Dustin Francis Photography

Brooke and Brian got married on your typical Michigan summer day…it was sunny and hott, but awesome!  It is impossible to NOT have a good time when you are with Brooke and Brian and it made the day so much fun and I really felt like I was just another member of the sweet bridal party.  Thank you so much for treating me like a close friend you two and you know I want to be hanging out with you now.  You and everyone at your wedding are why I feel so blessed to be able to do what I do 🙂

The ladies started the day off at Jenny’s Salon…

Love it!

The mom’s before the ceremony checking things out…

Waiting on his bride.

I think I will always love this moment…

The reception was at the super swanky Grosse Pointe War Memorial…such a great place for a wedding and reception 🙂

Love it when I find things like this 😉

Such a great shot of Meredith and Scot!

I really always love this shot and if you know me, that says a lot…and no, I never suggest it, but am glad when someone mentions it 🙂

I LOVED the speeches, these next two shots pretty much tell ya how they went…

Both the ladies and men had different flowers….it was so great and unique.

The bugs were really bad, but I was able to grab Brooke and Brian for a few pics during the reception.

Loved how Brooke was holding on to Brian…so sweet.

Here’s a few of the amazing details…

This is pretty much how the WHOLE day felt 🙂

Here are some pics from Kara and Jonathan’s wedding from the 14th!  A big thanks to my friend Rachael, who came a long to help me document Kara and Jonathan’s big day and a big thanks to Kara and Jonathan for being so much fun to work with…thanks you two!  We started out at the salon where Kara works, Utopia, and had it all to ourselves.

Pretty dress and pretty shoes…

For this pretty lady 🙂

It’s all about the lashes baby.

Love, love. love this one!

This one too!  (Great shot Rachael)

I’m tellin’ ya, it’s the shorts that make it.

Can ya feel the anticipation?

Waiting for this moment…

I never get tired of this moment…

Both the ceremony and reception were held at the St. George Greek Orthodox Church in Southgate…what a beautiful place.

This image is so peaceful.

For the reception, Kara put her hair down with this gorgeous hair-piece…so classy.

The flowers provided by Acreations, were gorgeous!

A very happy husband and wife…

Kara ran into her hubby’s arms…so cute 🙂

I’m pretty sure everyone had fun…right Kara?  🙂

For more images from Kara and Jonathan’s wedding, CLICK HERE FOR A SLIDESHOW!

Lesley and Ben live in Cincinatti, but I am excited that that will all change in July, as they have both accepted jobs at the Univeristy of Michigan Hospital.  Ben will be in the ER and Lesley will be in the ICU.  Lesley  went to Ohio State University, so she will literally be surrounded by the enemy…wait a minute, she married the enemy.  That’s right folks, Ben is a Wolverine and Lesley is a Buckeye…I didn’t even know that was allowed, but you know what they say, “Love conquers all.”

The two said their vows at the gorgeous Polo Fields Country Club and the reception took place there as well.  They did a wonderful job planning out all the details and their timeline rocked, so there was a lot of time for some awesome pics!  Between the ceremony and reception, the bridal party went downtown to U of M’s campus to get some shots as well as have a little fun.  The day was gorgeous and it had rained earier in the morning getting rid of the humidity as well…thank you mother nature.

My good friend and awesome photographer, Kelly Braman came a long to help document Lesley and Ben’s day and it was nice shooting with a person I talk to almost every day, but hardly get to see.  Thanks Kelly…you rock!

All in all, it was such a fun day and even though I was “working” for 15 hours, I’m happy to say I wasn’t in that much pain the next day 🙂

I am so excited that they are moving closer to me, so we can hang out…they are my type of people.  Thanks for letting me party with you and I can’t wait to hang out with you this summer!  Enjoy your pics…

The dress…front and back.  I kinda loved it, like A LOT!

These puppies had some pretty serious heels on them, but Lesley swears they are comfortable.

Ben, you gotta love your wife…she let that Michigan garder touch her skin for hours…

Hair.

Makeup by Bridal Beauty…

Exchange of gifts…

This necklace came wrapped up in a Tiffany blue box…I wonder where it’s from 🙂

Some of the ladies…I think they wanted that necklace…

Mr. Daper…

The cuff links were one of Ben’s gifts…

A note from his sweetie.

Seriously, one of my favorite images in a while…go ahead, try and not like it…I dare ya!

The fellas.

And the ladies…HOTT!

That’s one good looking Buckeye bride!

One of my fav parts of her dress…so classy.

If you know Lesley, you know this is her…love it!

Love this shoe shot.

I’m thinking he see’s his lady…

Yeah, he does 🙂

I always love when they first stand side-by-side, so much emotion!

It’s official, the Wolverines and Buckeyes, have joined forces.  (Please don’t hurt me for saying that.)

If you know U of M, you know where this is.

Just for fun.

I still love this shot…

Cute:)

Smoochy, smoochy.

Just for you Lesley…sorry Ben 🙁 (Once again, please don’t hurt me.)

Horah!

Love the look on their faces.

I try and borrow the bride and groom during the reception when the light is all tasty and glowy and Sunday was no exception, although I do think we had extra tasty light…love these:)

Taking a few minutes away from the reception lets the bride and groom get a little alone time and more emotion comes out…I heart alone time.

I will end with my favorite.  This was taken right after we got done when we were heading back into the reception and I just loved the way Ben was helping Lesley…I feel there is a lot of symbolism for their lives together in this shot.  I am for sure ordering this…BIG!

Don’t worry, that’s not all.  For more images from Lesley and Ben’s fantastic wedding, CLICK HERE for a slideshow!