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classiest wedding guest.

most guys practicing choreographed dance moves.

best cake {pie} topper… clearly.

most awesomely intense home made bouquet

best reception entrance.

creepiest first look

best first look

most likely to beat his wife…. hahahah kidding, it just looks likes he’s about to punch her on the dance floor!

most DIY bride… holy smokes.

most camera shy groom/groomsmen…… :}

cutest flower girl/ring bearer

most enthused officiant.

most dedicated photographer… haha

most loved spanks.

best brothers of the bride.

best use of a tin animal train.

smallest wedding, 13 people total!

most clever seating chart.

best party crasher…. Who invited that guy?

most awesome wedding food.

most annoyed wife of the most drunk wedding guest. {he wasn’t THAT drunk}. These people are our friends so we can say that, haha.

best smashing of cake {well, cupcakes}

most awesome theme for a wedding.

most awesome light saber war.

{death via light saber}

best ring bearer…. oh Sandy.

most inappropriate hand action towards the bride.

best use of a prop beard… ever

sweetest moves.

creepiest wedding guest.

best use of a chair.

best dressed… and most bummed that he doesn’t have a smore.

most romantic kiss.

best use of capes.

And last but not least, worst attempt to blend two photos in photoshop…. hahaha

We cut back a lot on traveling across the country since I was pregnant, so we got to do a lot more local {Washington} and California weddings which was nice. We always love going to CA because we get to see our family and all our friends, sometimes it’s like we still live there!

So needless to say, 2011 was a blur, it’s really hard to believe the year existed at all. It feels more like it went from 2010 to 2012. We really had an amazing blur of a year though, we are so truly blessed and thankful for what we have and the lifestyle we’ve been able to live. We get to work together everyday doing something we truly love, we get awesome time off in winter and we both get to be home to raise our little Mr. Myles.

So it’s that time of year again, time for the “best of” the year, or we should really just say our favorites. Evey year it’s SO HARD to chose!! How do you chose your favorite images out of so many?? Grayson said it’s like choosing a favorite kid, you know you shouldn’t have one but you sort of do.. haha, that’s terrible!

This shoot hasn’t even been blogged yet! one more!

such a good first look!

So hopefully we’ll find some time to get the Floppy Awards together again, those are always a good time and a half… we’ll seeeeeee!!

Anyway, Mark and Meredith are stinkin awesome people, they’ve been together for so long and it was great being able to watch them get married. I saw them dating when we were all in high school!

This place was also covered in succulents, which Grayson and I LOVE {partially because it’s the only plant we can manage not to kill}

They had this joke that some good looking guy comes up to you in a bar, asks if he can buy you a drink, takes off his sunglasses… and is CRAZY crosseyed!

honestly… my favorite photo of the day…. hahahahaha it cracks me up.

cell phone action.

Gotta love tourists… especially when they make me take photo on their camera for them, haha

inside joke, I won’t repeat it :]

Grayson wanted to put this painting in Myles’s room.. haha

Her mom is so pretty!!

They played a clip of their dog making crazy sounds.. so random

So I thought these were all potatos until they were out on the table… pears.

They had a bunch of different food carts out after dinner. Organic ice cream, churros {and a taco cart for dinner}

They also had a few movies playing on a big screen on the dance floor.. 80′s movies are the best.

I want this book shelf. badly.

Churro cart!!!

umm… Meredith there’s something.. someone… coming out of your dress……

A rainbow!!!! “a double rainbowwwww!!!” hahha.. anyone? You tube?

We have to say that this was our first time staying in an RV while shooting and we loved it.  It was a camping trip for us as well.  Well, fancy camping.. we got to sleep in a bed and watch movies on our laptop all night with a bunch of candy bars. And there was a pool!!! We went swimming the morning of the wedding to beat the heat and Heather was 5 pr 6 months pregnant.. She was walking around in her bikini and some 12 year old hit his friend and said “whoa.. look at that!”… Heather wasn’t too happy, haha. Anyway, the reception was out on a lawn right down by the American River.  It was dang hot, but it was SO BEAUTIFUL!

Jill + Nigel got to spend their nights in what I like to call the “Wedding Bullet.” This wedding had so many cool details that made it just awesome. Also, instead of a normal honeymoon they put all their stuff in storage and just  left for a year of traveling around the world after their wedding, so cool.

They gave everyone hobo sacs {matches and other camping essentials)

So instead of doing a seating chart they had everyone pick a card and whoever got matching ones had to sit at the same table… whhatttt? way to mix it up!

I loved the tables at the wedding, just really relaxed.

The look from this kid says, “give me a smore!”

I was super jealous of Jason.  He works with Peter Jackson and lives in New Zealand shooting movies over there.  He told me that he was currently working on the team that is making “The Hobbit.”  That was my favorite book growing up and continues to be in my top 3.

After all the ceremonial stuff was finished, we headed into the great indoors to party it up.  The Flashdance got the party rolling pretty quick and the dance floor was packed.  Thanks Sharon + Jason for having us!

One of our favorite moments of the day revolved around a boombox.  First, Kat was frantically searching for the D batteries; kept exclaiming that they are super important.  We first thought that she just really wanted to have music to listen to while she got ready.  Then all became clear at the ceremony when we spotted a boombox planted behind the last row of seats.  Wedding music!  The ceremony was about a tenth of a mile away from any form of electricity. We laughed when Drew came down the dirt isle and very normally bent down and pressed the play button and the music started. There was this moment after everyone came down when the music was still going and the officiant/caterer {haha} says “someone wanna turn that off so we can get this started!?”… hahahahaha we loved it.

After the ceremony they walked back down the isle and pressed play again so it would be on for everyone else. We loved how unofficial everything needed to be for them that day.  They just needed each other.

such good shoes!

