To give you a little backstory, my best friend Tracey was randomly paired with Dayna as a freshman in a dorm at THE Ohio State University, and they went on to be roommates for the remainder of college, through different dorms and apartments. I got to know Dayna through ringing her doorbell in the middle of the night when my car got towed while I was at a concert on campus and being a bridesmaid in Tracey’s wedding with her and going to the local pumpkin festival together for years and scrapbooking every year over Christmas break while I’m in Ohio and a million other girly things.
Dayna is quite the photographer herself and has a million artist friends, so I was beside myself when she asked me to photograph her marriage to Matt at the Ohio Historical Society’s Ohio Village. It’s an adorable old-timey town with barns and wagons and outhouses around every corner, so it was not only a beautiful but also a really fun setting. Dayna was stunning and somehow so relaxed, and Matt was sarcastic and quippy the entire time, and I really couldn’t have had a better day photographing their looooove.
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OMG and you were NERVOUS to do a wedding?! These are phenomenal! I don’t know these people, but I’d have these photos on MY walls.
Beautiful!
Thank you! I’m still nervous, even now that they’re finished! But I loooooved doing this and am now dying to do more weddings. I think an installation of pictures of people you don’t know is exactly what your house needs.
These are sooo, nice! Such imaginitive posing, plus, a bunch of shots I’ve never seen anyone even THINK of taking.
Lastly, “Let’s Go Muffins!”
Oh, man, I got the Dude to comment on wedding pictures. Score! Thank you so much, and I knew the Muffins wouldn’t be lost on you.
Seriously, I know I never comment on such things, but these were THAT good.
And who doesn’t love a good muffin?
Katie is the best! Everyone I’ve showed the pictures to loves them, and they were lots of fun to take! Katie, I enjoy that a lot of the ones you posted here are some of my favorites, too. :-)
Thanks, Dayna! I feel so lucky that I got to photograph your wedding. And I still want you two to get dressed up again so I can photograph you on that bridge we didn’t get time for. Or we can just do the whole day over again, thx.
I love how you can’t tell in any of the photos that it was 400 degrees outside. It just looks colorful and vibrant and lovely!
And ever since this day, I feel like no wedding is complete without a gazebo and a weeping willow. (And outhouses. And swings. And old-timey signs.)
I’ve already blocked that part out and only have the best memories of everything! Funny.
And seriously, will there ever be a richer backdrop? Unless someone flies me to, like, Morocco for their wedding. I assume there are gazebos there, too.
Beautiful! Job well done. And as Tracey says, I’d never have guessed it was 400 degrees that day.
Thanks! So much sweat Photoshopped out of these things. j/k, Dayna’s mom had some sort of spray that kept them from getting shiny. I was frightened of it, but it worked. And how.
Gorgeous! I love the bouquet toss one. So fun and girly with the lighting.
Thanks! I love how ~serious~ the girls are about getting that bouquet. I’m always trying to hide in the bathroom during that part of any reception.
Admission: I just teared up a little looking at these. Katie! You are so talented.
I’m tearing up at your tearing up! Thank you! That’s so meaningful.
Wow, Katie! I want you to photograph my next wedding!
These are your best yet. I want you to come do some family photographs for me!