Lori Wong Photography

I have to bring up one of the cutest things that I noticed about Eli and Shannon.

They hold hands.

It is extremely sweet and after shooting their wedding I wanted to become an advocate for a “more hand holding” campaign. If there isn’t one yet, I will start it. Whose with me?! (;

I added a few of their hand holding moments in this post. I also included pictures of one gorgeous wedding dress on one SUPER gorgeous bride. (: I don’t know how I get so lucky to be asked to photography such amazing couples and their awesome families. Eli’s siblings were HA-larious. I couldn’t stop taking pictures of them on the dance floor. Not knowing Eli very well, I could tell throughout the evening that he is a very quiet sweet guy that is not a fan of having the spot light on him. But when his siblings, especially his brothers got near him, he couldn’t help but laugh. Which of course made Shannon laugh. Which is one of the things I love most about Shannon. She has the cutest most adorable laugh.

From the touching ceremony, to the extremely cold and windy portrait shots (seriously major troopers) and the dance floor shenanigans, Eli and Shannon’s wedding day was a major success!

Slide Show love…don’t miss the music with this one. Such a good song. Or below. Enjoy!

Jana and Reed’s wedding day was beautiful. You could just see the love and support pouring out of their family and friends. Which was fitting because of the love that was overflowing from the newlyweds.

I had a moment towards the end of the reception when I looked around and saw an older…um wiser…yeah, wiser family member of the bride or groom (I’m not sure whose, ooops) sitting at a table looking at her phone. I walked by her and realized she was playing games on her smart phone. I couldn’t help it, I took a picture. She turned around and said, “hey! [giggle] you caught me!!!” and then we had a nice conversation about life, marriage and being surrounded by family and friends. She reminded me of what was important.

There seems to be only two times in life when there is just no question you show up for the event, that being a marriage or for a funeral. And as we looked around the room and saw cute kids running around, parents, grandparents, great great parents chatting, and the bride and groom laughing and enjoying their day. We discussed how it really is at at wedding or funeral family and friends will gather, and how she was glad it was the wedding that we were meeting and having this discussion. I’m so glad we had that conversation at a wedding too.

I am continually grateful to be able to document events like these. And meet such amazing people.

It was a great day. Thank you Jana and Reed for allowing me to be a part of it.

Aaaaaaand here is why one of the wedding colors was without a doubt yellow…. :)

SLIIIIIIIIIDESHOW time! (:  Like always…pictures below, but link leads you to pictures aaaaand music! Enjoy.

I have known Jeni for years now. She is a great woman with fantastic hair! (; I’m seriously jealous of her hair! haha! But really, Jeni and I have had some great times.  Ken is a pretty great guy. He is very kind and sweet to Jeni. I would watch the way he looked at her and the way he interacted with her. I can tell that though obviously driven, (ahem, Dr. Ken…yeah I know) he is an easy going/go with the flow kind of guy.

When I found out that Jeni was getting married, I was very excited for her and then when she asked me to take her photos I was ecstatic!

Here are some favorites, but it was hard to choose with such good looking people involved. There is also a slide show at the end, check there for more photos.

If you want the music to go with it (which makes the slideshow THAT much better go here!)

As a photographer, I shouldn’t love sun flare, but I do.

I love it a LOT.

I have a lot of sessions to post, they are a-comin’, I promise!

Keep a look out!

Okay…not EVERY time, but pretty often.

I get sucked in and I fall in love and that’s it, it wins me over.

I’m talking about the weekly free song on iTunes.

Yep.

I check it every week, and some of my current favorite bands are because iTunes has got the cheap sucker in me to download the free song and in the end, about 40-50% of the time, I purchase more music from the featured band. Okay wait a minute, that % seems kinda excessive. Let me clarify.

I use to download everything because it’s free, and I have plenty of room for more music, on my hard drive and of course, in my heart! But then I learned, I had songs on my iTunes I never listened to and down right hated. Strong word. Hate. I knooooow. True none the less. So I decided to be a bit more picky. So I download often and out of the often downloading, in the end, enjoy about 40-50% of them enough to go search and purchase more.

Well, here is a perfect moment to bring up the free song of the week.

Mayer Hawthorne. He is amazing. He throws down his musicality like no bodies business. His new album How Do You Do came out today, and one of the songs from the album is the free download of the week. GO GET IT!! He is amazing.

He can brag about playing all instruments and singing this entire album, including his last A Strange Arrangement. If you like classic R&B with some vintage S-O-U-L, this guys is for you. He will take you back and make you feel like the hip cool cat that HE is.

If you ever have the opportunity to see him live, it’s where he gets ya! He is a great performer.

Let me know what you think after you download it. I’d love to know. (: