This is a wedding I have held dear to my heart for many reasons. This wedding is gorgeous. These two men have an incredible group of people around them, from family to close friends and community beyond. They literally built part of this wedding together (more on that later). And they are two people very much in the world – building and writing and creating around them. I’ve also been honored to document several other of their friends’ weddings, so celebrating and documenting celebrations with these folks has been a pleasure. Ready to share with the world, the lovely celebration…
Tag: two grooms
From their classic St Olaf College Wedding to their late night dancing, these two grooms had it all Days that start with bow ties and end with dance parties are pretty spectacular. I would expect no less from these two grooms after their engagement photographs turned into an impromptu champagne party. And so it was with this wedding day – a formal garden party ceremony and reception on the gorgeous spring grounds of St Olaf College. A reception with a grey ombre cake and doughnuts, very good friends, toasts that made even this wedding photographer tear up a bit, and…
Look, I get it. You’ve probably been doing a lot of things in your life that don’t involve looking natural and fantastic in front of a camera. I hope that when you dance at a concert with your friends, for example, or run a 5k, or have a movie night at home with your sweetie, that you don’t consider for a moment if you look fantastic, but instead how it feels to be with people you love. But I’m sure that sometimes you do look natural, and fantastic, and gorgeous doing those things. And I love proving it. Case in…
On evolving families and this Minnesota backyard wedding Families are strange and amazing things. Even though they feel permanent, the specifics change constantly – people age and marry, new people become family, others leave or pass away. People move to new cities and states. There is never a moment that is the platonic ideal of a family, and yet we can always recognize it as something constant in our lives. If you are very very lucky, as I believe Mike and Scott to be, you also create your own family over time. Your friends become the siblings you share, the extended family you blend…