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Erin and Harry were married last year in at the courthouse, but decided to celebrate their one year anniversary with a beautiful wedding celebration with their family and friends.  Erin and her team of friends and family put together incredible details and a beautiful day complete with a canoe full of ice for drinks, a balloon backdropped photobooth, and food trucks for dinner.  Erin has all the instincts of an amazing pro wedding planner!  The weather refused to provide the sunshine that Erin and I were hoping for in the evening, but it did cooperate in raining only before the ceremony and after we’d finished portraits, so we did have some luck with the rain timing!

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I have been so excited to share photos from this wedding that they have been popping out in sneak peeks all over the place these past few weeks!  Aly and Nick were so lovely to work with, so sweet to each other, that it almost wasn’t fair that the camera also loves them like crazy.  (You can’t hear me, but I’m sighing little contented photographer sighs over here.)  Nic and I were so excited to shoot at the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Denver and are more than a little jealous that this incredible cathedral is Nick and Aly’s home parish!  (There are a lot of Nic/ks floating around in this post so hang in there.)  After their beautiful nuptial mass it was over to Hudson Gardens where we took some of my most favorite bride and groom portraits ever.  So much so that I’m throwing tradition to the wind and leading with them.  I just can’t wait to share!

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With that out of my system we can go back to a more chronological sharing of this beautiful couple and their gorgeous wedding day!

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The Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception is stunning.  The stained glass is breathtaking and I can’t wait to return to share it with Will and Ellie.

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Monet’s Place in Hudson Gardens was showing off that day and we amazingly had it all to ourselves!

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The reception was full of so many smiles and displays of Aly and Nick’s love for each other and their family and friends.  It was treat to capture it for them!

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One of the biggest benefits of photographing weddings is getting to see many incredible venues.  We were so excited to photograph Kevin and Lindsay’s wedding at Glen Eyrie Castle in Colorado Springs!  Kevin is the sweetest and nicest groom in the history of weddings–Lindsay is such a lucky bride!

Kevin and Lindsay’s Wedding Details  Venue:  Glen Eyrie  Florist:  Tricia Egan

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I love this next pair of photos so much!  Lindsay is stunning.

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The weather held for the ceremony if not the reception.  I love this little moment between Kevin and Lindsay’s dad as he gave her away.

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Rain forced the reception inside but the backup location was just as beautiful!

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