Drew and Chelsea • Byers, Colorado Wedding

I cannot believe that this wedding day has come and gone! It is a not so subtle reminder of how my brides feel when everything is said and done after planning their big day! Chelsea and I have been on this journey together for a year and a half and it is bittersweet for it to come to an end!

I say we’ve been on a “journey” because Chelsea and I have become close, consulting one another on so many things! She stood strongly by my side through some tough days in business, we’ve been sharing out fitness ups and downs with each other, we’ve chosen her wedding colors and made invitations, then {one of us} changed our mind and started from scratch, we’ve done three engagement sessions and just really become good friends in general!

This wedding day was also bittersweet because as of now, it’s my last booked wedding in Colorado and feels like the final closing of a chapter in my life! I loved shooting Colorado weddings with Stephanie of Steph Steinmark Photography and hope that we can still make it work to do weddings together somehow!

But enough about me and my nostalgia, because this day was all about two people who are incredibly, passionately in love who have a huge life ahead of them, full of blessings beyond measure! Seeing these two together on multiple occasions has me completely sure that they have the right ingredients to make it in the long haul! I first saw them “storm the weather” together when we shot some engagement photos in the middle of a Colorado blizzard! Those are some of my favorite images! Next we worked out in Byers taking some incredibly fun photos that included Drew’s dirt bike! And finally, we got dressed up and headed downtown for some “fancier” photos in an urban setting! I honestly think they checked all the boxes when it comes to engagement photos! I may need to make them a separate album just for those sessions!

The hardest part was leaving them in June knowing that I wouldn’t see them for almost three months! Which brings me back to this past weekend, to the day that I couldn’t wait to arrive and didn’t want to end! I enjoyed every minute – from the girl time while getting everyone ready and beautiful, to the reception after my work day was done {let’s just say that was my first margarita ever and some fine dancing moves, if I do say so myself!}

Chelsea and Drew, you might be younger than most couples who get married these days, but that doesn’t mean you’re not prepared for the road ahead. It just means you’ll get what most people don’t: a chance to truly build a life from scratch, a life that you will share together. Because the only thing better than bringing experiences into a marriage is experiencing them for the first time… together.  From the bottom of my heart, thank you for trusting me with documenting one of the most important days of your life. It was an honor and a privilege!