March forced us to postpone our shoot, we were able to meet up with Sean and Bentley on an absolutely beautiful day the next week in an absolutely beautiful place! I could have spent the entire day there shooting it was amazing. I have yet to look through all of the images from the shoot but here are a few that I pulled up while I was transferring the images to the computer. I was looking through a few of them this morning and there are a ton of great images. The wedding is going to be an intimate event with the closest friends and family there. We have the honor of being able to be there to see Sean and Bentley join together!
Keep up! -to see more engagement images and images from the wedding!
We love you Bentley! I hope a few of the images is just enough to arouse your appetite without beddin' her back down!
Here are 4 teasers for ya!

We started to session with some pretty straight forward modern images.


About an hour into the session we pulled out some props changed clothes and did things up how we like 'em, nice and different!


OK, No this is not on original idea, that is pretty obvious, but come on. have you seen a photo like this lately?


we try to pull in some environmental aspect into each shoot. The silo with the name and date on it is as bout as good as it gets to show where we were.

Amanda and Greg... what would their ad say?

The 21st of February was a pretty good day. We just returned from our largest wedding workshop of the year. I had just checked off my 34th birthday! on the calendar and we were at a wedding doing what we love!
Greg and Amanda both work for Advertising agencies in NYC. They are both wonderful people with great families, which we really enjoyed the spending the day with!
Here are some of the images from the day these two beautiful people started their new family together!

2008, A quick review (of weddings at least)

Well here it is, the long awaited, much anticipated, and very under-rated '2008 Highlights' show. This is a short one this year, we tried to keep it to one song so if your wedding didn't get in it's not because we don't love and adore you, it's just well, I had to choose and based on the mood i was in at the time i did the show I picked these. If I did another slide show next week they may be completely different images... Ah mood swings, an amazing thing. Anyhow, enjoy!
Just think YOU TOO can be apart of our super amazing, jealousy creating, sweet tasting, 2009 slide show. All you have to do is commission us to photograph your wedding. How much easier could it be?
one way or another, enjoy!
I'll try to get a family and or kids slide show up soon!

Angela & David

gittin' durrty

Desiree made a comment to one of our couples a week or so ago about how I am always laying down on the job. I thought about it and realized, I do lay down a lot, almost at every session or wedding. I've laid in ally ways, in the middle of the street (scary), in the snow, grass, in sticky weeds, in the water, sand, in hotel lobbies, all over. I was actually doing a shoot in a hotel and I was lying on the floor waiting for models to switch places when a guest walked by, stopped, and asked how could he get my job, then asked if he could get me a pillow.

Anyway, I thought about it and I have been in a lot of odd places to get the shot I need. I have been on toilets, in trees, on ladders, on the top of our van, in a ditch, on desks, chairs, beds, in the tub, in the shower, under water. What a cool job!

Desiree had a couple come over tonight and talk about a few sessions that they want to do. We often ask our couples what vision they have for their shoot. They tossed around a few ideas and then said that they would leave it up to us to do whatever we wanted with them. Again, what a cool job. Here are two good lookin' people wanting us to do a session with them and do whatever we want... the unlimited possibilities... the power.... the, oh sorry, I need to tone back a bit eh?

So on a recent wedding, the one from the post below, Desiree took a picture of me doin' my thang. I need to go on a diet, it's hard gettin up and down.. anybody know a good one?

Around the world

For those whose are keepin’ up, you will recognize this couple from a previous post. If you are not keepin' up (how dare you) if you would like to find out how they have met look at their first post, 'a few clicks down the street'!
Anyway, we photographed their wedding and had a super cool time. It is so amazing to see how people from to completely different cultures, backgrounds, and locations can meet in the most unassuming places and build a connection that lasts a lifetime!
Adam and Alex had the reception at the Hyatt Downtown, the staff there did a fantastic job as always.
So instead of posting a bunch of pictures I thought I would try a new slideshow program that I came across recently. It seems to work well, let me know what y’all think! And if you don’t think these images are cool, you should really get out more!!! (that got 3 exclamation marks so you know I mean it)
Anyway, if you are looking at this slide show thinking, ‘seth and desiree are awesome,’ spread the love. Send it to your friends and family. Send it to your neighbors. If they have a dog send it to him! He may not watch it but if he does and he likes it he may want to come in!
…Man I need to start letting Desiree write these posts, I just ramble on about nothing. I need a nap.
On a personal note. F#.
And now ladies and gentlemen, enjoy the show….

A little wind, a little rain. bring it on!

Though we are behind on posting, I wanted to take a minute to write a little about tonights wedding. yes it is almost 1:00am and I am sitting in bed with the laptop and can't wait to fall asleep but I had to take a minute and post this.

It is balloon fiesta time and so we all know exactly what the weather is doing because the Fiesta's activities are completely weather dependent. So we knew that there would be weather tonight. It was a beautifully cloudy day with not much of a breeze and no rain. So, Desiree and I got out to Prairie Star about an hour early so that we could set up the projector for a slide show that we put together for the reception. The weather was actually pretty nice.

Everything looked like it was going to be beautiful. Then, I realized that when I was getting all the equipment ready for the wedding last night I left the cord for the projector back at the house, a 20ish minute drive away.

I sped like a crazy old lady on speed back to the house, sprinted in, and cussed a bit as I saw the cord laying on the floor laughing at me in it's wicked little cord way. I sprinted back out to the car and slid half way though the front room as I stepped on a couple of legos the kids left of the wood floor. I made it out of the house alive and with no sprained ankle. I nearly caused an accident,though, as I sped through an intersection a bit to close to the slow moving van in front of me. He just freaked a bit and slowed down in stead of speeding up... I didn't actually hit him so we're good.

Anyway, I made it back to Prairie Star plugged in the Projector and went to meet the guys to do a few pictures. About the time I was done, Desiree radioed down and said the girls were ready to go in about ten minutes. Just as she said that, a huge gust of wind picked up and didn't stop. Through the entire wedding the wind blew and the clouds thickened. Of course, anyone would be upset with the wind and possibility of rain but Jonathan and Vanessa didn't let that get them down.

By the time we were ready to do pictures it started to sprinkle and the wind was still crazy. Some couples have told us they wouldn't go out into weather like this. Unfortunately they miss out on the chance of having us work our magic. Oh, did that sound a little um, proud... well people dig our skills: people skills, camera skills, picture taking skills, bow hunting skills..
Wow it's late...

Anyway, Vanessa and Jonathan didn't say a word about it other than 'where are we going?'
So, if you are in the middle of planning a wedding and freakin' out about the possibility of foul weather for your wedding, life is not perfect and you can't control everything. The best thing to do is hope for the best, prepare for the worst, and have fun regardless of what you are faced with. Life in all of its diversity is beautiful.

That said, if you look at the image for this post and think 'man, what was she thinking going out into the wind and sprinkling rain,' DO NOT HIRE US FOR YOUR WEDDING! We just wouldn't be a good match. Well I shouldn't say that. If you hire us and spend more than $10,000. I will be glad to sit inside and watch the rain fall and the wind blow, whatever you want! Anyway, I know it's getting late now because I'm rambling like a nonsensical idiot..
Enjoy the picture! I do.

Laura & Jason The Wedding

You may remember seeing Laura and Jason's engagement images that we did at the Bio Park. Their wedding was also last month and we are just now getting it up on the Blog. We had a great time photographing this wedding. Even though the AC was out at the Hotel, everyone still had a great time. The ceremony was held in the courtyard and it was a beautiful day for an outdoor wedding. There could have been a few more clouds, but at least it wasn't 100 degrees!