Zach + Nina :: Wedding Photography Columbus, Ohio

Spice.

That's mainly what I have to say in regards to this wedding. It was most definitely the spiciest wedding I've ever photographed, and possibly ever been to. 

I met Zach a long time ago through other weddings I'd shot. (In fact, I discovered a couple days before the wedding that our moms knew one another years and years ago...#catholictiesrundeep). I met Nina, though, for the first time when shooting their engagement photos earlier this year. Nina is from Venezuela and, apart from being so much fun to photograph, was also gracious in allowing me to exercise my love for speaking (altogether stumbling) in Español.

One of my favorite things about Z + N was witnessing how their personalities and cultures so harmoniously blended into one. The proof lies in my favorite moments of the reception, where both Zach's family from the US and Nina's family straight from Venezuela filled the room: a giant beer mug (GIANT) passed around to everyone, bilingual toasts, something called "crazy hour" where everyone danced to music from all over the world and wore costumes...but most, most, 

most of all...

the spicy dancing.

It's always a bittersweet moment when it's time for us to leave a wedding. We are sad and happy to wrap up a full day of good photo taking, and then also filled with excitement to go and pick up Edith and squeeze her. When it came time for Tim and I to leave this reception, we simply didn't want to. I was filled with strong desires to keep watching all the amazing latin dancing, but also with visions of me having one ounce of the rythm and coordination to imitate what was happening around me. I kept mentally running through scenes from the movie "Dance With Me" (one word: Cheyenne) and told Tim we were renting it stat when we got home. We did.

Enjoy,

Rachel

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The Welsh Family :: Family Photo, Columbus, Ohio

Some people like to start off their days with lists. So, here's a list for you:

  1. Me: "This is DEEElicious"...Edith: "Dis DOOO gee jiss!"
  2. Me: "Want a nectarine?"...Edith: "I wanna necky necky."
  3. Me: "Oh my gosh."...Edith: "Oh by dosh."

The bottom line is, I think Edith is the cutest ever. 

BUT sometimes I encounter babies that make me forget all of my preferences for my own baby and be swooned by another.

This baby is one of those babies :-)

I was fortunate to shoot Caitlin and Jack's wedding a couple of years ago, and then smitten by their little one in his newborn photo shoot, and now taken again by the three of them a year later!

Words need not precede their cuteness, but I had to confess.

Enjoy,

Rachel

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Rachel + Aaron :: Wedding Photo, Columbus, Ohio

Rachel + Aaron :: Wedding Photo, Columbus, Ohio

Long exposure - these are the words I'd like to use to talk about Rachel and Aaron's wedding day. 

 

This is a photography term, which you may know, to describe a technique used to take photos where there isn't a lot of light, so the camera opens its eyes for longer to take in as much as it can and capture an image.

 

The issue is, if anything is moving, it usually looks like it's leaving a little blur-trail - you've seen those photos of the sky at night where the stars are all blurred into thin glowing lines of in the deep blue. There it is: long exposure.

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Nancy + Jeff :: Wedding Photo, Columbus, Ohio

Nancy + Jeff :: Wedding Photo, Columbus, Ohio

I've always considered Tim and I to be competitive. We're not only this way individually, but also against one another. If it takes me one hour at the grocery store, it only makes the trip more fun for him to do it in fifty minutes. If he takes 670 West to get to his mom's house, I like to see if I can beat him by taking a different way. This is all fun and games, of course, until all of the sudden we're not speaking because I also happen to be extremely sensitive and will most likely take losses [against my husband] personally. Who knew marriage could make me so emotional?

Well, we were set in our place as competitives at the last wedding we shot. This couple literally met playing ultimate frisbee and every other person we met at their wedding is from a league they've played in together! The favors were frisbees and there was a tiny little mini frisbee in the pie they cut.

I mean, I hate to admit defeat, but we've got nothing on them.

Amidst wonderful friends and family (many of whom we'd met before at Jeff's brother's wedding last fall), it was so much fun to witness this community of people. Good people abound in this group, and it was fun to be in the middle of them for the day.

I'm not going to lie, Tim and I were really hoping we'd leave with a frisbee (really though, there's been one on my Amazon list for about a year) but I was afraid that if I got my hands on one someone might ask me to throw it, revealing my mediocre skills. Failure by competitiveness, once again :-)

Enjoy!

Rachel

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