Professional Wedding Pics!

The last installment of Mari's wedding pics comes today, exactly two months after the wedding, in the form of AMAZING pictures from the professional photographer, Andrew Vick.

I mean seriously amazing.  It was so hard to narrow down favorites.  But one of them has to be, for very selfish reasons, our family picture.

As you'll soon see, this was the only picture Maya smiled for.  All day.

It is up on our wall, on my computer desk top, and everywhere.  You'll see it again, later in this post too. :)

So I combed through 1,000+ professional photos, narrowed them down to a little over 100, and combined them into 25 different collages.  Hopefully this post doesn't get too long, but I just couldn't cut it down any more.  Enjoy!

The photographer, Andrew, showed up about 11am to do some "getting ready" pictures.

Once Mari was ready, he took her to do some individual shots.  Beautiful.

Shortly after that, Mari and Josh got their "first look" at each other decked out in their wedding duds.

After the photo session of the soon-to-be-married couple, we did all of the family photos.

The photographer tried really hard to get Callie and Maya with the happy couple, but it took a couple of different trials.  As you can see, the first time he tried did NOT go well.  Thankfully he was able to catch them all a bit later.  And that picture of Callie?  MELT MY HEART.

He was nice enough to get individual family pictures of our little families too.

And then we got pictures of our extended families: the Hendersons and Ekeberg/Johnsons.

After the group pictures, we had a little time to relax (and sign the marriage certificate) and then the ceremony started!  Maya had no interest in doing her flower girl duty, so Callie and I walked down together, and she did great.

The ceremony was sweet, meaningful, personal, and beautiful.  Uncle Joe and Josh's dad, Kevin, presided.  Chris and Uncle Peter read passages.  And my mom played the flute with her ensemble from our church.

They DID IT!

After the ceremony, the wedding party took off in a stretch hummer to take wedding party pictures.

First up: pictures at Minnehaha Park and Minnehaha Falls.

And then we headed to The Guthrie/Gold Medal Park.

When we got to the reception site, there was an outdoor cocktail party going on.

The Town and Country Club was a beautiful venue for the reception, and Mari did a great job with personal touches.  There was also a memorial table that had pictures of my dad and our grandparents.

The wedding party entered the reception with a crazy grand march.  There was sports plays and dancing and even giant Mari and Josh heads.  And I had way too much fun pushing the best man, Peter, across the floor in his wheel chair.

Mari and Josh began the reception by doing their first dance.

There was a wonderful dinner and speeches.  I have gotten enough feedback from people who were there to say that my mom, Peter, and Laura and I all ROCKED our speeches.

The evening ended with so much dancing.

It was truly a magical day.

Photo Credit: Craig