I have been friends with Sarah for quite a while. We met through mutual friends, I believe at a campfire? All I know is it was many years ago. When Sarah first contacted me, it was just to let me know that she was engaged. Later she contacted me again to inquire on hiring Valo to shoot her wedding. I was very stoked to hear Sarah and Tyler wanted to hire me to shoot their wedding. If there is one thing I like more than photographing a wedding, it is photographing a friends wedding.

The engagement session you are about to look at (hopefully, that is if you are still reading this… I usually skip ahead to the photos and then come back to read stuff) was a TON of fun. The locations were very cool, thanks to the scouting of Tyler. I got a lot of emails from them leading up to their engagement session of other e-sessions they had found around the Internet, photos from a scouting mission Tyler went on, and a lot of thoughts on location. This was great, because it let me see a little of what they were thinking of, and it made smile every time I got one of their emails, because I could tell how excited they were. When a couple is very excited about shooting, it makes my level of excitement rise as well. And so it kept amplifying, until we met up at Alterra and started shooting… Here is what I created on a perfect day, with a great couple…

So, the first blog post of the year is a big one. The super fun wedding of Cassie and Shawn. Simon and I shot their wedding last year at the Eisner Museum, in the Historic Third Ward of Milwaukee Wisconsin. I knew their wedding was going to be fun after shooting an engagement session with them… Just all around fun, easy going, fashionable and good looking people…

So here are some images, Chuck Taylors and all…

So anyways, enough of my talking, check out some images from the Villa Terrace Wedding:

Don’t forget to take a look at Simon’s photos from the day over on his blog…

Check out the Villa Terrace as well. Amazing place for a wedding ceremony.

Another reason this 2 part post is so long is that I got to spend almost the whole day with Abby and Andrew, which is a treat. I usually do not get the luxury to spend a whole day with a couple. Yes, it is more work, but since there is more time spent, there are many more opportunities to create a photograph. It also allows a more complete story to be captured, from the nervous looks and sighs while getting ready right down to the dancing at the end of the night…

Thank you Abby and Andrew for letting me be a part of your day. Here are a few of my favorites:

(Check out part 2 here)