tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4472251408481611162024-03-05T13:52:57.724-06:00NICK & KELLY MCCORMICKA commentary on our daily lives..mostly told from Kelly's point of view!Nick and Kelly McCormickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782334496683065022noreply@blogger.comBlogger541125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447225140848161116.post-4119042254127462992014-07-21T13:54:00.000-05:002016-12-09T16:52:22.478-06:00Steven + Alexis | A Keller Center WeddingA few weekends ago I had the absolute pleasure of shooting the wedding of Steven and Alexis!It's my last wedding this year...and what I THOUGHT was going to be my last wedding ever (more on that later!); so, I have to admit, it was a tad bittersweet! I absolutely love shooting weddings...everything from the emotion of the day to not knowing until I get there what the church or the reception hall might be like! But, even though there was a bit of sadness in the back of my mind, I was also glad that this 'last' wedding was with Steve and Alexis!They met while in high school, and Steven actually left his private school to attend public school with Alexis...and they've been together ever since. He's in law school, and she's a hair stylist, and although when I first them I thought to myself, "These two are SO young!", I quickly learned that these two had wise, mature souls. They knew what mattered to them most in life...their families and each other, and their wedding showcased just that. Although the theme and details were beautiful, it was their relationship with each other and their families that really stood out.Steven and Alexis, thank you SO much! Thank you for being the wonderful couple that you are and for making my 'last' wedding one of all the things that I've loved about shooting weddings the last seven years!Here are just a few of my favorites from their wedding day!Thank you for checking in!Kelly <img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4390" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1003.exp_.jpg" alt="wolkewed-1003-exp" width="740" height="493" /><p style="text-align: center;">We started the day at Alexis's him church...and I just loved this custom made runner that went down the center aisle of the sanctuary!!</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1002.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4389" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1002.exp_.jpg" alt="wolkewed-1002-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a> <a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1003.exp_.jpg"></a> <a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1004.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4391" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1004.exp_.jpg" alt="wolkewed-1004-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">A quick snap of Alexis's ladies before she got dressed!</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1006.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4393" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1006.exp_.jpg" alt="wolkewed-1006-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">Alexis and her mother have a very special relationship, and I really loved watching them get her ready. SO MUCH LAUGHTER AND JOKING!</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1007.exp_.jpg"></a> <a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1009.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4396" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1009.exp_.jpg" alt="wolkewed-1009-exp" width="493" height="740" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">We stepped outside and took a few images of Alexis just after she had gotten dressed. Isn't this little side yard at her church with the flagstone walkway adorable!</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1014.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4401" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1014.exp_.jpg" alt="wolkewed-1014-exp" width="493" height="740" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1013.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4400" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1013.exp_.jpg" alt="wolkewed-1013-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1016.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4403" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1016.exp_.jpg" alt="wolkewed-1016-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">I then spent some time with the ever-handsome Steven!</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1017.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4404" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1017.exp_.jpg" alt="wolkewed-1017-exp" width="493" height="740" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">He has a good 'lawyer' face. :)</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1018.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4405" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1018.exp_.jpg" alt="wolkewed-1018-exp" width="493" height="740" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1019.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4406" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1019.exp_.jpg" alt="wolkewed-1019-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1022.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4409" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1022.exp_.jpg" alt="wolkewed-1022-exp" width="493" height="740" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1023.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4410" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1023.exp_.jpg" alt="wolkewed-1023-exp" width="493" height="740" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1025.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4412" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1025.exp_.jpg" alt="wolkewed-1025-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1027.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4414" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1027.exp_.jpg" alt="wolkewed-1027-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1028.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4415" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1028.exp_.jpg" alt="wolkewed-1028-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1029.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4416" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1029.exp_.jpg" alt="wolkewed-1029-exp" width="493" height="740" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1033.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4420" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1033.exp_.jpg" alt="wolkewed-1033-exp" width="493" height="740" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">Finally man and wife!</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1034.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4421" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1034.exp_.jpg" alt="wolkewed-1034-exp" width="493" height="740" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1035.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4422" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1035.exp_.jpg" alt="wolkewed-1035-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">Steven, Alexis, and the wedding party then headed over to a family friend's home to shoot some great wedding party portraits!</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1036.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4423" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1036.exp_.jpg" alt="wolkewed-1036-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">And while we were there, of course a few portraits of the bride and groom themselves!</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1038.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4425" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1038.exp_.jpg" alt="wolkewed-1038-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1039.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4426" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1039.exp_.jpg" alt="wolkewed-1039-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1040.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4427" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1040.exp_.jpg" alt="wolkewed-1040-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1041.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4428" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1041.exp_.jpg" alt="wolkewed-1041-exp" width="493" height="740" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1042.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4429" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1042.exp_.jpg" alt="wolkewed-1042-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1043.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4430" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1043.exp_.jpg" alt="wolkewed-1043-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1045.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4432" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1045.exp_.jpg" alt="wolkewed-1045-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">This is my favorite of Steven out of all that we took of him that day!</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1044.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4431" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1044.exp_.jpg" alt="wolkewed-1044-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1046.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4433" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1046.exp_.jpg" alt="wolkewed-1046-exp" width="493" height="740" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1049.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4436" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1049.exp_.jpg" alt="wolkewed-1049-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">We then headed to the Keller Center for their reception! As always, the absolutely wonderful Katie Koester did a fabulous job coordinating their reception! I will miss working with Katie SOOO much!</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1050.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4437" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1050.exp_.jpg" alt="wolkewed-1050-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1051.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4438" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1051.exp_.jpg" alt="wolkewed-1051-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1052.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4439" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1052.exp_.jpg" alt="wolkewed-1052-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1053.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4440" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1053.exp_.jpg" alt="wolkewed-1053-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1056.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4443" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1056.exp_.jpg" alt="wolkewed-1056-exp" width="493" height="740" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1058.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4445" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1058.exp_.jpg" alt="wolkewed-1058-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1059.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4446" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1059.exp_.jpg" alt="wolkewed-1059-exp" width="493" height="740" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1060.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4447" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1060.exp_.jpg" alt="wolkewed-1060-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1061.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4448" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1061.exp_.jpg" alt="wolkewed-1061-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1062.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4449" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1062.exp_.jpg" alt="wolkewed-1062-exp" width="493" height="740" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">Once the dancing fully got underway, I remembered this little flash trick I used to do years ago to make the DJ's lights 'swirl' around the people dancing.</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1063.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4450" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1063.exp_.jpg" alt="wolkewed-1063-exp" width="493" height="740" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1064.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4451" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/WolkeWed-1064.exp_.jpg" alt="wolkewed-1064-exp" width="493" height="740" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">I think EVERYONE was having a great time along with me!!</p><p style="text-align: center;">Alexis and Steve, thank you, thank you, thank you! So many blessings are wished to the both of you in life! Stay in touch, as I cannot wait to see your family in the years to come!! ~Kelly</p>Nick and Kelly McCormickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782334496683065022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447225140848161116.post-78789809773462344372014-07-21T00:53:00.000-05:002016-12-09T16:52:22.449-06:00Kyle + Samantha | A Christmas Tree Farm WeddingThey wanted their wedding to be small, intimate, and full of family memories; so, when Kyle and Samantha decided to get married, there was no other place that would fit than Samantha's grandparents' Christmas tree farm south of Effingham, IL. As her mother said during the reception, today they all live hours away, but when they have to define home, that farm is where the entire extended family comes together and think of as 'home'.So on a beautiful fall day in the pasture beside her grandparents' house, Samantha walked down the aisle to Kyle and they began their life together....full of families and memories just like that farm.Kyle and Samantha, thank you soooo much for allowing me to be a part of your day! It was just perfect! The warmth and graciousness of your families could be felt by all of us involved, and there is no need to wish you blessings in your future, because with families like yours, there is no doubt that you will be blessed!Below are just a few of my favorites from their wedding day!Happy Friday!!Kelly<a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1101.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4293" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1101.exp_.jpg" alt="yocumwed-1101-exp" width="720" height="1080" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1102.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4294" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1102.exp_.jpg" alt="yocumwed-1102-exp" width="720" height="480" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">Samantha and her friends got ready in Effingham; so, I met up with them first to do detail pictures and capture the bride getting ready.</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1103.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4295" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1103.exp_.jpg" alt="yocumwed-1103-exp" width="720" height="480" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">The ladies!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1104.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4296" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1104.exp_.jpg" alt="yocumwed-1104-exp" width="720" height="1080" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1106.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4298" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1106.exp_.jpg" alt="yocumwed-1106-exp" width="720" height="480" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1105.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4297" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1105.exp_.jpg" alt="yocumwed-1105-exp" width="720" height="480" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1108.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4300" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1108.exp_.jpg" alt="yocumwed-1108-exp" width="720" height="480" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1113.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4305" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1113.exp_.jpg" alt="yocumwed-1113-exp" width="720" height="480" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Samantha has a huge, audacious smile and laugh that just pulls you in. I love this image of her!!!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1110.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4302" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1110.exp_.jpg" alt="yocumwed-1110-exp" width="720" height="1080" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">But, you know me, I like the 'quiet', contemplative images as well!!!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1114.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4306" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1114.exp_.jpg" alt="yocumwed-1114-exp" width="720" height="480" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">We did a first look with Samantha and her dad....one of the most touching, sentimental moments ever. There were many tissues needed.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1117.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4309" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1117.exp_.jpg" alt="yocumwed-1117-exp" width="720" height="1080" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">And then I headed over and spent some time with the handsome Kyle!!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1118.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4310" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1118.exp_.jpg" alt="yocumwed-1118-exp" width="720" height="1080" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Kyle does a FABULOUS serious pose!!! So distinguished!!!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1120.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4312" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1120.exp_.jpg" alt="yocumwed-1120-exp" width="720" height="480" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1132.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4324" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1132.exp_.jpg" alt="yocumwed-1132-exp" width="720" height="1080" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">We headed to the farm after a few family pictures and got ready for the ceremony!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1134.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4326" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1134.exp_.jpg" alt="yocumwed-1134-exp" width="720" height="480" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">The flower girls came down the aisle in a little car...there are some signs of road rage in this one's future! LOL!!!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1135.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4327" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1135.exp_.jpg" alt="yocumwed-1135-exp" width="720" height="1080" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Kyle and Samantha seeing each other for the first time.....</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1138.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4330" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1138.exp_.jpg" alt="yocumwed-1138-exp" width="720" height="480" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">...did not disappoint! Maybe best 'first' look ever???</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1139.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4331" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1139.exp_.jpg" alt="yocumwed-1139-exp" width="720" height="1080" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Samantha's grandfather married the couple, which just added to the sentiment of the day!!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1140.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4332" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1140.exp_.jpg" alt="yocumwed-1140-exp" width="720" height="480" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1142.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4334" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1142.exp_.jpg" alt="yocumwed-1142-exp" width="720" height="1080" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1143.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4335" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1143.exp_.jpg" alt="yocumwed-1143-exp" width="720" height="1080" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">High Five! We are married!!!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1152.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4344" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1152.exp_.jpg" alt="yocumwed-1152-exp" width="720" height="1080" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">But let's take a moment from celebrating to admire one of the most beautiful wedding bouquets EVER!!!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1154.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4346" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1154.exp_.jpg" alt="yocumwed-1154-exp" width="720" height="480" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1157.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4349" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1157.exp_.jpg" alt="yocumwed-1157-exp" width="720" height="480" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1161.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4353" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1161.exp_.jpg" alt="yocumwed-1161-exp" width="720" height="480" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1165.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4357" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1165.exp_.jpg" alt="yocumwed-1165-exp" width="720" height="480" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1168.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4360" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1168.exp_.jpg" alt="yocumwed-1168-exp" width="720" height="480" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1169.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4361" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1169.exp_.jpg" alt="yocumwed-1169-exp" width="720" height="480" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1174.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4366" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1174.exp_.jpg" alt="yocumwed-1174-exp" width="720" height="480" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">The reception was held in a tent just a few feet from the wedding ceremony site in the same pasture, and it had been decorated to the nine's!!!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1175.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4367" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1175.exp_.jpg" alt="yocumwed-1175-exp" width="720" height="480" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">A bit of cake fun!!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1178.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4370" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1178.exp_.jpg" alt="yocumwed-1178-exp" width="720" height="480" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Samantha's dad gave a speech that was both touching and hysterical! He had the crowd back crying and laughing at the same time.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1177.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4369" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1177.exp_.jpg" alt="yocumwed-1177-exp" width="720" height="480" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1179.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4371" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1179.exp_.jpg" alt="yocumwed-1179-exp" width="720" height="1080" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1183.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4375" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1183.exp_.jpg" alt="yocumwed-1183-exp" width="720" height="480" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">There were games set up all around the tent area for the guests to enjoy!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1184.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4376" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1184.exp_.jpg" alt="yocumwed-1184-exp" width="720" height="480" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">And later in the evening an old-fashioned ice cream truck made an appearance as a treat for the guests!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1186.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4378" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1186.exp_.jpg" alt="yocumwed-1186-exp" width="720" height="480" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1191.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4383" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/YocumWed-1191.exp_.jpg" alt="yocumwed-1191-exp" width="720" height="480" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">At the end of the evening, the guests came together once more to celebrate the couple and send them on their way with a sparkler send-off too!</p><p style="text-align: center;">Kyle and Samantha, once again, thank you SOOO much! Such a pleasure getting to know you, your relationship, your family....all of it! I cannot wait to see where your life together takes you! ~Kelly</p>Nick and Kelly McCormickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782334496683065022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447225140848161116.post-41836569343389178522014-07-19T23:52:00.000-05:002016-12-09T16:52:22.425-06:00Brody + Nikki - A Central Illinois Farm WeddingAfter seven years of shooting weddings, I can honestly say that the weddings of those I know personally are often the hardest. Not the shooting or being at the wedding..no not at all. But afterwards, when you're editing or designing the album...it's so much harder to be objective when you know the couple personally!And I found this no more so than with the lovely Nikki and Brody's wedding! Nikki went to school with my younger sister, and Brody was a family friend of my husband! And I can honestly say that this was one of the hardest weddings EVER to design an album for! I wanted EVERYTHING in their album!!They are smart, kind, witty, and the calm in the midst of the craziness that a wedding day can be!I hope you enjoy a few of my faves from their beautiful wedding and reception that was hosted on Nikki's family's horse farm!Blessings to you all! ~Kelly<a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-108.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4185" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-108.exp_.jpg" alt="littlewed-108-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">I was at a photography workshop once and someone said, "Why do you guys shoot ring shots? There's no emotion in a ring shot." I replied, "No, not right then...but years down the road, should it get lost or should a great, great-granddaughter inherit that wedding album with that image, there is emotion. It's emotion that comes years later." Personally, ring shots are one of my favorite things to do on the wedding day. I like a bit of color from their wedding colors, and also a bit of bling in...usually a bracelet or necklace of the bride. In this image, her flowers are back about 9" from the wedding rings, and that's some of Nikki's jewelry 'pointing' towards the ring from the left.</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-110.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4187" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-110.exp_.jpg" alt="littlewed-110-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">Nikki and Brody will live in her childhood home on the horse farm, and this is Nikki's childhood bedroom, and once I saw the ribbons on the wall and the beautiful rocking horse, I knew this is where the wedding dress HAD to be.