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Michelle & Steve – Married on September 22nd
Posted on September 24, 2007
What a day it was for Michelle & Steve’s wedding. It was exactly 10 years to the day that they originally started to date when they were both students at the U of MN in Morris. They had lots of their family and friends from college there to help them celebrate. They actually, coincidentally, chose to get married at the Student Center on the U of MN St. Paul Campus. Their reception was held at the Majors in Roseville in their skybox. I believe they just started renting that space out for weddings just in the past year or so. It’s really a great space! Michelle & Steve already have two adorable children together, Xavier & Tiana. Despite waiting 10 years, they have known all along this is where they wanted to be. It was definitely a long time coming! Here are the pictures from their day:
Little Tiana in her flower girl dress. They said that she would have gone to bed in it if she could!
And, this is Xavier looking as handsome as ever. I think he must have grown at least an inch since I last met them this past winter!
They chose not to see each other before the ceremony. Steve got a little emotional when he saw Michelle coming down the aisle.
This was actually my first wedding ceremony that had the “sand ceremony” instead of a “unity candle lighting. They took turns dumping in sand from each others glasses into one big container.
This is the finished product! They needed to wait until the sand settled a little more to fit the rest of Steve’s sand 
I’m not sure what these two were doing, but I thought the framing on this picture was nice.
Michelle & her sisters put together these bouquets by themselves. Beautiful!!!
They had the cutest little favors, M&M’s and Skittles in a bag. Get it? Candies with M’s & S’s on them? Michelle & Steve! I thought it was a such a creative and cost-effective favor.
And, to top it off, Michelle made the cake! I can tell you first hand, she did a fantastic job.
This picture was courtesy of Target Studios, not me 
Their first dance together as husband & wife.
Steve with his mother.
And, he got emotional again. Well, who could blame him!
I think he danced with his daughter most of the night!
The DJ had a bubble machine that the kids had a blast with.
And, we’ll end with the Electric Slide. Thanks Michelle & Steve for having me as a part of your day!!!
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Sophia Bernadette
Posted on September 20, 2007
I had the pleasure of shooting Sophia’s 2 year-old pictures this morning at East Medicine Lake Park beach in Plymouth. Her birthday was actually in June, however you know how busy summers can get! So, needless to say, here we are taking her pictures in September. Little Sophia was not interested in posing for many pictures. I think we got a few within the first 15 minutes, but after that, she was off and running to the park to play! We still managed to get some great shots of her anyway Take a look below for a peak into her photo session.
Here she goes!
I was able to catch up to her for a quick snapshot
Blowing Kisses!
Jump, jump, jump, jump!
Thanks, Sophia for letting me take your pictures today! I wouldn’t have this many great photographs without you!!
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Bonnie & AJ – Married on September 15th, 2007
Posted on September 19, 2007
This was an especially fun, yet long, weekend for me. I had the pleasure of shooting Bonnie & AJ’s wedding in Duluth, MN on a gorgeous day! I am actually good friends with the groom’s sister (roomies in college!), so that is how I got this referral way up in Duluth. Bonnie & AJ originally met on a Catholic Online dating site, however that isn’t what they told most of their family and friends. They thought it would be fun to give them a different version of their first meeting. To make a long story short, it involved a rest stop in Forest Lake, a vending machine at that rest stop, change for a dollar for that vending machine, and a phone number written on that dollar. Surprisingly, when the matron of honor got up to tell people the real way they met, there were still a considerable amount of people in the room who still thought that was the true story!
We started out at Holy Catholic Family Church for the traditional Catholic ceremony then we headed around Duluth in their Hummer limo for some fun and more pictures. We ended the evening at the Radisson in downtown Duluth. Here are the highlights from their wedding day.
I thought this was a cute picture of this little guy exploring the pews during pictures!
Bonnie was a little nervous prior to the ceremony.
They were so serious going down the aisle! They had a job to do!
This picture speaks for itself. Needless to say, they choose not to see each other prior to the ceremony.
There was gorgeous lighting coming in through the stained glass during their ceremony.
Ah, I love unity candle troubles. They seem to happen more often than not!
They eventually just had to give up
We snagged a quick picture by the stained glass before….
…hopping into their limo!
We took the limo over to Leif Erickson Rose Garden along Canal Park and got some gorgeous pictures there!
My favorite picture of them! It’s a little abstract, but I love the size & shape of their shadows caused by the sun.
Just in case you were wondering, I was hanging out of the window to get this picture. It actually wasn’t as hard as it sounds!
And, here we are at the first dance at the Radisson.
Finally, here comes the barrage of dancing pictures. These people sure knew how to have fun!
Guess what dance this is?? I’ll give you a hint: “You put your head in…”
More hokey pokey!
“It’s Electric!”
I had no idea what this dance was, but it looked fun!
“You can get yourself clean, you can have a good meal, you can do whatever you feeeeeeeeeeel. Young men! Are you list’n to me?”
Believe it or not, this was during the dollar dance.
Whew! I think this is the last one I’m going to blog. Congrats, Bonnie & AJ on your wedding day! I hope you have fun on your honeymoon in Maui!!!
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