Portland Wedding Photographer - The Shutter Monkey - AJ's Studio Blog » Weddings and Engagements http://www.theshuttermonkey.com The Shutter Monkey highlights the latest wedding and portrait commissions by AJ's Studio Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:44:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Weddings 2011 – The Art of Joy from A to Z http://www.theshuttermonkey.com/2012/02/09/weddings-2011-the-art-of-joy-from-a-to-z-2/ http://www.theshuttermonkey.com/2012/02/09/weddings-2011-the-art-of-joy-from-a-to-z-2/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:44:25 +0000 amy http://www.theshuttermonkey.com/?p=7472 On to letter G!

Groomsmen!

This is quite possibly the most interesting image we’ve ever taken of the groom and his groomsmen.  No, the dolphin is not Photo Shopped in there – it was actually flung over their heads, at their request, by your’s truly!

 

Garter

Lacy showed her school spirit with her’s!

 

Grand Entrance
(one of my favorite events at weddings!)

 

And this year, we had the pleasure of photographing another wedding at Gray Gables Estate

A picture of Anete and Yoav on the beautiful grounds

 

And their Grand Entrance at Gray Gables!

Featured Weddings

Amanda & Allan
Anete & Yoav
Lacy & Dalton
Nicole & Taylor

]]> http://www.theshuttermonkey.com/2012/02/09/weddings-2011-the-art-of-joy-from-a-to-z-2/feed/ 0 2011 Wedding Review – The Art of Joy from A to Z! http://www.theshuttermonkey.com/2012/02/08/2011-wedding-review-the-art-of-joy-from-a-to-z/ http://www.theshuttermonkey.com/2012/02/08/2011-wedding-review-the-art-of-joy-from-a-to-z/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:47:46 +0000 amy http://www.theshuttermonkey.com/?p=7459 This has been quite an exercise for me. When I first started letter F, I thought it would be a short post featuring our fabulous bride, Fiona. But there is so much more!

First Look

Fathers

First Dance

And of course Flowers!,

And not just for bouquets, centerpieces, and altars – fabric flowers adorned hair styles and dresses!

Featured Weddings:

Anete & Yoav

Andrea & Ryan

Brook & Evan

Jenny & Jake

Lacy & Dalton

Mina & Mitch

Molly & Matt

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]]> http://www.theshuttermonkey.com/2012/02/07/tuesday-shoesday-13/feed/ 0 Weddings 2011 – The Art of Joy from A to Z http://www.theshuttermonkey.com/2012/02/06/weddings-2011-the-art-of-joy-from-a-to-z/ http://www.theshuttermonkey.com/2012/02/06/weddings-2011-the-art-of-joy-from-a-to-z/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:12:53 +0000 amy http://www.theshuttermonkey.com/?p=7448 Today is F.  I really wanted to post letter F on…Friday…but my shooting schedule ran into my Mom schedule.  Yes, I chose to watch a movie with my kids

Moving along…

Fiona
These are two of a series of images we took. I love the way a tilt of the head and a fluff of a veil can bring a whole new feeling to images!

And did I mention, the wedding was fun?

I’m going to cheat a little bit since I missed this on letter E.

Fiona, along with her husband Jesse own EcoShuttle – an environmentally friendly way to transport your guests or wedding party from one location to another. We had the opportunity to ride with the wedding party in one of the shuttles from Council Crest to St. Johns and it a great ride!

Family

I feel so very strongly about the importance of family photographs! I’ll be blogging about this at a later date, but for this blog, I think it fair we have some images of Fiona’s Family!

 See Fiona and Jesses’s Wedding Here! 

Tomorrow is Tuesday Shoesday, so we’ll have Part II of  letter F on Wednesday!

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EVAN

ETHAN

Edgefield Engagment Session

Featured Weddings:

Ashely and Ethan

Brook & Evan

Nikki & Chris

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Dalton

Dancing

 

Diamonds!

And yes…drinking….
(we’re going to leave it at that one…we have T for Toasts coming up!)

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Chris

Craig

Chris

A captivating wedding at Camas Meadows

Clear skies at Council Crest!

Guests cut a rug at the Columbia Dance Academy

The Chuppah

A pair of Converse (which makes for a happy ring bearer!)

And of course…

Cake

Cupcakes

and chocolate!

(Hand crafted chocolate favors and scrumptious hot chocolate from A Yen for Chocolate!)


And I couldn’t let this category go without a classic from Melody & Mike’s wedding that I call…..

“Chillaxing!”

I work with so many outstanding wedding professionals – I’d love to share any of their information with you, so if you’re interested, leave me a comment and I’ll post the name(s) and websites!

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When it comes to B, we made new friends and photographed at one of our favorite venues!

 

Brook

Brook’s Bouquet

and Brook’s Bridesmaids

BonBon Girls (again at Brook’s wedding!)

A Blizzard

(at Timberline Lodge – Nicole and Chris were such good sports!)

And what year would be complete without a wedding at Bridal Veil Lakes!

]]> http://www.theshuttermonkey.com/2012/01/18/the-art-of-joy-2011-from-a-to-z/feed/ 0 It’s Baaa-aack! Tuesday Shoesday! http://www.theshuttermonkey.com/2012/01/17/its-baaa-aack-tuesday-shoesday/ http://www.theshuttermonkey.com/2012/01/17/its-baaa-aack-tuesday-shoesday/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:58:18 +0000 amy http://www.theshuttermonkey.com/?p=7371 What’s that saying?  Something old, something new, something sparkly, and something blue.

Well, I think that’s what it should be!

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We photographed an abundance of  absolutely wonderful people who’s names began with A!

 

Andrea

Ashley

Aimee

Anete

Amanda &Allan

We also had the pleasure of photographing at the Arista Ballroom!

And of course…what celebration would not be complete without some
Air Guitar

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