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justatempparkingspace — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:53:53 +0000

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We’re back!

justatempparkingspace — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:53:00 +0000

Happy Tuesday everyone!

We are back and we hit the ground running from our vacation {stay tuned for some great pictures Dan took!}

We are really looking forward to upcoming meetings with more potential clients I always love meeting with people and hearing about their plans for the day – because every wedding is so very different and unique!!

The 2010 Weddings season is going to be great – we a lot of wonderful wedding lined up including Dan’s childhood best friend, {which was just on February 6th!} one of my best friends and my sisters! Plus all of the amazing couples we have lined up!

We do only have a few {prime} Saturdays available for 2010 – including June 5th/19th, July 3rd, August 28th, September 4th, 11th and 18th – now – we know that everybody knows somebody getting married – so help us get those dates filled up – and we will certainly thank you for it!!

Have a great day all!

~Karin

Erik and Erin – married!

justatempparkingspace — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:32:00 +0000

If you are a detail person, you may notice that Erin and Erik appeared in another one of our summer wedding’s pictures… Dan and Gina’s! Reason being, Erin and Dan are siblings – well, triplets {plus Kelly!}

We got to start their wedding day at the church with them – Erin had such a helpful set of girls with her! Lisa, one of her bridesmaids constructed a beautiful veil for her – you’ll see it in the picture s : ) Erin and Erik did meet before the wedding ceremony, which allowed us to take some very intimate wedding portraits before the ceremony with great lighting.

I loved that each of the girls had fur shawls for some of the pictures; they looked so romantic, elegant and sophisticated. I love that throughout their day they did some pictures with and some without them.

Their wedding day was also filled with wonderful music. They had a fabulous group playing during the ceremony as well as a 16-piece band from Rochester that played – having the variety wasn’t a surprise considering they both have degrees surrounding music and Erik is working on his Master degree in Conducting! It was great to see how all of their different loves played in to their wedding day

Their wedding day was just a beautiful day in so many ways – the weather, the worship, the friends and family and the desserts ; )

We had so much fun being a part of their very important day – thank you Erik and Erin!!!

Miss Hazel : )

justatempparkingspace — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:26:00 +0000

Many of you might remember seeing pictures of Miss Hazel from when she was a tiny tot : ) Now she is a big 1 1/2 year old ready to take on the world! She is a busy little bee running everywhere – especially with her soccer ball.

Something that I am really excited about {once we get back from vacation mid-February} is working to line up more and more family/kiddo/baby photoshoots – I have had some much fun with the ones I have done thus far – I just am yearning to do more!!

We are so happy to have been able to take pictures with Miss H again – she is such a cutie pie!!

Thanks Becca and Mike : )

The Ose Family

justatempparkingspace — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:37:00 +0000

I think many of you will certainly enjoy these next pictures : ) I ALWAYS love looking at pictures of kids : ) Especially when you can capture that one great smile!

We had the Oses over to do pictures in our home; the boys were really motivate to take pictures, listen and smile nice because they knew that we have the Indiana Jones LEGO edition game for the XBox… what a great reinforcer for the end of taking some pictures!! That is one of the ‘challenges’ I really enjoy about photographing kiddos, finding something to keep their attention : )

We got the joy of photographing the Ose family – I first met them last year – and boy was it a joy to be able to photograph the boys : ) They have a near and dear place in my heart!! It is amazing the changes kiddos go through in even just one year!!!

Thanks Oses – we had a GREAT time!

Chad and Leah

justatempparkingspace — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:22:00 +0000

We first met Chad and Leah over the summer of 2009 – although we didn’t do engagement pictures, we could tell that they were going to have a super fun day : )

We got to join them for the rehearsal and groom’s dinner in St Paul the night before their wedding – which was so much fun! We always love going to rehearsals/groom’s dinners before a wedding because we get more time to hang out with them, take fun candid pictures and get people used to having us around the next day : ) It is also neat to see the unique relationships between people!

Their wedding day started at the chapel on the St Paul campus of Concordia College. This chapel was a beautiful place to hold a wedding ceremony! We really enjoyed being their wedding photographers – what a great place to work!! Their reception was at the Mendakota Country Club – it was also a beautiful location for a wedding reception : )

From their wonderful St Paul wedding day – here are some fun things that stuck out to me:

Leah’s Grandma made the Bridal Party’s Mittens and Scarves as a wedding gift

Leah gave her Personal Attendant a beautiful frame – AND a box of Leinenkugels ; )

Their Bridal Party was made up of their Siblings: Leah’s Brothers stood up for Chad, and Chad’s sisters stood up for Leah! HOW NEAT! I love that they included family in such an intimate way.

We had such a great time with these two – Thank you Mike and Becca Goodpaster for introducing us to Chad and Leah!

