for the first official post, i thought it would be appropriate to post our wedding pictures. we loved our photographers, jenny and eddie of jenny martell photography. jenny was almost 9 months pregnant on our wedding day, so eddie was our main guy with a second shooter (jenny was there for our engagements and my bridal portraits.) they are both super fun people and very talented. we're so glad we hired them!
i was a bit more particular about our photographer than tyler was. it was important that our photographers were fun - afterall, we'd be hanging out with them the whole day of our wedding. also, it was important to me that our photographers used photoshop. a lot of photogs out there use lightroom, and while that's totally acceptable and you can get beautiful pictures with it, i needed to know that our photographers could do some major retouching, etc. if needed, and while you can do some of that in lightroom, i was totally okay with our photos being photoshopped (some people like them to be more natural looking). and lastly, i wanted photographers that were more journalistic in their style. the current trend in wedding photography right now is vintagey, yellow tones, which is beautiful - but is it going to be great in 30 years or would our pictures just look old? jenny and eddie have a very modern, journalistic style and i think it will be just as beautiful in 30 years as it is now. here are just a few of our favorite pics.
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| Mo, my hair and makeup lady, did miraculous things with my hair |
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| Isn't the lighting in this picture stunning? |
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| Still dying over my Valentinos. |
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| Bridesmaids - minus one (Nicole had emergency dress issues! Luckily Mo was a seamstress too!) |
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| Cute husband :) |
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| Sweet moment |
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| Mom and Dad |
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| Tyler was crying, so I had to cry! |
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| SO HAPPY! |
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| Tiffany's - I married a very smart man |
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| His first pair of custom cowboy boots - I picked out everything about them! |
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| New sister-in-law, mother-in-law, and niece |
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| Marcela, you're adorbs. |
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| Mr. and Mrs. Caviness |
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| We like to be models |
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| My cake - might be my favorite detail of the wedding |
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| Silly! |
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| My friends are fun! |
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| My reception dress was made out of my mom's wedding dress. |
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| 2nd line! Favorite part of the night! |
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| Not sure where the guitar came from, but it was fun! |
was that enough pictures for you? :) we really love them. next thing to come is the wedding video!
a shout out to all my vendors:
church: highland park united methodist church
reception venue: 333 first avenue
wedding planner: jordan payne events
floral: jordan payne events
lighting: beyond
dj: beyond
caterer: gil's elegant catering
cakes: the cake guys
photographers: jenny martell photography
videography: hakim sons films
paper goods: paper and chocolate
calligrapher: the left handed calligrapher
hair and makeup: fairy godmother (mo bowers)
wedding dress: paloma blanca purchased at brickhouse bridal
reception dress: custom made by becky fowler
bridal earrings: nordstrom
bridesmaid earrings: custom made by black and white jewels
purse: vintage
tyler's custom boots: wild bills western store in the west end
-nikki
