Erin+Adam Wedding

I don't think I could ever put my finger on a favorite wedding... but if I were ever held at gunpoint and forced to make some kind of list of the Tops of the Tops, this wedding would be a part of it. Mostly because I've never had a lower-pressure couple with lower-pressure families; they remained cool through every little thing (and there are always little things) and it completely shows in their photos.

You can see the radness that is their wedding album right over here on the JVP Facebook page (which is something I encourage you to check out anyway), and a small sampling of their wedding photos... right now:

Everyone's a photographer. =o)

Adam's face when he opened his gifts from Erin were pretty darn sweet.

The Man Cave at The Mavris is a sight to behold, btw. If I were getting married again, it's where I'd host my shindig.

Brides (and guys): Make sure you leave some room in your schedule for photos together. The more time you give, the more photos we get of you and the better the photos turn out to be. It's an easy formula to follow — time+space=radness.

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Emma+Nick Married

I'm sure that you — having paid attention to my blog for the last thirty seconds or so — happily remember the sweetest couple you've ever met in blog fashion: Emma and Nick. Well, it happens that about six or so months ago, they got married in a very sweet (surprise!), very intimate backyard ceremony. The only reason I've waited so long to post this to the blog is... well, I don't like to give away "industry secrets" but, photographers like to post summer weddings in the winter when they have nothing else to post.

Also, I'm a giant procrastinator.

However! my delay is your gain because you get to dig some of this sweet eye candy when it's all grey and nasty outside. (Really, go look out the window. Isn't that disgusting? Okay, now, back to ME, I'm on a horse blog.)

I'd be remiss if I didn't kick things off with the coolest dog in the history of photo props.

So, right before the wedding, we all got a little nervous. Nobody got cold feet, but the air got a little heavy and the breeze a little blowy and the sky a little dark. Like this:

It wasn't the best sign in terms of signs. But this photographer is a lucky rabbit's foot: I've never had it rain on a wedding day... during the wedding. Here's proof:

(See? No rain.)


In all my years of photogging weddings, this was the FIRST where the bride actually attacked the groom with cake. (I had two others after this in the same year. E+N must have started a trend.)


Nick surprised Emma (and everyone else) by singing her a song after the formal dances had ended. It was probably one of the sweetest (surprise!) things I've witnessed at a wedding.

And that's all she wrote. Or I wrote. (I'm a he.)
(Despite all the purple.)
(Promise.)

More next time!


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Hello, New Year.

2011 was alright. 2011 was fun. 2011 was a good year to feel good about feeling good.

2012, though. It’s gonna be killer. And to start things off right — and I mean really, really, right — I’ve got a lineup of blog posts coming in the next couple weeks from… well, pretty much everything I didn’t blog in 2011, including:

















Good year, great clients. Hello, 2012.


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