Colleen and I drove out to Milwaukee (West Bend area) for Sara and Gaby’s wedding. I’ll just say… the margaritas were a flowin’, the mariachi band was a playin’, the sombreros were a stylin’, the guests were a laughin’, and the newlyweds were a smoochin’. (How’s that for pre-emptive ending of words… 
) Quite the festive night – congrats Sara and Gaby!
Mariachi band. For real.
The raspberries are ripe, the peas (and other veggie garden wonderfulness) are growing, and Mama Duck was successful in keeping Kona away from her nest long enough for the ducklings to hatch and make it down to the pond…
p.s. For you photo geeks, these are basically straight-out-of-the-camera JPGs.
Meghan and Scott got engaged 5 years ago — so they had a lot of time to plan their wedding. That time was well spent.
Their wedding was held at good ol’ SJU (Go Johnnies!!) in the Abbey. The Abbey is sweet, it’s where all the cool people get married (Did I mention that’s where Colleen and I got married?). They hadn’t seen one another before the ceremony, so when Meghan came down the aisle it was a good thing that Scott’s brother was one of the officiants (how cool, right?) to help Scott pull it back together. A quick smooch (them, not me…;) ) and we popped on over to the new Gorecki Center at St. Bens for a little wedding Plinko (oh yes, Plinko), dinner, speeches, and a first dance that turned into a choreographed event that had everyone hootin’ and hollerin’.
And of course, in that grand SJU tradition, piano man with pants at the ankles to end the night…
In honor of our recent mid-MAY snowfall (gotta love Minnesota, right?), I figure I’d blog Ilona and Drew’s wedding from this last Valentines day up in Anoka. It was a small gathering of their closest friends on Drew’s parents estate … outside. Yep, Outside, Minnesota, Winter… My fingers just recently started to have feeling again… heh. No, seriously, it was cool — they got married in the exact same spot they got engaged. The short ceremony was followed by a very informal reception in the basement bar (sweet!) of their house, where Drew and his family treated 30-or-so of us to some good eats, fun speeches, and great company.
Alyssa, Mark and I went for a walk around the Cathedral – Summit area of St. Paul – I brought my camera. 
Alyssa is actually getting ready in the Blair Arcade on their wedding day, so it was cool to get that sneak peak.
It was an overcast day (love the overcast) that had me both laying in the street (not the greatest idea when things are wet…) and climbing trees. Don’t tell the St. Paul park patrol.
Nothing like starting off the new year by blogging about people married last year!
Lisa and Rick got married late last fall at Mt. Olivet in Minneapolis. Lisa was one of the happiest and giggliest brides I’ve ever had — she just couldn’t keep it in; and Rick seemed to have a “this is awesome” smirk on his face all day. Their enjoyment was infectious.
They finished of the night at the Metropolitan – complete with great speeches, live band, a happening dance, and custom Converse All Stars for the happy couple to boogie in. But you didn’t come here to see me type….
You know that saying about how still currents run deep? Yeah, think of our blog as a ‘still current’.
We’ve been building a killer meeting space, revamping our samples and albums, recoding the website, building a separate site for the photo station, and coming up with awesome new secret items for your wedding photographs. Kona, as always, has been helping out.
Survived the lions, survived the shiesters, saw some amazing things and met some even more amazing people. But all that is for the future… For now, I’ve got a month of work to catch up on. 
…That I’m not going to be blogging for a few weeks.
(that and the 10 dollar per hour slow internet. Grrr…)
Mel and Eddie had their engagement session near the shores of Lake Harriet in Minneapolis (which happens to be the same place they got engaged… fancy that. hehe). We basically just walked down a bike path for most of the time; with all the people around it was a perfect place to get over the ‘big camera in your face’ jitters…. and, of course, we got some cool images to boot!
Eddie brought an old-school Schwinn bike; it was pretty much awesome. So we basically had ourselves a fun little three-way engagement shoot…
Contrary to rumor, the bike did not get jealous.
