{love} jen + bart, waunakee, wi, 8.8.09

It's taken me a bit longer to get this post up than usual, I will blame it on the baby!

When we woke up on Jen and Bart's wedding day, we were a little worried, the sky was grey and it was raining! Not a good thing for an outdoor wedding, but by the time we started the storm clouds blew away, leaving great big gorgeous white fluffy clouds and a beautiful day!

Jen and Bart met before the ceremony and we drove down to Madison for some kicking formals at the Union Terrace, which is where they had their first date, and then at the Capital. Not only were Jen and Bart amazing, but they had an awesome wedding party and were up for all the crazy things we asked them to do! Believe me, some things we ask are truly crazy, but if you're willing to put your trust in us, we will make some amazing images.

After finishing up the formals in Madison, we headed back up to Waunakee for the ceremony, which was performed by Bart's dad, awesome cape by the way, I think that Bart needs to get one of his own. The light was perfect and luscious, and I loved the red rose petals carpeting the grass, if you couldn't tell by all the pictures I took of those! The whole day was loads of fun. Dinner was fabulous and the cake cutting, well, there was no cake. Jen and Bart had pie! Seriously, how sweet is that?! Several different flavours, I tried the Reese's and Rob had pecan, with whipped cream, we love sweets.

Everyone was on the dance floor when we left, the DJ was playing the best dance music, nothing lame for this group. I love it when the music is hopping and there are tons of people on the dance floor.

Congrats, Jen and Bart, you two make an amazing couple!

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{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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{sneak peek} amanda + aaron -quarry arts -madison, wi

Here are just a couple of shots from Amanda and Aaron's fantastic wedding we shot yesterday, goodness it's been a busy weekend for us with a family session this morning and an engagement shoot this evening, you can expect a couple more teasers before the week is out with full posts to follow! Isn't the Quarry Arts building gorgeous? Wait until we show you the inside, it is amazing, and we're so happy that we got our new little toy, it definitely did the building justice, and of course, Amanda is glowing and radiant! Her veil was playing with the wind most of the day, but I could go on and there will definitely be a full post very soon, so you will all have to settle with just these two shots!

I know, I'm such a tease. ;)

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{wedding} jackie + david - st. paul's, baraboo

Jackie and David got married on October 4th, and I cannot believe that it has taken me so long to blog about them! Sorry guys, here goes:

As the ceremony began we heard the distinct sound of sirens filling the church. An omen? Decidedly not as the sirens continued past the church.

Once the hassle of formals was over, we know the groomsmen were ready to be off to the party, the day was great. It was gorgeous out, the sun was shining and we had a nice crisp day, dawning cool, but warming up nicely. Jackie was stunning, she had found her dress online and then picked it up at Yost bridal two weeks before they went out of business. She had her hair done at TJ Hairazors by her aunt and looked amazing, along with all the bridesmaids.

St. Paul's in Baraboo is where the ceremony was held at, I love the stained glass windows at St. Paul's, the fill almost the entire wall! After the ceremony, the groomsmen hopped on their bikes for a few more shots, since Rob got some of them getting to the church on their pre-wedding ride. The wedding party took a bus around town, hit a couple bars and then on to the reception at Park Plaza. The food was wonderful, the cake amazing and the party rocked the night away. The whole wedding party was out on the floor singing to Hank Williams JR's Family Tradition. What a perfect day for a wedding.

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Our brand spankin' new sample album

I got home from my long day at work today to find, well I knew it would be waiting since I'd been checking the tracking number all day, my Finao ONE sample album!!! It is utterly gorgeous and so substantial, you won't have to worry about hurting this baby, it's one tough cookie. The album, which is our new offering for 2009, is completely handmade, which we love, and is packaged completely green, the album is wrapped with handmade paper made from recycled pineapple leaves and wrapped in a ribbon from recycled mulberry leaves. Take a look:



Now, here are a couple of our albums with the new ONE on the bottom. The ONE is a 12x12 flushmount with metal armor cover, then we have an 8x8 Element in Lady Danger, and to top it off a 5x5 Upper Element in Bomber Jacket, which is such a gorgeous leather, I could just hold it all day!


Look at this gorgeous spine, and the pages are so thick and smooth.

This baby lays flat, yeah you heard me, flat! We've got a gutter running down the center, but we can also do creased prints, but you can barely even see the gutter. Now, you may remember some of these images, we shot one of my high school friend's wedding in August and they had the most amazing wedding so we just had to use their wedding for our sample.


I am so happy that we finally got our sample in, I love it, have I said that enough? Now I really can't wait to start designing these for our clients, I know you'll love them just as much as us!

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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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