Ashley & Trent are MARRIED-! These two Granger-ites married over the weekend this week in late June 2024 & their wedding day couldn’t have gone more smoothly.
Let’s rewind a bit: These two hired us a little under a year ago & you may remember them from their downtown Engagement Session 8 months ago on that colorful, drizzly autumn day ( https://www.jennyandjasonphoto.com/blog/ashley-trent-engagement-session-south-bend-downtown-granger-engagement-midwest ). These two are the ultimate pet lovers, though they don’t plan to have kids as Ashley is a lawyer for DCS here in Indiana & Trent works in corporate. The two love working out together and have a phenomenal sense of humor (coupled with their easy-going nature) making them a joy to work with. Let’s check out their gorgeous wedding day-!
To start of their day, Ashley & her ladies got prepped with their hair & makeup team at one of Ashley’s bridesmaid’s houses (conveniently only minutes from their wedding venue). Though an unexpected 6th day straight of upper 90s weather in the area, the atmosphere immediately upon entering the house was serene & inviting. Jenny had the shock of reuniting with one of her former Freshman Year of college dorm pals/ sorority sisters (from a couple decades ago) who was one of Ashley’s bridesmaids, so things immediately clicked.
After capturing Ashley’s wedding dress and invitations, we then captured Ashely getting her hair & makeup done. Jason then headed out to the new-ish Courtyard Mariott in downtown South Bend to capture Trent & his guys getting ready.
Ashley’s Maid of Honor placed her veil in her hair, then Ashley stepped aside to read her letter from Trent.
Ashley was running pretty early, so after her card privately, the ladies had a bit of time to relax with some mimosas and enjoy each other’s company before getting Ashley into her wedding dress and heading out to the venue.
After chatting about some of their new favorite movies & series, Ashley hopped into her dress, got her sunglasses on, and it was time to head over to The Blue Heron!
Meanwhile at the hotel Trent & his groomsmen were off getting ready themselves.
Not only did Trent have his suit custom embroidered with his initials and their wedding date inside (one of our favorite things that our grooms have done), but his suit was an amazing shade of a subtle emerald green-!
After Trent was prepped & ready Jason whisked him off to the country club to get him in place for his & Ashley’s First Look.
Once Ashley arrived her ladies helped her over to their First Look spot that we’d scoped out earlier in the week. She headed out to Trent, gave him a shoulder tap, & Trent was so overcome with emotion that he teared up!
With that being one of the cutest First Looks we’ve ever captured we then captured some bridal party and other group photos, but we’ll include those with the family post-ceremony group photos later. Onto the ceremony-!
While guests were seated outside for the ceremony, these two got some finishing touches before heading down the aisle. Amazingly though in the upper 90s, the clouds and wind came out at the perfect time cooling everything down for everyone.
Before long it was time for these two to head down the aisle for their wedding ceremony. Trent was accompanied by his parents, their very tall friend threw the rose petals (and handed out mini liquor bottles to guests and groom alike), and Ashley’s dad’s walked her down the aisle to Trent.
With the warm weather and nice breeze/ cloud cover these two proceeded to have a beautiful wedding ceremony officiated by Trent’s uncle-!
Their vows were warm & heartfelt touching on their favorite personality aspects of one another.
And soon it was time for the two to exchange rings…
…and their First Kiss before then heading down the aisle as newlyweds (“Trashley” as they like to introduce themselves to new neighbors & friends as).
Post-ceremony we captured all of their family group portraits (*only a few of which we’ll share here).
We also captured some last bridal party group portraits (which we’re pairing here with their photos that we captured pre-ceremony).
Since we had captured many of their portraits pre-ceremony, these two still got to participate in much of their Cocktail Hour as they’d hoped they would!
Folks enjoyed their custom cocktails & hors d'oeuvres while mingling under the canopy outside.
As folks filtered inside they were able to drop off their gifts, sign the guest book, and sign Ashley & Trent’s sweet globe.
Guests headed to their tables and before they knew it the bridal party followed by Ashley & Trent were announced in-! The two then had their First Dance (East Coast Style) with a full-on choreographed, upbeat dance which they giggled along to & nailed-!
After their First Dance their moms welcome guests as well as sent well-wishes to Ashley & Trent.
Guests enjoyed their salads, bread, and dinner as the Best Man & Maid of Honor gave their heartfelt speeches about the history of these two as individuals and as a couple (the Best Man publishing & gifting them photo books to document it all & the Maid of Honor telling stories of trauma bonding during law school)-!
Ashley then enjoyed her Father-Daughter dance with her dad before Trent & his mom enjoyed their Mother-Son dance.
And with that the formalities were over and everyone hopped onto the dance floor to enjoy Open Dance & the rest of their wedding reception-!
Around sunset before heading out, we took these two back outside to create some final images of them as newlyweds.
We took one last look at the still-very-lively reception then headed out for the evening- leaving these two to enjoy the rest of their wedding day before they headed to their honeymoon a couple days later-!
Congratulations again, Ashley & Trent! We hope that the first few days of your honeymoon travels in Italy have been a blast and that you two have so much fun enjoying the rest of your adventures! Thank you so much for having us capture your big day & we can’t wait to share more with you in the next month or two.