Julia's Photo Blog

I kicked off my 2012 wedding season with an amazingly fun, beautiful, and LONG wedding day, which the bride herself called their “wedding extravaganza”!  My 14 hour day started bright and early with the bride and groom getting dressed at the Hyatt Regency at the Arch hotel. When I arrived, the bride had a lovely suite for getting ready, but despite the size of the spacious room, I don’t think I’ve ever been in a getting ready situation with quite so many people in one small space: the bride, 7 bridesmaids, the mother of the bride, 2 videographers, 2 wedding coordinators, the makeup artist, the hair stylist, and myself, all in one room! It was a flurry of activity with the girls getting dressed and the rest of us doing our work and trying to keep our equipment out of each other’s way! But all of Tracy’s bridesmaids were super sweet and helpful, and the room was just brimming with excitement and anticipation!  Once the beautiful bride was ready (and stunning!), the girls and guys headed separately to Saint Francis Xavier College Church for the first of their TWO ceremonies. It was a beautiful catholic ceremony (in one of my favorite churches in St. Louis, I might add… it’s SO pretty!). And I was SUPER excited afterwards to find some trees in the early bloom of spring right next to the church, which made for a gorgeous photo opportunity! (This was March 10… and to think that last year my first wedding of the season was at the END of March and we had a blizzard!). We did some pictures around SLU campus with the couple and wedding party before heading off to Ted Drewes for a traditional St. Louis treat of frozen yogurt.  Then we headed downtown for some more pictures (but you’ll have to wait for the next blog post to see more!).  Here are a few of my faves from Part I of Tracy & Jon’s wedding day extravaganza!

For anyone who hasn’t seen it yet, I have a new blog to show some of my boudoir work (I’ll call it my PG-13 blog :).  Take a look, if you’d like!  http://boudoirbyjulia.tumblr.com/

When I first met Katherine and Jamie, and I asked them to tell me about themselves and how they met, etc., Katherine said, “Do you watch The Office?”  

“Yes. Love that show!”

“Well, we are pretty much Jim and Pam.”  I was all ears, because what fan of The Office doesn’t just adore the love story of Jim and Pam?  Katherine and Jamie worked together for a number of years, and at different times each of them had a crush on the other. But one or the other of them was always in a relationship, so the two became good friends, always joking around together.  Of course the feelings didn’t just go away, they got deeper with the friendship, and when the time finally came that they were both single, Katherine waited for him to ask her out. And he finally did, complete with a super cute first date story of him showing up at her doorstep with a couch loaded up in the back of a truck, and then taking her to a drive-in movie theater where they could watch the movie and sit on the couch together under the stars.  (All females reading this post are now thinking, “Oh my gosh, how cute!” All males are wondering why guys like Jamie have to be out there making them look bad. :) 

I was very excited to get to know them a little better and see all this cuteness in action during their engagement session, which we did at the Missouri Botanical Gardens and the Central West End.  We had beautiful weather, and these two made my job easy, since they were goofing off and laughing together and being generally adorable without much direction from me. I can’t wait to be with them in October for their wedding day!  Enjoy a couple of favorites from their session!