A Picnic in the Snow

My professor was pretty adamant that I do a themed wedding for my third

and final portfolio.

Amanda gave me the great idea to do a Doctor Who themed wedding, 

which would have been way fun and awesome, but the more

I thought about it and planned it, the more I decided to try to stick with something

a little less complicated.

So, I chose a picnic wedding.

And of course, the weekend I planned to photograph, it snowed.

But, it's all good really, my professor wants me to break out of some of the norms,

find my own photos voice when it comes to wedding photography, do something different.

What's more ironic than a snowy picnic wedding right?

I spent the day before making little sandwiches, cutting up fruit, making cupcakes

and frosting and figuring out all the details.

 Travis was, as always, a tremendous help.  He carried all the heavy boxes of stuff

I'd brought with us. He arranged the flowers beautifully.

And his fingers were nearly frozen off by the time we were done.

I decided we could be caterers....if we could borrow things from others--none of the stuff you 

see here is mine, it came from very willing, helpful people.

I let the couple leave before I got a shot of their rings, so I used mine and Travis'.

 Aunt Kim is an incredible cake decorator, so we had her help us with the frosting.
These were delicious.

 This couple got married last month.  I knew Brian when I was young,

he lived up the street from me, but I hadn't seen him in over 10 years.

I was very grateful for their willingness, and his wife, Jentry, did 

a most excellent job at not looking cold, although I'm sure she was frozen.

These are a couple of the shots that I set up, going for something a little different than

what you usually see, but still on the fun side of things.

Overall, I think it was successful, even with the weather.

Honestly it was such a relief to have it done.

It was so much work, I probably did more for this event than 

I did for my own wedding...