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A Winter Wedding at the University of Denver; Jessica and Carl

01.31.2011 - By Peter
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Winter weddings are really fun. You never know what is going to happen over the course of a wedding day and in the winter the weather alone can really spice things up. This is nothing to worry about though, I just plan for everything from 60 degrees and sunny to -5 and snowing.

Carl and Jessica had a really beautiful wedding day at the University of Denver. Everything went very smoothly and great images seemed to just be happening everywhere. Carl is from England having met Jessica while they both spent a summer working at Disney World at The Mission Space ride at Epcot Center. Carl’s family couldn’t make the trip to Colorado so they watched the events unfold via Skype. It was really fun to see someone halfway around the world watching the wedding on the Mac laptops that were positioned for the best view of all the events. What a wonderful use of technology to share Carl and Jessica’s wedding celebration with family across the globe!

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Red Rocks Engagement Portraits; Carl and Jessica

01.20.2011 - By Peter
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Red Rocks is one of those classic Colorado locations where you just can’t go wrong for an engagement photo session. I have done at least a hundred shoots around this area and Morrison. It is always my personal challenge to create something new as if I had never been here before, This was a good day for pushing myself.

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Adam and Leila’s Fall Wedding at Mount Vernon Country Club

11.03.2010 - By Peter
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Fall is my favorite time of year. I love the cool stable weather and the change of nature’s color palette. Adam and Leila’s wedding was a refreshing change and my last wedding in 2010. It was a small wedding with their close friends and family and they had a 10 am ceremony on the rooftop deck of Mount Vernon Country Club. It was nice and cool with gold in the Aspens below the deck. Adam and Leila are huge coffee fans and had an espresso bar as the highlight to the reception brunch that followed the wedding ceremony. After the reception, we spent another hour with Adam and Leila creating powerful images of them on the Mount Vernon grounds ending with a trip to a special spot with gorgeous mountain views a few miles away.

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We’re not in Kansas anymore; Billy & Moriah’s Colorado Mountain Wedding

08.31.2010 - By Peter
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We had a great time photographing Billy and Moriah. The wedding was at a new venue for us “Baxter’s on the Creek” in Idaho Springs. It was really beautiful with an intimate ceremony spot nestled in a grove of blue spruce with a creek alongside. I felt like I was deep in a forest with a river running though just behind where the guests were seated. I loved the gurgle of the creek as a soundtrack to the wedding. The reception followed in a great big tent. Tents are a great way to make the outdoors comfortable, and I love the way my lights bounce around inside making for some of the best reception lighting anywhere.

Clouds but no rain, just the way I like it, making for nice cool temps - a rare treat in August. Billy and Moriah are from Kansas and nearly all their guests were from out of town. It was a great destination wedding as many of the guests commented on how much fun they were having in Colorado.

Here is Billy and Moriah’s Wedding day Storybook, Click the play button and it will take you through the book.

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Justin and Angela’s Colorado Mountain Wedding

08.16.2010 - By Peter
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Justin and Angela are one of the nicest couples ever! They have a genteel Southern charm and grace having just moved from Atlanta to Colorado last month. They also seem to have a knack for making it rain. We shot their engagement session mostly in the rain and Kathy and I joked with them when we first met on their wedding day because it was raining again. They are so easy going they just rolled with it and we shot using umbrellas. Angela was amazing, she was having fun out in the rain on her wedding day before her ceremony. We shot on top of a mountain walking forest paths in the light rain. The forest had a soft glow that can only be found in a summer thunder storm. They are just so easy going and adventurous, we were there to create powerful images and that is just what we did.

Their wedding and reception was held at Mount Vernon Country Club. Before the outdoor wedding was to begin the rain subsided and the sky cleared. The light was really nice and soft with the wedding beginning about an hour before sunset. Everything was just how I’d hoped it would be. Some days everything just clicks, and today was one of those days and my camera was happily clicking away……