</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-111.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4188" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-111.exp_.jpg" alt="littlewed-111-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">Having a bit of wedding day fun with the dress reflection. That framed newspaper has Nikki's picture in it.</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-112.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4189" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-112.exp_.jpg" alt="littlewed-112-exp" width="493" height="740" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-113.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4190" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-113.exp_.jpg" alt="littlewed-113-exp" width="493" height="740" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-118.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4195" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-118.exp_.jpg" alt="littlewed-118-exp" width="493" height="740" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-122.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4199" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-122.exp_.jpg" alt="littlewed-122-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">To me this is Nikki, stunningly beautiful, but with the most ornery look in her eyes! I adore my farm girls SOOO much!!!</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-123.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4200" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-123.exp_.jpg" alt="littlewed-123-exp" width="493" height="740" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">A message from Brody threatened the make-up, but we were alright!</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-125.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4202" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-125.exp_.jpg" alt="littlewed-125-exp" width="493" height="740" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">And here's the handsome Brody! We took a few minutes on the HOTTEST of HOT days this summer to take a few portraits of this great guy!!!</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-127.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4204" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-127.exp_.jpg" alt="littlewed-127-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">I at first planned on doing their First Look in a grove of trees near the house, but one of Nikki's bridesmaids said, "No, do it in the stable...that is where they are at all of the time. That is their place." So, we did.</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-130.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4207" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-130.exp_.jpg" alt="littlewed-130-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">Then it was Brody's turn to tear up. He was in awe of his lovely bride.</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-134.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4211" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-134.exp_.jpg" alt="littlewed-134-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-135.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4212" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-135.exp_.jpg" alt="littlewed-135-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">I love this image because you can almost see the hint of the happy tears in Nikki's eyes!</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-138.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4215" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-138.exp_.jpg" alt="littlewed-138-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-139.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4216" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-139.exp_.jpg" alt="littlewed-139-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-140.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4217" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-140.exp_.jpg" alt="littlewed-140-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-141.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4218" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-141.exp_.jpg" alt="littlewed-141-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-142.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4219" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-142.exp_.jpg" alt="littlewed-142-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-144.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4221" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-144.exp_.jpg" alt="littlewed-144-exp" width="493" height="740" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">Nikki's mother passed away when she was younger, and I love how she was still honored during the ceremony.</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-145.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4222" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-145.exp_.jpg" alt="littlewed-145-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-148.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4225" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-148.exp_.jpg" alt="littlewed-148-exp" width="493" height="740" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">No timid wedding kiss here! These are two were SO happy to be married. I loved it!!!</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-150.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4227" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-150.exp_.jpg" alt="littlewed-150-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-153.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4230" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-153.exp_.jpg" alt="littlewed-153-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">The three of us wandered the back roads of my home town, and I captured the first hour of these two being man and wife!</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-155.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4232" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-155.exp_.jpg" alt="littlewed-155-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-157.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4234" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-157.exp_.jpg" alt="littlewed-157-exp" width="493" height="740" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-160.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4237" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-160.exp_.jpg" alt="littlewed-160-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-162.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4239" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-162.exp_.jpg" alt="littlewed-162-exp" width="493" height="740" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">Brody being ornery off to the side....</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-163.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4240" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-163.exp_.jpg" alt="littlewed-163-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">...resulted in this beautiful smile!!</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-166.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4243" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-166.exp_.jpg" alt="littlewed-166-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">I have no idea what Brody was saying here!!!</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-169.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4246" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-169.exp_.jpg" alt="littlewed-169-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-172.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4249" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-172.exp_.jpg" alt="littlewed-172-exp" width="493" height="740" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-175.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4252" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-175.exp_.jpg" alt="littlewed-175-exp" width="493" height="740" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-180.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4257" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-180.exp_.jpg" alt="littlewed-180-exp" width="493" height="740" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">We then headed back to the stable for there reception!!</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-179.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4256" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-179.exp_.jpg" alt="littlewed-179-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">A quick shout-out to one of my favorite DJ's, Clint McGraw! Always a pleasure to show up at a reception and find him at the table! Over the last seven years, we've had a few conversations like this: "Clint! I didn't know you were DJ'ing tonight!" "Kelly, you were the one that referred me to this couple." Sometimes I forget a year later when we're actually at the wedding. But, in this case, Nikki knew both of us personally and Clint and I were thrilled to be there working together!</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-181.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4258" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-181.exp_.jpg" alt="littlewed-181-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">And sometimes, the guests are just troublemakers...like the one in the center, my ornery husband.</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-182.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4259" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-182.exp_.jpg" alt="littlewed-182-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-184.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4261" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-184.exp_.jpg" alt="littlewed-184-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-193.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4270" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-193.exp_.jpg" alt="littlewed-193-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">When the speeches began, we also got to sing Happy Birthday to Brody's wonderful mother, Cindy!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-197.exp_.jpg"></a> <a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-205.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4282" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LittleWed-205.exp_.jpg" alt="littlewed-205-exp" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Nikki and Brody, thank you SOOO much for allowing me to enter your world and document your wedding day. You are two lovely souls, and I cannot wait to see your family and relationship grow in the future! Sooooo many blessings to you both in the years to come!!! ~Kelly</p>Nick and Kelly McCormickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782334496683065022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447225140848161116.post-36753423518868847712014-07-18T22:51:00.000-05:002016-12-09T16:52:22.406-06:00Nick + Alayna | A Springfield, IL, weddingA few weeks ago we gathered in Springfield for the beautiful wedding of Nick and Alayna.They are one of those rare couples...during a time of contemporary traditions and Pinterest postings in the wedding world, Nick and Alayna relied on the tradition of 'it's family, friends, and our faith' that matter most on this day. And even though, yes, their decorations were beautiful, they were made even more so by the sentiment and graciousness of the bride, the groom, and their families.Nick and Alayna, the two of you are classics....your humble, gracious, and giving personalities will always be in style, and I cannot wait to see what the Lord has in store for the both of you!Here are just a few of my favorites from their wedding day.Blessings!Kelly<a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1101.exp_.jpg"></a> <a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1102.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4079" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1102.exp_.jpg" alt="WendlingWed-1102.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1103.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4080" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1103.exp_.jpg" alt="WendlingWed-1103.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">When Alayna couldn't find JUST the right pair of embroidered shoes for her wedding day, her talented sister volunteered to do it for her. Are these not just lovely?!!!</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1104.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4081" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1104.exp_.jpg" alt="WendlingWed-1104.exp" width="493" height="740" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">Every Saturday that I shoot a wedding, I have the bride take down her dress prior to getting into it, and I take pictures of that moment. It's a bit planned, but I always say that some of the pictures I'm taking are NOT for you, the bride...they're for your children and your grandchildren...so that they can see in your album your face and smile right before you got into your wedding dress, so that they can see what perfume you wear on the day you married their father or grandfather...and sometimes even the fact that their aunt hand-embroidered the shoes just to make them special on your wedding day.</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1105.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4082" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1105.exp_.jpg" alt="WendlingWed-1105.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1106.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4083" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1106.exp_.jpg" alt="WendlingWed-1106.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">One of my favorite images from the entire day. I just love the smile on her mom's face.</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1109.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4086" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1109.exp_.jpg" alt="WendlingWed-1109.exp" width="493" height="740" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">After shooting weddings for seven years, Alayna may do the absolute BEST 'smiling eyes' portraits!</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1111.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4088" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1111.exp_.jpg" alt="WendlingWed-1111.exp" width="493" height="740" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1118.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4095" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1118.exp_.jpg" alt="WendlingWed-1118.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1119.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4096" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1119.exp_.jpg" alt="WendlingWed-1119.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4100" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1123.exp_.jpg" alt="WendlingWed-1123.exp" width="493" height="740" /><p style="text-align: center;">And then it was handsome Nick's turn!</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1121.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4098" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1121.exp_.jpg" alt="WendlingWed-1121.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">His groomsmen were GREAT!!! Such a great group of guys...and handsome as well!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1123.exp_.jpg"></a> <a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1126.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4103" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1126.exp_.jpg" alt="WendlingWed-1126.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1127.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4104" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1127.exp_.jpg" alt="WendlingWed-1127.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1128.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4105" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1128.exp_.jpg" alt="WendlingWed-1128.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Alayna wore her grandmother's wedding band set on her wedding day to honor her memory.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1129.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4106" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1129.exp_.jpg" alt="WendlingWed-1129.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">OK. This picture is never going to win an award, but there's a bit of a story. At Nick and Alayna's engagement session, Nick and I were joking around about getting 'emotional'. Like most guys, he's like "I'm not very emotional." Then he made me laugh by saying, "Now her family - there's a whole lot of emotions in her family." We had just gotten done with Nick's family portrait and his mom and dad wanted to give him a hug. This is the look Nick gave me. I started laughing remembering his comments at his engagement session!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1131.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4108" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1131.exp_.jpg" alt="WendlingWed-1131.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Alayna's niece was born with a rare and severe skin disease called Harlequin Ichthyosism, but that didn't stop her from dancing up a storm at the reception one bit! Her mother, <a href="http://www.courtneywestlake.com/about/">Courtney</a>, wrote a beautiful book about raising Brenna and learning the meaning of true beauty on God's earth. You can check it out here: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Different-Beautiful-Discovering-Celebrating-Expected/dp/1634097262/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1472145857&sr=8-1&keywords=a+different+beautiful">A Different Beautiful</a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1132.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4109" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1132.exp_.jpg" alt="WendlingWed-1132.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Remember Alayna's sister who hand-embroidered her shoes? This is her! She sews, has six children under the age of 9 and plays the guitar. I literally met the American version of "Maria Von Trapp"!! And just in case you're wondering, this is the look a mother gets when she sees her six littles as she's walking down the aisle. I love it!!!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1134.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4111" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1134.exp_.jpg" alt="WendlingWed-1134.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">And then all eyes were on the beautiful Alayna.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1133.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4110" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1133.exp_.jpg" alt="WendlingWed-1133.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Including Nick's.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1136.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4113" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1136.exp_.jpg" alt="WendlingWed-1136.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1139.exp_.jpg"></a> <a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1141.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4118" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1141.exp_.jpg" alt="WendlingWed-1141.exp" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1142.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4119" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1142.exp_.jpg" alt="WendlingWed-1142.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1143.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4120" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1143.exp_.jpg" alt="WendlingWed-1143.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">This little lady isn't waiting for the new husband and wife to come out the door...there are bubbles to blow and life to enjoy! #love</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1146.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4123" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1146.exp_.jpg" alt="WendlingWed-1146.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">"We really like formal, traditional wedding portraits...they're our favorites," they said. And why wouldn't you when you do them so well???</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1152.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4129" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1152.exp_.jpg" alt="WendlingWed-1152.exp" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1156.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4133" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1156.exp_.jpg" alt="WendlingWed-1156.exp" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1158.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4135" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1158.exp_.jpg" alt="WendlingWed-1158.exp" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">But I couldn't resist doing a few more casual, backlit images with Alayna and her veil....</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1159.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4136" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1159.exp_.jpg" alt="WendlingWed-1159.exp" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">...even if Nick was being ornery off tot he side! :)</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1163.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4140" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1163.exp_.jpg" alt="WendlingWed-1163.exp" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1164.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4141" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1164.exp_.jpg" alt="WendlingWed-1164.exp" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1169.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4146" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1169.exp_.jpg" alt="WendlingWed-1169.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1173.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4150" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1173.exp_.jpg" alt="WendlingWed-1173.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">We headed over to the reception where Alayna and Nick had a CHEESECAKE BAR!!!!!!....and the BEST prime rib ever had a wedding. Hands down!!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1179.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4156" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1179.exp_.jpg" alt="WendlingWed-1179.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">And, I have to give a shout-out to Alayna's mom, who saved her champaign glasses from her own wedding! In Alayna's words, 'They had these great '80's style ribbons on them...but Mom replaced them for my wedding."</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1186.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4163" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1186.exp_.jpg" alt="WendlingWed-1186.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1190.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4167" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/WendlingWed-1190.exp_.jpg" alt="WendlingWed-1190.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Nick and Alayna, once again, thank you SO much for allowing me to be there with you on your wedding day! The both of you are beautiful, inside and out, and I have been so blessed in getting to know you!!! ~Kelly</p>Nick and Kelly McCormickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782334496683065022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447225140848161116.post-42268864135050548692014-07-17T21:50:00.000-05:002016-12-09T16:52:22.392-06:00The End of an Era These old shoes....They make me cry a little bit, to be honest. I bought them while pregnant with Max five years ago. They were 'sneakers' of sorts...but they were just the fanciest of sneakers with their black patent accents! The perfect wedding photographer shoes to match my all-black outfits! Comfort and 'fancy' all wrapped up in one, right?!For five years these shoes have been part of my Saturday wedding uniform, and there's a part of me that wonders if I will keep them forever tucked away in a memory box just to remember this part of my life...this part of my life where I have been a witness to so many marriages and families coming together...this part of my life that's allowed me to have a career and yet still be at home with my children during the week...this part of my life that helped me redefine what 'success' should look like.Nick often jokes that if the Kelly in her 20's could see the Kelly in her XX's (not saying publicly on a blog, OK?!), would she even believe it? No, probably not! The Kelly of her 20's defined success and her identity based on career position, corporate grade level, and end-of-year bonuses. The older (maybe more wise??) Kelly defines success based on a successful marriage and raising productive, well-adjusted, Christian children.And so I move on to the next phase of my life...from this industry that has been such a blessing to me the last seven years...that allowed me to leave my corporate job and be at home with my family. It's been an idea in my head...and a few months ago I started telling new clients that I wasn't taking on any weddings for 2017, but I wasn't quite comfortable accepting it yet. I had to say it for a few months for it to become true in other ways. But, I know now that it is the right decision. That as my kids get older and weekend activities fill up the calendar, it is important for me to be the one chaperoning and driving and being a witness to ALL of their activities.Change is hard...I'm not going to lie...this computer screen is a bit blurred as I sit here and type away. But emotional as the decision might be, I also have strong convictions and know that it's the right decision!Thank you to all of my brides and clients over the last seven years...you've been such a blessing on my life....not even just a blessing...you have literally changed the trajectory of my life with your trust and generosity over the years. And now I can only hope that I can repay that to others in the next phase of my life and career!Blessings to you all!Kellyps - I have four more weddings in 2016...and I cannot wait to leave this industry with a BANG and make them my best work yet!!!Nick and Kelly McCormickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782334496683065022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447225140848161116.post-26979982321660013402014-07-16T20:49:00.000-05:002016-12-09T16:52:22.375-06:00Brody + Nikki | EngagedOhhhhhh, these two!It's so funny in life how two worlds can collide. Brody is an old friend of my husbands. Nikki grew up in my hometown and went to school with my younger sisters. But, independent of anything that Nick and I did, their two worlds collided, and they are planning a beautiful farm wedding for next month! And I couldn't be more thrilled to be a part of their day!We met up together two Saturdays ago at the absolutely beautiful Allerton Park in Monticello...also known as one of my favorite places ever! We wandered the grounds. We laughed. We talked weddings. We talked family. It was a perfect Saturday morning.Brody and Nikki, thank you SOOO much for the beautiful people that you are! I am ecstatic about your wedding and seeing your two worlds 'collide'! Have a beautiful Friday...and we'll see you tomorrow night! ;)KellyHere are just a few of my faves from their engagement session! Thanks for checking in!!<a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/20160702.KleinEng-102.