Cathy and David - Photographers

August 12, 2008 - Louisville, Kentucky and August 14, 2008 - Bloomington, Indiana.

Cathy and I first met Maria and Isaac at Maria’s apartment where her adorable dog greeted us at the door. They told us about their middle-of-the-week wedding that had to be planned just so because of when some their family was available as well as their ceremony site. As a result, their wedding ceremony was scheduled on a Tuesday evening in Louisville, KY while their reception was going to be on Thursday here in Bloomington, IN. I also remember that we met them on the weekend of the flood and it took us a half hour to get to there even though it was only short distance from our home! I was hoping we wouldn’t have the same problem on their wedding day!

After we took their engagement session which they totally loved (more on that later) we got an email from Maria. She was worried about us coming to their wedding and whether or not we should just come to the reception since photos aren’t allowed in a Mormon temple. We told her not to fear, that we’d get some photos outside of the temple, and get the formals out of the way there too (little did I know how AWESOME the family would be about formals! more on that later too!). 

Fast forward to Tuesday last week when we drove down to Louisville.

Like I said, I was worried history would repeat itself and as we drove over to Kentucky we started getting all these ROAD CLOSED signs in front of us which kinda sorta started to freak us out, (though Maria got this super-calm phone message of me telling her no problemo, lol). Thankfully though it was only about a one-mile, fifteen minute delay and we had left ourselves more than enough time just in case! While we waited for Maria and Isaac to get married we scoped the area outside, which was beautiful, and took some photos! After the ceremony they came out and we snapped away at the formals. Her family was SUPER fast and was ready for us cue-line style to take photos and we seriously got through them in like, 15 minutes. CRAZY!

Anyways, on with the photos!

 

Just married!

 

This is the AMAZING Olivia. She was seriously the most photo-loving kid we’ve EVER seen. I’m not kidding! Everytime she’d start to cry we’d point the camera at her and she’d start laughing hysterically and get all happy. She even ran over and got in front of the family portraits a couple times! We loved her!

All the other kids were super-photo-happy too!

 

Fast forward two days. We met up with Maria and Isaac at the beautiful Deer Park Manor for their wedding reception, which they told us was going to be like a nice open house where friends and family could come and go at their leisure. It totally felt like a big fun family reunion and was so sweet! They also had some of the most yummy hors-devours ever!

We got some cool detail shots before the guests arrived!

 

Cathy and I are starting to get a thing for blurry motion shots. We just love how they feel.

Since Maria and Isaac were already married they could get ready together!

 

Poor Isaac was sick as a dog for his reception but was a total trooper and we would have never known unless he told us!

 

Maria’s mom was a total stitch! It was a little humid in the prep room, and she kept standing in front of the box fan going “Aaaahh..”

 

Isaac’s parents were super-sweet and laid back!

 

Before the reception started we dragged them off for another portrait session. You wouldn’t believe the huge field of tall grasses they had. We HAD to shoot there!

 

We’re getting so obsessed with B&W lately. Can you tell?

 

A lot of people seem to think I’m the one that gets people to laugh in our photos because a lot of people think Cat’s really quiet. Not true!!! Here’s an example of the my amazing wife and her mad skills.

 

As we left the tall grass Cat snagged this awesome photo just before Maria stepped on a Hornet’s nest. Luckily no one was stung but if any of you know me and bees you can guess how hysterical I got. >.<

 

The punch provided there was SUPER-yummy!

 

Maria used to be a florist so she put together these cute little planter centerpieces herself.

 

Proof that some kids do like broccoli.

“Olivia The Amazing” strikes again!!!

After this photo was taken the little girl on the left brought me a flower. So cute!

My favorite photo of the day. I love this. She was showing me her bouquet.

 

Maria’s Dad got me laughing so hard, “Babies like me because I look like them!”

 

I had to save the following shot for last. As the party died down I noticed something moving among the flowers outside. Without thinking I whipped out my telephoto from my Shootsac, and quietly waited with one of the party people, Robert, who’s been teaching himself how to use a Nikon DSLR and I offered some tips (we LOVE helping new photographers. :-D) while we waited for something to come back. After about five or ten minutes we caught something out of the corner of our eye. 

This was the result.

Update: For fun Robert gave us the link for the photo he took! Nice job!

Maria and Isaac are such a super-cool couple and we loved shooting their wedding and reception. They’ve been so kind to us and we’ll be seeing Maria again soon. She decided to have her Bridal session post wedding sometime in September so you’ll be seeing her again for sure! She also went through the trouble of making a super sweet photo album with her mad scrapbooking skills into a guest book for people to sign. This was the second wedding we’ve been to now where our engagement session photos were a part of the wedding and it just makes our day. We can tell ourselves till we’re blue in the face how much we rock the lens, but until we hear it from the bride and groom, and their family we never really believe it. It’s in being a part of their day and being able to capture their wedding, to tell a story through photography that makes it all worth while. We love knowing that years from now people will be able to look at the photos we’ve taken and be able to remember one of the best days of their life.

Thanks for reading! -David.

It’s been a long time since I posted one of these, but now I’ve got a good reason to post one!! Cat and I are dealing with being angry at one of our cars and it’s … bad … transmission. Thankfully our other car is running perfectly but after hitting a bump my Buick cries when gassed and then starts jumping violently when shifting… I should find out tomorrow the reason for the new issues (as it’s never given me a single problem before, I love this car, and thought it to be completely invulnerable, seriously, true story, I got rear-ended at like 30mph or so, full speed by a Honda, which it totalled and put only a little tiny crack in my bumper, no joke!). Anyways, Cat and I became hideously addicted to this stupid show called Dr. Horrible, by Joss Whedon (who wrote Buffy, Angel, Firefly, all of which I’m also hideously addicted to.) 

Long story short, if I leave Cat for like 5 minutes to … i dunno … get a pop or something … i suddenly hear her favorite song from the super-hero musical ‘laundry day’ blasting through the house. It makes her happy, and her being happy, makes me stop concerning myself with the Buick.

So without further ado. Here is “Laundry Day” you can see the rest of this hour and half long show at www.drhorrible.com, which I would say is PG-13 (or what I like to call, PG-13a, or PG-13 for adults, like… the movie, The Dark Knight, not really an R-rated movie but not something I’d take a 13 year old to).