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Monica & Rob and I met last Novem­ber to do some low key enga­ge­ment pic­tu­res and talk about their wed­ding in August. The time FLEW by and before I knew it, I was at an ama­zing ‘back yard’ wed­ding. The guys cons­truc­ted a red car­pet for Monica & her girls to walk down to the plat­form they cons­truc­ted under the huge old willow tree. It was glo­rious! They also had the lar­gest tent I’ve ever seen! Not to men­tion the amount of fun. 

I arri­ved at the groom’s family’s house as all the boys were get­ting ready. I grab­bed a few shots of them and then went two streets over to the bride’s family’s house to get them in action!

Monica hel­ped ever­yone out with the final touches on their makeup after she art­fully did her own. Such GORGEOUS girls!

Monica’s plan had been to be promptly ‘fashio­nably late’ to the cere­mony, she wan­ted to make sure that ever­yone had the chance to show up! 

Well, mother nature thought she do one bet­ter — just as we were get­ting the dress to climb in the limo and head to the cere­mony site, the skies ope­ned up. Sheeeeeeeeeeets of rain — SHEETS! But it pas­sed and clea­red and the guys set about clea­ring up cere­mony site to pro­ceed as plan­ned, if only a little later. 

The limo pulled right up to the end of the ‘red car­pet’ and let the ever­yone off — it was SOO Cool.

The guys had been rib­bing Rob about shed­ding tears, but we were all more than moved when we saw Rob see Monica for the first time - 

After for­mals it was time to party! I love the black & red — its SHARP!

Ok, Ok, I know — this is a whole mon­tage dedi­ca­ted to the cake — but it was SUCH a cake. A moose, a raft, a fishing bride — I could have taken more pic­tu­res than this I tell you!

This was my first true smashing wed­ding — I love the reac­tions of the cou­ple in the background.

Did they ever dance the night away! But at one point there see­med to be a lull on the dance floor.. I went out to inves­ti­gate, and what did I find, but a keg toss in action! I relize the pic­ture of the bride isn’t the cris­pest, but the form, the poise, the style! (and the last of my flash bat­te­ries and sta­ying far away from the inco­ming keg)