Monday, December 19, 2011

Julia and Travis {green valley country club weddings, sonoma county wedding photographer}

I was so honored when one of my personal favorite photographers, Jihan Cerda of Jihan Cerda Photography asked me to second shoot with her this summer. She had 2 weddings in one weekend, Friday and Saturday and I had one myself of Sunday so this was my busiest weekend yet! and I do have to say I had a blast! I think getting to second shoot is a really nice treat. I get to do things I don't normally do and I get to observe how someone truely amazing does it!
I had never met the couple before and I showed up to the hotel room looking for the guys. Now when you go to photograph a groom of men, well I should say a group of Men who are about to watch one of their Buddies get married you never know what to expect. This group of guys was very laid back and easy going. They didn't start getting ready until 10 min before "go" time. It's really funny to see the difference between the Women before the wedding and the Men. The Women spend hours with hair and make up and all the little details. The guys hang out in their slacks, white under shirt and they just hang out usually eating and drinking and watching sports of some kind. Then at the very last minute they whip out the hankerchef instructions, break out all the little baggies that come attached to their suit and within minutes they are handsome and ready to go! They always start out never having any idea how to put any of the stuff on and yet somehow they figure it out and they all look amazing!
Once we got to the ceremony location I was amazed, what a gorgeous gorgeous place! and then I saw the Bride.... man was she gorgeous! and she had such a beautiful unique dress, she was a vision of beauty!
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brothers...........
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shortly after the ceremony Jihan was taking a few portraits of the Bride and her Bridesmaids so I was given the task of keeping the Men entertained and not to let them wander into the background of her photos. So I figured I'd get the individual portraits of each of them done like I usually do. Well if any of you have ever had me take your pictures you know I don't do boring or serious so I was shouting out things for the guys to reinact for me just to be silly and fun and I think as each guy came up it got better and more animated! Now don't get me wrong I got a great "normal" portrait of each of them but I wanted to share the more fun ones!
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I told you she was a vision.........
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makin it official.......
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you can't have a wedding with out a fun and roudy bridal party!!
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