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colorado springs wedding photographer | getting ready | bernadette and haydn

Sep 10, 2008

Bernadette is so adorable. Check out what she gave us when we arrived (Nic got one, too)!

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It included our Photographer Crack: Red Bull, as well as candy, snacks, tums and aspirin for worst case scenarios! I was a little worried when I saw the aspirin about exactly how big of a pain in the butt Bernadette was planning on being that day (he he)…but I wasn’t joking about it three hours later when I fell down a hill! (The things we’ll do to get The Shot.) :D

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Bernadette was radiant:

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A kiss for Taylor, Bernadette’s beloved flower girl.

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I adore this shot of Tay looking on in awe as Bernadette got ready.

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Another favorite shot…

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Bernadette was an incredibly beautiful bride. Check out her eyes in this photo!

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And over on the boys’ side…

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I love going through the boys getting ready shots. They’re all a surprise to me most of the time, since I’m with the girls while Nic is with the guys. When I saw this one, it was like “High five, Nic!!!” The ring bearer getting his shirt buttons done up…holding a frog. So BOY! (I gotta brag that you can totally tell by Nic’s photography that he is a dad. He takes the best kid shots!)

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One of the highlights of the day was the floral delivery. Bernadette’s bouquet made a leap into my favorite list FAST. It was amazing and gorgeous and smelled like heaven. All of the bouquets were exquisite. I highly recommend her florist, Dawn. This was Bernadette’s face as she saw Dawn carrying the flowers up the walk:

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And this was why her smile was so big:

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That was the bridal bouquet…next up, the bridesmaids bouquet (which looked FANTASTIC next to their brown dresses)!

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And the mothers’ bouquets…

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Before we left–one last pow-wow with Danielle, Bernadette’s awesome coordinator.

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Coming in the next sneak: the portraits!

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colorado springs wedding photographer | photo booth | bernadette and haydn

Sep 10, 2008

In honor of Bernadette and Haydn’s return from their post-wedding-mini-trip (I’m not allowed to call it a honeymoon because their real honeymoon comes later) I thought I’d post their wedding reception Photo Booth sneak peek. (I’m working on the real wedding pics, I promise! There are just a lot more of them!)

Bernadette and Haydn are our first couple to ask for a photo booth at their reception. We’ll be doing another one at Kara’s wedding next week! (If you are a Real Photography bride or groom and would like to have a photobooth at your wedding, just drop me a note. There’s no charge for photobooths.)

For Bernadette and Haydn’s booth, they had their friends loan items for a bucket of the most hilarious props I’ve ever seen in my entire life. The Halloween Costume well must run very deep!!

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Here’s Bernadette with two of her wedding professionals (if that doesn’t scare you, it should). ;)

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And a behind the scenes peek (Nic had just caught me shakin my groove thing while I waited for my next group to get costumed up…so of course the right way to recover from that is the giant stick-out tongue face):

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(For the photographers out there, we had a roll of white seamless on our portable backdrop stand, I had a 580EXII on camera, and another 580EXII on a light stand behind a diffuser on a boom arm to recreate the photo booth look.)

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wedding photographer colorado springs | bernadette and haydn's rehearsal dinner

Sep 08, 2008

We photographed Bernadette and Haydn’s wedding this weekend. I have been talking with Bernadette about wedding photography for the past seven months–it’s almost impossible for me to believe that her wedding is already over!

Bernadette and Haydn are an extraordinary couple that you can’t help but love, and at their wedding all of that was totally clear. Haydn’s toasts at the rehearsal dinner had me (and everyone else) crying. They are two fantastic people with two fantastic families.

I felt like I already knew Bernadette’s family and Haydn’s parents from photographing Bernadette’s grandparent’s 50th wedding anniversary party, and I was excited to spend another day with them. The three Bernadettes have an amazing ability to make you feel like part of the family, and I loved that so many people at the wedding said just that–that they felt adopted into Bernadette’s family. I’ve only met her grandmother twice, and her mom a handful of times, but I’m already ready to call them my own! :)

I met Bernadette right after we launched our wedding site, and she jump-started our business in the biggest way. We are hugely grateful for all of the couples she has sent our way, and I wanted to photograph the rehearsal dinner as a small token of our giant thanks. (And I’ll use pretty much any excuse to hang out with Bernadette, Haydn, and their families.) :)

The rehearsal was at a park in downtown Colorado Springs. Haydn’s dad was the officiant for the wedding, which I thought was a great touch!

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I love how Haydn poses for pictures. (And that he is holding two things every groom needs: cell phone and Red Bull.)

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There was a rumor going around that Rae, one of Bernadette’s maids of honor, doesn’t photograph well. I have to disagree. :)

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The groomsmen had a train behind them. Which made Will happy when he saw this shot:

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Speaking of portraits…Taylor (the flower girl and Will’s buddy at our “Cooking Club” meetings) saw me taking pictures and decided that I must want to take pictures of her, too. And she busted out some serious poses.

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Watch out America’s Top Model!

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Bernadette and her momma:

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Haydn and his momma:

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Bernadette and Haydn crack me up. They are always dropping in something funny or unexpected. Like at the rehearsal “hand-off” there was some question over what everyone would do. As Bernadette gave directions, Haydn improvised and jumped on Jim, Bernadette’s step-dad!

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At the rehearsal dinner, the laughter continued when Haydn’s dad, Bill, broke out the karaoke machine!

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And we were treated to some awesome Cher “Just Jack” from Will and Grace style (complete with hair flipping):

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Check out the summer lovin’ going on in this photo!

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And then we went home to get ready for the wedding the next day!

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