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Last wedding story was quite the read wasn’t it? Hope you enjoyed it.

I’m thinking about cutting this one down in more manageable chunks… plus it means that I get to string it along for more days. I mean I wasn’t supposed to tell you my tricks. I suppose it’s more like a mini-series with jack bauer just about to do something crazy right at the end and you have to tune back in to see what happens in the next installment.

So here we go.

I was here

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This was the first picture of the day… I took it to test out the camera. I just got my 14-24 2.8 back from the shop not too long ago and I missed it for getting cool architecture stuff.

So we so often show off when LDS bride and grooms come out of the temples… like their mini-revealing and unveiling. Their version of walking down the aisle.

But what happens prior to that moment… the non-lds (mormon) in the audience might find this interesting.

I’ve often seen many photographers just sitting in a waiting room waiting for their bride and groom… they’re missing out… this is time to get to know the family and get some of those candids and solo portraits.

Such as…

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Then the moment comes… they come out.

Many times for the actual ceremony she’s wearing a different more subdued dress and so she goes and changes into her wedding dress, so often this really is the first time most have seen her.

Except of course her mom who probably went with her dress shopping (with the card) and her sisters who she played dress up for, of course. haha

But I present Mr. & Mrs. Spencer

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EVENT DESCRIPTION: Pictures of the Bride and the Groom after they got married in the Salt Lake Temple.

EVENT DESCRIPTION: Pictures of the Bride and the Groom after they got married in the Salt Lake Temple.EVENT DESCRIPTION: Pictures of the Bride and the Groom after they got married in the Salt Lake Temple.

A February Wedding

OK so I’m cheating! This wasn’t taken this February.
Or even last year or the year before.

EVENT DESCRIPTION: Pictures of the Bride and the Groom after they got married in the Salt Lake Temple.EVENT DESCRIPTION: Pictures of the Bride and the Groom after they got married in the Salt Lake Temple.

These pictures were from 2006
I started doing weddings in 2005

Not too Shabby eh?

Now days I take pride in in a consistent level of pictures all throughout a several hundred picture output.
Back then… well I’m happy to share a pretty decent set. Perhaps not as copious, but still pretty good.

Perhaps this post goes to show that maybe what I have improved the most at is developing the pictures and doing edits.
There wasn’t Photoshop Lightroom back then.

This was also before I discovered (had enough money for) low light lenses, and therefore before low apertures and blurred backgrounds.
Just some posing, framing and my 18-70 kit lens.

But the experience was always the smiling Jarvie interaction and capturing who they were.
Did I do that Garrett?

EVENT DESCRIPTION: Pictures of the Bride and the Groom after they got married in the Salt Lake Temple.EVENT DESCRIPTION: Pictures of the Bride and the Groom after they got married in the Salt Lake Temple.

Where they’re at

Garrett has since gone into the Film industry
Jill does a lot of photography herself.
They both do.
I’ve shared some tips in years past, but I’m not sure how far they’ve gone with it.

Garrett is one of the people I suggest to Brides looking for a videographer.
He traveled to California to shoot a wedding I took pictures at.

Garrett can be found on Twitter @garrett_film
His website is http://www.garrettgibbons.com/

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Wedding and Reception were both held at the Red Butte garden.

We didn’t have a lot of time for setup portraits between the ceremony and reception.
But that was just as well as they asked me to document and not be in their face too much.

I like that style anyway capture the emotions of the day.

The Engagements and Bridals were more about creation, this one was about capturing the feelings of the day.

To see the full post.

To see the full gallery of ALL the wedding pictures.
(Warning… there’s a lot. The first 150 should give you a good run down)


I sure made that place look like a forrest!


All prepped and ready to get married.


Still hasn’t seen her. But I’m sure he’s excited.

Some Details


Tried something new with the rind.
They had beautiful toasting glasses.
I don’t have a macro lens so I couldn’t get super close anyway.


The ring shots might have been forgotten if the best man hadn’t brought it to me before the ceremony.
Props to him.


When everyone is super excited about the flowers It’s time to start taking a bunch of pictures of flowers.
Probably would have done it anyway while I waited. But I more and more I see how much the setting of their reception means to brides.


What wedding event would be complete without a picture of the cake.


There weren’t too many posed shots that evening.


There’s a bunch of shots of them standing there as they listened to the pre-ceremony speaker.
This is just on of the ones i liked the framing of.
They’ll probably like the other pictures with more expression.

Bridesmaids watching the ceremony.


Exits are always a lot of fun.

Whoever told the mom that white pedals would be better… well they were right.

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I’m much more caught up on everything so I’ll post some of the recent stuff I’ve been doing.

Just a quick post of a couple pictures