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After mee­ting with Sara & Jor­dan for enga­ge­ment pho­tos last fall I knew that we were all going to have a won­der­ful time at their wed­ding. What I didn’t quite expect was how much I was going to fall in love with the two of them during the day and how sad I would be to say goodbye that night.

Warm, wel­co­ming, invi­ting, ama­zing, ener­ge­tic, soul­ful, beau­ti­ful — these words don’t even begin to fully desc­ribe the love­li­ness that is Sara & Jor­dan as a indi­vi­duals, and as a couple.

After an une­vent­ful damp drive up to the Moun­tain View Grand I found the boys in their room put­ting the final touches on their sty­lish suits. A loose but­ton was no pro­blem for Dad the Hero!

Sara & com­pany were up in the salon, but I arri­ved at their room to find these trea­su­res. I have no idea what the story behind the alli­ga­tor is (but I’d love to know!) The glass howe­ver says “I’m get­ting Married Bitches!”

Once they were all ready they were escor­ted through the back halls of the hotel to their sec­ret sto­wa­way place. This face just sums it up. Let’s do this thing!

When I tur­ned around and saw this look on Jordan’s face it was all I could do remem­ber to keep shoo­ting and not just melt into a pile of swoo­ning for how much he loves her.

The grand ball­room there is so stun­ning; the rain may have kept them inside but this is cer­tainly no shabby setup!

One of the grooms­men came up to put his drink down beside the others I’d pla­ced while shoo­ting this shot from up the top of the slope. When he stood up to go back to his place, he promptly star­ted sli­ding down the hill in those fancy tux shoes. Let me tell you — it was hila­rious. And he exe­cu­ted the whole slope with style not falling once!

So many sto­ries, so little time

Recep­tion!

So many ama­zing moments in this day — and their first dance was nothing short of breath­ta­king. Not that it was cho­reo­graphed or a spec­tacle, they were just so gentle to each other.

And then you see them with their parents and you know where they get it from

They opted to not do any sort of cere­mo­nial caking; but when they saw me near as they were about to indulge in their deca­dence, they had some fun with it. Sara has one of the most ani­ma­ted and fun expres­sive faces ever. I LOVE IT!

There was so much fun dancing!

It wasn’t ori­gi­nally the plan for me to hang around until the end. Howe­ver, I was sta­ying the next room over and we were all having so much fun, we deci­ded I should stay. Now, I’ll be the first to say there’s no need for a pho­to­grapher all the way through the last dance. It’s easier on the bud­get to let me go ear­lier. But I do love when I stay and then wit­ness something AWESOME, like this.

Sara + Jor­dan, you have sto­len a piece of my heart and run away with it. You’re the sort of peo­ple they write fairy tales about and I hope for you both to live your “hap­pily ever after”