It was SO unique and amazing and beautiful and just plain fabulous.
I arrived Friday afternoon in time for rehearsal. MAO of course already looked stunning in her little white practice dress.
Crazy-eyes and all.
Everyone was super smiley and pretty...
Before rehearsal, our wedding coordinator Tracy showed us a bunch of pictures from previous weddings so that we could get "ideas" and "inspiration". All the brides that had previously wedded at Hunter Mountain were BEASTS.
I don't they'd ever seen a bride of Anne's caliber. So I was excited for them to find out what a perfect bride SHOULD look like.
A little rehearsal dinner BBQ and minigolf and then it was wedding day.
Wedding day started pretty relaxed with the boys and girls getting ready separately, obviously.
(Isn't it cute how it looks like they were texting each other? Both those shots were totally staged, I just made them pull out their respective devices and said, "Laugh at your phone!")
Little Japanese Origami Cranes were a theme throughout the wedding. These could be found EVERYWHERE. Anne and her mom and dad had folded THOUSANDS of them.
After two hours of self-hair and makeup, the bride was ready to go. We LOVES a naturally gorgeous low-maintenance bride!
One of the coolest parts of the whole wedding was riding up to the summit (where the ceremony was to be held) in giant six-seater chairlifts.
It took 11 minutes of high-speed six-seater chair to reach the top, and once there the view was aweeeeeesomeeeee.
Love these guys!
Following the ceremony, the reception was held in the resort's Copper Tree restaurant.
The floral and branch and paper crane centerpieces were some of the most beautiful and unique things I've ever seen at a wedding.
I kept thinking that Anne looked like Belle.
And Felix made the observation that she basically just looks like a magazine model-bride.
There was a REALLY ghetto photobooth in the corner of the room. It was intentionally and unintentionally hilarious.
And there was a band and they played awesome song after awesome song and we sang and danced like crazypeople.
(And did a little photobombing.)
It was SO FUN!
Then finally there was the "group photo".
Anne's parents had planned a spectacular surprise, but in order to pull off the surprise they needed my help getting everyone together for a "group photo".
So I instructed everyone to go outside for a group photo of the ENTIRE wedding. As people interrupted their dancing and drinking and conversations and filed out to the patio, I could hear their grumbling annoyance and could feel them quietly (and not-so-quietly) judging me. After all, there was NO WAY a giant group picture like that would work, especially in pitch black darkness. You didn't need to be a photographer to know that.
There was a snafu and slight delay in getting the surprise going.
So I stalled and stalled, just snapping pictures of this massive group and looking like the MOST INEPT photographer in the WORLD. People were like, "COME ON!!! This is a waste of time!!!" It was slightly mortifying.
And these pictures? They WERE terrible...
But FINALLY came the surprise.
A gorgeous 15-minute private FIREWORK show!!!!
It was spectacular.
Finally we had to head to the afterparty and I quickly ran around drunkenly collecting paper cranes from around the ballroom because I had this vision of hundreds of little cranes flying through the air at the happy couple.
Anne's face when she realized what was about to happen was priceless.
I'm sorry. We need a close-up.
And my vision was executed pretty much perfectly!
Congratulations Anne and Phil! AMAAAAZING WEDDING!
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