So thrilled to be sharing Gabe & Aarons two day wedding. Be prepared it’s going to be a long post! Gabe & Aaron met in med school and I can tell are truly soul mates. So genuine and caring. Their two day wedding celebration was nothing short of fantastic. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen such an excited group of family and friends. So without delay…congrats you two, thank you for letting me be there and capture your day!
Event planning & floral design – Studio Dan Meiners
Venues – Suites at 800 Locust Des Moines, Oakwood Country Club Kansas City
DJ – Anthony Nigro
Suits – Brooks Brothers (ceremony) Custom (reception)
Photobooth – KC Photobooth
Video – Oceanwide Studios
So excited to be sharing my first Kansas City wedding with everyone! As many of you know last year we decided to buy a house in KC and now I split my time between KC & CA. It’ s made for a busy but fun year! I feel so fortunate that Julie & Tommy chose me to shoot their wedding. They are such wonderful people and I loved getting to know them. So without further delay here is their wedding day! Enjoy!
Dress – Lazaro from Wedding Bliss www.weddingblisskc.com
Reception – The Clubhouse on Baltimore www.theclubhouseonbaltimore.com
Flowers – Erin Volante www.erinvolantefloral.blogspot.com
Vintage Silver Centerpieces were from thrift stores and goodwill but we rented the candelabras from Something Borrowed. www.somethingborrowedfinerentals.com
Cake – Caren’s Cakes www.carenscakes.com
Hair – Heather Hoffstatter & Candace Ann Rutten candee1234@gmail.com
Makeup – Amy Hubbard www.amyhubbardfx.com
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I love this shot Josh got of Tommy as I was shooting Julie coming down the aisle. Thank you Josh for coming out to shoot with me!
Kelly & Ivo had a down home wedding right in Ivo’s parents backyard in Lake Havasu AZ. Their wedding had everything a wedding should have and more. Great food, great friends, homemade desserts and even homemade shots for the guest to take home as favors. I loved everything about it but most of all how emotional everyone was. Lots of tears of joy! Be sure and read Kelly’s wedding recap below the images.
From Kelly - this wedding was a total labor of love. so many projects, but so worth it.
the favors made by ivo’s brother, roko, were limoncello. the croatian liquor we toasted with was Kruškovac – which is a pear liquor. ivo’s mom made some croatian pastries, my mom made the rest of the desserts – cupcakes, truffles, a norwegian wedding cake, brownies…
we collected all of the plates and vintage napkins, mostly from thrift stores and ebay. my mom made all of the table runners out of burlap. ivo, my sister, and i made all of the clay rocks with everyone’s names stamped on them. i spray painted drywall with chalkboard paint for the table seating, and all of the table numbers. ivo made the arch out of birch and twine. my best friend, molly, collected all of the lavender – which we dried and used in vases and for our bouquets. we bought baby’s breath from the farmers market and used it, as well. my sister made the HULJEV letters with all of our pictures from over the past 7 1/2 yrs on it. my sister also painted the beautiful canvas with the tree – as our sign in book.
Ivo’s dad roasted the traditional pig and lamb and the rest of the catering was Shugrues
my dress was a whopping $150 on ebay
my hairpin was by chelsea
ivo wanted me to add that his shoes are nike cortez :)
for Amanda & Ben…who are getting married at the beautiful Nestledown later this year! More coming soon.
Sometimes one little pic isn’t enough. For Heather & Larsen, I LOVE this. More coming soon!
for Leigh & Dave, who had a fabulous wedding in a castle, in Maryland. More coming soon…
for Gabe & Aaron who have enough love I think to make the entire world go round! More coming soon…
More from Katie & Preston’s wedding at the lovely Condor’s Nest Ranch! Below the photos see Katies write up about how she and Preston planned their wedding as well as all their amazing vendors. It was such a pleasure working with everyone on this fabulous wedding and I so appreciate my good friend and just all around amazing person Katrina Wallace, Sedona Bride for coming out to shoot with me! Enjoy!
and if you missed it, Part I.
We wanted a wedding that was homey. Since we couldn’t have it at one of our homes, we found the Condor’s Nest Ranch (thecondorsnestranch.com) to sub as our home away from home. We wanted everything to feel like we were having a party with our friends and family, we brought out all of our things from the house and we were getting married! We searched for mismatched salad and dessert plates, tea cups, quilts. We made benches, had hay dropped off. We covered 300 buttons with fabric and made 300 fabric napkins! We wanted to give back so we had people vote for which charity we should give our money to. As for my outfit, I wanted something romantic and still me. Kate Towers (katetowers.com) made my dress custom. My shoes were a completely random find by my mom and yes, the brand was Kate&Preston. So perfect especially for the blue color cobalt blue shoe. I found the veil and hair flower on Etsy from Austie (http://www.etsy.com/shop/austie). I wore pearl earrings I already owned and borrowed a pearl bracelet from my mom. My something old was a handkerchief from my late aunt. Erin of Salon HG (http://www.salonhg.com/) did my makeup and I have never felt more beautiful. Angela, also from Salon HG did my hair and I keep getting compliments on how good it looked.My wonderful bridesmaids had the freedom to choose whatever blue dress they wanted, within some parameters. They all have great style and I love the way it turned out! Preston’s suit and the groomsmen’s pants were from J.Crew. My mom handmade all the ties to coordinate with the mismatched look of the girls dresses. The colored socks were from We Love Colors (welovecolors.com). We wanted food that was as organic and local as possible so we worked with EcoCaters to make that happen. Our desserts were made by Beth Renaud. Our idea was to have our favorite desserts, like the things our grandmas used to make, but make them the best they could possibly be! Beth took that idea and gave us some of the best desserts any of us have had. My mouth still waters over that banana cream puff! Laura and Blake from Hoot & Heart (http://www.householdhorticulture.com/blogs/projects) are amazing and did all the florals. I gave Laura some photos, told her what we were looking for and let her do the rest. She is a genius at knowing exactly what will work and my idea was to let the professionals do their thing! The flowers were better than anything I could have ever dreamed. Our DJ was the incomparable Human Jukebox, DJ of the Flashdance (theflashdance.com). He kept everyone dancing until the end, when we finally dragged ourselves away from the dance floor and into Preston’s awesome red truck. And our good friend and fabulous cinematographer Ben Bonnet Films (http://benbonnetfilms.com). One big thing that was awesome surprise is that I won DOC services! Our DOC Katrina (http://www.thecheshirekat.com/) was awesome and made it so I never had to think about the logistics of the wedding day. I really felt I could enjoy everything that was going on and she never let on that anything was wrong, even when it was! She dealt with problems as they arose and hustled! I’m so thankful to have had her there as my point person. I would be remiss in not thanking my mom, who I truly believe should start her own Etsy site, because she sewed all the other things that I haven’t mentioned already: flower girls’ dresses, ring bearer’s pants & hats, the table runners, the napkins. She took every crazy idea I had and ran with it: mismatched salad plates for 200, done, 60 ft table runners, done. My dad just laughed like we were crazy, but we had a great time tracking everything down! I couldn’t have done it without Preston’s family as well, who made benches for our guests to sit on, constructed the lights that ran over our dinner tables, made signs from a wooden palate and a million other things that my post-wedding brain can’t think of. Our wedding was truly a community effort and the love we felt while planning and on the actual day was inconceivable. We feel so blessed to have had such a magical wedding day!
