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We are so excited to be featured in the new issue of Brides and Groom. This wedding planning guide based in Missoula is a great resource for newly engaged couples. My husband and I were married in Missoula last year and we used it in planning our wedding. You can check out some of the photos Cocoa Blue has featured in the publication online or just pick a copy up — they are available all over the place in Missoula. Good luck planning!
Julia and Mark had a sweet and heartfelt wedding at The Lodge at Whitefish Lake. Despite rain, cool temps, and foggy weather — this couple’s ceremony really went of without a hitch. Their easygoing nature made hanging with them for the day a pleasure. With beautiful flowers from Mum’s Flowers in Whitefish and a very unique cake, the details of the event really reflected the sweet personalities of the couple. A May wedding in Montana can often mean rainy showers but I think the unexpected often makes for great photos. Thanks you guys for such a fun day! I hope you have fun celebrating your upcoming one-year anniversary.
Sometimes you just have to steal a kiss. Here’s another shot from Ginny and Matt’s wedding in San Francisco. Happy Friday everyone!
The year of travel is starting to shape up around these parts. Here are the dates so far. I’m available for portrait shoots on some of the longer trips but in general this time is full. Please don’t hesitate to contact me with questions or bookings for open dates the rest of the year. I’m happy to add to the list of photo-fun!
Party time! After their sweet and simple wedding ceremony Matt and Ginny kicked up their heels with friends and family at the Headlands Center for the Arts. This location was a great back drop for a wonderful party celebrating this couple’s nuptials. You can see details here, all the wedding festivities here, and just scroll down to check out all the reception fun.
As a small side-note — for some reason this blog template I’m using seems to be posting the images a little washed out compared to how they actually look. I’m working to fix this but I wanted to be able to go ahead and share the photos with Ginny, Matt, friends and family. So for now just know they are more colorful than you are seeing here.
Outside my window right now it is a snowy, wintery, wet mess. All the more reason it’s been so great to edit thru Ginny and Matt’s San Francisco wedding. Beautiful weather and unseasonably warm temperatures were the order of the day for this sweet celebration at Headlands Center for the Arts. No detail was left to chance at this celebration. Check out the details here and the come back soon for all the fun at the reception.
It is a well known fact that Matt Cate makes some of the best biscuits around. Maybe that’s why Ginny LaRoe decided to marry him. Or maybe – it’s just another example of her great taste. This wedding at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin County, California was beautiful from start to finish. And the best detail: being able to tell how truly head over heels these two are for each other. There were two moments that stood out for me at this event — how every time I looked at the newlyweds they really looked like they were the only two people in the room when they danced together — and the overwhelming look of gratitude the groom had at the end of the night. It was one of the sweetest things things I’ve seen in a long time. So here’s one of a couple posts I’ll have here on the wedding of Ginny and Matt. Fill up on cute details and getting ready images this round and come back soon for wedding and reception photos. Congrats you guys! What a beautiful wedding.
I’m rapidly editing thru all the San Francisco goodness of Matt and Ginny’s wedding. I’ll have some more all inclusive posts up soon but for now here is a mini preview of their amazing wedding. Congrats you two!!
Here is one more blog post on Erin and Kyle’s Mexican wedding. It was such a fun day and the original post didn’t include much of the groomsmen getting ready. One of the benefits of having two shooters at a wedding is being able to capture a variety of angles and moments from two different standpoints. Here are some extra images from Playa del Carmen. While it has been a really mild winter here in Montana – just looking at that photo of the beach has me wishing I could hop on a plane and head back right now.
It’s that time. End of the year list time. It’s one of those things that I love reading what other people have to say and then I procrastinate forever about doing my own. I’m really lucky to consistently have great clients who I love working with every year. And I’m normally so focused on what’s next that I don’t want to stop and look back — I’m ready to just dive in to what’s new. But rainy weather here in Montana (not snow…do what!?) has made me sit down and pull some favorite photos from this past year.
Thanks again to everyone for having myself, Lido and the always amazing Sarah be a part of your weddings, celebrations, and family get togethers. We are lucky to have fun folks like you to keep us hoping on airplanes, climbing mountains, and generally fading into the background to catch great moments on your special days. For that we are the luckiest.
Julia and Mark tied the knot in May at The Lodge at Whitefish Lake. Despite rainy and foggy weather they had a beautiful outdoor ceremony with friends and family present. We snapped this pic just after the ceremony before they made their grand entrance inside as man and wife.
Erin and Kyle were married this November at a resort in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. We shot this portrait of Erin just after she finished getting ready and the image of the two of them just following the ceremony. Seriously — this wedding was so much fun. Erin and Kyle make a great case for escaping south of the boarder to say “I Do.”
Beth and Robert were married June 18th in Memphis, Tennessee. Their ceremony at the Catholic church downtown was followed by a trolly ride to the train station where their reception took place. These two were so laid back and their reception was a PARTY. People were seriously ready to get down to some Motown tunes. Awesome fun with a fabulous couple.
I love detail pictures and this was one of my favorites from Julia and Mark’s Whitefish, Montana wedding. The Springy program with their rings made for a neat momento.
Mike and Tom’s wedding celebration at a private ranch here in Whitefish was nothing short of beautiful. The people. The weather. The delicious treats from Rising Sun Bistro. Everything came together so smoothly that it really was delightful to shoot. I thought Tom looked extra “Great-Gatsby-esque” in our portrait shoot before the ceremony and the moon coming out for the reception was just icing on the cake.
This year wasn’t just about weddings but family pictures too. The Jurgen family was willing to hang out in the rainy, cold weather and I’m so glad they did. This pic of the family and their dog jumping towards me was one of my favorite moments from the year. I always like shooting kids and this was a fun shoot with their two boys.
Emily and Mark’s Bigfork wedding made for some fantastic moments. You know you have a great couple on your hands when their ride breaks down on the way to the reception from the church and they have no problem turning it into a photo op. Lido and I had a great time capturing moments on their wedding day, right down to their shoes. And seriously — the groom’s Dad getting down on the dance floor was one of my favorite things that happened this year.
The Donlan family’s photo shoot in Atlanta brought this quiet moment that I thought was a sweet capture of their family. I just loved the way their little boy is eyeing Dad.
Teague and Monica were willing to traipse around in the rain for their photo shoot and I’m glad they did. This was such a fun moment between them–and they ended up using it on their Christmas card. Cute!
Molly, Chip and their little girl Hollis had two moments at their house in Atlanta that I thought were so sweet. The family under the magnolia tree outside their new home and the new baby’s little toes. Hollis is kind of adorable. And by kind of I mean definitely. 
Thanks to everyone or making 2011 such a fun whirlwind. Cheers to 2012 …..
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