Tracey and Matt are an amazingly sweet and funny couple… and disgustingly good looking!  I have the pleasure of really getting to know my couples through the consultation, engagement session, emails throughout the year or so after they booked me, until the wedding.  It’s always such a pleasure to see them so incredibly happy on their wedding day.  Everything on May 1st was absolutely PERFECT for Tracey and Matthew.

Their wedding was at the brand new Asian Fusion Holiday Inn.  They assured me it would be incredibly cool, and it was!  Everything you see here was done inside or right outside of the Inn!  And I do have to mention here before you see the absolutely perfect wedding day that the wedding planner/coordinator was the wonderful Melissa at MasterPiece Weddings.  I was also able to have Mike Richards join me for the day as my second photographer.

The Preparation:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hot pink ties on men?  Hot!

 

 

The Gorgeous Bride, Tracey:

 

 

By the way, I LOVE this hot trend of wearing colored shoes.  As you see, having some bright accessories in the wedding attire looks absolutely modern, haute, chic… and every other great adjective I could possibly think of!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Men:

 

 

Photo on the right by Mike:

 

 

Then Mike snuck off without me and got this awesome shot of the guys:

 

 

The Bling:

 

 

Asian Fusion-themed hotel = FROGS to use for props!  How awesome!

 

 

The Ceremony:

I have to take a moment here to talk about how freaking awesome Melissa, their coordinator, is!  She starts off as a hired wedding coordinator… and she has several times (that I know of) ended up being the officiant at the wedding.  As the wedding approached, Tracey and Matt decided she was such an awesome friend at that point that they wanted her to officiate.  It was so sweet- and of course she does an amazing job!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Portrait Time:

We had about an hour after the Ceremony to do group images and then get some of the bridal party and bride and groom… so we definitely utilized as much as we could!  :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Had to get a couple sexy elevator shots as all the guests gawked:

 

 

 

 

The Showstopper, The Reception:

Pink lighting.  Really.  It was AMAZING.  They set up pink spotlights on the walls all around the room, which already had some gorgeous chandeliers.  There were also videographers from CollabCreation who were using some awesome video lights that I got to use as backlights… I need to get one of these for myself!

The cake was by the uber-talented Kristy of Posh Pastry.  Her cakes always amaze me with their absolute chic style.  Even if cakes have a similar concept, some artists just have that way of making it look so perfectly aesthetic.  The flower was, of course, sugar/icing/something yummy!

Photo on the right by Mike:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mother-son dance.  Photo on the right by Mike:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is one of my new favorite images EVER!  I just LOVE her expression, the whole crowd, Tracey, everything in this image!

 

 

And, just for fun, a behind-the-scenes shot, of course by Mike.  I look SO excited about what I am seeing through that viewfinder!