3 P's in a Pod

I LOVE this little guy he was tired and still was willing to give me a few smiles!  I was nervous about pictures since it literally rained all day until about an hour before we started. This fantiastic family doesn't get scared by a few sprinkles though and I'm happy with how they turned out here's the Peak!!...

Tallis & Tyler {The World Is Not Enough...but love is!}

     Tallis and Tyler are a blast! Such a great couple and they had a great wedding party rallied around them! They have been together since High School and so it was great seeing how close they are with each others families!! There wedding was a little different for me, Tyler reminded me a lot of my brother, both good looking guys that have easy going personalities but are true gentleman! I hope that someday he finds a great girl like Tallis because she is truly a beautiful person inside and out, and so classy! (PS... my brother has a great g/f now so maybe he needs to just realize what he's got hehehe!!)
     Tyler made a AWESOME best man's badge for his brother LOVED IT! And Tallis' dress was custom made from the fabric of the wedding dress worn by both her grandma and mother! It was fantastic! The couple looked like a pair out of a movie! (A James Bond movie....which is why the title is "the world is not enough"...which is a James Bond movie, Yes I know I'm corny!!)

Here is a preview of some of my favorites!...

Lena & Jeff {giving a traditional wedding a unique twist}

I've been very excited for Lena and Jeff's wedding since the beginning on the season. In April I photographed one of Lena friend's wedding (Courtney and Kyle), so I got to see all of L&J's venues and C&K's wedding party was a blast so it got me super excited to photograph a wedding with not only people I knew would be an awesome group but I'd also get to see Courtney and Kyle again (Courtney & Lena were one of each other's bridesmaids)! The nerves set in though, every wedding is completely different and it was very important to me that even though they had the same venues their photos told the story of their day, and weren't cookie cutter! This is a goal for all weddings but even more so with these two weddings...

   Talking to Lena about her day she let me in on a lot of details and elements throughout the day that were unique and many were things I had never seen before! Since I do 20-30 weddings a year it isn't common for me to experience more than one new thing at a wedding, if at all!

Just a few little things that made me think "AWESOME, I've never seen this before and it's a fantastic idea!" (See if you can find them in their preview below as well!!).....

Streamers (instead of bubbles or bird seed) guest wave these as you make your exit from the church.
Cake "pop" ball cake! (Um the most delicious thing you will ever try!)
They had slideshows that played during the dances (Lena & Jeff together during their first dance together. Lena growing up during the father daughter dance and Jeff growing up during the mother son dance!)
Lena dedicated her bouquet to her mother that is a role model to her and was a huge help in planning the wedding.  I know there are more but that's the main ones!! NOW enjoy the preview I'd love your feedback & Comments!

 

At the end of every wedding I always ask the bride, groom and both sets of parents if there is anything else they would like photos of before I leave for the evening. Most of the time there isn't anything else but sometimes there is so I do this to make sure!! When I asked Jeff if there was anything else we wanted photos of he said "If Lena's happy, I'm happy!" Even though you would think, how sweet, but this is an obvious response; Right?! This is the first time a groom has said this...it truly was sweet!