Greg and Tonya- Vineyard Sunset

I'm sitting in a hotel room in Chicago resting up for my wedding tomorrow. I scoped out the area: the mom's house, the church, downtown for some portraits, and the reception site... it's gonna be a good day:0

Thought I'd catch up on the last few weddings:

A year or two ago I shot a wedding at the Falkner Winery in Temecula- the owners loved my shots and put a link to my slideshow on their site... that's how Tonya and Greg found me. I'm so glad they did because they are two very cool, very fun, and just great to work with!

Did I say stylish too??? ...With her Choo shoe's and his Zegna suit.
Getting ready is one of my favorite times of the day. The girl's room was buzzing with flower-in-the-hair issues, champagne corks flyin' and lots of laughter!



love this- full, high sun.. who'd of thought??

Gotta love the D3 (my Nikon), just dial up the ISO and you can shoot in the darkest stairway in the vineyard.



Had to turn and run up this hill during the ceremony- good thing I got a little training at Nikki and Matt's wedding the week prior!!:)

Don't you just love them!?


Now, are you seeing the killer sun I was referring to?
Sniper through the vines.
More of that sun!
Sun went down, and booted up the lights!
Looks like the sun's still out, huh? That's just my handy dandy flash:)


So much laughter that night! It may have been the result of the 'drinking gloves'. Yes, drinking gloves! The wedding party went to University of Wisconsin and were big die hard Badger fans... the drinking gloves are from their favorite dive bar called "the KK" (Kollege Klub). I guess whenever you are serious about something and you really don't want to let go, you wear gloves- like when I'm mountain biking or riding the motorcycle.

Drinking gloves, really? So funny!!
I love being able to shoot the D3 with no flash- love these natural moments without the obtrusive flash.

I was falling asleep driving to this wedding after traveling home from Cabo the night before but I got as fired up as I always do and adrenaline kept me going 100% all day... 'till I had to drive an hour home...

Check the slideshow: www.empslideshows.com, enter 'gregtonya'.