Mallory & Ben - wedding

One thing we love about weddings is that we go places that we may never have discovered if not for being wedding photographers. Mallory and Ben's wedding took place in Dayton at Carillon Park. This is a historical park that celebrates the city's rich history of printing, trade, and airplanes/bicycles. Now we're not usually ones for historical parks but this one was cool! If you have never been you should definitely go, but we would suggest going on a cooler day, because it was HOT! Luckily Mallory and Ben were troopers as they walked from one side of the park to the other stopping along the way to take photos. If you follow our blog, you might remember Susan and Paul's wedding that we photographed back in June. Well, as it turns out Mallory is Susan's sister...so we had the unique opportunity to shoot sisters' weddings three weeks apart - how often does that happen??? Mallory and Ben's First Look took place at an old 1880s schoolhouse. We also had a chance to photograph the couple inside the schoolhouse, where the natural light was simply amazing. Then we simply strolled throughout the rest of the park taking photos here and there among the buildings, automobiles and trees. The couple's ceremony took place on the old Morrison Iron Bridge at the far end of the park. What a unique spot to get married! Another special touch was that the minister Daniel who presided over the ceremony was a good friend of the couple. Their reception took place inside the Transportation Center - among old train cars, locomotives and steam engines...a very cool place indeed. One of our favorite details about their wedding was that the couple took time throughout the year to make hundreds of little origami swans that were then strung together to create a curtain. They also had silly masks with a polaroid camera for guests to take photos to put in Mallory and Ben's guest book. It was very fun and provided a great backdrop for some unexpected photographic moments. Congrats to the happy couple, and thanks as always for looking at our photos. We welcome your comments!

Steve+Jess wedding - 09/24/11

Now that we are back on the blogging train so to speak, it's time to share photos from our most recent wedding! Steve and Jess are friends of ours, so naturally we were excited when they asked us to photograph their wedding. And, since we've been on an outside/natural light wedding kick of late, who were we to refuse?

Steve and Jess decided to have their wedding outdoors at the Cincinnati Garden Center. Wow, what a beautiful place that I have driven past many times and never even knew existed! For those of you that don't know, it is tucked quietly away off of Reading Road not too far from Children's Hospital. If you haven't been I highly recommend that you check it out!

We knew the forecast was calling for rain, so we kept our fingers crossed, grabbed our umbrellas, rain jackets and lens hoods and hoped for the best. As luck would have it the rain stopped mid-morning and sure enough the sun began to break through the clouds as we arrived at Jess's house to begin photographing the girls getting ready...it seemed fate was on our side.

This was a great wedding and the pictures below will tell the story. Please enjoy and as always we welcome your comments!

stunningly simple, just how a bride should be:




then it was time to see what the guys were up to:


Steve was looking quite stylish with a bit of artistic flair (as always):


you really can’t beat a skull tie on your wedding day, now can you?


nothing but style here:




these guys look like a whole lot of trouble:




…but nothing that a beer or two won't fix:


now on to a few of the details:




and on to the ceremony we go:






a quick shot of Jess’s son Connor:




all the guests gathered around the couple in the grass – it was very intimate:









and now for a serious shot: :)




one of my favorites of the day:


Steve’s best man David flew in from Japan for the wedding – now THAT’S a good friend!








there was even a magician at the reception to entertain the kids (and more than a few of the adults):


the coolest cake topper we’ve ever photographed:








David had asked the guests make origami cranes beforehand and presented them to the couple during his best man speech (cool, huh?):




a final shot of the happy family. we wish you all the best!