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Heather — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 09:50:22 +0000

As most of you know, Jen and Jeff’s wedding became insanely popular, it was also picked up by 3 magazines: in The Knot Southern California, BRIDE in Australia and now The Knot Chicago. We LOVED this wedding and still do. We’re still excited to see people loving it!

Our favorite Canadians eh… Mike + Kathleen {Windsor, Ontario}

Heather — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:28:14 +0000

Oh man… we loved Mike and Kathleen. We left this wedding sort of confused because the day went by so fast and easy even after staying 2 extra hours, they were so fun to work with. Also, we started at the ceremony.. so we followed Kathleen and her mom who got there late, haha. It’s not like it’s going to start without her! It was just a great day. We had so much time to shoot with them, which we always love. We were slightly interrupted by some rain but all ended well. And yes, Canadians all say “eh”… a lot. I love it!!! We also had the best view ever of the Detroit River from our hotel room on the 20th floor. I know, it doesn’t sound nice, but it was a beautiful river! It was a really humid day, but no one had a heat stroke so that’s a plus!

On another note, I don’t know if I can say this.. but don’t ever fly with Delta Airline… Holy crap, worst airline ever. We had some CRAZY flight delays with this whole trip, it added at least 15 hours to our traveling. Same with the next weekend. So.. you’ve been warned!

This is my favorite shot of the day, this tree was amazing!!

We went to her Grandparents soy farm where Kathleen spent a lot of time as a kid.

So after a while it started to rain out of no where. We drive around for 10 minutes trying to drive out of the storm and we finally found some dry spots!

We tried so hard to get a shot of them with lightning, of course it stopped as soon as we tried.

For some reason I was obsessed with getting this shot, haha.

This menu left me craving Tiramisu for weeks… I still am.

Spider Mum….. :] inside joke with table 10

best line from his brothers toast “Now I’m going to take drink of my beer… and you guys are going to wait”.. hahaha

Our first WA wedding!!!! Ben + Jin {Orcas Island, WA!!}

Heather — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 09:31:51 +0000

FINALLYYYYYY!! We got to shoot IN Washington {where we live!!} I have to say, we were both so excited for this one. We have an amazing “job” and get to travel all over the place for weddings. But getting to shoot locally is a whole new kind of excitement for some reason. Jin called me a few ago months to shoot their wedding and we just kind of hit it off, I think we went on talking about Farmer’s Markets for quite some time, didn’t talk much about weddings though, haha.

ANYWAY… Jin and Ben were awesome, this was such a good, smooth wedding. And the location doesn’t get much more beautiful!! They were married at the Inn at Ship Bay on Orcas Island, the hotel overlooked the ocean on a huge cliff, it was amazing at sunset. It was our first time out to the island, you’d think we’d go there a lot, but we don’t have time! So we were excited to even get to go to the island! It was great! A lot bigger than we expected it to be, being an island and all. When we were shooting I walked right up to a HUGE bald eagle who flew out of the tree when I got within 10 feet, and a deer jumped out from behind the tree too! What the crap amazing?!?! Ok, I’m rambling, here’s the wedding. Have fun!

Gray and I were driving around before the wedding looking for spots to shoot and saw this… holy moly amazing wall!!

They had a traditional Korean ceremony after their first one, it was awesome!

now a change back into the original dress.

Ben + Lara {Yosemite freaking National Park!!!}

Heather — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:56:30 +0000

Lara and Ben were the end of our 3 week trip/extravaganza of weddings, and what an awesome way to end this trip! Lara contacted me about a year ago and Grayson and I were EXCITED to say the least when she booked us to shoot her wedding in Yosemite! Holy crap! Yosemite!!!!!! We’d been trying to plan a trip there for months to go climbing/camping. We didn’t get to do either this time, but it was just as amazing in a cabin. We got there at 1am the morning of the wedding due to some flight mishaps and went on an awesome hike, napped and shot the wedding. This couple was awesome, Lara is an artist and made these amazing wedding favors out of their Christmas tree last year. She hand carved animal stamps and stamped them on these cylinders of wood to make coasters! AMAZING! She had a vintage dress as well just to make it all even better. They got married at the Ahwahnee Hotel which was built in 1927. This place was beautiful and historic. It had huge fireplaces and incredible tall ceilings with open beams, there were photos of it’s past all over the walls.. it was beautiful.

This couple was just truly awesome and fun. You could tell how much their friends and family loved them just by how far they all traveled to get there. AND- we got our first thank you in a speech!! We were so excited, haha.

Anyway, enjoy!!!

A bit more about the wedding from Lara:

Yosemite is a special place for Ben and I. When we moved to California several years ago our first adventure was to the Park and we fell in love with it. In January 2009, Ben proposed (in snow shoes) at Dewey Point while overlooking a snow-blanketed Yosemite Valley. And It did not take much to convince our friends and family to join us in Yosemite for our wedding.

I love argyle socks and a sassy shoe shot.

amazing tree with Yosemite Falls in the background… come on!!!

we both LOVE this shot.

Grayson was distracted during the ceremony by this squirrel… so was the flower girl.

one of the coasters she made!

“Last January I came across this post on Design*Sponge and thought the wood slices would make great coasters. And at the same time I was getting ready to recycle my Christmas tree. And then it all came together – I would turn our Christmas tree into coasters! The process was not easy, but I learned a lot about power tools in the process. I’m also totally indebted to the Oakland Tool Lending Library, which is part of our public library system here in Oakland and has a collection of over 2700 tools available for borrowing. Ben and I spent the next few months carving woodland creature stamps and making coasters. It was really satisfying to share something handmade and so personal with our guests.”

ok… prepare yourself for the best moves you’ve ever seen. And that would be Lara’s dress around Ben’s neck. At this wedding a ripped dress doesn’t give you an upset bride, it give the bride a lasso to rope in for unsuspecting dance floor attendees. And nearly everyone was lassoed, including myself.

She… had.. moves. That’s right, she’s charging at her veil…. then slapping someone with her dress…

that’s love… and look closer at someone in her veil, they all took turns.

Us + Yosemite = AWESOME

Heather — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:34:55 +0000

Yosemite!!!! We’ve been looking foward to this wedding for almost a year and it came! It was the last leg of our 3 week trip from the east coast all the way to the west coast, and it was perfect! Other than us getting there a day late.. We were supposed to get there a day before and have this whole day of Yosemite fun BUT.. we didn’t. So we got there at 1am the morning of the wedding, woke up at 7 and went on the most amazing 4 hour hike to Vernal Falls.. It was so good. We are super outdoorsy people, but with our job, we don’t have TOO much time to go on hikes and what not {despite the fact that we leave in Washington which is outdoor central!} So this hike was very welcomed.

We hiked along a path, got to a bridge that looked up to the falls and decided we had enough time to get to them. It was SO worth it! We walked up these stone steps along the huge waterfall and got SOAKED! People on the way back kept asking us where we went swimming. Holy moly, there was an amazing rainbow following us the whole way up too, it was fantastic.

So after that we got cleaned up, took a little nap and shot a wedding! The wedding photos are coming up next, but here’s our hike!

Jayson + Kalee {Erie, PA}

Heather — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:52:37 +0000

Wedding number 2 of our East Coast Extravaganza! This one was actually Grayson’s cousin Jayson getting married, so it was amazingly fun! We got to stay with his Aunt Julie and Uncle Jay {Jayson’s parents} for 9 days {thank you so much!} and we had a blast. Grayson spent the last year talking Pennsylvania up, talking about how amazing it is and all the things we’d do and what he used to do when he was little.. so I had high expectations, and they were met! They own a few hundred acres and have a million awesome toys, so we were never bored. Gray’s entire family {on his mom’s side} lives in PA so all week it was BBQ’s, wii sessions, scrabble games, frisbee {endless frisbee, Gray is obsessed.. he’s like a puppy!}, bocce ball, riding ATV’s through the woods, gawking at Amish people {I am overly fascinated by Amish people.. it’s amazing! They live like they’re in the 1800′s, I could never have that much discipline!}, going out on the boat, riding their crazy 70mph wave runner, tubing at the lake.. with everyone. It was awesome. We really had no desire to leave Pennsylvania but we had to! On to the next weedding after this!

We also discovered some new lawn games that apparently are totally normal and we’ve never heard of {ladder ball!?!?! best game ever!}

Anyway, we were warned that Jayson and Kaylee were “hard to photograph” because they goof around so much, but they were awesome! We love goofers anyway, so we were good to go. Maybe Kaylee threatened to give him a beat down if he didn’t behave, haha.

my favorite shot of the wedding!

Their ceremony was in the pretty church that was honestly like 1000 degrees. Everyone was sweating to death, including us. But the photos turned out great! haha

Their only child- Elenore.

brothers.

laughing at Jayson’s baby photos

mayhem.

2days later we decided to do a 20 minute “Day After Shoot” Jayson’s parents land. Yes, it was literally 20 minutes. The second we stepped outside it started to rain so we had to wait it out inside. Everyone was coming over for a baby shower/Uncle Randy’s birthday so we made it quick!

Lisa + Keith {Little Compton, Rhode Island}

Heather — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 10:00:56 +0000

Lisa + Keith’s wedding was one of two that we traveled to on the East Coast in consecutive weekends, so we thought, “Why not make a roadtrip out of it!” We started out in Boston a couple days before the wedding and stayed with Heather’s aunt and uncle. It was so nice just to relax and check out a ton of the old historic places. After a couple of awesome days, we drove down to Little Compton, RI and met Lisa + Keith. Their family had rented an old farmhouse for the week, which was extremely packed full of people, and made that their base of operations. There was wedding decorations everywhere and everyone was pitching in when we got there. It was like a craft store pinata was bashed open in the living room!

The farmhouse was right on the coast and you could see the ocean about a half a mile away. The scenery was covered with climbing ivy that covered old cars and farm equipment, mounds of blooming flowers, and winding crushed clam shell roads. We had a bit of a scare with the weather (it ended up raining, but cleared up for the ceremony and reception), but ultimately it turned out great. Lisa + Keith were such an easy couple to work with and everything went awesome. We’re fans of Rhode Island!

Lisa chose to pick her own flowers.

We asked them to grab a rock on the beach that they liked… it was interesting to see the difference in their selection.

A little rain crept up and surprised us, but we got through it!

Bridal party sword fight to the death!

I love the intensity Lisa. Keith… step it up a notch next time!

Ben + Christine {San Diego, CA}

Heather — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:19:17 +0000

Ben and Christine!!!! This wedding was great! It wasn’t too hot {being summer in San Diego and all} and everyone was great, the bridal party was fun {always a plus} and the location was beautiful!! Ben is in the military so they got married at a base in Point Loma overlooking the ocean! Anyway they were a blast to shoot and enjoy the photos!!

On another note, we are home!!!! We’ve been traveling the east coast on a kind of wedding tour for 3 weeks. We shot 3 amazing weddings from the east coast all the way to the west coast! The trip was fan-freakin-tastic and we got to spend a few days with my family in Boston and over a week with Gray’s entire family in Pennsylvania {I want to go back so bad!!! With drawls! With drawls!!} We discovered some awesome new backyard games that we are overly excited about too.

But we are so happy to be home, we pretty much live our lives out of a suit case, on planes and in hotels. So we’re home for almost 3 weeks {which is the longest we’ve been home since February} and we don’t have to leave our babies {aka, Sammy and Fynn, our ferrets}. Thanks for being patient with the lack of posts lately and there are some amazing photos coming in the next few weeks!

dancing down the isle.

He had moves…. lots of them.

Ashley + Ruarri {Zion National Park} Part 2

Heather — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 11:02:19 +0000

So this is part 2 of this glorious 4 day wedding fiasco! They handed everyone a kazoo to play when they walked back down this isle. Everyone played “All you need is love” by the Beatles.

They gave everyone a plant to take home, ours are planted in a pot our front!

Her rings were both antique and his was custom made, Ruarri is a wood sculptor, how convenient!

Day 3- brunch and heading back to Vegas to fly home!

Everyone waiting for the bus.

Ashley + Ruarri {Zion National Park} Part 1

Heather — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:38:51 +0000

Ashley and Ruarri!! Oh man, how awesome are they. This was one of the weddings that we were EX-CI-TED for!! It was a 4 day weekend extravaganza starting in Vegas, going to Zion and ending in Vegas. They invited their 31 closest friends and family and just had a big party! It was so great because it was so intimate, almost just like a small, traveling get together where they happened to get married in the middle.

First we had dinner in Vegas with everyone after wondering through the casinos all day. We won $2.50!!! High rollers!!! These two are amazingly laid back and awesome, our dream clients. The next day we all hoped on a huge bus loaded with candy, a good mix CD and started our 3 hour drive. Once we got into Zion we went on this amazing 4 hour hike up a gorgeous mountain, had dinner outside and had an awesome bon fire next to the river… And anyone who knows me knows that smores are the way to my heart.

We got to know everyone pretty well and felt like part of the group- my favorite wedding to date!!! Enjoy, there are 2 posts because there is so much!

They chartered a bus from Vegas to Zion, it was good fun…

When we got there we all went on a nice 4 hour hike. Ashley took a group and so did Ruarri

LAKIN {her last name} !!! I’m the “I”….

Rehearsal dinner next to the river!

and now for the part I was dying for… bon fire and smores :]

Her dad planned this big sing along and handed our lyrics… amazing

Day 2- WEDDING DAY!!!

This is the first couple I’ve ever seen get ready in the same room, haha

scone lover. So “man-some”…

They picked their ceremony location by just driving around and finding one. They marked an “X” with a cow rib and a stick. This place was beautiful and secluded… it was awesome.

Obviosuly there was no “isle”… they just made one through the bushes on the way!

….amazing!….

To be continued….. tomorrow!!