date : july 16, 2010
ceremony and reception : private residence, isle, minnesota
Sit tight, because this is a record breaking wedding blog post.
This post contains three of my brides, past and presents, all so amazingly talented. My, being Jill’s best friend, paired with her sister Ngoc, worked magic and helped put together this enchanted wedding. You might still remember their beautiful weddings last year — My’s warmth of frost wedding and Ngoc’s birds of a feather wedding. They waved their magic wedding wands and everything became gold.
It was titled “The Lake Wedding”. Jill and Matt were married in the backyard of Jill’s parents house, on an island, by the lake. Beautiful day, awesome couple, amazing details… it couldn’t have been more perfect!
The ceremony was intimate and touching.
The details for this wedding are simply incredible. From the wedding dress made and altered by Jill’s mom and sister, to using a Harry Potter book as the ring box, to customized koozies, to hand crafted accessories, to candy ‘tree’, to pirate treasure map guestbook, to crazy cool cake topper, to paper lanterns and paper buntings (I am borderline obsessed with those!)… they are all so colorful and breathtaking.
Matt changed into a Sponge Bob t-shirt, shorts and sandals after the ceremony. I must say, it is the best wedding attire I have ever seen. Way to go, Matt!
This just shows how I am always lucky to get the best clients. Somehow they let me talked them into doing this…
Love this!
Please click on the image below to start the slideshow. Enjoy and share!
This is going to be a long one!
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Jill and Matt, you blew me away with how much of this wedding you did on your own, and how you managed to do it all without being completely stressed out, mystifies me. Thank you for choosing me as your photographer. It is such an honor to be able to spend the day with you and witness all the love. Lastly, thanks for rocking my socks off!
warmly,
Ai Ling
related posts : Jill and Matt’s engagement shoot
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Ngoc - LOVE LOVE LOVE! Jill – you are the epitome of a summer bride. So beautiful – I found myself choking up. <3 Congratulations again Matt & Jill! Your day was so wonderful and lovely. I couldn't be happier for you both!!! Ai Ling – What an awesome, awesome slideshow (::sigh::). Love your attention to detail and innovative shooting. ^_^
Ai Ling - Ngoc, would you come to my house and hang buntings ALL over? Pretty please?
D*S junkie - Put this on Design Sponge
Denise - I’ll admit, I got misty looking through these. Absolutely beautiful!!
Jill Hayhurst - Ai Ling! YOU ARE AMAZING! I can’t even find the right words about how happy I am with your pictures. I was late to work looking at pictures with me in them…I hate looking at pics of myself, that’s how good you are! I got misty eyed too, Denise :*) Thank you so very much Ai Ling!
Ai Ling - Thanks, Denise!
Jill! You are welcome! So glad you like them.
Melissa C. - OMG! just when i think you’ve done an amazing job, you go above and beyond! i’m not a very emotional person, but those pics brought a tear to my eye!
Mike Tvrdik - Awesome Photos! What an Amazing Day that was! Congrats Again Matt & Jill!
Matthew Geiger - Yay! They turned out awesome! Thank you so much, Ai Ling! You really do spectacular work.
And I would just like to go on record by saying that those were the nicest outhouses I’ve ever seen.
Spongebob Squarepants - BUAHYAHYAHYAHYAHYAHYAHYAHYAH!
Ai Ling - Hi Spongebob!
Kristine Wissmiller - These are beautiful pictures, everything looked amazing!
nicki_bennie - So beautiful… what a wonderful wedding and images to match x