Wedding in Yosemite? Heck ya!” Joel got an email last Sunday night (5 days before this wedding took place) from a good friend, Davis Barber. He is a photography professor at Cal State Fullerton, and one of Joel’s biggest fans!
He was in a bit of a panic because he was supposed to shoot his cousins wedding in Yosemite that Friday but unfortunately he had to have an emergency operation which was not going to allow him to do that…obviously! Without hesitation Joel agreed and left that Thursday afternoon to be there for the wedding on Friday. He was so excited to shoot a wedding in the snow, and for obvious reasons below, his excitement was well justified. Since he had never met the couple, and was going up there with no idea what the wedding would be like, he was more than pleasantly surprised when he arrived and met both Stephanie and Mike.The wedding took place at the beautiful and historic Ahwahnee Lodge.
I love the simplicity of this arrangement. Joel said Stephanie was so low maintenance that he thinks one of her bridesmaids put this together really quickly for her.
Stephanie looks like a model right out of a catalog. She is absolutely gorgeous and everything about her that day was amazing.
Not many people can pull off the straight face look (I always look mad when I try to ;() but Stephanie does it with such grace and style. Is it just me or does this look like an ad for Anthropologie? If they started selling wedding dresses that is. Hhhmmmm…
The Bride and the Bridesmaids all wore different style boots, which Joel couldn’t wait to tell me. Boots are like, well, words alone cannot describe my love for boots. Only that I think I would wear them everyday of the year if I wouldn’t look completely awkward in 100 degree weather in the middle of summer (aside from the cowboy boot+sundress combo, nobody can take that away from me!)
I absolutely love this picture…not only because of the little leg tilt in her snazzy little boots, but also because of the innocence on the face of the flower girl in the background. So cute!
This shot below is one of my favorite shots of the day…I hope an explanation as to why is unnecessary, because I can’t really…it just makes me smile.
Although I have to admit I am a bit chilly looking at this photo, I can imagine it was warm sitting there as Stephanie and Mike exchanged their vows…and I can almost guarantee Joel was so full of adrenaline that he didn’t even notice the 40 degree weather. The same is probably true for Stephanie
Rad!!! Ya, I said it…RAD!!!
It wasn’t quite cold enough to snow but it started raining during the portraits so Stephanie put on Mikes hat and said she wanted to keep shooting– That is music to Joel’s ears, he said he could have shot for hours!
Joel was on the road by 7pm on Friday to make it home for a wedding in Laguna Beach on Saturday. I got a call as soon as he got in the car telling me that his 3 hours of shooting was well worth the 12 hours of driving round trip. I couldn’t agree more…hope you all do too
~Jeni
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