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4059" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/20160702.KleinEng-102.exp_.jpg" alt="20160702.KleinEng-102.exp" width="1600" height="1067" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/20160702.KleinEng-106.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4060" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/20160702.KleinEng-106.exp_.jpg" alt="20160702.KleinEng-106.exp" width="1600" height="2400" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/20160702.KleinEng-117.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4061" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/20160702.KleinEng-117.exp_.jpg" alt="20160702.KleinEng-117.exp" width="1600" height="1067" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/20160702.KleinEng-120.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4062" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/20160702.KleinEng-120.exp_.jpg" alt="20160702.KleinEng-120.exp" width="1600" height="1067" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/20160702.KleinEng-121.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4063" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/20160702.KleinEng-121.exp_.jpg" alt="20160702.KleinEng-121.exp" width="1600" height="1067" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/20160702.KleinEng-112.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4064" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/20160702.KleinEng-112.exp_.jpg" alt="20160702.KleinEng-112.exp" width="1600" height="1067" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/20160702.KleinEng-113.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4065" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/20160702.KleinEng-113.exp_.jpg" alt="20160702.KleinEng-113.exp" width="1600" height="1067" /></a>Nick and Kelly McCormickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782334496683065022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447225140848161116.post-79391014815313671042014-07-15T19:48:00.000-05:002016-12-09T16:52:22.357-06:00Eric + Jessica | A Charleston, IL, WeddingA few weekends ago I had the honor of spending the day with the lovely Eric & Jessica!!With a shared passion of music, they knew each other through friends for a couple of years in college before they started dating. And when I met them for the first time, the music for their wedding was what they were most passionate about when discussing their wedding plans. The trumpets, the singers, and the most original way to leave a wedding ever - an old fashioned New Orleans second line, which is a brass band leading the bride and groom down the street on a walk after they leave the ceremony!!It was a beautiful day for a beautiful couple, and I was so happy to be there to capture it all!Here are just a few of my favorites from Eric + Jessica's traditional and classic wedding! <a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1001.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3947" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1001.exp_.jpg" alt="Hendrickson-1001.exp" width="1600" height="1067" /></a>I am ALWAYS in favor of the bride getting ready at the house she grew up in. And so I was excited to spend the morning at Jessica's childhood home...where it's almost a rite of passage - as the bride ends one part of her life and begins another.<a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1002.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3948" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1002.exp_.jpg" alt="Hendrickson-1002.exp" width="1600" height="2400" /></a> <a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1003.exp_.jpg"></a> <a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1004.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3950" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1004.exp_.jpg" alt="Hendrickson-1004.exp" width="1600" height="1067" /></a> <a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1005.exp_.jpg"></a> <a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1006.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3952" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1006.exp_.jpg" alt="Hendrickson-1006.exp" width="1600" height="2400" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1008.exp_.jpg"></a> <a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1011.exp_.jpg"></a> <a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1010.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3956" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1010.exp_.jpg" alt="Hendrickson-1010.exp" width="1600" height="1067" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1012.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3958" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1012.exp_.jpg" alt="Hendrickson-1012.exp" width="1600" height="1067" /></a>Jessica was very involved in sports AND music growing up, and her room was a tribute to her activities. I love the representation of her childhood on the wall behind her mom, as she gets ready for her wedding day!<a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1013.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3959" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1013.exp_.jpg" alt="Hendrickson-1013.exp" width="1600" height="1067" /></a>We then headed outside for a few formal portraits outside her childhood home.<a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1015.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3961" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1015.exp_.jpg" alt="Hendrickson-1015.exp" width="1600" height="1067" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1014.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3960" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1014.exp_.jpg" alt="Hendrickson-1014.exp" width="1600" height="2400" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1016.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3962" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1016.exp_.jpg" alt="Hendrickson-1016.exp" width="1600" height="1067" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">I then headed over to the church and met up with Eric! He was ready to go on his wedding day!</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1018.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3964" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1018.exp_.jpg" alt="Hendrickson-1018.exp" width="1600" height="1067" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1019.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3965" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1019.exp_.jpg" alt="Hendrickson-1019.exp" width="1600" height="1067" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1023.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3969" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1023.exp_.jpg" alt="Hendrickson-1023.exp" width="1600" height="1067" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1028.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3974" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1028.exp_.jpg" alt="Hendrickson-1028.exp" width="1600" height="1067" /></a>The sanctuary was stunning with candlelight lighting both sides of the entire aisle!<a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1029.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3975" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1029.exp_.jpg" alt="Hendrickson-1029.exp" width="1600" height="1067" /></a>At our planning session, Jessica had teased Eric that he would get emotional at the ceremony, and he didn't disappoint! I love this image of him seeing his bride for the first time walking down the aisle!<a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1030.exp_.jpg"></a> <a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1031.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3977" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1031.exp_.jpg" alt="Hendrickson-1031.exp" width="1600" height="2400" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1032.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3978" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1032.exp_.jpg" alt="Hendrickson-1032.exp" width="1600" height="2400" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1033.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3979" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1033.exp_.jpg" alt="Hendrickson-1033.exp" width="1600" height="1067" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1036.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3982" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1036.exp_.jpg" alt="Hendrickson-1036.exp" width="1600" height="1067" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1038.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3984" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1038.exp_.jpg" alt="Hendrickson-1038.exp" width="1600" height="1067" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1039.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3985" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1039.exp_.jpg" alt="Hendrickson-1039.exp" width="1600" height="1067" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1040.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3986" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1040.exp_.jpg" alt="Hendrickson-1040.exp" width="1600" height="1067" /></a>The band started the parade down the street....<a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1041.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3987" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1041.exp_.jpg" alt="Hendrickson-1041.exp" width="1600" height="1067" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">...with Eric and Jessica leading their guests along the way!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1044.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3990" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1044.exp_.jpg" alt="Hendrickson-1044.exp" width="1600" height="1067" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">After the wedding, we headed over to Easter Illinois University's campus for wedding party portraits!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1046.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3992" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1046.exp_.jpg" alt="Hendrickson-1046.exp" width="1600" height="1067" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1053.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3999" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1053.exp_.jpg" alt="Hendrickson-1053.exp" width="1600" height="1067" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">One of my all-time favorite images of the day, I love the look in Jessica's eyes at her groom!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1058.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4004" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1058.exp_.jpg" alt="Hendrickson-1058.exp" width="1600" height="1067" /></a> <a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1059.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4005" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1059.exp_.jpg" alt="Hendrickson-1059.exp" width="1600" height="1067" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1060.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4006" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1060.exp_.jpg" alt="Hendrickson-1060.exp" width="1600" height="1067" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Jessica and Eric's reception was held in one of the ballroom's at Eastern Illinois University. Jessica' mother did a fabulous job of transforming the ballroom into a gorgeous reception bathed in golds, creams, and pinks.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1061.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4007" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1061.exp_.jpg" alt="Hendrickson-1061.exp" width="1600" height="2400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1075.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4021" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1075.exp_.jpg" alt="Hendrickson-1075.exp" width="1600" height="2400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1072.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4018" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1072.exp_.jpg" alt="Hendrickson-1072.exp" width="1600" height="1067" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1074.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4020" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1074.exp_.jpg" alt="Hendrickson-1074.exp" width="1600" height="1067" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1077.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4023" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1077.exp_.jpg" alt="Hendrickson-1077.exp" width="1600" height="2400" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1105.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4051" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1105.exp_.jpg" alt="Hendrickson-1105.exp" width="1600" height="1067" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Jessica's brother wasn't quite sure of me at the start of the day...but every time I walked past him at the reception we said 'hi' to each other and by the end of the night we were thick as thieves and he was posing for me!!!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1065.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4011" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1065.exp_.jpg" alt="Hendrickson-1065.exp" width="1600" height="1067" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1079.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4025" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1079.exp_.jpg" alt="Hendrickson-1079.exp" width="1600" height="1067" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1082.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4028" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1082.exp_.jpg" alt="Hendrickson-1082.exp" width="1600" height="1067" /></a> <a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Hendrickson-1090.exp_.jpg"></a>Jessica and Eric ended the night with the very thing that brought them together - the music they loved. After the traditional dances, a band kept the crowd celebrating their wedding all evening long!</p><p style="text-align: center;">Jessica and Eric, thank you again so much for allowing me to be with you on one of the greatest days of your life! Blessings to you in all you do!</p><p style="text-align: center;">~Kelly~</p>Nick and Kelly McCormickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782334496683065022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447225140848161116.post-77460600721442943012014-07-14T18:47:00.000-05:002016-12-09T16:52:22.336-06:00Jordan + Taylor | Effingham, IL WeddingTwo Saturdays ago, I drove just down the road and up a long winding lane to my neighbors' house. You see, today's bride and groom are also my neighbors! Jordan and Taylor have been nothing but a pleasure to get to know! I knew Taylor slightly before, as I took both of her brothers' senior pictures, but these past nine months, it's been so much fun to get to know both her and her easy-going fiancé on a different level! They are relaxed, giving, humorous, and witty people...and I while I will miss seeing them for sessions and meetings, I look forward to chatting with them as I see them taking long walks along our country roads!Jordan and Taylor, thank you SO much for blessing me this past year. You both are just lovely...you are genuine and have such a wisdom about what matters in life....blessings to you both in the years to come!!KellyBelow are a few of my favorites from their wedding day!<a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1001.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3769" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1001.exp_.jpg" alt="Russell-1001.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a>So, THIS ring!!!! Doesn't Jordan win the award for giving one of the best engagement rings EVER?!!! Pear-shaped diamonds are such a favorite of mine!!!<a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1003.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3771" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1003.exp_.jpg" alt="Russell-1003.exp" width="493" height="740" /></a>Jordan and Taylor live in an old Victoria house...with crooks, crannies, and angles at every turn. It is one of my favorite homes in our area, and to say I am jealous is an understatement!<a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1004.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3772" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1004.exp_.jpg" alt="Russell-1004.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a>Taylor loves the colors aqua and coral; so, they were featured predominantly at her wedding! And there was so much aqua in her house that I could have taken this bouquet picture in literally 100 different spots!<a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1006.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3774" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1006.exp_.jpg" alt="Russell-1006.exp" width="493" height="740" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1008.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3776" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1008.exp_.jpg" alt="Russell-1008.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1009.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3777" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1009.exp_.jpg" alt="Russell-1009.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1010.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3778" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1010.exp_.jpg" alt="Russell-1010.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1011.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3779" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1011.exp_.jpg" alt="Russell-1011.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a>I love this image of Taylor and her mom getting ready to put her bracelet on. When you meet Taylor's mom, you know where her easy-going spirit and witty sense of humor come from!<a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1002.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3770" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1002.exp_.jpg" alt="Russell-1002.exp" width="493" height="740" /></a>Along with the gorgeous engagement ring, Taylor's garter wins the award for most interesting garter! Not a 'traditional' garter you see on a wedding day, Taylor wore this one because her grandfather brought it home after serving in the military in Germany! Could it be more fun?<a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1012.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3780" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1012.exp_.jpg" alt="Russell-1012.exp" width="493" height="740" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">Taylor, trying out the 'gun.'</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1013.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3781" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1013.exp_.jpg" alt="Russell-1013.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">I love this image of Taylor's shoes and the draping of her gown.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1015.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3783" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1015.exp_.jpg" alt="Russell-1015.exp" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Absolutely gorgeous....both in a quiet pose....</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1016.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3784" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1016.exp_.jpg" alt="Russell-1016.exp" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">...and smiling on her wedding day!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1019.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3787" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1019.exp_.jpg" alt="Russell-1019.exp" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1020.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3788" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1020.exp_.jpg" alt="Russell-1020.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1021.exp_.jpg"></a> <a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1022.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3790" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1022.exp_.jpg" alt="Russell-1022.exp" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">We then headed to the church where I met up with the handsome Jordan!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1021.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3789" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1021.exp_.jpg" alt="Russell-1021.exp" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Jordan does a pretty good 'serious' pose himself! Pretty GQ!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1028.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3796" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1028.exp_.jpg" alt="Russell-1028.exp" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1029.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3797" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1029.exp_.jpg" alt="Russell-1029.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Taylor's two brothers lit the candles for her and also were the ones opening the doors to the sanctuary for her before she walked down the aisle. I really thought it was a lovely gesture as they sent her off.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1030.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3798" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1030.exp_.jpg" alt="Russell-1030.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1031.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3799" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1031.exp_.jpg" alt="Russell-1031.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1032.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3800" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1032.exp_.jpg" alt="Russell-1032.exp" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Jordan seeing his lovely bride for the first time!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1033.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3801" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1033.exp_.jpg" alt="Russell-1033.exp" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1034.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3802" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1034.exp_.jpg" alt="Russell-1034.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1035.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3803" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1035.exp_.jpg" alt="Russell-1035.exp" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1037.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3805" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1037.exp_.jpg" alt="Russell-1037.exp" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1040.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3808" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1040.exp_.jpg" alt="Russell-1040.exp" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1042.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3810" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1042.exp_.jpg" alt="Russell-1042.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">After the wedding, Jordan, Taylor, the wedding party and I headed out for a quick round of pictures!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1043.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3811" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1043.exp_.jpg" alt="Russell-1043.exp" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1047.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3815" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1047.exp_.jpg" alt="Russell-1047.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1049.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3817" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1049.exp_.jpg" alt="Russell-1049.exp" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1050.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3818" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1050.exp_.jpg" alt="Russell-1050.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1051.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3819" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1051.exp_.jpg" alt="Russell-1051.exp" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1052.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3820" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1052.exp_.jpg" alt="Russell-1052.exp" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">One of my favorite images from the entire day!!!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1056.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3824" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1056.exp_.jpg" alt="Russell-1056.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1061.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3829" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1061.exp_.jpg" alt="Russell-1061.exp" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">We then headed to the Carriage House in Altamont for the beautiful reception! Janet and her crew at the Carriage House always do an amazing job of taking care of their guests!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1064.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3832" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1064.exp_.jpg" alt="Russell-1064.exp" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1066.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3834" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1066.exp_.jpg" alt="Russell-1066.exp" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Love Jordan's face in this image! He seems slightly scared!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1067.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3835" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1067.exp_.jpg" alt="Russell-1067.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1070.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3838" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1070.exp_.jpg" alt="Russell-1070.exp" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1071.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3839" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1071.exp_.jpg" alt="Russell-1071.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1072.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3840" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1072.exp_.jpg" alt="Russell-1072.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1073.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3841" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Russell-1073.exp_.jpg" alt="Russell-1073.exp" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Jordan and Taylor, once again, thank you SO much for allowing me to be a part of your day! SOOOOO many blessings to you both in the years to come! ~Kelly~</p>Nick and Kelly McCormickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782334496683065022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447225140848161116.post-17797258437734338812014-07-13T17:46:00.000-05:002016-12-09T16:51:59.583-06:00Nick + Alayna | EngagedIn wedding photography, for myself personally, there is no greater honor than when a friend or sibling of a former client asks me to photography their own wedding. There are so many talented creatives out there that I am in awe of day in and day out, and yet these wonderful people looked at my own work and saw some trace of what I see in others'...and I am so thankful for that!Nick and Alayna were one of these couples. Alayna was a bridesmaid at the lovely Delayne and Brittany's wedding two years ago, and she remembered me and called me! And I cannot wait for their wedding! If they're engagement session is any indicator on how their wedding day will be, it will be full of wit and laughter!Here are a few of my favorites from their recent e-session!