Monthly Archives: April 2008

Bryan & Ashley

 Bryan and Ashley are getting married this Saturday!

They also wanted to have some engagement photos to give to their family as gifts, so we went out on a hot afternoon two weekends ago.  Much to our surprise, there was bright green grass and yellow wild mustard growing all around.  Even besides the photos, we had fun tromping around the hillside!

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Bryan and Ashley, I feel like we’ve been friends for years.  I can’t wait for your wedding in just a few short days!

Brian & Kristi

One thing I love about photographing people is capturing the parts of their personality that makes them them. One way I’ve tried to do that with my engagement photos is to have them come up with a date idea and then turn it into a photoshoot.

Brian and Kristi had a lot of fun with that idea, and incorporated a bunch of things that are special to them: hiking, taking photos of themselves, even the way they held hands.

I also made a change in the way I prep my photos for the web, so these should look brighter and more colorful in your browser. Can you see a difference?

Enjoy!

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Thanks so much for a great shoot, you guys! You were a ton of fun to be around. I can’t wait for your wedding!

Our Wedding!

Well, for obvious reasons, I haven’t been devoting my full attention to this blog in the last few weeks. But I realize that some of you are itching to see our wedding photos, and don’t know where to find them!

I have become friends with so many talented photographers over the years, it was difficult for Rachel and I to choose who would shoot our wedding! We finally settled on the following:

Joshua Cook did our engagement photos
Josh Premako and Lukas VanDyke shot our wedding.

Click on the links above to see these guys’ work!

Matt & Rachel in the getaway limo

And finally, since some of you weren’t able to make it to the wedding; it was the most incredible day in my entire life.  It had everything I love: beautiful weather, an old church, good food, a challenging message, loving friends, moving music, a smokin’ car, our dear family.  Combine all of that with the unbelievable joy of marrying my very best friend… I don’t think my feet touched the ground all day.

Thanks to each of our photographers for helping capture this fantastic day.

And to Rachel… I love you so so so so much!