I am very excited and honored to announce I have been accepted into the International Society of Professional Wedding Photographers! The ISPWP is an organization of the best wedding photographers in the world, created by professional photographers to raise the standards of the wedding photography profession.
Enormous thanks to Amy Deputy, who showed me the quite beauty of documentary-style wedding photography many, many years ago.
Kellie & Chris were married at Denver’s Phipps Tennis Pavilion on another hot but gorgeous summer day. Both the bride and groom were amazingly relaxed, just excited and blissfully happy. Beforehand, the ladies buzzed around Kellie with diligent purpose helping her prepare and offered up several toasts to get the celebration started, while the guys joked around and shared nips from a Jack Daniel’s bottle waiting for the minute when they could get out of their roasting jackets.
The bride and groom’s parents served as the officents for this wedding and back in the waiting area their mamas rehearsed by window light as they anxiously tried to remember their lines. During the ceremony Chris’s father was so overcome with emotion he had to keep looking away to hold back his tears as the couple recited their vows but the bridesmaids, glowing in champagne colored dresses, were the complete opposite looking on happily with tears streaming down their faces.
Portraits were made around the stunning Phipps grounds wandering through the colorful gardens and under the apple trees, and despite the stifling heat Kellie and Chris, surround by a slew of guests, tore up the dance floor for several hours straight.
Kristin and Steve met in Aspen on a ski trip and ironically I met them on the slopes as well. Friends, of friends, of friends, we hit it off right away and I was really excited when they chose me to photograph their wedding. Rain almost foiled their plans for an outdoor wedding at the beautiful Phipps Tennis Pavilion in Denver but miraculously the rains let up just in time for their small outdoor ceremony and some quick portraits on the grounds. The fun-loving bride and groom rented the Bronco Bus to chauffeur them and their large bridal party around and the newlyweds flooded their guests with funny hats, feathered boas and silly sunglasses as they danced non-stop all night long at the Brown Palace. True love is letting your new husband use your leg like a guitar to rock out to Journey.