<a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Effingham-IL-Engagement-Session-Pictures-191.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3740" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Effingham-IL-Engagement-Session-Pictures-191.jpg" alt="Effingham-IL-Engagement-Session-Pictures-191" width="1600" height="2400" /></a>I start every single engagement session with what I call 'the grandparents' picture'...you know, the pose where both are looking at the camera, the engagement ring is easily seen, and it ends up as a 5x7 on the grandparents' buffet or desk, right?!!! We laugh about it so much at the engagement session, but on the wedding day all I have to do is say 'grandparents picture' and they go right into this pose because they KNOW it's a pleaser with the grandparent crowd! :)<a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Effingham-IL-Engagement-Session-Pictures-192.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3741" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Effingham-IL-Engagement-Session-Pictures-192.jpg" alt="Effingham-IL-Engagement-Session-Pictures-192" width="1600" height="1067" /></a>I think this is where I accidentally started calling Nick "Jake"...because Jake is his older brother who went to college with MY Nick!<a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Effingham-IL-Engagement-Session-Pictures-195.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3744" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Effingham-IL-Engagement-Session-Pictures-195.jpg" alt="Effingham-IL-Engagement-Session-Pictures-195" width="1600" height="1067" /></a>Sooooo, while editing these engagement pictures I perhaps became a bit obsessed with Alayna's hair...as it reminds me so much of Kate Middleton's hair! Alayna, has anyone ever told you before that you have princess hair???<a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Effingham-IL-Engagement-Session-Pictures-199.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3748" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Effingham-IL-Engagement-Session-Pictures-199.jpg" alt="Effingham-IL-Engagement-Session-Pictures-199" width="1600" height="2400" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Effingham-IL-Engagement-Session-Pictures-202.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3751" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Effingham-IL-Engagement-Session-Pictures-202.jpg" alt="Effingham-IL-Engagement-Session-Pictures-202" width="1600" height="1067" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Effingham-IL-Engagement-Session-Pictures-204.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3753" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Effingham-IL-Engagement-Session-Pictures-204.jpg" alt="Effingham-IL-Engagement-Session-Pictures-204" width="1600" height="1067" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">I love laughing pictures!</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Effingham-IL-Engagement-Session-Pictures-206.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3755" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Effingham-IL-Engagement-Session-Pictures-206.jpg" alt="Effingham-IL-Engagement-Session-Pictures-206" width="1600" height="2400" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">I love these two images so much!!! You both are simply stunning!</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Effingham-IL-Engagement-Session-Pictures-207.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3756" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Effingham-IL-Engagement-Session-Pictures-207.jpg" alt="Effingham-IL-Engagement-Session-Pictures-207" width="1600" height="2400" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Effingham-IL-Engagement-Session-Pictures-208.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3757" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Effingham-IL-Engagement-Session-Pictures-208.jpg" alt="Effingham-IL-Engagement-Session-Pictures-208" width="1600" height="1067" /></a>So Nick is probably not going to be happy with me for telling this story, but I love it! I always tease the groom at an engagement session about how I just KNOW that they were looking forward to this ALL week long. Alayna started joking that Nick was not a 'PDA person'. Nick replied "Unlike her family...where there's a LOT of feelings." I'm still smiling about that...but Nick, I have to say, I LOVE the PDA in these two images!!!! Probably my favorites from your entire shoot!!!<a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Effingham-IL-Engagement-Session-Pictures-209.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3758" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Effingham-IL-Engagement-Session-Pictures-209.jpg" alt="Effingham-IL-Engagement-Session-Pictures-209" width="1600" height="1067" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">Yep, #1 FAVE right here...PDA and all!!</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Effingham-IL-Engagement-Session-Pictures-211.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3760" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Effingham-IL-Engagement-Session-Pictures-211.jpg" alt="Effingham-IL-Engagement-Session-Pictures-211" width="1600" height="1067" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Effingham-IL-Engagement-Session-Pictures-212.jpg"></a> <a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Effingham-IL-Engagement-Session-Pictures-215.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3764" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Effingham-IL-Engagement-Session-Pictures-215.jpg" alt="Effingham-IL-Engagement-Session-Pictures-215" width="1600" height="2400" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">There's Alayna again with her perfectly wind-blown Kate Middleton hair.</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Effingham-IL-Engagement-Session-Pictures-216.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3765" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Effingham-IL-Engagement-Session-Pictures-216.jpg" alt="Effingham-IL-Engagement-Session-Pictures-216" width="1600" height="2400" /></a>Alayna and Nick! Thank you so much for being relaxed, fun, and witty that morning! I cannot wait for your wedding and all that you have planned! Blessings to you both!KellyNick and Kelly McCormickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782334496683065022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447225140848161116.post-27352764391321968242014-07-12T16:45:00.000-05:002016-12-09T16:51:59.564-06:00Clay + Stacey | Effingham IL Engagement PicturesA few months back I sat with Stacey and her mom. It was such a cold, nasty winter day. We talked weddings and flowers and the Keller Center and all things right and lovely in the world. A couple of weeks ago, I got to meet Clay, her fiance….and everything somehow because even more right and lovely in the world when I saw how these two were together.Clay and Stacey, I am so excited for your 4th of July weekend wedding! You are both sooooo lovely and wonderful! It cannot be anything but a perfectly lovely celebratory weekend for you, your family, and loved ones!Cheers to you both!Kelly<a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/FrichtlEng-102.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3712" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/FrichtlEng-102.exp_.jpg" alt="FrichtlEng-102.exp" width="493" height="740" /></a>I tell all of my couples that they’ll probably love the images from the end of their engagement session, when they’re more relaxed and understand my cues to them, more so than the images from the beginning of the session. And then this is literally my second image from their session, and I love it, and they prove me wrong! :)<a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/FrichtlEng-103.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3713" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/FrichtlEng-103.exp_.jpg" alt="FrichtlEng-103.exp" width="493" height="740" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/FrichtlEng-105.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3715" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/FrichtlEng-105.exp_.jpg" alt="FrichtlEng-105.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/FrichtlEng-108.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3718" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/FrichtlEng-108.exp_.jpg" alt="FrichtlEng-108.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/FrichtlEng-109.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3719" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/FrichtlEng-109.exp_.jpg" alt="FrichtlEng-109.exp" width="493" height="740" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">I cannot tell you how much I love this image. I absolutely love images that make the viewer feel like they're peeking in on an intimate moment!!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/FrichtlEng-110.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3720" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/FrichtlEng-110.exp_.jpg" alt="FrichtlEng-110.exp" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">I also love images that feel like a landscape portrait where the couple just happen to be in the midst. I want this one to be a great big canvas in their dining or living room!!!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/FrichtlEng-111.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3721" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/FrichtlEng-111.exp_.jpg" alt="FrichtlEng-111.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/FrichtlEng-113.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3723" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/FrichtlEng-113.exp_.jpg" alt="FrichtlEng-113.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/FrichtlEng-120.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3730" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/FrichtlEng-120.exp_.jpg" alt="FrichtlEng-120.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/FrichtlEng-122.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3732" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/FrichtlEng-122.exp_.jpg" alt="FrichtlEng-122.exp" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/FrichtlEng-124.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3734" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/FrichtlEng-124.exp_.jpg" alt="FrichtlEng-124.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/FrichtlEng-127.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3737" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/FrichtlEng-127.exp_.jpg" alt="FrichtlEng-127.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Stacey and Clay! These images make me SOOO excited for your portrait session in a couple of weeks AND for your beautiful wedding! Have a fabulous day and God bless!</p><p style="text-align: center;">Kelly</p>Nick and Kelly McCormickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782334496683065022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447225140848161116.post-87033191709793044732014-07-11T15:44:00.000-05:002016-12-09T16:51:59.538-06:00Chris & Alex | A Wedding<a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Effingham-IL-Wedding-Photographer.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3610" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Effingham-IL-Wedding-Photographer.jpg" alt="Effingham-IL-Wedding-Photographer" width="740" height="493" /></a>Two friends pushed them together...at the back-to-school dance...in junior high! That is how long the lovely Chris and Alex have been together! I knew Alex when she was just a baby, as her dad was my junior high science teacher, and I actually babysat her once or twice! Chris was the baby brother of one of my sister's friends, and his family also owned the Christmas tree farm that we got my own family's Christmas tree at each year. And just a few short Saturday's ago, I was blessed to get to see them wed!Chris and Alex, it has been nothing but a pleasure! You are beautiful individually and as a couple, and it has been nothing but joy to start my wedding season out with your rustic, Christmas farm wedding here in central Illinois!Below are just a few of my favorites! Thank you for checking in!KellyAnd PS - Be Sure to leave Chris and Alex some Facebook congratulatory love in the comments! KM<a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-106.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-3646 size-full" title="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-106" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-106.jpg" alt="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-106" width="740" height="493" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">We started the day shooting all of the details that Alex had planned for her guests.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-105.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-3645 size-full" title="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-105" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-105.jpg" alt="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-105" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Chris's beautiful ring that he gave to Alex, and the diamond earrings Alex's mother gave her to wear on her wedding day. So beautiful!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-104.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-3644 size-full" title="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-104" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-104.jpg" alt="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-104" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Alex's bouquet paid homage to their grandparents that could not be there with them on their special day by using their jewelry and vintage scarf in her wedding bouquet.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-102.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-3642 size-full" title="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-102" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-102.jpg" alt="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-102" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-108.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-3648 size-full" title="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-108" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-108.jpg" alt="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-108" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Alex and her ladies before they started getting ready. One of the nicest groups of bridesmaids EVER!!! Everyone was so kind, sweet, and giving!!...just like Alex herself.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-116.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3656" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-116.jpg" alt="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-116" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">One of my favorite times of the wedding day is when it's time to get the bride into the wedding dress. It is so joyful and emotional all at once!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-114.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3654" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-114.jpg" alt="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-114" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-124.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3664" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-124.jpg" alt="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-124" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Alex's sister Sidney making sure everything was just right before Alex's portraits.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-123.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3663" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-123.jpg" alt="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-123" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-118.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3658" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-118.jpg" alt="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-118" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-119.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3659" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-119.jpg" alt="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-119" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">And then we all started crying.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-120.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3660" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-120.jpg" alt="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-120" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Alex, you are stunning...with either a more formal pose....</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-122.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3662" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-122.jpg" alt="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-122" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">...or when you are laughing!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-121.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3661" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-121.jpg" alt="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-121" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-109.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3649" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-109.jpg" alt="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-109" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-110.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3650" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-110.jpg" alt="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-110" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-125.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3665" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-125.jpg" alt="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-125" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">I soon made my way outside to take a few portraits of the ever-so-handsome Chris, who was waiting for their first look!<a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-126.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3666" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-126.jpg" alt="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-126" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-127.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3667" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-127.jpg" alt="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-127" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-129.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3669" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-129.jpg" alt="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-129" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">This one is my FAVORITE!!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-130.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3670" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-130.jpg" alt="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-130" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Their First Look. Do you see the spy up in the little church window? :)</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-131.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3671" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-131.jpg" alt="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-131" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-133.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3673" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-133.jpg" alt="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-133" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-132.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3672" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-132.jpg" alt="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-132" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-134.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3674" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-134.jpg" alt="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-134" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-135.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3675" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-135.jpg" alt="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-135" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-136.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3676" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-136.jpg" alt="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-136" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Chris's sister Sarah may have enjoyed ringing the bells after the ceremony just a little too much! She's probably going to hate me for posting this image...but I just couldn't resist. It's too fun!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-137.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3677" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-137.jpg" alt="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-137" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Alex's dad having a bit of fun himself announcing the new man and wife leaving the church.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-138.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3678" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-138.jpg" alt="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-138" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-139.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3679" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-139.jpg" alt="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-139" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">After the ceremony, we took a few portraits in front of the church and then drove to Chris's family's Christmas Tree Farm for wedding party pictures and portraits of the new married couple!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-141.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3681" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-141.jpg" alt="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-141" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Prior to their wedding, Chris had restored and delivered one of the family's vintage farm trucks, complete with a personalized decal announcing the year of the their wedding.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-155_WEB.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3697" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-155_WEB.jpg" alt="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-155_WEB" width="740" height="557" /></a> <a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-158.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3701" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-158.jpg" alt="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-158" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-157.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3700" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-157.jpg" alt="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-157" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-149.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3690" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-149.jpg" alt="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-149" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-150.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3691" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-150.jpg" alt="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-150" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-160.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3703" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-160.jpg" alt="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-160" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-142.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3682" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-142.jpg" alt="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-142" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-144.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3684" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-144.jpg" alt="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-144" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-145_WEB.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3685" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-145_WEB.jpg" alt="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-145_WEB" width="740" height="557" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-143.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3683" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-143.jpg" alt="Illinois-Christmas-tree-farm-wedding-143" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Pekin-Illinois-Country-Club-Wedding-reception-pictures-161.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3704" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Pekin-Illinois-Country-Club-Wedding-reception-pictures-161.jpg" alt="Pekin-Illinois-Country-Club-Wedding-reception-pictures-161" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">We then headed to the <a href="http://www.pekincc.com">Pekin Country Club</a> for their wedding reception.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/FrankWed-1176.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3624" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/FrankWed-1176.exp_.jpg" alt="FrankWed-1176.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Chris and Alex gave away the best gift ever to their wedding guests - saplings for them to plant in their yards! It was lovely!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Pekin-Illinois-Country-Club-Wedding-reception-pictures-162.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3705" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Pekin-Illinois-Country-Club-Wedding-reception-pictures-162.jpg" alt="Pekin-Illinois-Country-Club-Wedding-reception-pictures-162" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">There was dancing and food and drinks for everyone, and I'll end this extra long blog post with this image that I love of Chris gazing at his new wife during their first dance.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Chris and Alex, many blessings to you both, and thank you so much for allowing me to be there with you on your wedding day! KM</p>Nick and Kelly McCormickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782334496683065022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447225140848161116.post-89399597969859646762014-07-10T14:43:00.000-05:002016-12-09T16:51:59.518-06:00Chris + Alex | EngagedI am tied to these two in so many ways.I grew up going every year to the handsome Chris’s family’s Christmas tree farm to pick out our tree for the holiday season…one that was large and full and that held the handmade ornaments from five childrens’ grade school projects. If we were really lucky, we got a homemade Christmas wreath as well!And Alex…it was as if I was meeting her for the first time, but really I just had not seen her since she was two or three years old. Her father was my jr. high school science teacher and on occasion I babysat for Alex when she was a toddler…I even remember the one time she walked to her crib and ASKED to be put to bed! I look back on that memory and hope that it was because I was THAT much fun instead of I was THAT boring that she’d rather have been asleep!In any case, these two beautiful people have been a couple since JR. HIGH!!! And this coming March I get the wonderful honor of capturing their wedding day! And I cannot wait!Alex and Chris, it was such a pleasure walking with you around Chris’s family farm and chatting with you…about our hometown, people we know in common, and just life in general! You are a beautiful couple…inside and out…and I’m so honored to capture this exciting time in your life!Blessings to you!Kelly<img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Manito-IL-farm-engagement-photos-327.