Painted by Numbers

April & Scott. Denver, CO. Trinity Methodist

You always hear about those chance meetings on the dance floor. Two unsuspecting strangers who both happen to be at the same place at the same time, their eyes meet and without exchanging any real words they dance to the rhythm getting lost in each other. This chance meeting happened to April and Scott. Two lawyers who meet on a dance floor during law school and ended up happily ever after. Their ceremony took at the gorgeous classic Trinity Methodist. I wish I could have played more with the stained glass windows, but I was able to capture a quick silhouette of April just before she walked down the aisle.

Surrounded by family and friends the celebration continued at the reception which took place and one of my new favorite wedding venues, The Space Gallery. Not so much a blank canvas as being surrounded by amazing local art. I just love the way the space divides into two separate rooms, one where Scott and April dinned with their guests and the other a perfect dance floor with a loft for those who just like to mingle and people watch. The entire gallery was decorated with festive potted plants that April's mother has been growing since the couples engagement {too cute right?!} and other little touches of mexico were added to the room for the couples favorite travel destination.

Congratulations Scott and April, may you always dance.

Wonderwall

Lauren + Mike: July.10.2010

Oh how I LOVE a bride that uses design through out her entire wedding! I am not just a wedding photographer, I am obsessed with weddings! I read bridal magazines for fun without a ring on my finger, I am constantly on Style Me Pretty and Wedding Chicks and I have ALL the wedding shows on my DVR {David Tutera IS a Wedding Planning GOD I don't care what any one says.. the man is genius!}. I've even considered combining a sort of highbred Wedding Photographer/Planner because I {J'ADORE} weddings SO much! All that aside I love when a wedding shows the couples personality and style in a wedding... a wedding is so much more than flowers and your favorite colors... CELEBRATE YOURSELVES!

Lauren and Mike were married at Inverness Hotel just outside Denver. The ceremony was outside in front of a bed of flowers that seemed to inspire the bold colors that were through out the wedding. I just love the bright fun orange that was the colors of the bridesmaids dresses and the groomsmen ties {AND the brides shoes}. The bridesmaids dresses were so cute, unique off the shoulder dress that although cute apparently weren't very easy to move in. They couldn't move their arms past their elbows, but they were great sports about it and had awesome robot dance moves!

Lauren and Mike decided to do a first look and do the photographs before the wedding rather than afterwards. It was truly a fun moment, I just loved the anticipation on Mike's face and Lauren's huge smile as she giggled walking up to see each other for the first time. Lauren and Mike were such a cute couple, their love just radiated from them and their contagious smiles.

{Au Revoir Mon Chéri!}

This wedding was photographed by Laura Brooks for 2Sisters Photography

We Will Become Silhouettes

Hello, it's been a while.

Maybe you've noticed a few changes. The awesome part about starting a business is that you get to see it grow. I am trying to get my head wrapped around this whole "branding" thing. It's something that's seamless, consistent and noticeable. I will be working more and more on introducing my concept of Elle Bea Photography, focusing more on my niche and making everything "Zen". Unity and Balance.

Besides the importance of branding one of the important things I have learned in being a photographer is to do photo projects, or just shoot! So I took advantage of the Free Day at the Denver Botanical Gardens. (Who doesn't love those!) Although who really needs another reason to LOVE summer, I love summer because the Botanical Gardens stay open till 9pm! On the way downtown I noticed the dooms day Denver summer thunderstorms lingering above and just as I found parking it started to rain. Cursing the sky as I sat in my car I decided to wait 15 minutes see what would happen... and of course the rain slowed to a low drizzle and I happily said my apologies to the sky as I walked into the Botanical Gardens. What a hidden blessing the rain was! Once inside everything smelled so fresh and clean and the flowers were covered with fresh little dew drops that made them look so beautiful. It was so much fun to just relax and enjoy beautiful nature. My personal favorite photographs were at the very last minutes of sunlight where there was a lilly pad pond and the colors in the water were so beautiful. ENJOY!

{Au Revoir Mon Chéri!}

All My Loving... Part I

Anne & Alexander May.30.2010

This wedding will most likely defiantly be the highlight of my year, and probably my favorite wedding. This said I truly feel every wedding is special, every couple I fall in love with, but this wedding was the wedding of dreams and movie magic.

The Brown Palace is the second oldest hotel in Denver. I had never stepped foot inside until Anne and Alexander’s wedding. The Brown Palace is like Denver’s New York Plaza Hotel; it looks rich, it feels rich, you feel like you need to be rich when you’re inside it.

Anne and Alex were the perfect couple for a Brown Palace Wedding. Anne has an elegance to her similar to Grace Kelly, beautiful smile with warm brown eyes and just classy. Alexander was British. I could just end explaining him there because I am obsessed with Europeans and British accents, but Alex did have more substance than being British he was also charming and watching the way Anne and Alex interacted with one another was witnessing the truest of love. One could not help but admire them and wish to be them.

The wedding ceremony took place at Trinity Methodist directly across the street from the Brown Palace. This was again a first for me photographing an actual church wedding with stained glass windows, red velvet and gold alter and huge golden organ pipes ascending to the heavens. Since this church was so traditional there was also the rule of no flash photography and we had to stand behind the last pew of guest. It was a new challenge being sniper like still to prevent motion blur and getting the camera settings just right to show the beautiful dim romantic lighting of the church.

More to come in Part II of Anne and Alexander...

This wedding was photographed by Laura Brooks for 2Sisters Photography