Category Archives: Wedding

Our second day of shooting was the actual wedding day followed by a reception and some crazy awesome dancing at Aura later in the evening.  I’ll just let the pics tell you how the day went…enjoy!

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Rourke’s little bro…

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Loved the suit and it felt ” like butta”

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Love getting greeted like this…

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Wanda’s parents…

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Amanda and Wanda…

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Love this one Wayne grabbed of the sisters from behind…

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A beautiful beach ceremony.

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Everybody…

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Stairs to…???

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Clean, simple, lovely…

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I love the green…

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The light out front the hotel was marvelous!

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Love it!

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Thank you Bahamas sun!

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Their reception was HOTT!

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I didn’t know Rourke was a fire eater?!?

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This is where the part started…

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And it ended late at Aura!

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So much to say about the experience I had at Atlantis in the Bahamas documenting Wanda and Rourke‘s fantastic wedding.  I was there with my friend Wayne Toshikazu, who was so important in helping me document everything and did an awesome job getting great images…thanks Wayne!  I have to say the biggest thing that I loved about being there, was how much of a celebration is was for Wanda and Rourke and their friends and family who came out to celebrate along with them.  Wanda and Rourke are such a fun couple, so it was no surprise that their friends and family were just as fun and everyone had a blast.  I will be blogging this in three different parts, as there were three main days we were photographing everything.  The first day, we did a lifestyle session around Atlantis and the surrounding area and that was followed in the evening by a little party by the aquarium.

I honestly could blab on and on about my experience there as well as about all of the awesome people I had the opportunity to meet, but I know you just want to see some pics right?!?  Here is day one…

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We started out on the beach…it was pretty darn hott!

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Atlantis makes for a good backdrop…

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Found some good light…

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Love this light too!

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Love this setting.

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The party was held in Fathoms, which is a little open area with one of the walls being the huge aquarium…

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This is what you eat when on Paradise Island…

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Guests of honor arrive = party time!

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I don’t recommend the Leroy special…it isn’t very good 😉

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Right, and I’m NOT a photographer…

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Nice place for a party eh?

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Love this pic…

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Maybe he’s tweeting 🙂  “Standing in front of a really frikin’ huge aquarium and there’s a Manta Ray coming right at me…HELP!”

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The moms…

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Wanda’s dad.

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Rourke and his little bro…

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Just a few of the guests…

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Abby and Steve got hitched a few weeks ago and it was a blast.  I spent a good amount of the time with the ladies and had a fun time chilling with them and just enjoying the day…which of course was beautiful. On with the pics!

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Some of the details…

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Abby 🙂

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Looking good Steve 😉

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Abby’s mom.

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And dad…

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Nice!

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It was so nice out!

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I love alone time!

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These were for Steve…chocolate covered pineapple…mmmmmmm

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Abby two putted it in…

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Steve, not so much…

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This is pretty much how the whole reception was…cute and fun 🙂

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A beautiful day turned into a beautiful night…

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Melissa and Matt’s wedding was at one of the more popular locations in the Ann Arbor area, I had yet to photograph a wedding or anything for that matter on the grounds.  I see why it is so popular now, the Matthaei Botanical Gardens are gorgeous and really help step up the imagery.  My biggest thing I loved about their day, was the time I was given to capture everything I needed to…it wasn’t long, but was the perfect amount and I walked away feeling super good about the pics and had a hard time narrowing down which images to blog.  I’m in love with all of the shots of the two of them.  Thank you for being to easy to work with…enjoy your images!

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Melissa had blue shoes for the ceremony and red ones for the reception…two thumbs up!

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Meet Melissa…

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Loved all her classic details…

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Meet Matt…

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The ladies.

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Such an awesome bouquet!

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I’m really digging this shot…

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Per Matt’s request 😉

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Melissa and Matt’s son Cooper, really makes for some cute photographs…

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Love these moments…

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These were the ugliest flowers there…what does that tell ya?

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Big fan of this one.

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Look at the way they look at one another…makes my heart smile 🙂

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A fav…

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A true classic beauty…

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A hockey stick entrance.

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Love these first dance images…

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Both checking on Cooper…

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The DJ played a song just for Cooper…I think he dug it 😉

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