eggggsdfjsldkj: Why I love Mondays / Morgan's Wedding!

When in the midst of Wedding Season, Mondays are often the days I look forward to most.

Mondays are the day when most of my heavy work (actually running around and shooting the wedding) is done. And if I really love the bride/groom whose I wedding I shot on Saturday, I'll have worked all day Sunday, editing, retouching, and prepping pictures for immediate upload to Facebook, since these days rando guests are already posting their crappy iPhone photos from the event and the novelty of the wedding and the new union wears off pretty quickly in cyberworld.

So getting at least a selection of top pics turned around ASAP is key for maximum publicity. (Literally, I just booked a wedding this morning because a bride-to-be found my site when she saw that I tagged a friend-of-a-friend who appeared in Morgan's photo album.) PLUS, it just makes the bride and groom and everyone in the photos really excited. Instant gratification all around.

Then, once I hit upload and tag all the people, I just sit back and watch the "likes" and comments roll in. I LOVE "likes" and comments, obviously.

Anyhoo... I just posted Morgan's FB pics from the wedding. It's a selection of 180 or so pictures, out of 10,000.

If you haven't seen them already on Facebook, well, it was an EPIC wedding.

Awesome friends, awesome food, awesome music, awesome venue. Awesome awesome awesome.

I can't even exaggerate how fun much it was. I hope my wedding will be just like it.

Morgan, for the most part, was a very chill bride. She trusted me to take good photos, so I was left to do whatever I needed to do with minimal input. I love that.

Her party-planner was a little bit flakey though...

And there was one tense moment where she had to take matters into her own hands and lay a smackdown on some inept Helper Mexicans.

This poor guy...he probably gets paid like $2 an hour and barely understands English...

But it's all totally understandable since Morgan's day-to-day job is working as mega-director GoreVerbinski's right-hand and managing hundred-million-dollar movie sets (currently The Lone Ranger starring Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer).

Look how prettily she cleans up!

The whole day took place at her parents gorgeous Pasadena home in various phases. It was really cool. The ceremony was held in the motor court. Cocktails were on the patio and in the garden. And then dinner and dancing took place in and around the pool which was converted into a dancefloor just for the occasion!

The ceremony was officiated by their close friend Jim.

It was SPECTACULAR.

And Jim's beautiful wife just happens to be Reese Witherspoon, currently pregnant with their first child.

I took a fantastic portrait of them. They were SUCH a sweet couple. But unfortunately CensorFrog tells me I can't publish any magazine-quality solo photos that internet lurkers might steal and spread around. Which is, of course, totally understandable as well.

So this is all you get.

I took a few really amazing photos of the Denison crew that I was really really proud of as well.

This next picture in particular I still can't believe I was able to pull off.

Group pictures are always tricky, but when you can execute it perfectly - posing and directing people so that it looks interesting and not-awkward - it feels awesome.

LOVE.

The first dance was really cute.

Morgan's boss, Gore, looked on like a proud papa.

And speeches were hilarious.

We had a nice leisurely cocktail hour. The food was Fancy Mexican and INCREDIBLE.

And then there was an epic dance party.

At one point, during "Dynamite", we all jumped so hard that the dancefloor broke, (remember it was built on top of the pool), all the lights turned off and the music shut off. But people just kept on singing and dancing until they fixed the situation 5 minutes later.