So when we had the idea of presenting 3 images from each wedding, it became a real daunting task to go through all 30k images.   We knew we had to have some ground rules.  We decided that the majority of the images need to be both bride and groom together, that they’re nearly all moments with a few portraits thrown in.  And, we need to have over 80% of the images with either the bride or the groom in the picture (and limited the number of guests images – so quite a few really crazy and wild reception photos didn’t make the cut).

Still, cutting down from 29219 down to just 93 images and limit them to 3 images for a single wedding was a lot of work.  I hope you enjoy watching the slideshow as much as I enjoyed making it – I can still remember each wedding as if it was yesterday!  Some of these are also my clients favorites – we did a survey last year and will be publishing those shortly as well.

The slideshow ends with one of my favorite reception images from 2010 – and is also appropriate because I want ALL of my brides feel like Jessica and her sister at the end of one of the most important days of her life:

A BIG thank you to all of our clients for a great 2010 and best wishes to y’all for 2011!!

Ceremony:  The Dallas Arboretum

Reception: The Adolphus Hotel

I recall it was about a year ago when Stephanie called me about her upcoming wedding in Dallas Texas – she was in Tennessee at the time.   She said that she’d like to keep the number of people under 40 and can be anywhere from 20-40 and probably will end up around 25-30 people.  It is going to be an intimate wedding!

As is customary with all of my clients, we send out a wedding information form to fill out about a month before the wedding – she confirmed the number of guests to be 25 and I knew it was going to a really interesting wedding from my perspective as well as the challenges that lie ahead.  In a large wedding, such as 150-300 people, it’s relatively easy to find moments all around you – the challenge there is knowing which one to capture and if a moment is there but you did not capture it, it came often repeat itself later on (lots of people interacting, etc.)  In a small wedding like this, the moments are still going to happen but as a photographer, you have to hit every single one of them as they occur because most likely it won’t be repeated again.

The wedding took place on a beautiful saturday afternoon in the Dallas Arboretum, with the reception in the Adolphus Hotel.  Charlie McRae came by to help out, thanks Charlie!

The day started in the Adolphus hotel, which supposedly is haunted

Stephanie graduated from Purdue with a degree in mathematics and so were a majority of her guests.  She was showing me this graph of a probabilistic model of where she and Shayne might have gone when the guests were having cocktails (written by one of the guests ).  This picture brings back “haunted” memory of mine from my college/high school days in the calculus classes that I really don’t want to remember!

Singing to a spoon and a stalk?

I don’t think Shayne expected it.

Congratulations to Stephanie and Shayne!

Dallas wedding photography by Tony Ku, Ku Photography LLC.