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Colorado Springs Wedding: Marc and Julie

I shot our first wedding of 2008 on Sunday! Jump-starting our wedding photography season were Marc and Julie (whose engagement portraits sneak peek is here)!

colorado springs wedding photography

They held their wedding at The Margarita at Pine Creek here in Colorado Springs:

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colorado springs wedding photography

It was a cloudy day and rained for a few minutes during the ceremony, but word on the street is that a little rain during the nuptials is good luck. Plus, all the cool kids get married in the rain (Nic and I had an Eeyore-like cloud of rain pass through during our wedding ceremony).:)

colorado springs wedding

colorado springs wedding photography

The Margarita did a wonderful job with the food (yum, yum) and the cake was as pretty as it was delicious:

colorado springs wedding photography

Here’s one of my favorite candid moments of the day. “Cake smashing” was a big topic of conversation (everyone warning Marc not to do it) and here is their pinkie promise to one another to be very nice at the cutting of the cake:

colorado springs wedding photography

Since the wedding was small (around 30 people), and the guests all very important to Marc and Julie, I made it a goal to try and catch a great candid portrait of everyone there. Some people were trickier to catch than others (they would look at me every time I got my lens pointed anywhere near their direction), but one of my favorites is this shot of Julie’s dad:

colorado springs wedding photography

Julie and Marc wanted to spend a bare minimum of time on portraits with a real emphasis on candid photojournalistic style coverage, so we knocked out all of the formals very quickly. Here are the bride and groom:

colorado springs wedding photography

colorado springs wedding photography

The sun finally poked out at the very end of the wedding, and I love this shot of Julie’s brother and sister-in-law dancing:

colorado springs wedding photography

Congratulations to Marc and Julie! It was an honor to be their wedding photographer and I wish them the best!

colorado springs wedding photographer

7 comments

Bernadette - YAY for wedding season being in full swing!
LOVE the Margarita, what a fantastic spot for a small wedding. Great images Traci!

Rachel - Beautiful images!! LOVE that first one.

Catherine - I so wish I could afford to fly you out to California to do Me and Kari’s wedding in September. Your wedding shots come out exactly how I want ours to be. =)

Laura - beautiful! while we’re making wishes, I want to put you in a time machine and have you do my wedding! what a great place for a wedding :) we should all go out for dinner there sometime when we get back into town

kara - these are gorgeous! i especially love how even the portraits look so natural.

Veronica - Beautiful pictures!

melissa - this wedding post also seriously helped me overcome some major bridal burnout. i am so looking forward to seeing what you come up with in a mere 4 months and 9 days (well, 6 to the wedding, but really those 3 more before the sneak peak are key)

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