Friday, February 29, 2008

LUANNE AND CHRISTIAN WEDDING











A single red rose, held by Christian's mother to symbolize his late father.
















Christian's sister, Grace Macy, singing to the couple - what a voice!





OUR NEW ASSISTANT JOYCE'S, WORK!









Photo of Kevin, Joyce and I courtesy of Grace Macy!
Hold on to your hats - this post is going to be a bit longer than normal. Last Friday we photographed the wedding of LuAnne and Christian at Harvest Groves in Phoenix. You may rememer these two from only a couple of postings ago with their engagement photos - they were the silly, fun couple who loved to have a great time! As expected their jovial personalities spilled over into their wedding day along with all those in attendance.
Remembering LuAnne's comments on the day of her engagement shoot about the fact that she was certain it wouldn't rain on her big day, Kevin and I felt rather bad for her as we embarked on our jouney that morning from Flagstaff, first in heavy snow, then onto a miserable mix near Sedona, torrential downpours in the Verde Valley, and finally a light, but steady rain in Phoenix. It was OK though, as this couple let nothing - not even rain in Phoenix, "The Valley of the Sun", the freakin Sonoran Desert for god sakes - stand in the way of their perfect wedding day ... and of course having fun in typical LuAnne and Christian style!
The couple and their guests sucked it up, taking their vows - and their photographs - outdoors. It couldn't have been more beautiful, and from a photographic standpoint rain only serves to enhance the richness and saturation of bright colors. So, in reality, as they look back over their images, they will come to realize it was actually a blessing in disguise :-).
Thank you LuAnne and Christian - and everyone attending - for being so much fun to work with! You were all truly unique and amazing people and we couldn't have enjoyed ourselves more (we don't know if we have ever laughed that much at a wedding before.) Also, we wish to exptend a special thank you to Leigh and Mai of Cheval Events for doing such a beautiful job coordinating this event and for helping us keep things on track! A final thank you goes out to Christian's sister, Grace Macy, for being so sweet. She set up her own website of photos she took at the wedding (excellent pics by the way) and she was so thoughtful to include a page of photos she had taken of all the vendors and extending her thanks - thank you Grace for noticing!
Lastly, part of the reason this post is longer than usual is because we wish to acknowledge our new assistant in training, Joyce Day! Joyce is training under us to become a third shooter. She has an AMAZING eye and a drive to learn the wedding industry and we couldn't be happier to have her! This was her first wedding and she came up with some superb images that we wanted to share. Thanks Joyce and welcome aboard!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yay! I get to be the first comment! What a fantastic job -- I cannot WAIT to see the rest of the pics! :)

You all have such a great eye, and truly captured the emotions and sweet moments at the wedding and reception. (I especially love the pic of my mom with the rose, thank you so much for capturing that -- it's such a bittersweet thing, I'm glad you got a shot of it. :))

Thank you all, again, so much -- and it was my pleasure to give you all the credit you deserve! The wedding/reception really would not have been the same without you!

Unknown said...

Lolz, leave it to "Mary" to be the web queen and post first! ;-)

As to the photos, i can't even tell you how many times LuAnne and i said something along the lines of "i can't wait till we see the pictures" while on our honeymoon. You guys are so great! We're very much looking forward to seeing the rest, and i love the ones you've already posted!

Christian

Meg A. Macy (Reycraft) said...

I love all the pictures so much. What a great job!

The bride is absolutely beautiful and the groom (excuse me....) he is absolutely gorgeous and you guys made it shown so perfect!
Every little detail was taken into consideration.

As a mother of the groom, I'd like to thank you for such an incredible job.

Congratulations LuAnne and Christian... your wedding was the most beautiful ever, even though you had such an odd weather, you made it perfect, fun and original!

Love, Meg

Anonymous said...

Yay!! As before I am so excited to see the rest of the photos! I don't even know how you guys do it, but you do. Thanks for everything!

Tony said...

Hard to believe it was sunny and 70ยบ just a few weeks earlier!

I am (now, even more) very sorry I couldn't attend, but the images are awesome! Sierra Blanco did a great job capturing the couple's spontaneity, and whenever Christian is involved, you know there's going to be plenty of it!