Ana Maria and Nicholas - Into the Sunset!

I met Ana Maria and Nick at a bridal fair earlier this year. We met for our very first consult shortly afterwards at Flying Star and three hours later the three of us had all become fast friends! Hey guys! Here's to Flying Star, White Sands, perfect engagement sessions and UNFORGETTABLE shots at sunset! Getting to know you two these last several months has been an experience I'll never forget and I CAN'T WAIT to see how album turns out (not to mention the "trash it" session)!!! You guys are awesome! Thanks so much for letting me shoot your pictures!!

Ana peeking around the dress at home the morning of the wedding...

Nick at the church less than an hour before the ceremony...

After the ceremony...

This church ALWAYS has great light!

See?!?! What'd I tell you?!?! PERFECTION!

This is one of my favorites...

Those regular readers of this blog might remember Monty from Imperial Limousine and his 1956 Chrysler Crown Imperial Limo. Just one more HUGE thing that made this wedding so perfect!!

Ana and Nick's reflection in the Chrome of the Limo...

Can't loose with a couple, location and car like this!

Here's to Ana and Nick (and a big thanks to Monty) for making this shot possible. Couple who loves photography+awesome limo+awesome limo driver+photographer=unforgettable wedding photos!!

It takes true talent to make faces like that! ;-)

I'd been excited to shoot this cake topper since Ana and Nick showed it to me at their house during our album appointment. Looks great guys!!!

It's about a moment :-) ...

I considered myself to be one of the luckiest photographer's I knew when I got hired to shoot Ana and Nick's wedding. The more I got to know them afterwards, the more I became convinced that someone up there must like me! LOL

Talk about fantastic!! You should hear Ana sing!!! She's a former professional opera singer and it shows!! Just one more thing that made their wedding awesome! Here she is opening the dance floor before singing another awesome song to her new husband.

You could tell just from the look on Nick's face how much he loved Ana. You could tell he felt like the luckiest man on earth at that moment...

... and I think we all have to agree with him :-)....

La Marcha baby!...

One horror of so many brides is to have rain on their wedding day. I was driving to the reception at Prairie Star when I saw the first raindrops on my windshield, but my first thought wasn't "oh no," my first thought was that a simple drizzle would be ideal. Just damp enough to wet down everything and enrich the colors while still leaving lots of great clouds in the sky. There was a short time during the reception when we were looking out the window and wondering if the weather was going to work for us at all. Yet just as the sun was setting it cleared up and we all went outside to grab some of the greatest (if not the greatest) shots at sunset that I can ever remember taking!!

First we walked to the West and snapped this....

Then we moved on to the East and snapped this right afterwards. We thought we were probably done but we ended up waiting a few minutes longer anyway and suddenly...

THAT'S when the sky exploded in the colors of a sunset that made for the type of pictures you always hope for but can never truly plan for. We were all dumbfounded by the time we were finished.

Take care you two! I love you guys!