This post is the same as what's on our blog. If you want to feed the blog, that would be fantastic.

We had the privilege to photograph Katie and Brian's wedding a couple weeks ago. What fun! They are just great people and the rest of their family is so nice. It was really cold so we were indoors for the most part. The ceremony was right here in Dublin, at St. Brigid, which is always nice. That church seems to have been built to make weddings go smoothly.

After the ceremony we all had a little fun with pictures.

Then we went off to where the reception was -- just a couple hours early for some more pictures -- outside ones this time. Now, remember, the temperature was about 5 degrees (-15C) and with the windchill factor, it felt like -8 (-22C). So we went outside with the guys and made them stay in place while the girls ran out to their assigned positions for a few photos. Yes, they were cold, but real good sports.

They even did another picture -- this time with the guys' jackets on.

Then we went to the mall. Hey, why not? We had gone over there the week before and asked management if that was OK because of the temperatures outside. They let us. We were flabbergasted -- definitely not the norm for any mall management. Just as long as we didn't get any stores' signs in the images. There was this cool staircase and railing at one end that was perfect for the pictures. They even raised some gates that were down there. They let mall security know about us and they were so nice. He came over while we were there to see if there was anything else he could help with.


Brian's mom worked at one of the stores in the mall so we had to get a shot in there -- of course we asked. At first she looked at me really strangely, then, when I told her who Brian's mom was she was cool with it.

After hanging out at Caribou Coffee (we warned them the day before) it was time for the reception. That was a lot of fun, too, but I'll let you watch the slideshow to see how that went. There was this one guest, though, who looked kind of strange -- very hairy -- but who am I to judge their friends?

Now, watch the slideshow. And leave a comment on the blog post.

Just wanted to add one thing here that Adam touched on a little. It was really cold and we had two hours between the ceremony and reception and had to be out of the church.

In the past there has been conversations on here about shooting in places like malls and getting kicked out. We were completely shocked that they gave us permission to shoot in the mall. She told us that if we had just shown up, they would have kicked us out immediately, but she appreciated so much that we asked ahead of time, that she really wanted to make this work for us. This was a very upscale, but somewhat dying mall in a very wealthy area of town (the newer big malls have taken away from them). She actually showed us an area of the mall that we had no idea even existed and basically gave us free reign in that area, because she liked how nice we were. It was much prettier and more suitable than the area we actually were asking her about. It just goes to show that sometimes showing courtesy and asking, rather than doing something you know probably isn't allowed, can get you more than you ever expected.

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well said.

looks like you had fun, too. great job!

That's a lot more fun than bare shouldered women out in the snow for 2 hours! Brrr.

It was cold. Really, really cold. Lots of fun on this wedding. And they love the slideshow, of course.