FULL Wedding post!!! Ashley and Al's Wedding!!!

 Here is the first wedding we did this year!!! It was ONE of the biggest weddings we have done at about 400 (I said one of, the record of guests is still 700!) 

 and a very BIG wedding party as you will see. 

One of their biggest concerns when hiring a wedding photographer was they made sure to let us know that it was going to be a wedding of many cultures and even mixing a pretty much traditional ceremony with some Catholic/Lutheran things not normal found in Christian ceremony (like the cord and blessing of the rings.) We added a lot of ceremony photo's to try to show some of these things.

  They got married at Fremont Presbyterian Church. We started the day at The Double Tree Hotel and ended the day there for the reception...BUT there was A LOT of traveling in the middle. First we did a sneak peek just outside The Citizen Hotel, followed by formals on top of the parking garage at J and 10th.  We then found a few really cool walls to take some awesome shots in front of (some of the best we have found so far!)  We also took some wedding party photo's at K-BAR...they are always more then helpful in helping us move chairs around. We LOVE doing part of our shoots there.

So we will start this post where the day started... the getting ready...

As I mentioned before, this is a multicultural wedding, so these are the bracelets that go with the Sari that Ashley will change to at the reception.

 I guess I should explain this picture! Ashley had SO many bridesmaids that she bought these as gift for with their initials...that we tried to spell words with them...this was the best one!

 LOVE this! ALL of her girls are in this shot...

Love this one too...friends are there to hold your hand! 

My favorite picture of Ashley getting ready...

These pictures with Ashley's mom are some of my favorites of the day!

I already posted Ashley and Al's First Look almost right after the wedding...it was awesome! Here is the link if you want to check it out: 

http://amomentofjoyweddings.blogspot.com/2014/05/ashley-and-als-first-look.html

The best way to start the "formals"!!! A little superhero fun on top of the parking garage...

 

In case you didn't notice...the VEIL played it's own part this day! 

Here are a few of Ashley alone...

I think this one is my favorite of all the rooftop pictures...

 Here is one of the cool walls we found just outside of the parking garage...

K-BAR...

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 Here is one we did at The Crest Theater ...

 BEST WALL EVER!!!

This couple can only NOT smile for a few minutes!!!

Here are parts of the ceremony...

We did a few more pictures outside the church before heading back to the hotel for the reception...

 Now for the reception...FIRST DANCE...

 

Al's family all have a Star Trek pin/communicators...Ashley just got hers!!!

Now for the Sari outfit change...

Their second entrance in their Indian outfits...

Cake time...

The tosses...

This was really funny! He wasn't very happy she caught the flowers...lol

This concludes this post of a few long but beautiful day!!!