Katie and Chad's Sneak Peek {Sonoma County Wedding Photographer, Cornerstone Gardens Wedding Photos}

Katie and Chad had such a gorgeous wedding yesterday! I am drooling over all the gorgeous details and all the hard work that must have been put in just to pull that all off! I haven't even completely gone through all of the images and I haven't even collected the images from my wonderful and talented second photographer, Jihan Cerda. But I was able to go through and pick out the ones I remembered liking (while shooting through out the day) and pulled them out to put into a quick little sneak peek!
Sometimes I feel like the more gorgeous the wedding the dirtier and more jacked up my outfits get by the end of the night! I think I layed in gravel, dirt, bark, grass, and possibly someone's spilled drink on the floor! Oh and I popped a button off my shirt! But Katie and Chad were worth every bit of it!
In my full post I will be sure to show you guys all the wonderful details that were so creatively planned out and executed with such class and precision! But for the sake of this 24 hour post wedding sneak peek I just wanted to show everyone a few of my favorites (and ones that didn't need much (if any) touching up)

this one was too funny, the girls got ready at a friend's house, Lino, who happens to live nearby the beautiful wedding venue (Cornerstone Gardens in Sonoma) so as the girls were walking out, dress' in hand, "Katie's Ladies" shirts on, we wanted to take a quick picture. But this picture wasn't complete with out the "honorary bridesmaid" of the morning so someone slapped a dress over him and poof....our 9th bridesmaid!




this one is a sort of "behind the scenes" photo. I'm sure I look like a crack fiend looking for a fix as I'm feverishly searching for the perfect spot to take the bridal pictures in the short window of time that I have. I must have especially looked crazy when I peered at the massive aluminum table underneath this tent in the far corner of the parking lot and pointed and shook my head yes at Katie as if I just found destiny! And sure as the day is long Katie and her Ladies with out a single hesitation happily welcomed this fun idea! So the hoisted her up there, amazing dress and all! Then getting her down was the fun part! It inspired an entirely new "Broadway" idea that we decided to save until later and then sadly forgot about! (Mrs. Katrina we still need to do this....I'm holding you to your promise!)







sometimes I just can't decide!

ok if you don't have kids or aren't around kids then you won't get this so just move on past this little paragraph but if you do, you will soooo relate! Katie and Chad have 2 kids, a 4 year old boy and a 13 month old girl! wooo! aren't you already tired for them!?! Neither had napped and it was a big exciting day outside of the normal routine so by 5pm family photos they were let's just say less than their cheery selves! (yes 1 and 4 year olds have cheery selves! ...sometimes) so we just went with it and captured them at their 5pm best and let the bride and groom enjoy their day in the background! Katie and Chad, thanks for being such good sports and letting me attempt to get some good pics of you 4 together!


and I had to throw this on in cuz I'm a sucker for a good Father and Daughter love...



A big thanks to Katie and Chad, their family, and their amazing bridal party for such a fun and exciting day! I hope these hold you over while I finish up the rest!!