Best Friends

 

My husband and I are best friends. We have been for more than 12 years, long before we were married. This weekend we had the opportunity to visit another best friend and witness him marry his best friend.

Dan has been our friend for over 5 years. He spent many nights studying with my husband, and even eating dinner with our family. I am so happy he has found Yang. I am so happy he has found his best friend.

After this weekend, we now have a new friend too. It was so easy to meet her and fall in love with her. She was so inviting, so beautiful and genuine. Now Dan has himself a wife, and he certainly picked a great one.

It was so much fun to be there. Aside from the fact that my husband and I got a much needed break together, I loved seeing the way he looked at her, seeing how she touched his arm when she laughed and seeing how their eyes lingered on each other. The love was obvious, as was their friendship, and I feel friendship is very important to marriage.

To Dan and Yang: May you always be best friends.

Endless Love

I was fortunate to enjoy my afternoon here :

You couldn't have asked for a more beautiful day.

I was so happy to be a small part of this couple's big day when their family became a forever family.

This family was so fun to be around.

They interacted so wonderfully together, it was obvious they all love and support each other.

There was so much joy and laughter, it was infectious.

And of course, the beautiful couple.

Their love was easy to see, and it is endless.

That's the best kind.

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{Orlando Photographer}

Nothin' But Blue Skies

I was fortunate to get to do one more wedding before leaving Oklahoma. I am in the midst of packing, but I promised the bride a sneak peak during my chaos...so here is the first one (I think there will be at least one more before I go).

Their engagement pictures were rainy, but there was no rain in sight on the day of their wedding. The entire drive to their location I kept thinking what a beautiful day it was.

Then I saw images like this...



and this...



...all I could think of was the song that goes, "Blue skies, smiling at me. Nothing but blue skies, do I see." I'm sure it was on the radio at some point in time (I could look it up I guess), but I remember it from an airlines commercial. Whatever it is from, the skies were beautiful on the afternoon of this couple's wedding - and it is my wish for them, that there be nothing but blue skies in their future together.



Congratulations to the Bride and Groom!

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{Wedding Photographer}

Timeless

I've been editing tonight. I am still working on the wedding. Hopefully no one is tired of seeing pictures of this wedding. I just have one more I want to share, and then we'll move on to other projects. I am personally having so much fun working on this wedding, but I want to get them done so the bride and groom (and their families) can enjoy them as much as I have been. (Soon, guys, soon!)

This image is a little different than others I have posted. I edited it into a vintage look, and it seemed so appropriate for a bride and groom just starting their life together. A vintage photo to me is a timeless memory, just as I believe a marriage is timeless.

I love this image. I love it in the vintage look. It reminds me of a saying I have heard,
"Take my hand and walk with me. The best is yet to be."



{Oklahoma City Wedding Photographer}
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The Party

I had such a hard time picking favorites from the wedding reception. These are a mixture of some portraits we took before the guests arrived, and a few from during the festivities. This party was the perfect end to the wedding events.

Beautiful couple, beautiful location, great food and lots of great friends. Who could ask for more?







Told you these girls were darling.









{Oklahomam City Wedding Photographer}
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Pure Joy

Friday night I met up with this sweet couple again, however, now they were Mr. and Mrs. The joy in their faces was so apparent. It was beautiful to witness. It was the kind of joy that you want to hold in your heart forever, but also the kind makes you want to climb to the highest mountain and tell the world what just happened all at the same time. The best part was that it was not just the bride and groom that were bursting with this joy. It was their parents, their siblings, and their friends. Everyone there who knew and loved them and who had just shared in their special ceremony glowed with this joy.

Congratulations you two, I wish you many years of pure joy.

This is the spire of the temple. When I was waiting outside for the bride and groom to come out I noticed the sun setting over the spire and thought it was beautiful, so I decided to take a few pictures of it as a gift to the bride and groom. I thought they might appreciate a picture of the temple taken while they were being married inside.





These flower girls could not have been any cuter. They were darling here, but wait until you see them all dressed up for the big party. I could not get enough of them.



I loved this mom. This was her first son to get married (first of 4) and she was beaming with pride, love, and yes - joy.





There is more to come. You still have to see the party. I am hoping to post some favorites from that tonight or tomorrow.

{Oklahoma City Wedding Photographer}
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Hitched

These two are getting hitched right now. (I pre-set this blog to post at the time their ceremony is set to begin.)



I spent yesterday morning with them doing a bit of downtown roaming.



It was alot of fun. These two are so in love! They couldn't keep their eyes off eachother, or their lips. I just tried to fade into the background and capture the emotions.



Luckily my weekend with them is not over. So neither are the blog posts. It may take a few days, but come back for pictures of the main event.



{Oklahoma City Wedding Photographer}
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Bridal Training

One of the greatest assets (in my opinion) about photography in general is, you can never learn it all. There is always something else to try, a new trend emerging, or another aspect to pursue. It never gets boring.

As a part of my never ending training I was fortunate to attend a bridal portrait training class this weekend. I learned a lot both from what the instructor said, and from watching other photographers work.

Here are a few shots from my camera that day:

**edited (7/2/09): I found out tonight that the bride in my original pictures had not been married yet. I thought that they had told us both our models were already married. However, since she has not yet been married I am removing her pictures from this site on the off chance her groom might stumble upon them. I am replacing them with pictures I just finished editing of the other bride.







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