My Wedding Report

I’ve told you about my philosophy of picking vendors, my amazing coordinator and why I need to ask for help. What I’ve haven’t share with you yet is who my fabulous photographer is. I guess I should probably tell you how I met him.

I actually knew about Mike’s photography well before Mr. Ducky and I were engaged. Several mutual friends and acquaintances in the few years have gotten married and used his photography. Due to the social networking of Facebook and seeing tagged pictures of my friends, I got linked to his website and was completely amazed. The photography I found on his site caught my attention and I was instantly impressed.

Last summer I had the honor of being a bridesmaid in the wedding of one of my best friends. The day of the wedding I was able to meet Mike and his beautiful wife, Rachel. Mike and Rachel got there early in the morning as we were getting ready and were taking pictures all day and all night long. I can’t say enough about this couple other than they are a blessing and an inspiration to be around. They just became part of the group as we laughed, snacked and prepared the bride for her big moment. Mike and Rachel’s love for one another is present in their work and I think that it makes the end result better. I felt like I was able to get to know them both and that they were people who I would want to spend time with. They were exactly the people that I wanted on our team.

I’m beyond excited that I get to have Mike as my photographer and feel so blessed that we will get to know he and Rachel more in the coming months. Mr. Ducky and I are getting our engagement photos done soon and I’m already anxiously anticipating a fun day of photography, getting to know Mike and Rachel and getting a step closer to our wedding.

Now for small peak at the incredible photography.

And for the most crazy thing that Mike does…he literally throws his camera in the air to get this picture. What!?!

I can’t even come close to fitting all the amazing images on here. So please go check out the Mike Larson website and blog to see more!

Remember when I posted pictures of my ring awhile back? Well I also submitted pictures to Weddingbee and sure enough one of the shots was posted. They chose one of the pictures on the bamboo plant.

Check out Weddingbee: Ring Shots Part VI…I’m MMWedding

Have you tried doing your own ring shots yet? Please share if you have!

Using tips from Anne Ruthmann on WeddingbeePRO, I decided to attempt my own engagement ring photos after being inspired by all the features I’ve seen on Weddingbee in the last few weeks.

Below are pictures taken of my ring hanging on a bamboo plant that we were given by family friends at an engagement party. Our friend said that the bamboo plant symbolized eternity…so I kind of think of it as our love fern. (Just kidding…I just had to add in the How to Lose a Guy reference)

Growing up I loved Beauty and the Beast. I saw it literally 8 times in the theater and basically had it memorized. This year Mark and I found letters to Santa from when I was little requesting everything from a Beauty and the Beast fork, knife and spoon to Belle’s real gold dress. We decided to start exchanging ornaments for Christmas and for the first ornament Mark gave me the Beauty and the Beast ornament. I decided to use it as a prop in my photo shoot.

Next you know I had to do some M&Ms for Mark and Michelle. The other 2 rings in the photos are also from Mark at different points in our relationship. The sapphire ring was a gift for our 1st anniversary and was his mom’s. He gave me the amethyst ring for Valentine’s day 2 years ago.

Last but not least I used my perfume bottle for a different angle. If you are looking for a new perfume scent I love Flowerbomb by Victor and Rolf.

If you haven’t done this already you should definitely give it a try. The pictures were super easy to do and I am pretty happy with how they came out. I haven’t done any editing or adjusting, so I may have to try that and see if I can get them to look even better.