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Stephanie and Kevin had an amazing wedding at The Columbia Club downtown Indianapolis, their reception was in the Crystal Terrace too.  http://www.columbia-club.org This is another image heavy post, so if you’re looking at this through facebook you may need to click through to see it.

Makeup Artist:  Tyler Mason Salon and Spa  http://tylermason.com/site/

Dress:  Brides by Demetrios  http://www.demetriosbride.com/

DJ:  Sunny Moon http://www.sunnymoondj.com/

Videographer:  Movietyme Video Productions http://www.videomvp.com/

Florist:  Jim Holland

Cake:  Classic Cakes of Carmel  http://www.classiccakescarmel.com/

it was an incredibly windy day!

The Classic Cakes of Carmel cake:

Crystal Terrace:

Appletini Ice Sculpture:
The top was filled with appletinis and it would drain through the center into the glasses

I loved this:

The Columbia Club is very proud of their tradition of the groom popping the champagne cork, and Kevin shook and shook it first, it sprayed ALL OVER!   The picture is a tad shaky, but my lens was getting wet!

Stephanie was a colts cheerleader and near the end of the night, all the cheerleaders came out to dance

The next several weddings I’m posting are very image heavy!   If you’re looking at this on Facebook you may have to click through to see the pictures.

Cara and Alex were married in the Dominican Republic and I got to shoot their wedding!  The day before the wedding, Cara and Alex dressed up, and we shot some pictures of the two of them.   We started at the resort where Alex got to see Cara in her dress for the first time,  then we drove into Santo Domingo and went to the Cathedral of Santa Maria where we shot the pictures in front of the church with the pigeons posted here.  We also went to the botanical gardens, it was really cool!  I loved the bamboo!

Cara’s dad walked her “down the aisle” towards Alex.  I think this was the first time I’ve seen the first meeting done this way,  I liked it!

Alex’s first reaction

That’s Cara’s parents in the background watching..  They didn’t know they were in the picture

Cara bought Alex’s wedding ring and he hadn’t seen it yet,  he was bouncing up and down anxious to see it!

This was a perfect picture for the first image in their slideshow!

I’ll get the rest of their pictures posted soon!

Mavris Arts and Event Center is one of my favorite venues here in Indy, and I got to shoot Greg and Debi’s Indianapolis wedding there!

Ceremony:  Mavris

Reception:  Mavris

Shoes:  Christian Louboutin

Hair:  Studio 2000

Makeup: Nordstrom

Gown: Posie Patch

Florist: Posh Petals

Cake:  Heavenly Sweets

Debi and Greg were married right before Christmas, they had a tree set up as you came into the second floor for the reception all around were the favors,  the triangle boxes here were filled with snow and a wine bottle topper.

The Louboutin’s:

A train came along right as we were starting pictures of the two of them..

Greg wanted a picture with his brothers reminisce of that famous shot with the Kennedy brothers:

I know I already posted this shot..

This image with the entire bridal party was maybe 3 minutes after the groomsmen above…  not only that,  I think these were shot at 5 pm!!  Daylight in December…

I just posted pictures from Caitlin and John’s Chicago Wedding here, but thought this deserved it’s own post:)

The morning of the wedding they did what they called a slog… technically a slow jog, on the way to breakfast.   Everyone was supposed to wear 80′s clothes, and they danced along to an ipod.   It really was a blast!

Several months ago I shot a very fun wedding in Chicago and I never finished posting it so I thought I’d throw some of my favorites online.

Caitlin and John were married in Chicago, they had a very small intimate wedding, only inviting their closest friends and immediate family.  I loved it!  The ceremony was held a Maxim’s, and the reception on Lake Michigan on Odyssey II.

John and Caitlin wrote their own vows… well, really they did their own ceremony for the most part.  John’s dad technically officiated, but it was very personal with just Caitlin and John on stage for the majority of the ceremony.

They did a sand ceremony instead of a unity candle, and the stand had a mirror,  this image show’s John’s mom watching as he’s reading the vows.

Check out this emblem… it’s obviously not in focus… can you tell what kind of car this is

Check out the view during dinner!

For a few more pictures during the reception:   http://www.matthewgordonblog.com/?p=348

Saturday I shot a wedding in Wabash Indiana,  it snowed the whole day  Not much accumulation, but it’s not very often you can get a bride out in the freezing weather!

Check these out,  this was the sky Saturday night.  We were on the tracks right behind Mavris.

Of course there’s more to come… at the rate I’m going it’ll be next spring before they’re on the blog

Two weeks ago Cara and Alex were married in the Dominican Republic  The weather… oh man, 90′s and humid, and then getting back off the plane here in Indy, cold and cloudy – yuck.

The day before the ceremony we drove to Santo Domingo for pictures, and I thought these were really cool and wanted to post them.  This is in front of the first Cathedral built in the Western Hemisphere!  They didn’t get married here, and they wouldn’t let us in with a camera (and Cara would have had to cover her shoulders?!?) but the pigeons in the square were just too cool!

The Cathedral of Santa Maria

I don’t know if I realized this before tonight or if tonight was just a reminder… the reason I love what I do:  It’s all about the end.  I do like the busyness, the emotion, the anticipation, the challenge of weddings, but showing off the images when they’re done, THAT is what drives me to be a photographer.

Tonight Alissa and Aaron came over (they brought their parents too) and I showed them a slideshow of their wedding.   Of course I’ve already seen all of the images, so now is my chance to watch the expressions of the couple/parents/whoever  watch what I created for them for the first time.

I don’t have words to express what it means to me.

This is an image from Alissa and Aaron’s wedding,  I can’t wait to have a little more time to post more of them!!!!

I just got back from a wedding I shot yesterday in Chicago and had to post a couple images.   The weather was incredible!!  We were on a cruise ship on Lake Michigan and could see the fireworks from the boat.

Caitlin and John,  you guys had an awesome wedding,  I can’t wait to show you the rest of your pictures!