Chris and Martha’s Wedding at the Saint Paul College Club

justatempparkingspace — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:48:00 +0000

We had the pleasure of photographing Chris and Martha’s FABULOUS day at the St Paul College Club : ) What a NEAT location!! I feel like we could have taken pictures of just the two of them there for hours! Such neat rooms, nooks, crannies and staircases! Not only was it beautiful, but Martha got to walk down the front staircase for the ceremony – how romantic!! The grand staircase lead right into the front room of the house where their ceremony took place. It was such a nice, intimate ceremony with great musicians!

After their ceremony they did a receiving line in the Library of the house – it worked out so nicely because of the room’s circular shape! This mansion really was made for weddings

Something I though was neat was that they also had a ‘hot chocolate bar’ – amazing!!! … {Hot chocolate is one of my {Karin} favorite things!!!} They had a little sign right next to the hot chocolate bar told guests that they could make their hot chocolate ‘Irish’ at the bar {or something neat to that extent} How fun!

Chris and Martha are also rather goofy people – and so were their awesome guests!! We had a ton of fun with our ‘photobooth’ – a bit revised this time – but do enjoy those pictures! They also had a very fun time dancing – everyone from Chris and Martha to their parents and some good friends of theirs – they sure are good dancers!

Thanks to Andrea and Jared Porter for connecting us with Chris and Martha!! It was such a fun day!

Joe and Stephanie’s Wedding Photos

justatempparkingspace — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:00:00 +0000

When we met Stephanie and Joe, we could just tell how excited they were to get married : ) They are such a sweet couple that truly love each other.

So – on a chilly {but sunny} first Saturday of the new year we headed down to Owatonna, MN for Joe and Stephanie’s wedding. It was a brisk day, but a very quick drive! I {Karin} grew up in Winona, MN so it was a pleasant surprise to experience Owatonna not being a super long drive : )

We arrived and got started with pictures – they both have really fun families that were great to photograph. I think one of my favorites was their ring-bearer. We had all the guys together {including him} and first had them all smile {which he did SO nicely!} and then we had them do ‘serious’ faces – I think he {the ring-bearer} did the best one!! He had such a great expression – and he is only 4 years old!!

I would say the majority of our weddings the bride and groom recite the ‘traditional’ vows for their denomination {Dan and I did too – I would have fallen apart otherwise!} but Joe and Steph wrote their own – and how sweet they were! They have known each other for awhile now – so they were certainly excited and ready to be married!

We feel so blessed an honored to have been part of their wonderful day – every negative degree of it! {it was -17 that day!! Those brave folks still went on a buggie ride!!} Luckily our travel to and from Owatonna went well for their wedding – we hope they went well for everyone else that went too!

Courtney and Khia’s Wedding Gallery from the St. Paul Hotel

justatempparkingspace — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:47:00 +0000

Hope you enjoyed the photo slideshow. I think from now on our blog posts will look like this as opposed to embedded jpgs. If anyone who checks our blog consistently has any feedback on this we’d love to hear it!

Karin and I had an awesome New Years eve at the St. Paul hotel with Courtney and Khia. It was a fun (although challenging) location to work at… and their friends, family and hotel guests everywhere. Their two boys were hilarious… and although they did a great job holding it together for the formal pictures they were zooming around any time they could. Although it was several degrees below zero Khia (the bride) really wanted to do some outdoor pictures at rice park in St. Paul. The first 2 minutes felt good after the heat and close quarters of the hotel… but after the initial cooldown, and by the time we had walked to the park it was downright freezing! Thats MN for ya.

On a technical note Karin and I realized that this was our first wedding done entirely with artificial light. I do love using natural light, either outdoors or coming in through windows, but it is nice to know that we’re up to the challenge! The last wedding that we photographed which was entirely in a hotel was at the Embassy Suites in Bloomington early in the summer. You can view several of the photos in our wedding photography galleries from that Minneapolis, MN wedding
on our website. There are a lot of advantages to having the wedding ceremony and reception in the same location, and for a New Years Eve wedding it was perfect!

Brittany and Ray’s wedding in Plymouth, MN

justatempparkingspace — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:18:00 +0000

We spent our last November wedding with Brittany and Ray at Holy Name of Jesus Church out in Plymouth. We were blessed with some beautiful weather and were able to do quite a few outdoor shots before and after the ceremony. I am realizing that I mention the weather a lot in blog posts… I think that’s because I notice it a lot… especially when photographing weddings. The weather can dramatically alter lighting and the moods that we work with

I think its fun when we recreate past events or situations… With Brittany and Ray we recreated a photo that her parents had on the steps of the same church… and later on we recreated the moment when Brittany stepped on Ray’s foot inside the church and they had their first conversation…

The also rented an awesome old Cadillac and we had lots of fun photographing in and around the car. The sun set right after the Ceremony ended and so all the shots with the car were in or near darkness. It can be challenging creating fun and natural looking wedding photos in that kind of light… but I love how they turned out!

Enjoy!

-Dan