Kansas City Wedding Photographer: The “B” Wedding

This was such a lovely late spring wedding at the First Baptist Church in Lee’s Summit, MO and SUCH a sweet couple. Usually I have already shot a few weddings by June but this wedding actually kicked off my wedding season and it was a great start to a busy year of “I do’s”. One of my favorite things to do when blogging about weddings is play “My favorite things”. As someone who attends A LOT more weddings than the average person I think it’s interesting and fun to take a look back at what stands out to me and what I loved most about each one, so here are my faves from this beautiful day:

1) The tradition. So many weddings today include all kinds of unique things to really stand out and usually those are some of the things you can find on my “favorite things” list. What stood out to me in this case though was the charming and comforting tradition that you don’t see that often anymore. I hadn’t realized how much I had missed a good church wedding!

2) The Father/daughter/grandfather dance. Ok, this is really #1. The father daughter dance gets me every time. I think it’s because I know how quickly time is flying and I can just picture my husband and daughter on her wedding day every time I watch a bride and her father. Although it’s not just me, these are often the biggest tear-jerking moments in most of the weddings I shoot. So at this particular wedding when grandpa cut in, well…let’s just say it’s hard to shoot through tears. But luckily I managed to capture it all.

3) The slideshow. There were multiple big screens with slideshows of the bride and groom from their childhood all the way through the present playing during the entire reception which was a lot of fun!

4) The bouquet/garter toss. So perfect. The girls eagerly hoping to catch the bouquet with a few little girls who are dreaming of someday being a bride especially hoping to be the lucky catcher and then a bunch of guys standing around hoping NOT (or at least acting like it) to catch the garter.

Congratulations and many happy years to this lovely couple!