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Manito-IL-farm-engagement-photos-327.jpg" alt="Manito IL farm engagement photos 327" width="493" height="740" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;">I always start each engagement session with the more formal poses…the poses I call the “Grandparent pictures”…they go in a 5x7 on the shelf or in the dining room!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Manito-IL-farm-engagement-photos-330.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Manito-IL-farm-engagement-photos-330.jpg" alt="Manito IL farm engagement photos 330" width="493" height="740" border="0" /></p><p style="text-align: center;">From there it’s a pretty short time before we start getting more casual with our poses…really working towards reflecting the true personality of their relationship, and Chris and Alex did not disappoint! It was such a short time before they were at ease with the camera and laughing!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Manito-IL-farm-engagement-photos-331.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Manito-IL-farm-engagement-photos-331.jpg" alt="Manito IL farm engagement photos 331" width="493" height="740" border="0" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Manito-IL-farm-engagement-photos-335.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Manito-IL-farm-engagement-photos-335.jpg" alt="Manito IL farm engagement photos 335" width="493" height="740" border="0" /></p><p style="text-align: center;">You want us to do what, Kelly?</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Manito-IL-farm-engagement-photos-336_WEB.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Manito-IL-farm-engagement-photos-336_WEB.jpg" alt="Manito IL farm engagement photos 336 WEB" width="740" height="663" border="0" /></p><p style="text-align: center;">These two were up to try anything with me!</p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Manito-IL-farm-engagement-photos-345.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Manito-IL-farm-engagement-photos-345.jpg" alt="Manito IL farm engagement photos 345" width="740" height="493" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;"> I love, love, love, this image so much!! Behind them is the pond where Chris asked Alex to marry him.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Manito-IL-farm-engagement-photos-347.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Manito-IL-farm-engagement-photos-347.jpg" alt="Manito IL farm engagement photos 347" width="493" height="740" border="0" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Manito-IL-farm-engagement-photos-348.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Manito-IL-farm-engagement-photos-348.jpg" alt="Manito IL farm engagement photos 348" width="740" height="493" border="0" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Manito-IL-farm-engagement-photos-350.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Manito-IL-farm-engagement-photos-350.jpg" alt="Manito IL farm engagement photos 350" width="740" height="493" border="0" /></p><p style="text-align: center;">This is the one spot where Chris was like, “You want to take a picture HERE?” What you can’t see is that in the background and back behind the tree is a bunch of farm equipment.</p><p style="text-align: center;">It ended up one of my favorites from the evening!!</p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Manito-IL-farm-engagement-photos-352.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Manito-IL-farm-engagement-photos-352.jpg" alt="Manito IL farm engagement photos 352" width="493" height="740" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;">And then Chris suggested we head over to the old pump house, where during the spring rain family members will take turns staying up all night monitoring the water levels of the lake nearby making sure that they fields and homes don’t get flooded. It was EVERYTHING that I love in a spot, great windows letting in just a bit of light! And then despite all of the images from earlier that I knew I would love, I instantly knew that this series from the pump house would take the cake and be my favorites!</p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Manito-IL-farm-engagement-photos-354.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Manito-IL-farm-engagement-photos-354.jpg" alt="Manito IL farm engagement photos 354" width="740" height="493" border="0" /></p>Nick and Kelly McCormickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782334496683065022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447225140848161116.post-64161449619611849162014-07-09T13:42:00.000-05:002016-12-09T16:51:59.495-06:00Celebrating TEN Years | My Own Wedding PortraitsIt seems just like yesterday. It’s so cliche’ to even say that…but it’s true! It was ten years ago…on a day much like today….cold, with a touch of snow on the ground, that Nick and I got married.We’ve had the joy of welcoming two little ones into our family…and the pain of losing loved ones. We’ve had career changes, and house changes, and every other change that life can throw you.What I originally had planned for this post went by the wayside as I started going through pictures from our own wedding day. I had originally thought of doing the my ten favorite images from our own wedding day. But, I couldn’t limit it down. Even though they were from ten years ago, some of the images that weren’t my ‘favorites’ and didn’t make it into my final wedding album have come to mean so much more to me than they did that day.Because that’s how life is…there is an ebb and a flow…an up and a down…a fore and an aft. Life is ever-changing, and what is not important to you one moment, is THE most important thing the next.In this business I am in, I get the honor of sitting through so many weddings. And one thing I try to do at every single one is listen to the sermon.So many times it has been a blessing to me...sharing a message that strikes a chord with me, but one sermon from two years ago made me get my phone out and take notes as soon as I got in my car to head home that evening. I wanted to remember the main messages of that sermon…it was THAT good.The pastor’s message was so simple, and yet so true. He said that on that day, your wedding day, you should love your spouse the LEAST that you ever will in your life. That you should get up every day asking yourself what you can do to make your spouse healthy, happy, and whole. And that when you don’t want to do any of these things, you should look to the cross and sacrifice as Christ sacrificed for you….that God put us on this earth to be disciples of all nations, and that discipleship begins in your home.We all fail at all of these daily. Nick and I are the same way. We fail at this just like everyone else, but we know that about ourselves and each other. We forgive. We get up the next day more determined to remember these principles and to raise our children in the same way. To sacrifice and hope that on our last day together on this earth that we left the other person better than they were the day before...some days failing, but always the next day trying and trying again.Nick, I love you more today than I did the day we married ten years ago, and there is no one else I would want to be on this journey with. Thank you for allowing me my failings and knowing that we'll always pick ourselves the next day and begin again better than we were the day before. -KellyIf you’ll allow me a bit of a walk down memory lane, here are a few of my favorite images from my own wedding day.Please note, all images are courtesy of the uber-talented <a href="http://www.jeffreyandjuliawoods.com">Jeffrey and Julia Woods</a>.<img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="20051203KM_0032jw.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20051203KM_0032jw.jpg" alt="20051203KM 0032jw" width="740" height="493" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;">I always wanted a winter wedding. Christmas is my favorite time of year, and maybe it’s being a farmer’s daughter, but life just seems a bit more peaceful and joyful to me vs the summer months!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="20051203KM_0046.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20051203KM_0046.jpg" alt="20051203KM 0046" width="493" height="740" border="0" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="20051203KM_0016.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20051203KM_0016.jpg" alt="20051203KM 0016" width="740" height="493" border="0" /></p><p style="text-align: center;">This little chickadee is in high school now!!!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="20051203KM_0054.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20051203KM_0054.jpg" alt="20051203KM 0054" width="740" height="493" border="0" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="20051203KM_0058.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20051203KM_0058.jpg" alt="20051203KM 0058" width="493" height="740" border="0" /></p><p style="text-align: center;">I’m not a shopper. I bought these shoes the day before…along with my veil. :) Ironically, the beaded pattern on the shoes almost matched that of my dress.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="20051203KM_0077.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20051203KM_0077.jpg" alt="20051203KM 0077" width="493" height="740" border="0" /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Nick bought me this pearl necklace as a wedding gift. You can’t tell it from this picture, but the smaller pearls are all odd shapes and ‘imperfect’…I love that this necklace is classic and yet imperfect all at the same time.</p><p style="text-align: center;">I have it saved back to give to Colby some day.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="20051203KM_0086.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20051203KM_0086.jpg" alt="20051203KM 0086" width="740" height="493" border="0" /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Since we got married in the winter months, Nick and I did a ‘first look’…as our wedding was at 4:00 and there would be no light afterwards. So glad we did!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="20051203KM_0087.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20051203KM_0087.jpg" alt="20051203KM 0087" width="740" height="493" border="0" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="20051203KM_0108.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20051203KM_0108.jpg" alt="20051203KM 0108" width="740" height="493" border="0" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="20051203KM_0100jw.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20051203KM_0100jw.jpg" alt="20051203KM 0100jw" width="493" height="740" border="0" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="20051203KM_0144jw.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20051203KM_0144jw.jpg" alt="20051203KM 0144jw" width="493" height="740" border="0" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="20051203KM_0121jw.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20051203KM_0121jw.jpg" alt="20051203KM 0121jw" width="740" height="493" border="0" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="20051203KM_0194.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20051203KM_0194.jpg" alt="20051203KM 0194" width="493" height="740" border="0" /></p><p style="text-align: center;">I love this picture of Nick…so handsome.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="20051203KM_0163.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20051203KM_0163.jpg" alt="20051203KM 0163" width="493" height="740" border="0" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="20051203KM_0183.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20051203KM_0183.jpg" alt="20051203KM 0183" width="493" height="740" border="0" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="20051203KM_0215jw.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20051203KM_0215jw.jpg" alt="20051203KM 0215jw" width="493" height="740" border="0" /></p><p style="text-align: center;">The ever-beautiful Emma James.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="20051203KM_0226.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20051203KM_0226.jpg" alt="20051203KM 0226" width="740" height="493" border="0" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="20051203KM_0283jw.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20051203KM_0283jw.jpg" alt="20051203KM 0283jw" width="740" height="493" border="0" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="20051203KM_0338.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20051203KM_0338.jpg" alt="20051203KM 0338" width="493" height="740" border="0" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="20051203KM_0343.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20051203KM_0343.jpg" alt="20051203KM 0343" width="493" height="740" border="0" /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Nick and I met through our mutual friend Brea. Brea was my intern at my former employer, and her husband Ryan was one of Nick’s fraternity brothers. I went to a homecoming party at Brea and Ryan’s one year when Nick was there. Here, Brea was pregnant with her first-born, but came to help out the day of the wedding with some behind-the-scenes pictures for us!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="20051203KM_0441.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20051203KM_0441.jpg" alt="20051203KM 0441" width="493" height="740" border="0" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="20051203KM_0537jw.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20051203KM_0537jw.jpg" alt="20051203KM 0537jw" width="740" height="493" border="0" /></p><p style="text-align: center;">My sisters….I equally love to LOVE them and BICKER with them…as only sisterhoods can do!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="20051203KM_0601.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20051203KM_0601.jpg" alt="20051203KM 0601" width="493" height="740" border="0" /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Kim, finding a convenient place to store her bouquet.</p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="20051203KM_0700.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20051203KM_0700.jpg" alt="20051203KM 0700" width="493" height="740" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;">So glad for this picture of my mom and I…although I don’t remember what was so funny!!! Why do I always laugh with my mouth WIDE open? Geesh.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="20051203KM_0711.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20051203KM_0711.jpg" alt="20051203KM 0711" width="740" height="493" border="0" /></p><p style="text-align: center;">My two best friends from high school, Erin and Angie. We don’t see each other often, but when we do, it’s for a long weekend, and our rule is that we never apologize for not being in recent touch with each other. I know that if I needed them they would be here for me in a heartbeat, and that’s what matters to me the most and defines true friendship….not a daily phone call but the knowledge that they’re there and will hold me up should I ever be flailing in life.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="20051203KM_0764jw.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20051203KM_0764jw.jpg" alt="20051203KM 0764jw" width="740" height="493" border="0" /></p><p style="text-align: center;">True story: my sister Kim had just gotten married the year before, and I liked her bridesmaids dresses that we wore; so, my sisters wore the same dresses from Kim’s wedding at mine!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="20051203KM_0827.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20051203KM_0827.jpg" alt="20051203KM 0827" width="740" height="493" border="0" /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Nick and his groomsmen were all standing for a formal portrait when Nick took his elbows and elbowed the guys behind him in the gut. This is the image that resulted. I love it. I felt sorry for the guys, though, that got nailed in the gut.</p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="20051203KM_0927.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20051203KM_0927.jpg" alt="20051203KM 0927" width="740" height="493" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;">I bought each of my sisters and my best friends diamond cross necklaces that we all still have.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="20051203KM_0932.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20051203KM_0932.jpg" alt="20051203KM 0932" width="740" height="493" border="0" /></p><p style="text-align: center;">I’m going to be honest. I didn’t want flower girls!!! Horrible of me, right? But Emma wanted to be a flower girl and her mom, my sister Karen, PROMISED me that they’d do a good job, not run, not cry, etc! I wasn’t here for this image, but Julia Woods, our photographer, told me at our album design session that this was the moment before they walked down the aisle and Emma was lecturing her sister Anna not to run, cry, or use all of her flower petals at once!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="20051203KM_1026.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20051203KM_1026.jpg" alt="20051203KM 1026" width="740" height="493" border="0" /></p><p style="text-align: center;">My cousin Patrick and my great friend Eric have beautiful singing voices. They sang Christmas hymns and The Lord’s Prayer. Eric also played the trumpet with more of my friends during the Processional. It was beautiful.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="20051203KM_1052jw.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20051203KM_1052jw.jpg" alt="20051203KM 1052jw" width="493" height="740" border="0" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="20051203KM_1095.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/20051203KM_1095.jpg" alt="20051203KM 1095" width="493" height="740" border="0" /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Thank you so much for checking in! Blessings to you all! - Kelly</p>Nick and Kelly McCormickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782334496683065022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447225140848161116.post-46285465722402453712014-07-09T00:41:00.000-05:002016-12-09T16:51:59.471-06:00Justin + Julie | Engaged!He was out with friends. And so was she.Justin noticed the beautiful Julie, but while he was working up the nerve to approach her and start a chat, she headed out with friends.But, luckily, his friends knew her group of friends, and they did meet, started that chat, and fell in love.This coming May, this beautiful couple will get married at St. Anthony’s in Effingham, and I could not be more thrilled for their wedding!Julie, Justin, and I met a few weeks ago at his farm for their engagement session, and it was everything that I love in a session…golden sunlight, an old barn, and plenty of beautiful laughter!Here are a few of my favorites below!Blessings to you all!Kelly <img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-farm-engagement-pictures-305.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Effingham-IL-farm-engagement-pictures-305.jpg" alt="Effingham IL farm engagement pictures 305" width="493" height="740" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;"> We started Justin and Julie’s session in the fields back behind his house where the sun was streaming in behind them.</p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-farm-engagement-pictures-302.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Effingham-IL-farm-engagement-pictures-302.jpg" alt="Effingham IL farm engagement pictures 302" width="493" height="740" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: center;">It was the end of fall…which as much I enjoy the oranges and red’s of October, I do love the yellows, creams, and browns of a November session! I think it just makes for a beautiful backdrop! Don’t you agree?!!</span></p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-farm-engagement-pictures-307.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Effingham-IL-farm-engagement-pictures-307.jpg" alt="Effingham IL farm engagement pictures 307" width="740" height="493" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;">I love this image SOO much. You can just tell how Justin feels about Julie!</p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-farm-engagement-pictures-309.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Effingham-IL-farm-engagement-pictures-309.jpg" alt="Effingham IL farm engagement pictures 309" width="740" height="493" border="0" /><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-farm-engagement-pictures-310.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Effingham-IL-farm-engagement-pictures-310.jpg" alt="Effingham IL farm engagement pictures 310" width="740" height="493" border="0" /><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-farm-engagement-pictures-318.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Effingham-IL-farm-engagement-pictures-318.jpg" alt="Effingham IL farm engagement pictures 318" width="493" height="740" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;">After heading in from the field, we hung out in Justin’s old barn for awhile, which I loved!</p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-farm-engagement-pictures-319.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Effingham-IL-farm-engagement-pictures-319.jpg" alt="Effingham IL farm engagement pictures 319" width="493" height="740" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;"> A bit of a story: I photographed Justin’s sister’s wedding a few years ago, <a href="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/adam-jenna-altamont-il-wedding-photographer/">the lovely Adam and Jenna</a>! I remembered Justin from the wedding and when Julie sent me an email inquiring if I was available the date of her wedding, she mentioned Justin’s full name, and my immediate reply was asking if she was marrying into the wonderful Heiden family (one of my favorites!!)..to which she replied, “Yes! I am!”</p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-farm-engagement-pictures-321.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Effingham-IL-farm-engagement-pictures-321.jpg" alt="Effingham IL farm engagement pictures 321" width="740" height="493" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;">LOVE!!!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-farm-engagement-pictures-322.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Effingham-IL-farm-engagement-pictures-322.jpg" alt="Effingham IL farm engagement pictures 322" width="740" height="493" border="0" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"> I’ll end on this image….which is maybe my favorite from the entire shoot. One that I hope you look back on for the next 50 years remembering this exciting time in your life!</p><p style="text-align: center;">Blessings to you both!</p><p style="text-align: center;">Kelly</p> Nick and Kelly McCormickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782334496683065022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447225140848161116.post-83231630033683851742014-07-06T23:40:00.000-05:002016-12-09T16:51:59.450-06:00The Reed Family!!They’re leaving us.And we understand why, but it’s not like we have to like it. Nope! Not one bit! But even though we don’t like it (not one bit!), we are SO happy for them!Two years ago, our good friends Val and Eric hit a curve in their journey towards parenthood when little Faith came SOOOO early. Weighing barely two pounds at birth, she fought her way to the beautiful, ornery, little blue-eyed princess that she is today. And while she grew, Eric and Val did too…in their faith and in what really mattered to them in life.This past summer God tapped Eric on the shoulder by way of an old employer calling him and offering him a dream job that, although it would mean moving away from our little community, would also allow Val to stay home with Faith and for them to spend a more quiet existence concentrating on their family.Eric, Val, and Faith - as I’ve chatted with our friends since you told us all your big news, there’s been one constant in each conversation: “I hate this! Yet I’m SOOO happy for them!” Know that you are loved and will be missed…and that we’re all just a phone call away!And now I have to quit typing because I’m crying.Love you guys!Kelly <img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-family-photograper-424.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Effingham-IL-family-photograper-424.jpg" alt="Effingham IL family photograper 424" width="740" height="493" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;"> Her orneriness comes out SOOOO much in this image! Those eyes!!!</p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-family-photograper-434.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Effingham-IL-family-photograper-434.jpg" alt="Effingham IL family photograper 434" width="493" height="740" border="0" /><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-family-photograper-435.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Effingham-IL-family-photograper-435.jpg" alt="Effingham IL family photograper 435" width="740" height="493" border="0" /><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-family-photograper-438.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Effingham-IL-family-photograper-438.jpg" alt="Effingham IL family photograper 438" width="493" height="740" border="0" /><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-family-photograper-439.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Effingham-IL-family-photograper-439.jpg" alt="Effingham IL family photograper 439" width="493" height="740" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;">Pretty baby. Pretty mama.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-family-photograper-444.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Effingham-IL-family-photograper-444.jpg" alt="Effingham IL family photograper 444" width="493" height="740" border="0" /></p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-family-photograper-443.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Effingham-IL-family-photograper-443.jpg" alt="Effingham IL family photograper 443" width="740" height="493" border="0" /> <img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-family-photograper-447.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Effingham-IL-family-photograper-4471.jpg" alt="Effingham IL family photograper 447" width="740" height="493" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Though she be but little, she is fierce!”….Shakespeare, in “A Midsummer’s Night Dream"</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-family-photograper-446.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Effingham-IL-family-photograper-446.jpg" alt="Effingham IL family photograper 446" width="493" height="740" border="0" /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Annnnd, my favorite from our shoot! Love this image to Tennessee and back!</p>Nick and Kelly McCormickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782334496683065022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447225140848161116.post-27102341040651532302014-07-05T22:39:00.000-05:002016-12-09T16:51:59.428-06:00The Ashmore Family!!!I’m not sure how I met Jen really…perhaps it was first in our Sunday School class…but maybe it was at our book club…or maybe it was through our babysitter at the time, Caroline. She was always the quiet one in our group….observing, laughing smiling. I’m not really sure how our friendship began…but oh how glad I am that it did! She is witty, smart, and her cynical sense of humor appears at just the right moments in my life!Jen is my ‘let’s have a drink in the pool on a Friday afternoon during the summertime’ friend…and my ‘let’s stand in the garage until 3 am solving the problems in the world’ friend in the winter! And fortunately (or unfortunately) for us, our husbands have the same friendship!It took us a few years to get it successfully on the schedule, but Jen and Chris, thank you so much for sharing your family with us! You are great neighbors, wonderful friends, and a true blessing on our family!Blessings to you!Kelly<img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-family-photograper-400.