Beautiful Day Images: 10.09

Oklahoma Heritage Museum // Crown Heights Christian Church // Sarah & Aaron

Event Design: Little Surprises Design | Rebecca Thai
Floral Design: Oh So Blush | Rebecca Thai
Venue: Crown Heights CC | Gaylord-Pickens Oklahoma Heritage Museum
Cake: Michelle Handy
Dress: Amsale | NYC

I have become a fan of cloning if I could clone Sarah after working with her for her wedding. She called me a while back and said she LOVED my work and went on to describe just why. (gush gush) Then I asked her, "so what are your thoughts, are you interested in going forward?" She replied "um, here's my credit card number" After checking her wedding blog called "Pugnacious Me" (ha!) and tweeting back and forth, (like me, the fastest way to her attention is a "D sarahtsolomon") it has been a pleasure.

She and Aaron got married in charming Crown Heights in a stylish classic setting and then ramped it up with a clean and modern reception at Oklahoma Heritage Museum. In case you don't know this place, it is the perfect balance between Oklahoma Heritage (classic old building) that has been infused with art gallery style. Rebecca Thai designed the event with sleek glass vases and her signature floral spheres and highlighted the night with a cake suspended/ floating over crystal beads.

Beyond the beautiful style of the decor, Sarah & Aaron had the perfect balance between throwing a killer party for family and friends and really being in love in the moment. (Not to mention they look like European models so not bad to photograph)

I hope you enjoy. I would love to hear your favorites!

Pearls, copious pearls...

I have no idea what is going on here :)

Right here, Aaron is just going all GQ cover on me.

Aaron doing a great Paul Rudd doing a bad James Bond. ha ha (I Love You Man)

Sarah works for a PR firm and advises and implements social media for them. So unlike so many people I have heard who say "I don't get Twitter" She gets it! She and Aaron tweeted their vows just after the ceremony. It was cool to see all the #sarahaaronwed posts throughout the day. Her dad even welcomed people at the reception to "Hash Tag Sarah Aaron Wed" ha ha!

Rebecca Thai (Little Surprises Event Design) came up with this unique and very cool "floating cake" idea.

Sarah's Dad (@elsol) is one of the all time cool dads. He's a blast, loving, quite intelligent (head of PR I think for AT&T) and since he works for AT&T, I think hes the first dad that I have given more money to than he has to me ;) -JK

I think the caption for this image should be obvious!

A few favs from their "Day After Shoot". Sarah & Aaron stopped back in OKC on their way back from San Francisco to Dallas. They were so relaxed and we got to get creative with some midday light in ways we weren't able to on the wedding day.

Oklahoma City Wedding / Oklahoma Heritage Center / Reistle & Chris

It's a real live full blog post! ...I know!!

And yes, I am giving into smart yet annoying titles in an effort to be the top listing on Google and subsequently take over the world. ;)

It's been an amazing and busy summer and I haven't posted a full wedding on the blog since May. That is about to change, well, it just did. I will be posting all the weddings one after another here for the next couple weeks.

Reistle and Chris are simply enjoyable! Reistle is a sculptor and Chris is an entrepreneur. He will someday soon launch an advertising firm and currently is involved with the launch of Traditions Sportswear which is super stylin' collegiate merchandise. They found me through Judy Lehmbeck (party planning extraordinaire ) so thank you so much Judy! There were so many cool details and special plans to this wedding and the way Chris operates reminds me so much of myself. He had a stylin' custom tux from Spencer Stone Co. (including a tie bow tie) and did a video production (Chris' Producer Filmography is listed on IMDB) of their life and how he is every bit the champion as Rocky ;) They had both a unique and personal style to their reception including cool place cards and custom bobble heads for all the groomsmen!. I also loved how all the wedding party wore their own choice and yet coordinated so well.

Since that is already more than I ever write, let me just finish by saying, I love when people put as much personal passion into their wedding as I do into their photography. It feels like such a good fit. I can't wait to hang with Chris and Reistle more soon.

(so that's why Im not a writer...what a mess!)

Here is the good part:
Venue: All Souls Episcopal Church | Boone Pickens Oklahoma Heritage Center
Catering: Cheevers Cafe | Follow on Twitter
Lighting: IES Events
Floral: Dulaney Flowers
Cake Design: Amy Cakes

So I am trying out new, bigger images with logo built in as opposed to a big border. What do you think? Would love candid comments :)
Also would love to hear what you think about images. This summer has brought a lot of development of style.

Oklahoma City Engagement / Andrew & Melissa

I had the absolute honor of documenting Andrew's proposal to Melissa in Downtown Oklahoma City on Saturday. It was really fun planning with Andrew. He had several awesome surprises set up which I commend him for since I was all about the whole proposal event thing!

The big moment!

A couple light painting portraits I did afterwards. I got the idea for this from the Voltron of Awesomeness, Jeff Newsom. I found out in talking to a friend that Vincent Van Gogh actually discovered this possibility of light painting. Very cool and fun to experiment with!

Congrats you two!

Oklahoma City Wedding / Red Prime Steakhouse / Shana & Mike

Location: Red Prime Steakhouse
Event Design: Amanda from Planned 2 Perfection
Floral: Tony Foss

A quick preview from a great night a few weeks ago. Shana and Mike are from D.C. and were in town for a really really nice night among an intimate group of family and friends.
Shana was the predecessor to the current Deputy Administrator of NASA and Mike works for a private security and technology firm for the Defense Department. In other words, they are a combined 2,427,132 times smarter than I am. I loved hanging out with all their friends who came in from coast to coast. Red Prime was a perfect indication of how all OKC is ;)