The wedding of Jess and Ryan

 Ryan and Jess are a couple I will always remember. We met and decided to work together nearly two years before their wedding. They were the first and only couple to meet me at 8 in the morning for their engagement session photos, dogs in tow and smiles on their faces. And they truly honored me with playing their engagement video slideshow on a large screen and dancing to it's music for their first dance as husband and wife at their wedding. I was so, so amazed and touched by this! Still get a little tear in my eye!

Their wedding at the Purple Iris in Martinsburg, West Virginia was the perfect day. The weather was spectacular and the venue was gorgeous. Ryan and Jess couldn't have looked more amazing. We captured their photos as a couple before the ceremony during a "reveal" which gave us time to take advantage of the real character of the grounds and the house. And the wedding ceremony was touching and hilarious at different times. Hilarious when Ryan and the entire bridal party performed an elaborate dance number following the ceremony.

 I love this moment before the ceremony with just the two of them! How relaxed and happy they are in each others arms.

 Happy is my favorite emotion to photograph and we had a lot of that at this wedding. :)

 My good friend and great photographer Joe Crocetta, who worked with  me all day,  captured this radical robot move by Ryan at the beginning of his dance routine down the aisle. Too much fun!Thanks Joe for all your great images and ideas.

 I really loved the lanterns and elaborately elegant archway gracing the wedding area but it was too sunny to capture the mood of it all immediately following the ceremony. So Joe, Colleen, my assistant and the happily married if a bit exhausted couple agreed to walk back there in the pitch dark to create this unique image.

 End of the night and a fabulous day. Congratulations Ryan and Jess and thanks! If you want to see more, view the slideshow below.