Six years ago on August 26th Emily & Justin were married in Ohio! They celebrated their Six Year Anniversary over the weekend a few days ago and are still going strong. These two now have two beautiful children and live in Maineville, Ohio enjoying running a LulaRoe business and Emily is even studying to be a radiology technologist!
On their August 26th wedding day back in 2011 the day started with photos of Emily getting ready with her ladies in a dressing room at the venue. After some preparation she and her bridesmaids all headed outside to a pond and gazebo for some formal portraits together. The day was beautiful and sunny which made for some gorgeous photos of them! Next, Justin came out with he and his groomsmen for some portraits of their own. Emily's dad came out and pretended to give Justin a scolding and then it was time for some photos of Justin and Emily together. They chose to have their First Look prior to the ceremony and included their daughter Layla in some of the photos! The photos were adorable and we even got Layla to laugh in a couple photos!
After their First Look there were then some portraits of both Emily and Justin's families with them. The ring photos were captured after all of the group photos, then we headed back inside for the wedding to start! The bridal party was announced in (with some pretty great dances included) and then Emily and Justin's ceremony started! The ceremony was beautiful (with the ever rare female officiant) and they even partook in a sand ceremony with colors that matched their wedding colors! After an awesome ceremony and exit, the two had their first dance. Seeing their daughter dance with them as a family unit was absolutely precious! After the first dance were a couple awesome speeches/ toasts from the Maid of Honor and Best Man, Emily's dad gave a hilarious speech, and then it was time for the Father/ Daughter and Mother/ Son dances!
Open dance then began and the awesome game of "Who's been Married the Longest?" was played with the winners still dancing at the end! More dancing by everyone then ensued and kids had a blast on the floor. Then it came time for the cake cutting! After cake cutting there was more dancing followed by the bouquet and garter tosses, then guests stayed to party some more! This group was definitely a lively one with everyone being extremely welcoming and down-to-earth, so it was an absolute blast to capture the day for them!
A huge congratulations, Emily and Justin! You two have created a beautiful family throughout the past six years and we're so happy that you two are going strong! Here's to a lifetime more of teamwork, love, and quality family times and Emily: We hope school's going well and I still love my leggings I got from ya!
Coming up this weekend we get a bit of family time interspersed with photo work before three September weekends in a row of weddings, a couple weekends of Infant and Family Portrait Sessions, then more weekends of October weddings! We're also so excited that we've been able to send out more awesome products to our couples and families that we've worked with this summer and are so excited to design so many more wedding albums, photo boxes, wall art, etcetera until Christmas! Hurray for being busy! Thank you SO much to all of our wonderful clients from nine states in the past year welcoming us to weddings and family portraits in Indiana, Michigan, Arizona, California, and Illinois! We've had a blast working with all of you and cannot thank you enough for valuing our work! Much love and respect to you all!