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We had a wonderful time photographing Courtney and Chris’s wedding on Saturday. It was a beautiful day (though just a tad on the hot side) and I will always remember the wedding for the beautiful things Chris said to Courtney during the toast (hands down the most touching groom’s toast I’ve heard at a wedding).

The makeup:

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The gorgeous bride:

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The handsome groom:

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The ceremony was held at the Regis High School chapel, where Chris had gone to school.

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The deacon stood in front of the bride and groom so they’d be faced toward their family and friends, which meant we had to do things a little differently with our camera angles!

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My favorite portrait of the bride and groom:

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The kid cuteness at the reception was totally off the hook. In fact, Chris had to announce in the middle of the reception his only two rules for the reception: everyone must dance, and no one else was allowed to ask them when they were going to start popping out babies. As if this sort of cuteness could be resisted for long!

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The grown-ups were also pretty cute dancers:

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Not to be left out of the toasts, this little dude (coincidentally a two year old named Will) got way into clinking glasses and taking a sip of juice out of his champagne flute:

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We loved working with Courtney and Chris–it was a total pleasure to get to know them, and we wish them a lifetime of happiness together!

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I’m all about the product shares this week. :)

Along with our albums, I love storyboards. Probably because a storyboard is like a single album page that goes on your wall–pictures are just better when they’re together in a nice clean design.

Kara came up with my favorite use for a storyboard yet–using it instead of a guest book. She ordered a 20×24 mounted storyboard (all of our storyboards are mounted, so they are sturdy and will be able to hold up to being a guest book very well). We decided it should have lots of white space for lots of signatures. I mocked up a couple of options, and here was the winner:

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Can’t you just see it full of signatures and hanging on the wall? I totally love this idea!

And while we’re on the topic of storyboards, here’s one that I mocked up for Aubree and Zack that I want to print for myself I love it that much. (Which is the weird thing about being a portrait photographer. If I were a painter, it would be cool to have my paintings in the house. But sadly it would be weird if I hung MY art at my house–I think our clients would be weirded out if they thought we had 15×30 inch storyboards of them in our hallway.) :)

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I love senior portrait season!  Senior portraits are definitely one of my favorite parts of being a photographer, and with a high school senior as gorgeous as Justine, it is a very easy job!

We decided to go to my favorite spot in Colorado Springs–not Manitou or Garden of the Gods or downtown, but the fields, barns, and fences of Falcon just east of the Springs.  It meant braving the crazy woman that wanted to know exactly what these pictures were for (rural Colorado being hot on the terrorist hit list), but it was so worth it.

She’d never had her portrait taken by a professional photographer before, so Justine said she was a little nervous.  Well, I have never seen anyone so natural in front of a camera!  She’s a total pro.

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I love this shot as she tries to stop laughing:

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(You’d never know from the smile that there were a couple of dogs behind that fence desperate to eat her.)

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And we’ll end with my favorite from the day:

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