Category: Wedding

Joe always makes it to weddings!

… my wife makes sure of it!

I had to miss a friends wedding because I was shooting another friends. Normally Colleen is by my side at weddings, but for this one I got some other great help and she represented us both at Josh and Julie’s wedding.

I come home and see from some photo booth prints that Colleen really did make sure I was in attendance – at least in spirit paper (with a cool little hastily-drawn tounge too!).

I have me a good wifey.

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Congratulations Josh and Julie – I heard the wedding was awesome. I’d have loved to seen it in person..

Ellen and Paul’s Wedding, a teaser

Just wanted to toss up a quick photograph from Ellen and Paul’s amazing wedding this past weekend before they head out on their suprise-location honeymoon.  Their wedding day kept throwing us curve balls… remember though, sometimes curve balls are blessings in disguise.  Case in point:

Not to mention, I set up (and then my assistant ran) my first photo station at this wedding.  What a blast —  Talk about adding fun to a wedding!  Here’s one ‘sweet’ shot … more images from that in an upcoming post in the next week or so.

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Rockband: Wedding Edition

Amanda and Kevin got married this last Sunday; their wedding was at in the Sunken Garden in Como Park and their reception was held just across the way at the Pavilion. That alone made it the best smelling wedding yet (yes, smelling). Add to that: No bridal party; 45-person guest list; no dance; and a video game as the evening’s entertainment.

What came out was a crazy-unique wedding that was a blast to photograph – and (looked like) even more fun to be a guest of. Everyone was having a raucous great time, getting down with their bad selves… a great time for some really great people. I just had to blog it.

Amanda and Kevin were so easy-going, friendly, and laid back, it was awesome. They knew they wanted their wedding to be fun; they knew they weren’t “dancers” – so they rolled their own unique style. Very cool, I love it when people make things their own.
Plus, the fact they were into smoochin’ about every 4 seconds… we’ll, lets just say I captured my share of lip-locks. 😉 I couldn’t be happier for them.

Now, even though I fear breaking the internet, here comes a big’ole’blog’post…. prep yourselves.

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Rockband Wedding

Photographed a really unique wedding yesterday at Como Park  in St. Paul, Minnesota.  This image couldn’t be more appropriate for the evening… it’ll all make sense later.

(plus, “Rock” by the rocks and “band” by the band… cummon!).

“Sit in pew… be romantical.”

I’m glad couples don’t mind the smoochin’ on their wedding day. I am also glad I have the power to ignore spellcheck when it comes to words like “romantical”. 🙂

In other news, I’ve been prepping for my South America trip a lot recently (destination: awesome!) … should offer some amazing images.  I’m hoping to get Susan and Nates wedding photographs completed by then; blog-o-rama if I’m done early. 🙂.

The little moments…

So this was later in the night on Maria and Jirka’s wedding day… The lovebirds actually spent much of the night off the dance floor talking to guests.  But for this quick candid moment, they both were passing by each other, through the dance floor, at the same time.  Everyone was busting a move (including both bridesmaids behind them and the mother of the bride, on the right… 🙂 ) – probably to something like “we are family” or some equally wed-tastic song – when Maria and Jirka caught each other and danced a quick 3-second romantic ‘slow song’ in the middle of the everyone else gettin’ down and going crazy…  I doubt anyone else there even knew it happened.

It’s the little moments like that that really get me about weddings.  Sure, the ‘first kiss’ is a great memory, but, for me, it doesn’t hold true emotion the way these little stolen moments do.

p.s.  I also like this image because it’s basically 100% straight from the camera…  Woot!.

3’s company

Spent the majority of the day traveling back to Minneapolis from Susan and Nates rockin’ wedding… (I made it safe; I know you were all worried… 😉 ).  Before sleep, I want to toss up one shot that kind of sums up much of the day:

During the first dance, this little guy decided he’d go run a quick lap out around the happy couple…  Lots of cake-fed kids made the entire day a blast and super unpredicatble; I love the fun kids bring to the party. 🙂

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