For those of you who have been (impatiently) waiting to see Kelly and Barrett’s wedding after my previous sneak peak and details posts, here it is! I am going to have to use all sorts of crazy adjectives to describe it, because their wedding was, as the title says: fantabulous! Because of this fact, I have about a zillion and a half images to post here so I am going to minimize the amount of text captions so this post doesn’t take more than 5 hours to create. We’ll see how well I actually contain myself!
The Preparation:
I just got lucky with some hilarious expressions as they were discussing the intricacies of flower placement in their hair.
When Kelly saw her makeup/hair together for the first time:
Oh and one tribute to the men getting ready:
The First Look:
Kelly and Barrett decided to have their first look before their Ceremony. This is a newer trend that is doing away with the tradition of having to wait to see each other until the Ceremony and often allows not only more time for portraits of the bride/groom and bridal party, but also allows the couple to have a private moment where they can show their emotions better than while in front of all their guests walking down the aisle. Kelly and Barrett expressed several times how glad they were that they did the First Look and I’ll be asking them to write something about it later for any brides and grooms still trying to decide.
Well, enough babble. See for yourself how emotional they can be:
Romantic Portraits:
(the first look then turns into a romantic portrait time!)
The Bridal Party Portraits:
The following pictures prove why Kelly is one of the most relaxed, fun brides ever. When my assistant/2nd shooter Cat and I were driving into town we saw a Carousel and fell in love with the idea of shooting on it. So we suggested it to Kelly (thinking we’d have to do some convincing) and she readily said she’d LOVE to do it! We just had to pick the mulch off her dress before the Ceremony!
The Ceremony:
I don’t know why I find this so amusing:
I have to put in a side comment here about the white sky. The venue was the GORGEOUS White Room Loft in St. Augustine, FL. They were married on the rooftop overlooking historical St. Augustine. Unfortunately there is construction on the Bridge of Lions, but RIGHT before their Ceremony massive fog came in, completely hiding the cranes and construction from view. And I think the white background is pretty neat looking!
I tear up when I think about how Barrett looks at Kelly. It’s so obvious how genuine their love is.
Kelly called their first kiss “nearly indecent” but this is how it SHOULD be done (next two images):
Look closely and you see the mother of the groom touch his arm as he walks by. I didn’t even notice when I took the image but was so touched later when I saw, especially paired with the expression you can barely see on her face. This entire family is so amazing.
One group shot for fun:
The Reception:
I left this detail out of the detail blog post for a little surprise. The groom’s cake was an iPHONE! As a total Apple fanatic (and my husband works for Apple), I was absolutely thrilled!
And therein ends my longest blog post yet!