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Effingham-IL-family-photograper-400.jpg" alt="Effingham IL family photograper 400" width="740" height="493" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="text-align: center;">Jen and Chris’s son Holden has been friends with our daughter Colby since they were both just toddlers. He’s getting so grown-up and handsome! Grow down, Holden! Grow down!!</span></p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-family-photograper-405.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Effingham-IL-family-photograper-405.jpg" alt="Effingham IL family photograper 405" width="740" height="493" border="0" /> <img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-family-photograper-410.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Effingham-IL-family-photograper-410.jpg" alt="Effingham IL family photograper 410" width="740" height="493" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;"> This picture cracks me up every time I see it! Younger son Crosby is right now into roaring at people. He had just got done roaring at me when this picture was snapped!</p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-family-photograper-413.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Effingham-IL-family-photograper-413.jpg" alt="Effingham IL family photograper 413" width="740" height="493" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;">It’s fall. There are leaves. We are boys.</p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-family-photograper-415.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Effingham-IL-family-photograper-415.jpg" alt="Effingham IL family photograper 415" width="740" height="493" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;">Leaf fight!!</p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-family-photograper-422.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Effingham-IL-family-photograper-422.jpg" alt="Effingham IL family photograper 422" width="740" height="493" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;">I love this image. The years are going to pass by much too quickly with the little ones!</p> Nick and Kelly McCormickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782334496683065022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447225140848161116.post-11465687565876816572014-07-04T21:38:00.000-05:002016-12-09T16:51:59.403-06:00The Vonderheide FamilySo, we first met about eight years ago on a shopping trip….her daughter was just a baby, and we were shopping with a mutual friend. We made polite conversation, found out that we had both gone to the same university, shared a common religion, and a few other tidbits…as much as you can get to know someone in a 5-hour shopping trip where you split up and shop in separate places and join up for a quick lunch.I had just moved to my husband’s hometown area…a small farm town where I was just sure that I wouldn’t make friends with anyone. Friendships and clicks had been formed on the first day of kindergarten, and I assumed I’d always be “Nick’s wife”…not Kelly. But, I was from a small farm town myself...I knew how it was, and I just pulled myself up and knew that was just how it was going to be.However, several weeks later, I was at a wedding. Nick had gone off to chat with friends, and I was left with a drink and some wedding mints at a table. I looked over, and a couple of tables over, there was Allison…the girl from the shopping trip…sitting with her best friend from, well, probably from kindergarten, you know! I took a drink and headed over to that table…prepared to smile nicely and just nod at whatever was being discussed.Four hours later, I had had a wonderful time, had made new friends, and I think even plans to get together again at a crazy group called “Bunko”…which is a dice game that in two years of going to Bunko we never played once!And I haven’t looked back once since. This little town that I thought would always be ‘just where I lived’ is now home. With friends like Allison who have prepared my children’s baptism dinners, sent me flowers when my mother passed away, and who I know would be there for me in a heartbeat should I need it. We head out again soon for another shopping trip…and I’m sure more memories to make!!Here are a few of my favorites from Allison’s family session a few weeks ago!Blessings to you!<img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-family-photograper-372.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Effingham-IL-family-photograper-372.jpg" alt="Effingham IL family photograper 372" width="493" height="740" border="0" /> <img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-family-photograper-368.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Effingham-IL-family-photograper-368.jpg" alt="Effingham IL family photograper 368" width="493" height="740" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;">Allison’s daughter was an infant in a high chair on our very first shopping trip! Now she’s a crazy, horse-loving tween! Where does the time go??</p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-family-photograper-375.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Effingham-IL-family-photograper-375.jpg" alt="Effingham IL family photograper 375" width="493" height="740" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;">At their last family pictures we did a series where Noah was doing the ‘airplane’ up in the air with his dad. That’s all he could wait for on this picture day! “Is it time yet???”…he kept asking!!!</p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-family-photograper-376.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Effingham-IL-family-photograper-376.jpg" alt="Effingham IL family photograper 376" width="493" height="740" border="0" /> <img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-family-photograper-378.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Effingham-IL-family-photograper-378.jpg" alt="Effingham IL family photograper 378" width="740" height="493" border="0" /><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-family-photograper-379.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Effingham-IL-family-photograper-379.jpg" alt="Effingham IL family photograper 379" width="740" height="493" border="0" /><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-family-photograper-390.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Effingham-IL-family-photograper-390.jpg" alt="Effingham IL family photograper 390" width="740" height="493" border="0" /> <img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-family-photograper-393.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Effingham-IL-family-photograper-393.jpg" alt="Effingham IL family photograper 393" width="740" height="493" border="0" /> <img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Vonderheide-35.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Vonderheide-351.jpg" alt="Vonderheide 35" width="740" height="493" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="text-align: center;">And the little man got his wish! </span></p> Nick and Kelly McCormickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782334496683065022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447225140848161116.post-77112645782901830522014-07-03T20:37:00.000-05:002016-12-09T16:51:59.380-06:00Family Portrait Time!!! These last few weeks I have deeply been in the midst of both engagement and family portrait sessions! So, so, so many good images to share with you!!But, first, I get the extreme pleasure of delivering beautiful framed wall portraits to these little ones’ grandmother tomorrow…as it’s a gift to her! This family is dear to me, as they’re from my hometown and I grew up with their parents. So, it was a joy to get to spend the afternoon with them and capture this fun time in their lives!Thanks for checking in! And have a great weekend!!Kelly <p style="text-align: center;"><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-family-photograper-327.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Effingham-IL-family-photograper-3271.jpg" alt="Effingham IL family photograper 327" width="740" height="493" border="0" /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Those eyes!!!</p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-family-photograper-328.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Effingham-IL-family-photograper-328.jpg" alt="Effingham IL family photograper 328" width="740" height="493" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;"> And that sun streaming in on the little guy? That’s no photoshop trick…that’s just the heavens smiling down on his handsomeness!!</p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-family-photograper-329.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Effingham-IL-family-photograper-329.jpg" alt="Effingham IL family photograper 329" width="493" height="740" border="0" /> <img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-family-photograper-334.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Effingham-IL-family-photograper-334.jpg" alt="Effingham IL family photograper 334" width="740" height="493" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;">Hmmm….I wonder who is in charge of this crew?</p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-family-photograper-340.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Effingham-IL-family-photograper-340.jpg" alt="Effingham IL family photograper 340" width="740" height="493" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;"> Hmmmm…let’s think about this…</p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-family-photograper-333.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Effingham-IL-family-photograper-333.jpg" alt="Effingham IL family photograper 333" width="740" height="493" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;"> You know what?!!! I am! That’s who’s in charge!</p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-family-photograper-336.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Effingham-IL-family-photograper-336.jpg" alt="Effingham IL family photograper 336" width="740" height="493" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;">But such a beauty to be in charge!!!</p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-family-photograper-343.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Effingham-IL-family-photograper-343.jpg" alt="Effingham IL family photograper 343" width="740" height="493" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;"> Oh and this little guy…..so sweet!!!</p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-family-photograper-344.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Effingham-IL-family-photograper-344.jpg" alt="Effingham IL family photograper 344" width="740" height="493" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="text-align: center;">Doesn’t this image make you just want to eat him up????</span></p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-family-photograper-325.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Effingham-IL-family-photograper-325.jpg" alt="Effingham IL family photograper 325" width="740" height="493" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;">I love, love, love how the two brothers appear to be plotting behind their sister’s back!!! There’s some ornery plotting going on there!!!</p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-family-photograper-315.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Effingham-IL-family-photograper-315.jpg" alt="Effingham IL family photograper 315" width="740" height="493" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;">Grandma Jane, you may not ever read this blog, but you should know that you have a beautiful family!</p>And thank you to Katie, Scott, and Christine for making this shoot happen!Blessings to you all!!Kelly Nick and Kelly McCormickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782334496683065022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447225140848161116.post-50593677154302515942014-07-02T19:36:00.000-05:002016-12-09T16:51:59.364-06:00Steven + Alexis | Engaged“They’re old souls.” That’s what I told my husband about meeting and spending time with Steven and Alexis. He’s in law school…she’s starting a business. They’re in their early 20’s, and yet they’re old souls. I could chat with them all day long.And chat away we did a couple of weekends ago when we walked around during their engagement session. We talked about law school, starting a business and serving our brides and wedding parties in the wedding industry.Alexis and Steven, I’m so excited for your wedding next year! I hope you enjoy your little sneak peek from you engagement session!! See you Saturday!<img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-wedding-engagement-pictures-805.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Effingham-IL-wedding-engagement-pictures-805.jpg" alt="Effingham IL wedding engagement pictures 805" width="740" height="493" border="0" /><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-wedding-engagement-pictures-814.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Effingham-IL-wedding-engagement-pictures-814.jpg" alt="Effingham IL wedding engagement pictures 814" width="493" height="740" border="0" /><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-wedding-engagement-pictures-816.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Effingham-IL-wedding-engagement-pictures-816.jpg" alt="Effingham IL wedding engagement pictures 816" width="740" height="493" border="0" /><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-wedding-engagement-pictures-823.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Effingham-IL-wedding-engagement-pictures-823.jpg" alt="Effingham IL wedding engagement pictures 823" width="740" height="493" border="0" />Nick and Kelly McCormickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782334496683065022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447225140848161116.post-66314252463425527562014-07-01T18:35:00.000-05:002016-12-09T16:51:59.345-06:00A Ballard Nature Center Wedding | Jamie + MattThe email came just a few months ago: <em>“<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Last minute (but easy going) bride here! If you have an opening that weekend I would love to talk about photos!…...</span>And by the way, you’ll be dealing with the most laid-back bride ever."</em>And she was right.We met over coffee. We talked about how she and Matt had met while she was dating someone else, but he bided his time and waited for her. After they started dating, she moved to the Midwest for him. They’ve spent the last couple of years thinking about their wedding…and planning it. But, in the end, they wanted something simple, outdoors, with just their loved ones nearby.So, on a beautiful, sunny Saturday in September, Matt and Jamie married each other with their families and beloved friends close by.Matt and Jamie, thank you SO much for allowing me to be with the both of you on your wedding day! Your love for each and for your family and friends was an inspiring note now which to end my summer wedding season!…and I thank you for that.Below are a few of my faves from Jamie and Matt’s wedding day…and don’t miss the video at the end telling the story of their day!Blessings!Kelly<h1 style="text-align: center;">Jamie + Matt | A Wedding at Ballard Nature Center</h1><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Ballard-Nature-Center-Wedding-Pictures-148.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Ballard-Nature-Center-Wedding-Pictures-1481.jpg" alt="Ballard Nature Center Wedding Pictures 148" width="493" height="740" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;">Jamie and Matt got married at the beautiful <a href="http://www.ballardnaturecenter.org">Ballard Nature Center</a> in Altamont, IL. I have been there SOOO many times, but this beautiful park never disappoints!…both inside and out!</p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Ballard-Nature-Center-Wedding-Pictures-123.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Ballard-Nature-Center-Wedding-Pictures-123.jpg" alt="Ballard Nature Center Wedding Pictures 123" width="493" height="740" border="0" /> <img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Ballard-Nature-Center-Wedding-Pictures-127.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Ballard-Nature-Center-Wedding-Pictures-127.jpg" alt="Ballard Nature Center Wedding Pictures 127" width="740" height="493" border="0" /> <p style="text-align: center;">Jamie and Matt’s wedding colors included a beautiful shade of eggplant purple. One of the things I like to do at a wedding is find items, either inside or out, that include shades of the bride’s wedding colors. That way the images that go in their wedding album tell a ‘color story’ throughout each page of images. And, Ballard did not disappoint! Here are Jamie and Matt’s rings with beautiful flowers and berries from around the park.</p> <img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Ballard-Nature-Center-Wedding-Pictures-130.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Ballard-Nature-Center-Wedding-Pictures-130.jpg" alt="Ballard Nature Center Wedding Pictures 130" width="740" height="493" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;"> Because every flower girl wants to be just like the bride, right???</p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Ballard-Nature-Center-Wedding-Pictures-133.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Ballard-Nature-Center-Wedding-Pictures-133.jpg" alt="Ballard Nature Center Wedding Pictures 133" width="493" height="740" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;"> Jamie having a fun moment with her bridesmaids before the wedding!</p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Ballard-Nature-Center-Wedding-Pictures-136.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Ballard-Nature-Center-Wedding-Pictures-136.jpg" alt="Ballard Nature Center Wedding Pictures 136" width="493" height="740" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="text-align: center;">Jamie, you are beautiful!! Your smile is infectious! I hope looking at this image always reminds you of that! </span></p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Ballard-Nature-Center-Wedding-Pictures-140.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Ballard-Nature-Center-Wedding-Pictures-140.jpg" alt="Ballard Nature Center Wedding Pictures 140" width="740" height="493" border="0" /> <img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Ballard-Nature-Center-Wedding-Pictures-141.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Ballard-Nature-Center-Wedding-Pictures-141.jpg" alt="Ballard Nature Center Wedding Pictures 141" width="740" height="493" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;">These two! In their adorable vintage-style lace dresses! I die!!</p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Ballard-Nature-Center-Wedding-Pictures-163.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Ballard-Nature-Center-Wedding-Pictures-163.jpg" alt="Ballard Nature Center Wedding Pictures 163" width="740" height="493" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;">Matt - all ’thumbs-up’ after I-do’s have been said!</p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Ballard-Nature-Center-Wedding-Pictures-177.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Ballard-Nature-Center-Wedding-Pictures-177.jpg" alt="Ballard Nature Center Wedding Pictures 177" width="493" height="740" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;">After the wedding, Matt, Jamie and I walked around the grounds for some beautiful wedding day portraits!</p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Ballard-Nature-Center-Wedding-Pictures-179.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Ballard-Nature-Center-Wedding-Pictures-179.jpg" alt="Ballard Nature Center Wedding Pictures 179" width="740" height="493" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;">I adore this image of Jamie walking down the path with all of the greens, purples, and yellows surrounding her!</p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Ballard-Nature-Center-Wedding-Pictures-181.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Ballard-Nature-Center-Wedding-Pictures-181.jpg" alt="Ballard Nature Center Wedding Pictures 181" width="740" height="493" border="0" /><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Ballard-Nature-Center-Wedding-Pictures-174.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Ballard-Nature-Center-Wedding-Pictures-174.jpg" alt="Ballard Nature Center Wedding Pictures 174" width="740" height="493" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;">Aannnddd, I couldn’t post an entire wedding without posting at least ONE laughing picture, right? Because they’re my faves!!!</p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Ballard-Nature-Center-Wedding-Pictures-185.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Ballard-Nature-Center-Wedding-Pictures-185.jpg" alt="Ballard Nature Center Wedding Pictures 185" width="740" height="493" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;">Funny story - When I was growing up, my Dad used to say that he had two rules for mine and my sisters’ weddings: 1) We had to have all of our sisters in the wedding - no picking and choosing allowed (not that that would ever be an issue with us, as we all get along and love each other dearly!), and 2) Our guests were to eat FIRST…as soon as they got to the reception! I remember him saying that they were your guests! Guests eat first!…and that he didn’t care if we fainted from hunger as long as they didn’t have to wait! I had never in all my years met another family with that same rule….until I met Jamie!!! Jamie has the same rule…we’ll take our pictures while our guests eat!! We’ve laughed over that a few times over the last few months!</p><p style="text-align: center;">In this image, Jamie and Matt’s kind and WONDERFUL wedding party were already sitting and eating and came back for this one last picture around the lake! Thank you, dear friends! It was SOOO worth it!!!</p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Ballard-Nature-Center-Wedding-Reception-Photos-119.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Ballard-Nature-Center-Wedding-Reception-Photos-119.jpg" alt="Ballard Nature Center Wedding Reception Photos 119" width="740" height="493" border="0" /> <img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Ballard-Nature-Center-Wedding-Reception-Photos-118.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Ballard-Nature-Center-Wedding-Reception-Photos-118.jpg" alt="Ballard Nature Center Wedding Reception Photos 118" width="740" height="493" border="0" /> <img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Ballard-Nature-Center-Wedding-Reception-Photos-120.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Ballard-Nature-Center-Wedding-Reception-Photos-120.jpg" alt="Ballard Nature Center Wedding Reception Photos 120" width="740" height="493" border="0" /> <img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Ballard-Nature-Center-Wedding-Reception-Photos-121.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Ballard-Nature-Center-Wedding-Reception-Photos-121.jpg" alt="Ballard Nature Center Wedding Reception Photos 121" width="740" height="493" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;">Matt wouldn’t tell his mom what song they were dancing to. I LOVE her reaction once the music started!!!</p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Ballard-Nature-Center-Wedding-Reception-Photos-124.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Ballard-Nature-Center-Wedding-Reception-Photos-124.jpg" alt="Ballard Nature Center Wedding Reception Photos 124" width="740" height="493" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;">And, last, this image speaks a thousand words of Jamie’s relationship with her mother, who also gave her away at the wedding. I love this image SO much, and I hope it’s treasured for years to come!</p>To see the slideshow from Jamie and Matt’s wedding, click here:<iframe id="vp1jvW3U" title="Video Player" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/embed.animoto.com/play.html?w=swf/production/vp1&e=1445977766&f=jvW3UYhUI1o1T0990FWlqQ&d=0&m=p&r=360p+720p&volume=100&start_res=720p&i=m&asset_domain=s3-p.animoto.com&animoto_domain=animoto.com&options=" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>Nick and Kelly McCormickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782334496683065022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447225140848161116.post-62257482790517855652014-06-30T17:34:00.000-05:002016-12-09T16:51:59.314-06:00Jordan + TaylorThis past couple of weeks have been ones of go-go-go! Every photographer, whether they specialize in weddings or family portraits, knows that October is go-time! Fall engagement sessions, fall weddings, albums to be finalized in time for showing off to the family at Christmas, family portraits for Christmas cards….so much of it happens in October!!!But, the secret is that we actually revel in it. The weather gets cooler. The trees turn those gorgeous shades of orange and yellow. The grass gets a creaminess to it as the greens fade for the winter. It’s our favorite time of year!And last weekend was no exception! I got to spend it with three lovely couples…one of which was the lovely Jordan and Taylor! I’m so excited for their May wedding!!Here are a few of my favorites from their session last weekend!!<img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Effingham-IL-wedding-engagement-portraits-173.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Effingham-IL-wedding-engagement-portraits-173.jpg" alt="Effingham IL wedding engagement portraits 173" width="738" height="492" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;">This is one of my favorite little spots not to far from my home! It never disappoints…and especially not in the fall!</p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Engagement-Session-in-the-Woods-107.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Engagement-Session-in-the-Woods-107.jpg" alt="Engagement Session in the Woods 107" width="738" height="492" border="0" /> <p style="text-align: center;">Taylor and Jordan aren’t just one of my wedding couples…they’re my neighbors too!…they live just around the corner from me in my DREAM house…an old Victorian farmhouse complete with marble fireplace, sweeping front staircase, and inlaid designs in the hardwood floors!…my dream!!!</p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Engagement-Session-in-the-Woods-108.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Engagement-Session-in-the-Woods-108.jpg" alt="Engagement Session in the Woods 108" width="492" height="740" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;">But, despite how sweet Taylor looks in this picture, she actually emailed me last week to tell me she had been snacking on Oreos. And she didn’t share. See how she is?? Just teasing, Taylor!!</p> <img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Engagement-Session-in-the-Woods-111.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Engagement-Session-in-the-Woods-111.jpg" alt="Engagement Session in the Woods 111" width="738" height="492" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;">I cannot even tell you how much I love this shot.</p> <img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Engagement-Session-in-the-Woods-114.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Engagement-Session-in-the-Woods-114.jpg" alt="Engagement Session in the Woods 114" width="738" height="492" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;">And this one that shows the ornery side of their relationship!</p><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Engagement-Session-in-the-Woods-119.jpg" src="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Engagement-Session-in-the-Woods-119.jpg" alt="Engagement Session in the Woods 119" width="738" height="492" border="0" /><p style="text-align: center;">Taylor and Jordan! I’m SOOO lucky get to have you as one of my 2016 weddings! I cannot wait to see what you have planned and to be their with your families celebrating your new beginning as a family of your own!