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Bill & Jen | Wedding Photographers in Tucson Arizona

June 25th, 2011|2 comments|Slider, Weddings

We didn’t get to meet Jen and Bill until just about an hour before they got married. They live on the east coast, and were coming to Arizona to get married at Jen’s parent’s house in Tucson. Although, I had a pretty good feeling that I was going to really love them! When they first emailed us, they shared the link to the wedding website they created. I got to know all sorts of things about them, and got to see the area they were getting married. We were already having such a great weekend by the time we got to their wedding. It was our anniversary the day prior, so we headed down to Tucson a day early for a little 24-hour, in state vacation. That might not sound like much, but with our two wee ones…that doesn’t happen often and it was glorious! So when our happy selves pulled up to where the wedding was happening, I knew instantly that this was going to be the perfect way to end our perfect weekend. We instantly spied little vintage touches – old typewriter fonts, some burlap, yellow – just enough to tell me this wedding was going to be adorable. They had Greek food catered and the chef was roasting a lamb outside, her dad was looking overwhelmingly happy as he was setting up the valet parking area. But once we met Jen and Bill, and saw how very in love they are, and just good kind-hearted people, we settled right in. It was a beautiful day out, there were adorable DIY details in every which direction, and their wedding day turned out perfect.

Now, I will advise you that this is going to be a very long blog post! But there was SO MANY amazing details to cover, I would be doing you all a very big injustice not to share! :)

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Their house was amazing. We hadn’t been there before, so we had to do a little venturing to find the front door and get to Jen and Bill. In order to do that, we got to see the whole set up – and it was quite an exciting walk! We passed some of the cutest vintage details…hundreds of very creative details. I think I shot at least 50 photos before even got to their house. And it is all nestled in right by the Catalina mountains, and had such a gorgeous view!
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Jen was lucky enough to have Martha Stewart’s long lost sister for a mother. This woman became my idol within about 5 minutes of meeting her! The inside of her home perfectly matched the whole wedding theme. For a moment there, I wondered if perhaps she had decorated the entire house just to match. It was like stepping into a little land of DIY-vintage-pottery barn-wonderland.
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I fell in love with these little mason jars filled with mixed yellow and white flowers!
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Jen’s sister-in-law made this cute little cake, and Jen made the cake topper! It looks just like her and Bill!
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Finally, after much anticipation, Jen pops out around the corner, looking this pretty. At that moment, I knew for sure what a piece of cake this wedding would be to shoot! She looked stunning in her blue dress and reminded me a bit of Rachel McAdams in the Notebook!
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And then we got to meet Bill, who was equally dashing and fit perfectly as Jen’s other half! He was so nervous, right as we met him, we were about to jump right into their “first meeting”! Here, Jen’s dad is helping with the last minute touches.
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The order of how they chose their wedding attire was pretty much backwards to how it “typically” goes. They first picked out his awesome striped suit, and then Jen found some really cute shoes to match his suit, and finally a dress to match the shoes!
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At this point, Jen is walking up to Bill, who is facing the other direction. I LOVE this part! You can feel the anticipation/nerves/excitement in the air…and it’s heavy!
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I think this is so sweet. Bill knew she was walking up behind him, and wasn’t sure what to do with his hands!
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Could they possibly look any happier?
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This one is in the top three of my favorites! So beautiful.
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Jen’s dad is a fellow photographer, and set up the most kick butt photo booth. They had a treasure chest of fun props (even a beard on a stick, in case you were hoping to look like Bill), a fun yellow striped background, etc. It was awesome!
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These were the place holders. I have no clue how they managed to come up with so many cute ideas. They created these little crossword puzzles with fun facts about Jen, Bill, and their family. I learned that Jen’s grandmother is a huge fan of Spongebob!
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Jen’s parets/hosts/very wonderful people
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This was just moments before the ceremony. I came up the steps to find Jen’s dad giving Bill and her brother-in-law either a little either pep-talk or prayer. It was very sweet.
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Jen and her three sisters, getting ready to head down!
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During the ceremony, Bill pulled out a poem to read to Jen!
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This was all their idea, and it was a great one! Jen and her sisters grew up loving Nancy Drew books. So, they each grabbed their favorite in memory of the good ol’ days! So fun!
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Their dessert table was filled with all sorts of little homemade treats.
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Congratulations to you, Jen and Bill! Thank you for allowing us to share in your wonderful day, and we wish you nothing but the best for all the days to come!
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2 Comments

  1. Laura
    July 8, 2011 at 12:28 am · Reply

    What a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful wedding! I love how you set up and described the "first look" – I was literally grinning at my computer screen. Lovely job, as always, Drew and Megan!

  2. Jack Adrian
    December 3, 2011 at 11:33 pm · Reply

    then contact me budding freelance photographer, just breaking into wedding photography amp special events.

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