{wedding} amanda + aaron - quarry arts building, madison, wi

Well, it's taken me since Amanda and Aaron's wedding, which was on May 9, until now to pick a few of my favourites for the blog post. Now that I figured that out, let me tell you about this awesome wedding:

Rob and I were a little worried when we woke up to cloudy grey skies and sprinkling rain, but the rain stopped and the sun slowly filtered through the clouds for Amanda and Aaron's rooftop ceremony at the amazing Quarry Arts Building in Madison. Seriously, the venue was amazing! Everything was laid out so perfectly, and turret towers - it was the coolest place for a wedding. Amanda looked gorgeous, her champagne colored dress was perfect, the ladies were all wearing the same shade of Christian Dior lipstick, and would you believe that they all rocked it completely different, you could not tell it was the same shade on all those beautiful women!

Mary, the officiant, did a wonderful job, allowing everyone at the ceremony to help fill Amanda and Aaron's grace account full of love. Although the wind picked up during the ceremony and Amanda's veil had a life of its own, it didn't distract from the moving vows that Amanda and Aaron wrote for each other. I don't think that there was a dry eye on the entire balcony after listening to what they wrote for each other, I know that my own were tearing up with the moving words that they spoke to one another. The ceremony concluded with a champagne toast on the rooftop.

Catering was done by Blue Plate Catering, and the food was amazing! It was so good that we were talking about it days later. I know that Rob and our assistant Amanda could not get enough, unfortunately my eating for two means that there is less room than before and baby takes up a lot, so stuffing myself was not an option.

What a night, though. There was dancing and partying, it was such a lively group, and everyone was full of love and laughter. I know that Rob got a lot of envious looks regarding his fedora, which later made the rounds.

This was the first wedding featuring our new engagement Guest book and we got so many compliments, of course I told everyone that it was Amanda and Aaron that totally rocked the book, it was full of shots of them! Love it! Plus, the people liked my new chucks, I may just wear those babies to every wedding because they are so darn comfy!

So, enough about me, take a look at these gorgeous shots:




Seriously sweet venue:

Amanda kept checking out the crowd before her cue to head out.



Isn't her ring gorgeous?

I don't know why, but I love this shot. There's just something about it that makes me feel all tingly inside.


Amanda and her dad during the father-daughter dance, it totally made me tear up!

And then Aaron and his mom totally rocked their own dance.

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{wedding} jeff + joleen

I know it's taken me a while to get these pics up, but here is Jeff and Joleen's wedding from the 19th of September.

Well, they called this one the "Brady bunch wedding"! Between Jeff and Joleen, they have three girls and three boys, and you can definitely tell that this is going to be one great big loving family! The couple got married out at Lake Redstone at Joleen's parent's summer home in the backyard. They had just invited family and close friends and it was so super casual, the girls didn't wear any shoes, and they had their kids standing up with them. It was so perfect, the light was beautiful, the bride was gorgeous and there was so much happiness.

The ceremony was short and sweet, it started at 6:30 and we were losing light fast, but we got all the pictures done in the nick of time.

Appetizers were served along with the wedding cake on the deck overlooking picnic tables set out on the lawn below. It was such a fun group and a blast to be a part of their day, so fun and filled with love.

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{wedding} aaron + kristin 9.20.2008

All right, it's been over a week and I haven't posted more than a tiny blip about my weddings from last week! I'd like to say that this past week has been super busy and that's my reason for the slackage, but I promise to pick it up from here on out.

Last saturday we had a super gorgeous wedding. I knew it would be a blast when I walked in on the girls getting ready and Kristin was just in her underclothes, looking gorgeous already I might add, and trying to decide on wearing the dress or just walking out like that. I suggested the veil to go along with her ensemble, but her dress was super fab (she bought it online!) and she decided to wear it. I knew that this wedding was going to be awesome when I saw that Amber Moon from Baraboo had done the flowers. I love how bright and colorful they are!

The wedding was at Saint Joe's in Baraboo, a huge cathedral of a building and it has so many places to get great images at. While Rob was capturing the bride before the ceremony, I went out to keep Aaron company, and we tried to figure out how many tires it takes to fill up their play area (if anyone knows, please let me know - the groomsmen were trying to figure it out all day!!). The ceremony was beautiful and then we had some time to kill before the reception, I love it when the bride and groom plan for extra time between things, it gives us time to really get some fun shots! The weather was perfect, blue sky with puffy little clouds and a little breeze, what more could you ask for on your wedding day?

They had a limo pick them up from the church, and headed downtown Baraboo for some partying, and then up to the Dells and finally to Trapper's Turn, a gorgeous golf course on the edge of the Dells with a fantastic reception area. The meal was amazing, let me tell you that our couples are always willing to let us eat with them and after this wedding it may be the reason that Rob shoots weddings now! There was Italian wedding soup, gorgeous salad (almost a crime to eat it, it was so pretty!) and the main course was bacon wrapped fillet mignon, the steak was so tender we could cut it with a butter knife! It's possible that was the best meal I have ever had dining out. Plus, the reason I shoot weddings, the wedding cake was gorgeous, more of the beautiful flowers and they had some great flavours like carrot cake, oh how amazing does all that sound?

Now, as if that wasn't all amazing, they had a band come in and play, Easy Street, and although we blew a circuit or breaker (have I ever mentioned that I'm not really that great with electronic stuff?) the party continued soon after and the reception was rocking. Check out the shot of Kristin's dad, he's an awesome dancer!

So, here are some teasers and a few of our favourites from the day:
Look at Aaron holding those flowers! He looks great in the bright colours.

Before the ceremony, Aaron kept checking the time as we were waiting for the bridal portraits to finish up.

Seriously, what a cool cake!


Oh yeah, he lifted her straight off the floor!


I think this may be one of my favourites of the day! Kristin totally rocked her dress and she looked like a princess.

While we were partying before the reception, Aaron was teasing the flowergirl, at least I'm sure that's what was happening ;) and she was hissing back at him like a cat. How sweet is this shot?

Look at how in love these two are! I love their expressions and how loving they were. It was little moments like this that really remind me of why I shoot weddings, I love to document the love that they feel for each other.

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