</p><p style="text-align: center;">Blessings to you both! Kelly</p>Nick and Kelly McCormickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782334496683065022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447225140848161116.post-28172096972916012702014-06-29T16:33:00.000-05:002016-12-09T16:51:59.277-06:00A County Fairgrounds Wedding Reception | Kendall and SamIt was a long time coming...seventeen years to be exact! They met when Kendall was thirteen, and in her words, she had a crush on him immediately. As time went on and they got older, they ran around in the same group of friends. After college, Kendall moved to Minnesota, but lived several hours away, and as she explains it:<em>"I always considered Sam a good friend and loved hanging out with him. We had so much fun together, but it took us a while to put all the pieces together. Finally, I figured out that I had true feelings for Sam. I was living four hours away from Clearbrook at the time, but when I came up I would call him to ask him to hang out with a group of us......annnnnnnnd he always turned me down (he says its because he was working, but I don't buy it!). After some thinking, I decided he just wasn't in to me and good friends were what we were meant to be." </em>But one summer, after a cattle show, Sam DID go out with the group of friends. And after a night full of fun, laughter, and dancing, on a quiet walk, Sam pulled Kendall in for a kiss. And the rest, as they say, is history.Three weeks ago, on a beautiful, sunny Minnesota day, my youngest sister married her love - the fine, young gentleman named Sam, who always has an ornery twinkle in his eyes!Kendall, we are SO happy that you have Sam and Sam has you! Sam is such a wonderful addition to our family, and we couldn't have picked anyone better for you!Blessings to you both in all your years to come!!<a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-137.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3270" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-137.jpg" alt="Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-137" width="493" height="740" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">Sam is a northern Minnesota cattle farm, born and bred! And so, honoring our own farm childhood and Sam's livelihood, Kendall wanted a wedding that was Classic and Country.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-138.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3271" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-138.jpg" alt="Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-138" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Our sister Kim both designed and printed Kendall and Sam's stationery suite.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3274" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-141.jpg" alt="Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-141" width="493" height="740" /></p><p style="text-align: center;">This last January, a whole slew of relatives (four sisters, two aunts, one stepmother, one future MIL, and four nieces descended on Minneapolis to go dress-shopping for the last Rankin girl! You can read more about that trip <a href="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/wedding-dress-shopping-with-my-sister/">here</a>. But, I have to say, that Kendall's dress was just perfect for her. The lace was so beautiful, like nothing I've ever seen before. It was just like she wanted her wedding - classic, and yet a touch of country! It was also Kendall's wedding gift from our stepfather, Mark, which made it even more special.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-142.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3275" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-142.jpg" alt="Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-142" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-141.jpg"></a> <a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-140.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3273" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-140.jpg" alt="Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-140" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">A story about Kendall's shoes - as my older sister Karen was getting ready to leave for our dress-shopping trip in Minneapolis, her dear friend, Tracy, handed her some money and said she wanted to take care of Kendall's wedding shoes, just like mom would have if she was still here with us. Thank you, Tracy. Your kindness never ceases.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-139.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3272" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-139.jpg" alt="Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-139" width="740" height="493" /></a> <a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-144.jpg"></a> <a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-147.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3280" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-147.jpg" alt="Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-147" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">We all helped Kendall get ready</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-148.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3281" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-148.jpg" alt="Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-148" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-151.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3284" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-151.jpg" alt="Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-151" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-158.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3291" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-158.jpg" alt="Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-158" width="740" height="490" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">And then it was time for Kendall's bridal pictures, which is always a favorite time for me, but was so much more special because it was Kendall!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-156.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3289" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-156.jpg" alt="Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-156" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-155.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3288" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-155.jpg" alt="Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-155" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-152.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3285" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-152.jpg" alt="Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-152" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-153.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3286" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-153.jpg" alt="Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-153" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-154.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3287" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-154.jpg" alt="Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-154" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Yep...starting to lose our grasp on the 'serious' poses.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-157.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3290" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-157.jpg" alt="Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-157" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">I love this picture of Kendall! One of my faves from the day!!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-149.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3282" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-149.jpg" alt="Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-149" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Yep! Now we've lost all ability to be serious!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-150.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3283" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-150.jpg" alt="Effingham-IL-Rustic-Wedding-Photos-150" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Not sure I've ever have a bride pose like this before. I think it's time to head outside! ;)<a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Bride-in-Wheatfield-Wedding-Photos-166.jpg"></a> <a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Bride-in-Wheatfield-Wedding-Photos-167.jpg"></a> <a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Bride-in-Wheatfield-Wedding-Photos-168.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3303" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Bride-in-Wheatfield-Wedding-Photos-168.jpg" alt="Effingham-IL-Bride-in-Wheatfield-Wedding-Photos-168" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Bride-in-Wheatfield-Wedding-Photos-169.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3304" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Bride-in-Wheatfield-Wedding-Photos-169.jpg" alt="Effingham-IL-Bride-in-Wheatfield-Wedding-Photos-169" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">We may have still had some issues with the seriousness! :)</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Bride-in-Wheatfield-Wedding-Photos-170.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3305" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Bride-in-Wheatfield-Wedding-Photos-170.jpg" alt="Effingham-IL-Bride-in-Wheatfield-Wedding-Photos-170" width="493" height="740" /></a> <a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Woodland-Wedding-Photos-159.jpg"></a> <a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Woodland-Wedding-Photos-160.jpg"></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Bride-in-Wheatfield-Wedding-Photos-167.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3302" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Bride-in-Wheatfield-Wedding-Photos-167.jpg" alt="Effingham-IL-Bride-in-Wheatfield-Wedding-Photos-167" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">But, with the evening sun streaming in and a wheat field behind us, we found our moment to take some beautiful bridal portraits!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Bride-in-Wheatfield-Wedding-Photos-166.jpg"></a> <a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Bride-in-Wheatfield-Wedding-Photos-165.jpg"></a> <a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Bride-in-Wheatfield-Wedding-Photos-164.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3299" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Bride-in-Wheatfield-Wedding-Photos-164.jpg" alt="Effingham-IL-Bride-in-Wheatfield-Wedding-Photos-164" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">This one is one of my personal favorites from Kendall's entire wedding day.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Bride-in-Wheatfield-Wedding-Photos-163.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3298" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Bride-in-Wheatfield-Wedding-Photos-163.jpg" alt="Effingham-IL-Bride-in-Wheatfield-Wedding-Photos-163" width="740" height="492" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Bride-in-Wheatfield-Wedding-Photos-162.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3297" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Bride-in-Wheatfield-Wedding-Photos-162.jpg" alt="Effingham-IL-Bride-in-Wheatfield-Wedding-Photos-162" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">I thought I'd note that we had an audience all evening. Colby and my niece Caroline were quite interested in all the fanfare. :)</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Bride-in-Barn-Wedding-Photos-171.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3292" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Bride-in-Barn-Wedding-Photos-171.jpg" alt="Effingham-IL-Bride-in-Barn-Wedding-Photos-171" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3294" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Bride-in-Barn-Wedding-Photos-173.jpg" alt="Effingham-IL-Bride-in-Barn-Wedding-Photos-173" width="493" height="740" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Bride-in-Barn-Wedding-Photos-174.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3295" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Bride-in-Barn-Wedding-Photos-174.jpg" alt="Effingham-IL-Bride-in-Barn-Wedding-Photos-174" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Central-Illinois-Bride-Groom-hayfield-Wedding-Photos-181.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3310" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Central-Illinois-Bride-Groom-hayfield-Wedding-Photos-181.jpg" alt="Central-Illinois-Bride-Groom-hayfield-Wedding-Photos-181" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">I had been up in Minnesota in June for Kendall's wedding shower, and Kendall, Sam, and I had mapped out the locations for their wedding day portraits. However, on the day of the wedding, Sam pulled me aside and told me that Kendall had told him she really wished that there was a hayfield with round bales that they could do pictures in. And, it just so happened, without her knowledge, that they had baled a field that week, and should we go over there instead and surprise her? Yes, we did, and in the middle of the hayfield, Sam saw his bride for the first time.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Central-Illinois-Bride-Groom-hayfield-Wedding-Photos-184.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3311" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Central-Illinois-Bride-Groom-hayfield-Wedding-Photos-184.jpg" alt="Central-Illinois-Bride-Groom-hayfield-Wedding-Photos-184" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">This picture makes me laugh SO hard! It's so Sam! Ornery as ever!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Central-Illinois-Bride-Groom-hayfield-Wedding-Photos-185.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3312" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Central-Illinois-Bride-Groom-hayfield-Wedding-Photos-185.jpg" alt="Central-Illinois-Bride-Groom-hayfield-Wedding-Photos-185" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;">And, Kendall! You're not supposed to hit your groom on your wedding day! </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Central-Illinois-Bride-Groom-hayfield-Wedding-Photos-186.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3313" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Central-Illinois-Bride-Groom-hayfield-Wedding-Photos-186.jpg" alt="Central-Illinois-Bride-Groom-hayfield-Wedding-Photos-186" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Central-Illinois-Bride-Groom-hayfield-Wedding-Photos-191.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3314" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Central-Illinois-Bride-Groom-hayfield-Wedding-Photos-191.jpg" alt="Central-Illinois-Bride-Groom-hayfield-Wedding-Photos-191" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-IL-Bride-in-Barn-Wedding-Photos-173.jpg"></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Central-Illinois-Bride-Groom-barn-Wedding-Photos-195.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3315" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Central-Illinois-Bride-Groom-barn-Wedding-Photos-195.jpg" alt="Central-Illinois-Bride-Groom-barn-Wedding-Photos-195" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">After their first look, we wandered around Sam's cattle pastures and took advantage of the blue skies, open fields, and timber.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Central-Illinois-Bride-Groom-in-Woods-Wedding-Photos-202.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3317" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Central-Illinois-Bride-Groom-in-Woods-Wedding-Photos-202.jpg" alt="Central-Illinois-Bride-Groom-in-Woods-Wedding-Photos-202" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Central-Illinois-Bride-Groom-in-Woods-Wedding-Photos-203.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3318" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Central-Illinois-Bride-Groom-in-Woods-Wedding-Photos-203.jpg" alt="Central-Illinois-Bride-Groom-in-Woods-Wedding-Photos-203" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Central-Illinois-Bride-Groom-in-Woods-Wedding-Photos-204.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3319" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Central-Illinois-Bride-Groom-in-Woods-Wedding-Photos-204.jpg" alt="Central-Illinois-Bride-Groom-in-Woods-Wedding-Photos-204" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">My very GQ new brother-in-law.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Central-Illinois-Bride-Groom-in-Woods-Wedding-Photos-205.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3320" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Central-Illinois-Bride-Groom-in-Woods-Wedding-Photos-205.jpg" alt="Central-Illinois-Bride-Groom-in-Woods-Wedding-Photos-205" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Central-Illinois-Bride-Groom-in-Woods-Wedding-Photos-206.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3321" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Central-Illinois-Bride-Groom-in-Woods-Wedding-Photos-206.jpg" alt="Central-Illinois-Bride-Groom-in-Woods-Wedding-Photos-206" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Central-Illinois-Bride-Groom-with-cows-Wedding-Photos-198.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3323" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Central-Illinois-Bride-Groom-with-cows-Wedding-Photos-198.jpg" alt="Central-Illinois-Bride-Groom-with-cows-Wedding-Photos-198" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">We had some 'friends' join us for much of the shoot!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Central-Illinois-Bride-Groom-with-cows-Wedding-Photos-200.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3325" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Central-Illinois-Bride-Groom-with-cows-Wedding-Photos-200.jpg" alt="Central-Illinois-Bride-Groom-with-cows-Wedding-Photos-200" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">They deserved a close-up of their own. :)</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Central-Illinois-Family-Wedding-Pictures-in-Pasture-216.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3334" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Central-Illinois-Family-Wedding-Pictures-in-Pasture-216.jpg" alt="Central-Illinois-Family-Wedding-Pictures-in-Pasture-216" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">We then headed back to Sam's farm for a few family and wedding party portraits.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Central-Illinois-Family-Wedding-Pictures-in-Pasture-215.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3333" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Central-Illinois-Family-Wedding-Pictures-in-Pasture-215.jpg" alt="Central-Illinois-Family-Wedding-Pictures-in-Pasture-215" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;">Hardest family picture I've EVER done....EVER...my own family.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Central-Illinois-Family-Wedding-Pictures-in-Pasture-214.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3332" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Central-Illinois-Family-Wedding-Pictures-in-Pasture-214.jpg" alt="Central-Illinois-Family-Wedding-Pictures-in-Pasture-214" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">I had to post a pic of this handsome dude!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Central-Illinois-Family-Wedding-Pictures-in-Pasture-213.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3331" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Central-Illinois-Family-Wedding-Pictures-in-Pasture-213.jpg" alt="Central-Illinois-Family-Wedding-Pictures-in-Pasture-213" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">The sisterhood.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Central-Illinois-Family-Wedding-Pictures-in-Pasture-212.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3330" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Central-Illinois-Family-Wedding-Pictures-in-Pasture-212.jpg" alt="Central-Illinois-Family-Wedding-Pictures-in-Pasture-212" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Sam and his brother Mike!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Central-Illinois-Family-Wedding-Pictures-in-Pasture-211.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3329" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Central-Illinois-Family-Wedding-Pictures-in-Pasture-211.jpg" alt="Central-Illinois-Family-Wedding-Pictures-in-Pasture-211" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Sam's wonderful parents, Kelly and Linda, with their new and first grand baby, Tate!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Central-Illinois-Family-Wedding-Pictures-in-Pasture-209.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3327" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Central-Illinois-Family-Wedding-Pictures-in-Pasture-209.jpg" alt="Central-Illinois-Family-Wedding-Pictures-in-Pasture-209" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Aaaaaand, my aunts and grandmother.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Nordlund-1083.exp_.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3337" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Nordlund-1083.exp_.jpg" alt="Nordlund-1083.exp" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">After family pictures at Sam's house, we went to the nursing home and did family pictures with his extended family and his lovely grandmother, Enice!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Wedding-Ivory-Navy-221.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3338" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Wedding-Ivory-Navy-221.jpg" alt="Wedding-Ivory-Navy-221" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">We then headed to the church to freshen up and wait for the guests to arrive!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Wedding-Ivory-Navy-222.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3339" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Wedding-Ivory-Navy-222.jpg" alt="Wedding-Ivory-Navy-222" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Our beautiful bridesmaids' bouquets.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-235.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3342" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-235.jpg" alt="Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-235" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">The ceremony was a touching one, and we all had a difficult time keeping our eyes from tearing up! I could have a whole blog post dedicated to my sister Karen and her tears!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-236.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3343" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-236.jpg" alt="Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-236" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">My sweet niece, Caroline, the flower girl!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3349" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-242.jpg" alt="Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-242" width="740" height="493" /></p><p style="text-align: center;">"I didn't run!" Max told me after the wedding!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-237.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3344" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-237.jpg" alt="Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-237" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Our stepfather Mark walked Kendall down half of the aisle and then sent her the rest of the way with my Dad.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-238.jpg"></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-239.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3346" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-239.jpg" alt="Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-239" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-240.jpg"></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-241.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3348" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-241.jpg" alt="Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-241" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-242.jpg"></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-243.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3350" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-243.jpg" alt="Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-243" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-244.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3351" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-244.jpg" alt="Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-244" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-245.jpg"></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-246.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3353" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-246.jpg" alt="Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-246" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-247.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3354" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-247.jpg" alt="Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-247" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-248.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3355" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-248.jpg" alt="Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-248" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-249.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3356" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-249.jpg" alt="Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-249" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">A touching moment with my Grandma.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-250.jpg"></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-251.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3358" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-251.jpg" alt="Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-251" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Our dear friends Jen and Jessie sang for Kendall. I had the pleasure of shooting <a href="http://kellymccormickphotography.com/blog/minnesota-winter-wedding/">Jen's wedding</a> this last December!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3341" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Wedding-lily-memorial-tradition-1107.exp_.jpg" alt="Wedding-lily-memorial-tradition-1107.exp" width="493" height="740" /></p><p style="text-align: center;">In honor of my mom, who passed away five years ago, Kendall had five lilies for us five girls to place in a vase next to the unity candles.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3364" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-257.jpg" alt="Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-257" width="740" height="493" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-252.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3359" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-252.jpg" alt="Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-252" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Karen crying again! :)</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-253.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3360" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-253.jpg" alt="Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-253" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-256.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3363" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-256.jpg" alt="Kelly-McCormick-Photography-Church-Wedding-Photos-256" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Mr. and Mrs. Sam Nordlund!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Wedding-Ivory-Navy-223.jpg"></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3372" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-Fairground-Wedding-Reception-232.jpg" alt="County-Fairground-Wedding-Reception-232" width="740" height="493" />Kendall and Sam's wedding reception was held at their local county fairgrounds...sawdust floor and all!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-Fairground-Wedding-Reception-226.