Be sure to check out Part I of Shena & Tim’s wedding here!  Here are those post-dinner portraits I was talking about in the last post!

After the ceremony on the lawn at Metro’s Auraria campus, the couple took a limo back to the reception site. (I drove so I wouldn’t have to lug all of my gear around!) After they were announced at the reception, they went right into their first dance. My assistant and I had already arrived before we even started photographing the wedding to set up my lights incase we needed them for that first dance. Otherwise there wouldn’t have been time! It turned out that there was still some amazing available light. We did end up using them for the rest of the party once the sun went down.

Also check out the slideshow of their Tivoli Wedding here.

Shena and Tim are from the Washington, D. C. area but decided to have a destination wedding right here in Colorado. Their families live all over the country (although Shena’s is the closest in Nebraska). I had talked a bit with another bride about the same wedding date for her small wedding up in the mountains, but Shena and Tim were so enthusiastic, they booked me right away over the phone. I was so excited because I could tell they were so excited. I finally got to meet them when they came to town a few months later. We met up at Turnhalle at Tivoli at the student union on Metro’s Auraria campus downtown. (** I made the mistake of wearing heels to this meeting and got major blisters because we walked all of the way down to the ceremony site and back.**OUCH!) It was worth it though.

Finally, in June, the big day arrived. I photographed Shena and Tim getting ready at The Curtis Hotel in downtown Denver. They took separate limos up to Red Rocks to get in their first look and have some photos with each other and the family. Because of some traffic, we were a bit late, so we did a few more portraits of the couple later on right after they finished eating their dinner. There was also a huge event going on at the ampitheater that day, so we were really stuck shooting in one spot because of the time / access constraints. I think we made the best of it though.

After that… back down to the ceremony site on campus…I had an assistant throughout the day who also second shot the ceremony with me! Thanks Jonathan!

View the rest of the portraits and the awesome reception in the following blog post here.

Also check out the slideshow of their Tivoli Wedding here.