Wedding: Rob and Jill

Oh, how I love silly Facebook! I took engagement photos for a friend I teach school with, and as I typically do, uploaded a few favorites to my Facebook account. Jill was a college friend of this engaged couple and emailed me to inquire about wedding photos. When I asked how she heard about The Locket, she sheepishly responded that she saw my work on someone's Facebook account and then blog stalked me. I love it! Social networking at its finest!

Rob and Jill got married in the Des Moines area last weekend and were more than blessed with the most beautiful October day EVER!



For real - Jill may be the most insanely organized bride I have ever seen! Itineraries galore! Each person had their own personalized list of tasks and it made for an awesome, stress-free day!











After hanging with the girls for a bit, we headed to check in with the boys! We knocked on their hotel door and Rob's dad answered. We explained who we were and what we were doing and he looked at us like we were out of our minds!!! He and Rob were both bewildered that we would take photos of them getting ready! It seemed bizarre to them, but after I explained that it would help tell the story of their day for their wedding album, they pretended they thought it was cool!





Little brother prepping for his Best Man speech!



Loving the intimacy of a wedding prayer between the bride and groom!





I love that there is no "typical" when it comes to weddings anymore! It is definitely easier when couples opt to see each other before the ceremony - photo wise, but I do love the tradition of not seeing each other until the ceremony. Rob was insistent that he didn't see Jill before the wedding! Too cute! Jill and her mad organizing skills, still budgeted for TONS of time for pics of the two of them! They could not have been more blessed with the. most. gorgeous. October day EVER!





For real? Did a hot air balloon just take off right next to us? You bet it did! Cah-raziness!!!













Jill was stunning! My goodness - she was the most easy going bride ever!







This bridal party was a riot! The boys bought suits rather than renting tuxes and the girls had the most incredible dresses from Etsy! They were called chameleon dresses because they could be worn in at least 12 different ways! AWESOME!!!





Check out these faces!!!



And I'm in love with the emotion and stories these last two images show! Lovin the father/daughter, mother/son dances!