What an amazing day! You might remember Jess and Craig from their engagement shoot eariler this year

Their wedding was amazing, and so much fun!

Here’s a little slideshow of highlights from the day:

The Paramount was beautifully decorated, and the band sounded fantastic.

Oh, and 1000 paper cranes!

On to some photos:

Last Sunday I headed out with them for a little pre-sunset bridal shoot – Kate Ostner did hair and makeup, and my buddy Mark did some filming. I edited together this quick little behind the scenes video to show how we got some of the shots. We shot everything within a few blocks in Waterloo. Columbia Lake, the old La-Z-Boy factory, and back to Columbia Lake for the final minutes of the sunset.

The first few shots (and video) are from the bridal shoot, and the photos shortly after that are from their beautiful October wedding at Hockley Valley in Orangeville.

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Now onto their wedding images! – Hockley Valley, in Orangeville.

Andrew Sorlie from http://www.sorliearts.com/ was there to capture video of the wedding day!

Check out their amazing wedding cake!

Getting the party started.

We started the morning early in Las Vegas at 6:00am…well, kinda. When you’re still brain is still on Eastern Time, 6am PST (9 EST) isn’t so hard to do. Even after a late night in Vegas.

From there we did the rent-a-car scramble. We didn’t reserve one, because we had not really planned on going to the Grand Canyon until about 2pm the day before. Between the hours of 8 – 9am I walked to rent a car agencies in: Treasure Island, Mirage, Venetian and the Palazzo. At this point I decided to check online. Apparently the entire Las Vegas area (including the airport) was fresh out of cars. Eventually we headed off the strip, and found a car 10 miles away. It was a pickup truck, but came with unlimited miles. It’ll do.

We left at 10:30am and got there some time 5 or 6 hours later – we decided to head for the larger south rim instead of the (smaller) slice on the west end that’s only a few hours out of Vegas. We got to drive across the Hoover Dam, and experience all kinds of different exciting climates. Well, as exciting as it is to see trees after spending 3 hours driving through dirt and little plant..bush things.

Anyways, this has been by far the coolest location I’ve had a chance to shoot at – here are a few photos from the day:

The view out of our 33rd story room overlooking the strip at Treasure Island – Vegas Tip: If you’d like a better room, pull out a $20 as you ask about any possible free upgrades. They’ll usually find you something.

I’m off to Washington DC/Virginia and Philadelphia this week for some corporate work. Hopefully I have a few spare minutes to check out the White House and other sights!

Kate and Colin were married at Hassenland Country Inn up in Zurich, along Lake Huron. I took a shot of the groomsman that really reminded me of an Oceans 12 movie poster…so I attached it here:

Here are a few images from the day!

Manhattan Bridge from Brooklyn in my new favorite area.

So yah, I’m in New York City until Thursday – and the hotel we’re staying at is fabulous – The Bentley on the (upper-ish) East side. A few blocks from Central Park, Rockefeller Center and all that stuff.
Yesterday we rode the farris wheel inside Toys R Us. It was epic. Then headed to Top Of The Rock – 70th story at 30 Rockefeller Center, overlooking The Empire State Building. It was wonderful. Also, if you’re ever in the area in the summer, check out the Rink Bar just in front of 30 Rock. In the winter, it’s a skating rink, in the summer, it’s actually a pretty neat bar – almost feels like Las Vegas..except you can’t drink on the street.

Word on the street is that I may be going to a Marc Jacobs party or something tonight? I’m unsure if this will happen – but it could be fun.

Anyways, I’m off to shoot some commercial stuff at Cornell Medical College. I’m interested to see how I will capture a 3D surgery training simulator on still frame 2D – but we’ll make it work one way or another.

I’ll post some more photos from my point and shoot whenever I get to better internet. I’m currently in the hotel lobby listening to the high-end-sports-car-driving-around-tight-corners-at-night soundtrack. I think they have every song ever used in a Lexus commercial.

Last weekend I photographed the wedding of a fellow Hespeler hockey player, and there were so many people I haven’t seen in years.
I also met a new friend, Marj. Here’s a story for you:
Marj is a friend of Ms. P, a teacher at The Voila Institute of Hair Design in Kitchener, and she’s been to my site once or twice -she also knows Robyn, one of my Trash the Dress brides. Earlier in the week she went in to get her hair cut, and say hi – and guess who cut her hair? Kate! So Marj tried to hook Kate up with her son, but Kate said she has already found a keeper (me!). Marj goes home with the ‘I swear I’ve seen this girl before’ thought in her head, and checks out my website. Sure enough, the girl that cut her hair is one of the models in my Ladybug fashion set. She finds out that I’m photographing the wedding, she comes to say hi, and this story unfolds.
That was better than The Hills, no?

Here’s five favorites from Saturday: