Our photographer is so amazing. Today he sent us a link to a bunch of unedited photos from our engagement shoot. You might remember all the craziness that happened from this post. Anyway, back to the story. Josh Rossi is an incredibly talented photographer. I know this, because he captured our wedding themes, Big Fish perfectly. I may not be a little redish blonde Sandra Templeton and Jared may not be the light brunette Edward Bloom. However, their love story radiates from our pictures. I am so excited to show all of you, my sweet fellow readers, the final products. I decided that I just cannot keep it a secret forever and ever, so I thought I would give you these few photos as a sneak peak.
Keep in mind that these photos didn't even make my top 10 out of 80 unedited photos that he gave us.
This one didn't even fit our Big Fish theme. I loved it though, the backdrop of Salt Lake City looks fake, but it TIS NOT!
I went out today and bought quite a few wedding decorations. Since I am doing the whimsical theme there will be lots of do it yourself decorations to wrap it all together. I bought a few picture frames, and i am going to try and glaze and paint them this weekend!
This is the tutorial I will use. Please send me love thoughts, and hope I'll do this well.
I unfortunately do not have any pictures for you right now. I just wanted to express how happy I am that we chose the right photographer, Josh Rossi. Life is so good. Everything is going according to plan. Secondly, I am so grateful that the weather cooperated yesterday. The meteorologists said it was suppose to rain all day, and it didn't! So finally after rescheduling twice already, we were able to do our Big Fish themed photo shoot. Jared and I met up with Josh Rossi from Rossi photography at Gardner Village to start our shoot.
Josh is an awesome guy to work with. Neither Jared or I have ever really been in front of a camera before, and I was afraid it would be awkward, and then the pictures would suffer. However, within 15 minutes we were all laughing, and it was like hangin' out with buds. We stayed at Gardner Village for about 2 hours. In that time we stained my dress, and Jareds shirt. Jared almost fell into a lake, and Josh almost fell out of a tree. We became trolls of the bridge only allowing few to pass, and we also met some friends construction workers. Then we bounced before it started to sprinkle rain.
We were in route to Josh's studio.
Jared and I followed the wrong blue honda civic, and lost our guide Josh. When we realized we were not following him, but headed the opposite direction we called him. Eventually we met up with him at his studio to take some shots for the composite photos. We changed outfits, and really got to know each other. Jared and I each had our own 10 minutes to be complete dorks in front of the camera. It's a good thing Josh didn't choose to do this part first, because when you put somebody in front of a camera and a white backdrop and just say okay make poses, some weird things happen.
Next..
After the studio shot; we drove all the way downtown, and walked into a condo that we thought was SUPPOSE to be empty, twas not. We sat and made very awkward conversation for a few minutes. That poor lady was probably telling her husband at dinner later, " so this odd couple from the 1940's walked into our condo without knocking today, then slammed the door and tried to scurry away. . "
We found the empty condo with the CLAW tub of my dreams, and shot there for a few hours. Most shoots last about 2 hours, ours was 6! At the condo several interesting things happened; we invaded a woman's privacy, we trespassed, we shot photos in a tub, we hung out in a 700,000 downtown SALT LAKE condo, and Josh was able to beat up Jared, while I took the position of head photographer.
We had the best time. It was one of the best Monday's I can remember. Josh is an awesome and creative photographer!
May 8th was Jare- hound and Josh's birthday (the second set of twins). I always feel bad saying Jared's birthday, because Josh always deserves a shout out as well. They are twinners after all, and it would truly be rude to exclude Josh. Hence it was Jare hound and Josh's birthday last saturday. We decided it would be fun to do a cabin trip, and enjoy one of the first warm weather weekends.
Friday we went to a Murray Soccer game and hung out with some of the DeMann Clan and Shia, who did go down the slide at the playground and Murray Park. I told you that dog was crazy and adventurous [more on that later.] After the game we went up to stay the night and do ya know. . . cabin things.
We went Fishing
Clayton, Josh & Jared
Jared's fish.
Josh and Clayton.
The scenery is really beautiful, huge trees and the ocean like river.
Josh was being really nice to Shia, who was very curious.
A video of the fish:
We played Scrabble
Clayton won a match
Jared won the other.
We did a puzzle (not pictured here).
Then we decided we would stay for another night. We took Shia out through the woods, and all the snow was melting off the mountains so there were streams everywhere, and the rivers were really high. To say Shia loves water is an understatement, she goes completely nuts for water. She loves baths, loves snow, sprinklers, rain, you name if it is a form of water she LOVES it. She couldn't stay out of the puddles. We let her off her leash and the puppy went crazy! She jumped in every puddle, she ran at 200 mph trying to catch the water bouncing off her feet. ShiGuy would run with her mouth open so that the water would just spray into her mouth and she didn't have to stop for a drink. She was very entertaining, to say the least.
After we had worn out on Sunday afternoon we all parted and came back to town. I had bought Jared and Josh cupcakes for their birthday celebration but the frosting was all messed up from pressing against the container. I had to re-frost them. Can you tell what colors they were originally?
I also gave Jared a tent for his birthday, since we plan to go camping a lot this summer. Like in our summer's past. He had been wanting a new tent for quite some time, so of course, I found one on Amazon.com which is Jared and Mine's obsession.
Jare Hound and ShiGuy in the new addition.
Then this past weekend was Devin and Darla's birthday (the first set of twins). Jared and I decided to celebrate by getting front seat row tickets to the ReaL game. It was a fun game even though it ended in a tie. I am so much better at focusing when we are in the front row because I can actually see.
My feet showing how close we were. I could maybe jump on the field.
In wedding news: We are doing our engagement pictures this Friday. Our wedding theme is big fish so we decided to find a few of our favorite scenes from the movie and reenact them for our shoot. I am so excited to do this. I spent a few hours last Friday compiling places we could go around town and matching movie still with the places I found. I mapped out the location, postition, props and clothing that we would need to pull off this theme in a vintage classy way, not cheesy. Hopefully it turns out. I have faith is Josh Rossi. He is a great photographer.
The biggest struggle is trying to find a way to do my hair. The scenes we chose from the movie have a vintage feel to them. This is the hairstyle I am thinking about trying, what do you think?
As many of you probably know I work around photography a lot. Which is very fun for my every day work life, but it has made me a little bit snooty with photographers. I definitely have my own style of photography that I like, and many more styles I don't like.
This was one of the hardest parts of coordinating my wedding. I have looked at probably 20 million photography website and didn't really love any of them, enough to have the shoot my wedding. Then a miracle happened. I went to the bridal show at South Town Expo Center. I fell in love. We set up a date to meet this photographer and decided he is the one.
Photography is such an important part of a wedding, because it is how you capture the whole day for the rest of your life. It is huge pressure on the photographer, and it is also a large amount of pressure on the bride and groom to pick the right one.
Our photographer was featured on UtahBrideBlogs.Com today for one of his last shoots.
Here is his website, he is awesome, check him out! Josh Rossi
Wheaty just had puppies on Thursday (28th 2011). Wheaty is a pure bred english bulldog, and had a litter of 5! Which is a large litter for this breed of dogs, because they can't give birth naturally. They have small hips and the babies have too big of heads. Wheaty had to have a C- section, and only 3 of the litter survived.
They are the most precious little puppies. Every time I walk into the house I run downstairs to see them. Their umbilical cords fell off yesterday, and they should be able to open their eyes this weekend! I am already so attached to them; it's going to be hard when they start walking and developing personalities, because then I won't want to sell them.
If anyone is looking for an english bulldog, we have 3.
