Monica and Luke had a traditional church wedding and then a blessing ceremony at their venue, The Waterview.  They celebrated their Polish heritage with traditional wine toasts and incredible live music preformed by “Polonus”.  I’ve always loved the Polka but I’ve never seen anything like the dancing at this wedding.  Everyone danced, and the polka is so much more than I understood it to be.  In between their services we stopped at some incredible locations to take pictures, including a 450 year old chestnut tree that was amazing.

The inspiration for Susan & Dustin’s July 4th wedding was red and white for Indiana University and of course they loved how the holidays color matched.  This was the earliest morning wedding that I’ve ever shot yet Susan was absolutely all smiles, so excited that her wedding day was finally here.  I arrived in time to catch some prep shots with Christine McKeown doing hair and makeup for the gang.   Jennifer from Fleur De Lys created some gorgeous bouquets, table and floral arrangements and Music in Motion provided a String Trio for their ceremony, a Jazz Trio for their cocktail hour and live DJ Mike Ferrino for their reception. It was a gorgeous blue sky day that I was thrilled to be a part of.  Special thanks to Aurora Photography for second shooting with me and our friend Geoff Boka and his wife Kate from The Light Mill on video duty.  So fun to be working with my friends and you’ve got to know by now that I have a special relationship with the color red!

Susan had this smile on all day!

I just love the glance between Father and daughter here!

And Dustin waiting patiently for his bride.

Don’t ask me what happened between this picture and the next, you just had to be there!

I had to get some patriotic details.  Red, flags and rings make a nice combo in my opinion!