Sneak Peek: Wedding Day Photos

All photos by the lovely & talented Maureen Sullivan of Sullivan Studios (Boulder, Colorado).

See more when I start the recaps later this week!

**Edit: This very photo was the featured photo on the Weddingbee gallery for Monday, June 8, 2009!  How exciting!

Getting Ready: The Little Ones

Technically, I don’t have any photos of the youngest members of our wedding party actually getting ready. Flowerbaby Dakota was dressed by her Daddy and met up with us at Jakob’s dad’s condo, which was at Marys Lake Lodge. Ringbearer Michael was back at our condo – he refused to let anyone other than his mother get him ready, and she’d been elsewhere earlier.

Michael spent a large part of his morning avoiding Maureen, our photographer.

In case you were wondering… yes, I always look at my goddaughter in such an adoring way. Perhaps because she’s not old enough to sass me.

Dakota with her doting Daddy grabbing a quick snack before her long trek down the aisle.

 

A little pep talk with Michael (behind door) and Dakota before they head down the aisle…

And he’s off… wait, that’s not the aisle!

She’s a little closer, but still doing her own thing. (And I love that it looks like she’s thinking, “Man, that grilled cheese sandwich sure hit the spot!”)

 

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from this moment, it is this: If you want to have children in your wedding, you have to accept that their plans may not be the same as yours.

In this photo, our DOC, Laurie Bien has asked me to make a decision – either let them go and do whatever they’re going to do, or scrap the idea of having a ringbearer & flowergirl. I chose the first option, told each of them, “Go find mommy” and let them make their own path to the front of the room. It is a decision I have never regretted one iota. I’ll never forget that our flower girl made her way through the crowd or that our ring bearer got stagefright despite having one wedding (MOH Athena’s) under his belt.

Getting Ready: The Ladies
Getting Ready: The Guys

Getting Ready: The Guys

You may be wondering what the boys have to do to get ready for the wedding.  I mean, how difficult can it be to throw on a tux & run a brush through your hair?  Well, in our case, there was a little more involved.  First, the groom had to teach MOH Athena how to iron.  See, she led a sheltered life as the youngest of three kids & the only girl.  So Jakob showed her the intricacies of ironing.  

Getting Ready: The Ladies

So this was the plan: the morning of the wedding, all of the bridesmaids would get ready at the condo with me.  Since we had a 1pm ceremony start time, everyone was to meet at 10am.  

At 10am, Thomas arrived to do my hair & makeup.  

He looks so serious.  It’s hard work getting a girl ready to go down the aisle.  Of course, all I had to do was sit still, open my eyes when he said open, close when he said close, move my head this way & that way at his direction.  

Engagement Photo Porn

No - not really porn, you perv…  sorry to burst your bubble!

I finally got around to converting the massively large, high resolution images from our engagement photo shoot into manageable web-friendly sizes.  I’m not going to lie – I didn’t figure out how to do this myself – our photographer, Maureen, told me how to do it.  She even explained how “actions” and “automating” makes it super fast & easy in Photoshop.  Maybe one day I’ll write a tutorial on how to do it – if you’re curious, comment below.  If I get a few comments, I’ll be more likely to get around to it. 

And now, the main event – a few of my favorites among the 145 images we received from our engagement shoot:

Don’t laugh – this is a serious moment . . . (or as Ming-Ming would say, “This is sewious”)

They’re Here!

So it really hasn’t been long at all, but I feel like saying, “Our photos are finally done!” Today, I got the best email ever from our photographer, the lovely & talented Maureen of Sullivan Studios. It informed me that our online gallery of images is up & running. It contains 417 images, and good lord, are they ever amazing! Of course, my favorites are of my goddaughter, but there are some great ones of me & the Mr.

I promise to start the recaps as soon as I get the DVD of high resolution images next week.

It’s mocking me

The top layer of our beautiful and delicious wedding cake is safely ensconced in several layers of Saran Wrap and nestled in a plastic container we got from the Container Store which happens to be the perfect size. It sits on the top shelf of our freezer.
The problem is that every time I open the freezer, it’s sitting there, staring at me. It’s calling to me, whispering, “Eat me!” a la Alice in Wonderland.

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I don’t know if I can make it to our 1 year anniversary. Or more accurately, I don’t know if our cake will make it that long.