That’s a huge bridal party…

They had their ceremony down by the river, about a 200 yard walk.

I love this photo

my favorite of the day {Grayson}

It seems this guy had a little too much to drink…

The masks even got the invite to the wedding {from their engagement shoot earlier}!  It was such an amazing day and the sun was a shinning at the Schilter Family Farm.  They threw some lipstick on the ol’ barn and made it look pretty dang pretty.  Pure unadulterated goodness ahead…

Not your typical first look “approach”, she instead crawled/stalked towards him to attack.

then the attack.

Creeper

a little tongue action on your wedding day never hurt anyone.

Spanx city!

“Ok Mitch, look up really high and open your mouth as big as you can”- Lindsay

Their “son/cub”

She had all the girls dresses made with fabric they picked out.

The “dog-chicken”

Lindsay was sneaky and got a kiss in before they were officially married

Dropped the ring… oops!

Best pie topper ever!  T Rex and flamingo hugging… come on!

Again… pure awesomeness.

Sweet hay ride and sing along through the Christmas trees.

This pizza was from a local place, it was SO – GOOD!

We skyped with Miriam a while back and got to talk with her a bit about their wedding.  She told us that she was a scientist and Danny was a doctor and that they were going with a science themed wedding.  WHAT!!  She totally hooked us right there and we were excited for it ever since! The end of this wedding was an end to a very long and amazing week.  5 weddings in 7 days!

This was the last wedding of our 5 in one week {nuts} and it was a fantastic one to end on! We were a little nervous because we flew in to San Diego that morning {got up at 4am after shooting Kim and Jake’s wedding in Seattle} and flew at 6am, but Heather was REALLY sick the entire flight, which is not like her. Maybe because she was 5 months pregnant and it was too much work in a row?? Who knows, but we were nervous. She had a friend pick us up at the airport and take us to the hotel where we were met by a bouncing Miriam and her amazing baby gifts! Heather was so excited about the shark towel she couldn’t sleep for an hour!! {we had time for a 3 hour nap before we shot}. But once we woke up and started shooting she felt totally fine, phew!!

Happiest Bride Ever!

They left us a really, really nice 5-star  review on ProjectWedding.com and here is what they said!

“Reasons we loved working with Heather and Grayson:

1. Picture Quality!!!
Most wedding photos are pretty, but Jagger Photography photos are BEAUTIFUL. They are anything but standard. It’s like if all other wedding photos are sheet cake theirs are Creme Brulee! When I was looking for a photographer for my wedding I was scouring blogs for photos that I liked, and I found that I could pick out their photos without looking at the name. Even their little yellow bicycle banner ad caught my eye. When I found their blog I stayed up all night looking at it. Hiring them for my wedding was one of the best decision I made in the whole wedding planning process. My photos are amazing! They really know how to capture people and settings, which I think is a rare kind of art that goes beyond just getting the right people smiling in a pretty place. I don’t think my husband and I have ever looked so good in pictures.

2. General Awesomeness!!!
Heather and Grayson are soooo easy (and fun!) to work with. They respond to emails quickly and they get your pictures to you pretty darn fast (especially considering how much traveling they do). But I think the best part is how fun and hilarious they are. During our engagement shoot, my husband was really tired from work and not all that excited about taking photos, but they had him laughing and cooperating in no time! They were totally cool when the place we wanted to shoot our wedding portraits didn’t work out and we had to move it twice. They even managed to get a few photos as we were getting thrown out! Talk about performance under pressure! They handled our large wedding party quickly and efficiently and were fun to hang out with when it was just us taking portraits. I don’t think couples realize how important that is because honestly I think they were the people we spent the most time with that day!

Overall I could not have asked for a better experience or better photos to remember our wedding! I wish all photos of me were taken by Jagger!”

Plus anytime the couple chooses yellow and grey as their colors, we’re golden. Our whole bedroom is yellow and grey so we’re fans. It was just an overall really fun day! After this wedding we went to bed around midnight and woke up at 4am to catch a flight to an Diego to shoot a wedding the next day! You’ll see that wedding next week :] It was the last of the 5 in one week craziness!

Guys room had “Shark Week” goin’ on and a bunch of brews… a little different than the women’s quarters. Heather was jealous.

Amazing socks!

Heading to the roof for a little pre ceremony bubbly…

… the cork flew right past my head!

Rooftop first look.

That’s one happy dude…

Favorite shot of the day!

We love all these shots underground, anything with awesome leading lines is ok by us!

our other favorite shot of the day! I love blocky lines!!!

looky loos

Alter by Vintage Ambiance

We went out and shot some more after the ceremony, love that!

So we didn’t make this up… Jake (the groom) told everyone to watch out for Uncle Boner on the dance floor.  He definitely had some moves! We ended up staying later simply because we were in awe of his moves.

There were 2 people in bed across the way waving… pretty sure they were both naked, haha.

It’s interesting being pregnant and shooting wedding, I think I went pee 7 times during the reception, haha.

People keep asking us if the couples get their images when the blog post goes up, noooooooo! We shot this wedding in July! We only post one wedding a week so they get backed up. So to answer that question, the couples get their photos LONG before the blog post goes up! Our normal turn around time is 4-6 weeks….. just thought I’d clear that up!

So here it is! Enjoy this Washington wedding!

Moto of the day, haha

This was the most amazing spot to shoot! These trees were absolutely beautiful with this amazing light coming through! We stayed here for a while :]

Look how pretty her eyes are!

WWHHATTTT?!?! So pretty!

Molly Moon Ice cream!!!!

Everyone’s seat assignment was written on these hanging paper air planes!

best wedding napkins…. ever.

We love a good cake smashing.