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Category: Wedding

Montauk Wedding

Posted on April 18, 2018April 18, 2018 by Defining780 comments on “Montauk Wedding”

I'm fall......ing for you.....-in a Doctor Evil voice with my pinky in my mouth... 😜

There have been so many times over the years that, as I’ve been photographing the mother and son dance, I’ve held back tears behind my camera. That dance is something I wish so deeply that I could’ve experienced. My Mom died July 2, 2009. Catie and I were married exactly one year later. Our wedding, and weddings in general, have always reminded me of her. Yesterday was my Mom’s birthday. As I was editing Laura and Jeff’s wedding, I came across these images and it hit me: life is such a vapor. It can be gone in an instant. Love harder. Forgive easier. Anger more slowly. Laugh a lot. Tell your Mom you love her more often while you can.

He’s the best landscape photographer I know, I’m good at close ups. He always sees the bigger picture, I see the 100 steps it takes to get there. He’s always on top of what’s trendy, I’m in love with timeless. He makes fast friends with everyone, I’m happy to stand quietly in the background. He likes to lead, I like to follow. 📷 We push each other towards better. We appreciate the clients who allow us to be shooters. We love this work. We are in the business of selling photographs but what makes our hearts happy are the stories told through them and the relationships made because of them. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 We’ve floundered from goals and we’ve struggled as a team. There’s been seasons of army crawling to where we are now. We’ve tried for balance and failed, and tried again. We’ve weighed our absence from home in exchange for doing what we love, and continually try to keep the right priorities. 🔍 Photography has been a journey of many years. One we couldn’t imagine our lives without. We are so grateful for the people in our lives that it has brought us, the places it has taken us, the lessons it has taught us. We are constantly working to be better because what we do in this photography space feels so important to us. And we are more excited than ever to be chasing big photography dreams.❤️

Crimmy. You were just a little girl when Catie and I started dating. Back then your teeth look like a jack-o-latern and your haircut would've made the Scarecrow laugh. jk jk jk It's been one of the most amazing things in Catie and my life watching you grow up into the beautiful and amazing woman you are today. I hope you know how proud Catie and your Mom are of you. :)

It was a day that was special to me on so many levels. I was there to photograph a wedding for a girl that I've known for many years. Her and her family have always had a special place in my heart. I wasn't expecting to be moved so deeply. As I watched Matty and Nathan interact throughout the day it reminded me so much of Catie and myself. Two young people so in love and so enamored with life. It really got me thinking about marriage and my marriage specifically. The words "for better or worse" were popping up in my head. Catie and I were married on a beach July 2nd 2010. At the time we were getting married for "the better part". We would've never imagined 8 years later to the day we'd have to be whisked away by an ambulance to the airport and flown by a private jet to Mayo Clinic because Catie developed blood clots in her lungs and a 13cm abscess at her wound site. This was definitely the "for worse" part. As I watched Matty and Nathan I fell in love with the beauty of what a marriage is and what it needs to be to pull through. I saw in them everything they needed to enjoy the "better" part and to endure the "worse" part. The day was filled with me seeing many old friends I haven't seen in a long time. So many kind words and thoughts for Catie, Faron and myself. But then something happened that I'll remember for the rest of my life. I was approached by a very large group of old friends who said they wanted to pray for Catie and myself. It was one of the most amazing and humbling experiences of my life. I was too choked up to speak. I finally expressed that I wanted to Facetime with Catie, who was still at the Mayo Clinic. As she answered the Facetime call I was so choked up I could barely speak but I finally got the words across that they wanted to pray for us. Catie and I were in tears the entire time. It was one of the most beautiful moments in our lives. Marriage is an incredible thing. Its often taken for granted when things are going well or easy. But I think you truly discover each other when we're faced with adversity. Thank you from the bottom of my heart to Matty and Nathan for a day that I'll never forget. As for a s

Many of you have heard their stories, one or the other, or both. Many of you, at some point in time, have reached out to help. Erin lost her husband Jon and daughter Olivia at the Trestle Trail shooting. Steve, a father to four young boys, lost his wife unexpectedly to a health condition they didn’t know she had. The void left behind by these losses, the loss of a father and husband, of a wife and a mother, and of a first-born child, is so unfathomable to most of us. Steve and Erin have both experienced the lonely road that is grief and sorrow. Trying to help in whatever small and seemingly insignificant ways I could, I sat in Steve’s living room just days after his wife Wendy had passed. I could feel those fresh heavy waves of grief wash over the room and see it in their faces. I had photographed Steve’s first wedding 12 years prior, his family has been in my life since I was six years old. These are people I love. At that time, it was difficult to see how this family would survive this loss and be able to move forward. Erin reached out to Steve to help after hearing his story and offered an understanding that most of us could not. Erin was able to offer him hope. Hope that he too, by leaning on God as she had, could make it through this isolating darkness. Steve and Erin would be the first to say that this isn’t their story, that it’s God’s story. Using Steve’s own words, ‘It isn't about two people. It's about redemption for eleven lives. Three that knew Jesus and are united with Him now in eternity. Six children that can once again know a home with a mother and father, and two who have been given the opportunity to love deeply once again. The pain of death will always sting for the rest of our time here, but we won't have to face it alone.’ They have walked a season in each other’s shoes, of the lonely road that is grief and sorrow. Now, they have found joy and peace and will walk a lifetime together. This wedding day was a day where Jon, Olivia, and Wendy were honored and remembered and loved and missed. And Steve and Erin, and Liam, Jack, Silas, Judah, Selah and Ezra began their new chapter as a family.

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