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In between packing up our little life, to move into a small little space, I had to sit down and take the time to blog this wedding.
When Andrea approached me in our small town bookstore, after being in bible college for a while, we greeted each other with a big hug, I hadn't seen her in forever and we used to have so much fun working together. I grabbed her hand and exclaimed over her ring (I'm sure the whole bookstore heard our excited conversation) She told me who she was getting married to, and asked if I would shoot their December 29th wedding. I said yes right then and there and went home to Facebook-stalk her fiance, like every photographer does (don't even deny it).
After a while the nerves set in, seeing as how I had never shot a winter wedding, I contacted a mentor/fellow photographer/more experienced lady and asked her if she had tips on shooting a winter wedding. "Say no, and run the opposite direction" she said. And then proceeded to give me amazing advice, as always:) I then googled "winter weddings" and came up with a blog post about the challenges of shooting a winter wedding "hmm, this should be helpful" I thought. Well, turns out "winter" to some people is grass on the ground, bare trees, and +5 Celsius, which is NOT the case where we live!
To make a long story short, we ended up with about 4 feet of snow, and -17 Celsius by the time the wedding date rolled around, and I was happy as a lark, because, you see, it had been in the -30 to 40 range till now. -17 seemed like a balmy spring day:)

Chris and Andrea really are a cute couple, they love each other with that young, careless, free, full of humor, full of hopes and dreams love. It was beautiful to see:)