Congratulations Michelle & Jim!

Last weekend, we photographed Michelle & Jim's wedding & reception at the Marriott at Keystone at the Crossing. They were so much fun to be around all day, we just love them and their families!! 🙂 This garter (above) was passed down from Michelle's grandma to her mom and now to her…all three women wore it on their wedding days. So cute!!

Michelle is so adorable! Her bridesmaids gave her a yellow friendship rose that morning, how sweeeet!!! 🙂

I had to put a shot of this in here…remember the Mexico luggage fiasco? Well, talk about making lemonade out of lemons! LOL My damaged luggage was replaced with an adorable 4-piece pink luggage set and one of the 4 pieces is now our new snazzy upgraded emergency kit on wheels!! 😀 Our other kit was busting at the seams as it was…we were able to go on a little shopping spree last week to fill it up with even more stuff than before and we used the new one for the first time at their wedding which was a huge hit! I'll post another shot of the contents once we get it all organized…. 🙂 And Michelle, we added that liquid band-aid stuff this week….LOL 🙂

Here's Jim's face during their private moment…I love it when couples do a private moment and see each other before the wedding…the groom's face is always so much more authentic when he sees his bride for the first time without a ton of other people around. Jim's smile lit up the whole place!

He just ADORES her!!

It was SUCH a perfect day outside….loved the sunburst!!

Few fun wedding party shots…

They saw this shot on another photographer's blog and wanted to give it a try….loved it!

I LOVE chair covers…they totally transform the look of a setting and are GREAT for pictures!

Right after the ceremony, they hopped in their decorated van and followed us over to the Village of West Clay where we took a lot of photos in a different setting… 🙂

Loved her bouquet! Julie Hollis of Julie's Flowers of Geist did a fantastic job!

Jim actually proposed in a gazebo that looked very similar to this at Coxhall Gardens. Since there was another wedding going on though, we couldn't take pictures there so this was the next best thing! 🙂

There was also a wedding taking place in West Clay so we couldn't use the Meetinghouse area for photos so John & I drove around the day before the wedding to scout some other cool locations. Since we only had about 20 minutes to shoot there, we wanted to make the most of our time there the next day…as we were driving around though, I found this fantastic wrought iron gazebo and once I stood under it, I already had this shot in my head!!! 😀 The architecture and lines were just too cool not to use it for photos. 🙂