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3366" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-Fairground-Wedding-Reception-226.jpg" alt="County-Fairground-Wedding-Reception-226" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-Fairground-Wedding-Reception-227.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3367" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-Fairground-Wedding-Reception-227.jpg" alt="County-Fairground-Wedding-Reception-227" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Each table was decorated with wood planks that had been branded with Sam's family cattle brand.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3365" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-Fairground-Wedding-Reception-225.jpg" alt="County-Fairground-Wedding-Reception-225" width="493" height="740" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-Fairground-Wedding-Reception-228.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3368" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-Fairground-Wedding-Reception-228.jpg" alt="County-Fairground-Wedding-Reception-228" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-Fairground-Wedding-Reception-229.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3369" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-Fairground-Wedding-Reception-229.jpg" alt="County-Fairground-Wedding-Reception-229" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-Fairground-Wedding-Reception-230.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3370" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-Fairground-Wedding-Reception-230.jpg" alt="County-Fairground-Wedding-Reception-230" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-Fairground-Wedding-Reception-231.jpg"></a> <a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-Fairground-Wedding-Reception-232.jpg"></a> <a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-Fairground-Wedding-Reception-233.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3373" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-Fairground-Wedding-Reception-233.jpg" alt="County-Fairground-Wedding-Reception-233" width="493" height="740" /></a> <a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-Fairground-Wedding-Reception-234.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3374" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-Fairground-Wedding-Reception-234.jpg" alt="County-Fairground-Wedding-Reception-234" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-259.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3375" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-259.jpg" alt="County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-259" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Sam's brother Mike giving his toast.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-260.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3376" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-260.jpg" alt="County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-260" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-265.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3381" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-265.jpg" alt="County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-265" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">My sister Kori carried on the Rankin girls' tradition of presenting a "Top 10 Things You Didn't Know About Your Bride" as her toast. It involved myself singing opera, imitating Kendall when she used to sing like an opera singer a child! Fun times!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-266.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3382" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-266.jpg" alt="County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-266" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3384" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-268.jpg" alt="County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-268" width="493" height="740" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-267.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3383" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-267.jpg" alt="County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-267" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Hi, Kendall!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-269.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3385" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-269.jpg" alt="County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-269" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-270.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3386" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-270.jpg" alt="County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-270" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Sam giving a thank-you speech to all of their guests. Myself, I'd like to say THANK YOU so much to our family and friends who drove the 12+ hours from Illinois to join us for Kendall's wedding! It meant SO much to our family to have you there!!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-268.jpg"></a> <a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-271.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3387" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-271.jpg" alt="County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-271" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Their first dance.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-274.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3390" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-274.jpg" alt="County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-274" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-277.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3393" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-277.jpg" alt="County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-277" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3397" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-281.jpg" alt="County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-281" width="493" height="740" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-282.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3398" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-282.jpg" alt="County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-282" width="740" height="493" /></a> <a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-281.jpg"></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-284.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3400" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-284.jpg" alt="County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-284" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">For these next three images, I'm not sure what conversation was taking place, but I'm calling them the "Sam, the cattle got out and are running on the highway!" series of images!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-288.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3404" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-288.jpg" alt="County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-288" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-286.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3402" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-286.jpg" alt="County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-286" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-287.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3403" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-287.jpg" alt="County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-287" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-289.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3405" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-289.jpg" alt="County-fairgrounds-wedding-reception-Illinois-289" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-Illinois-Wedding-Photographer-167.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3269" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Effingham-Illinois-Wedding-Photographer-167.jpg" alt="Effingham-Illinois-Wedding-Photographer-167" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Kendall and Sam, we love you both, and we're so thrilled and excited to see your relationship and family grow in the coming years!</p><p style="text-align: center;">God's Blessings to You!</p><p style="text-align: center;">Kelly</p>Nick and Kelly McCormickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782334496683065022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447225140848161116.post-84431393827536036292014-06-28T15:32:00.000-05:002016-12-09T16:51:59.245-06:00A Johnson Garden's Wedding|Luke + KamiLuke and Kami were married at the beautiful Johnson Gardens, a private estate in Highland, IL, a few weeks ago, and I was so blessed to be there with them to tell the story of their day!A few of my very favorites (and there were so many favorites to pick from!) are below!!!<a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/rustic-floral-wedding-bouquets-201.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3218" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/rustic-floral-wedding-bouquets-201.jpg" alt="rustic-floral-wedding-bouquets-201" width="493" height="740" /></a>"Just wait until you see it...it's beautiful!"...those were Kami's words in describing their great find. Their beautiful wedding venue. She and Luke together knew what they wanted: something different, something outside, and something that had an intimate feeling. And they found it, their gorgeous outdoor wedding was held at the private Johnson Gardens estate. Nestled back amongst a grove of trees, the large brick colonial home is surrounded by acres of professionally landscaped land. They host just a handful of weddings a year, and Luke and Kami were so blessed to be one of them!<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Pictures-Highland-IL104.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3208" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Pictures-Highland-IL104.jpg" alt="Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Pictures-Highland-IL-104" width="740" height="493" /></a>We started at the house where Kami's sisters helped her get dressed. We then took a few minutes to take pictures with her sister and all of her wonderful friends that were in her bridal party.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Pictures-Highland-IL106.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3210" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Pictures-Highland-IL106.jpg" alt="Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Pictures-Highland-IL-106" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Kami and her friends are pretty special to me. I was lucky enough to be the photographer at both Jacklyn's and Tiffany's weddings last summer (second and third from left)! I also was THRILLED to get to meet in person Jacklyn's beautiful new daughter!!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Pictures-Highland-IL103.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3207" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Pictures-Highland-IL103.jpg" alt="Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Pictures-Highland-IL-103" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;">We, of course, took the time to do plenty of portraits of the bride as well! Kami is a college recruiter by day, but she knew that she wanted her wedding to reflect her free spirit. "I'm a bit Bohemian!" she would tell me! I just absolutely loved her lace, vintage-style wedding dress, her long hair braided, and her floral crown.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Pictures-Highland-IL110.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3214" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Pictures-Highland-IL110.jpg" alt="Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Pictures-Highland-IL-110" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">One of my favorite images from the entire day. The green in Kami's eyes just popped against all of the foliage at Johnson Gardens.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Pictures-Highland-IL107.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3211" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Pictures-Highland-IL107.jpg" alt="Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Pictures-Highland-I-107" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Pictures-Highland-IL112.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3216" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Pictures-Highland-IL112.jpg" alt="Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Pictures-Highland-IL112" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Pictures-Highland-IL109.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3213" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Pictures-Highland-IL109.jpg" alt="Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Pictures-Highland-IL-111" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Pictures-Highland-IL102.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3206" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Pictures-Highland-IL102.jpg" alt="Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Pictures-Highland-IL-102" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Pictures-Highland-IL108.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3212" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Pictures-Highland-IL108.jpg" alt="Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Pictures-Highland-IL-108" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">The groomsmen heading over to the ceremony area.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Ceremony-Pictures-126.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3222" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Ceremony-Pictures-126.jpg" alt="Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Ceremony-Pictures-126" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Kami and Luke chose to get married beneath the old tree that stands in the midst of a large open meadow. A large pond lies just to the left of the tree. It was absolutely beautiful.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Ceremony-Pictures-125.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3221" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Ceremony-Pictures-125.jpg" alt="Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Ceremony-Pictures-125" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Kami and Luke wrote their own vows to each other.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Ceremony-Pictures-127.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3223" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Ceremony-Pictures-127.jpg" alt="Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Ceremony-Pictures-127" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Ceremony-Pictures-128.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3224" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Ceremony-Pictures-128.jpg" alt="Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Ceremony-Pictures-128" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Pure joy!!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Party-1321.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3242" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Party-1321.jpg" alt="Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Party-132" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Storms were in the forecast for that afternoon, and the dark clouds were starting to roll in; so, very quickly, we took pictures of the wedding party and the families, and then Kami, Luke, and I started strolling the estate. I'm not sure I've ever gotten so many images that I LOVED of the bride and groom so fast! We worked so quickly to beat the rain, and yet, I had more images than ever to pick from! It couldn't have been better!</p><p style="text-align: center;">Here are just a few of my faves!!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Photos-131.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3226" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Photos-131.jpg" alt="Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Photos-131" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Photos-136.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3228" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Photos-136.jpg" alt="Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Photos-136" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Oh, Luke! How I love this look on your face!! It's proud and ornery all at the same time!!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Photos-138.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3229" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Photos-138.jpg" alt="Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Photos-138" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Photos-141.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3231" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Photos-141.jpg" alt="Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Photos-141" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Photos-142.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3232" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Photos-142.jpg" alt="Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Photos-142" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Photos-144.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3230" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Photos-144.jpg" alt="Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Photos-144" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">We had considered trying to take a few pictures amongst a large log pile you can see in the wayyyyy blurred out background of this image; however, we decided that it was too risky with the lace on Kami's dress; however, as we were walking back to the house, we did find the gem below, and Kami, being the Bohemian bride that she is, was more than willing to stand on top of it and show off her bare feet. Yep! Kami went barefoot at her wedding!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Photos-145.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3233" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Photos-145.jpg" alt="Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Photos-145" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Photos-146.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3234" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Photos-146.jpg" alt="Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Photos-146" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Photos-147.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3235" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Photos-147.jpg" alt="Johnson-Gardens-Wedding-Photos-147" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">This was our one last image before Kami and Luke got in the car to head to the reception!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Rustic-Wedding-Cake-Vandalia-IL.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3240" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Rustic-Wedding-Cake-Vandalia-IL.jpg" alt="Rustic-Wedding-Cake-Vandalia-IL" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Luke and Kami's beautiful wedding cake with lace detail and peonies.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Rustic-Wedding-Reception-Vandalia-IL.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3241" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Rustic-Wedding-Reception-Vandalia-IL.jpg" alt="Rustic-Wedding-Reception-Vandalia-IL" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Immediately upon entering the reception, they danced their first dance. And then the dinner and festivities began!!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Wedding-Reception-Vandalia-IL-146.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3239" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Wedding-Reception-Vandalia-IL-146.jpg" alt="Wedding-Reception-Vandalia-IL-146" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Wedding-Reception-Vandalia-IL-145.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3238" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Wedding-Reception-Vandalia-IL-145.jpg" alt="Wedding-Reception-Vandalia-IL-145" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Wedding-Reception-Vandalia-IL-133.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3237" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Wedding-Reception-Vandalia-IL-133.jpg" alt="Wedding-Reception-Vandalia-IL-133" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Luke and Kami, it has been such a blessing getting to know the both of you. You are so genuine, kind, and authentic. I wish so many blessings to the both of you for the years to come!</p><p style="text-align: center;">Thank you...for everything...Kelly</p>Nick and Kelly McCormickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782334496683065022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447225140848161116.post-49189760554408549612014-06-27T14:31:00.000-05:002016-12-09T16:51:59.210-06:00Scott + Brandy<h3>Brandy and Scott - a St. John's Lutheran Church, Springfield, IL, Wedding</h3><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Illinois-State-Fairground-Wedding-Pictures-117.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3128" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Illinois-State-Fairground-Wedding-Pictures-117.jpg" alt="Illinois State Fairground Wedding Pictures-117" width="493" height="740" /></a>One of my greatest joys is getting to be with a couple that I know personally on their wedding day. And this joy is doubled...or quadrupled!...when the family is so special to me.A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of being with Scott and Brandy on their wedding day. Both from my home area, I knew of Scott's parents when I was younger, and I would see him from time to time when I was home at church. Brandy's family and mine has been intertwined to the point that I can't remember NOT knowing them. Her uncle is my uncle through marriage, and I grew up hanging out at my aunt's house while her dad was there as well. They're just good people who have loved on and been supportive of me and my sisters our entire lives. So, while I was shooting the wedding, it was at times almost a reunion for me as well. I came home both smiling and tired and excited to see the images of these great families who I adore so much!Scott and Brandy....thank you so much for allowing me to be a part of it all! It was a pleasure and honor...I appreciated every smile and tear that you and your family members had that day. I hope the joy and love that you felt that day from each other and your loved ones will be with you always.Blessings to you,Kelly <a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/St.-Johns-Lutheran-Church-Springfield-IL-Wedding-Pictures-102.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3078" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/St.-Johns-Lutheran-Church-Springfield-IL-Wedding-Pictures-102.jpg" alt="St. Johns Lutheran Church Springfield IL Wedding Pictures-102" width="493" height="740" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">Scott and Brandy were married at <a href="http://www.stjohns-springfield.org/#/home" target="_blank">St. Johns Lutheran Church in Springfield, IL</a>. This church has a beautiful history. It is where little Tad Lincoln was baptized (Abraham Lincoln's son), and the baptismal bowl that was used is there on display.</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/St.-Johns-Lutheran-Church-Springfield-IL-Wedding-Pictures-101.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3077" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/St.-Johns-Lutheran-Church-Springfield-IL-Wedding-Pictures-101.jpg" alt="St. Johns Lutheran Church Springfield IL Wedding Pictures-101" width="493" height="740" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">The first thing I do at every wedding is photograph the details...the dress, the rings...and the beautiful details, like the old oak doors and stained glass throughout the church provided a wonderful backdrop.</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/St.-Johns-Lutheran-Church-Springfield-IL-Wedding-Pictures-103.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3079" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/St.-Johns-Lutheran-Church-Springfield-IL-Wedding-Pictures-103.jpg" alt="St. Johns Lutheran Church Springfield IL Wedding Pictures-103" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/St.-Johns-Springfield-IL-Wedding-Pictures-104.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3080" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/St.-Johns-Springfield-IL-Wedding-Pictures-104.jpg" alt="St. Johns Springfield IL Wedding Pictures-104" width="493" height="740" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">After the details, it was time for Brandy to get dressed.</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/St.-Johns-Springfield-IL-Wedding-Pictures-105.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3081" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/St.-Johns-Springfield-IL-Wedding-Pictures-105.jpg" alt="St. Johns Springfield IL Wedding Pictures-105" width="740" height="493" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">The beautiful stained glass windows at the church provided such a beautiful background when Brandy's mother helped her with the back of her dress.</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/St.-Johns-Springfield-IL-Wedding-Pictures-106.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3082" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/St.-Johns-Springfield-IL-Wedding-Pictures-106.jpg" alt="St. Johns Springfield IL Wedding Pictures-106" width="493" height="740" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">The bridal portraits is one of my favorite parts of the day. I always have the goal of making a classically beautiful image that someday a bride's daughter will look at with amazement and see the beauty of her mom on her wedding day.</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/St.-Johns-Springfield-IL-Wedding-Pictures-107.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3083" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/St.-Johns-Springfield-IL-Wedding-Pictures-107.jpg" alt="St. Johns Springfield IL Wedding Pictures-107" width="493" height="740" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">But, I have to admit, this is more Brandy's personality! Fun-loving and enjoying life!! Such an ornery look in those eyes!</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/St.-Johns-Springfield-IL-Wedding-Pictures-109.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3085" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/St.-Johns-Springfield-IL-Wedding-Pictures-109.jpg" alt="St. Johns Springfield IL Wedding Pictures-109" width="493" height="740" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">Brandy has a close relationship with her MIL, Linda, and gave her a special handkerchief letting her know through embroidered words that she loves Scott and about being a part of the family.</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/St.-Johns-Springfield-IL-Wedding-Pictures-110.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3086" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/St.-Johns-Springfield-IL-Wedding-Pictures-110.jpg" alt="St. Johns Springfield IL Wedding Pictures-110" width="740" height="493" /></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/St.-Johns-Springfield-IL-Wedding-Pictures-111.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3087" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/St.-Johns-Springfield-IL-Wedding-Pictures-111.jpg" alt="St. Johns Springfield IL Wedding Pictures-111" width="740" height="493" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">I've heard Linda more than once call Scott and Brandy "her kids"...and there was little doubt on the wedding day that she truly believes that and loves her new daughter-in-law.</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/St.-Johns-Springfield-IL-Wedding-Pictures-112.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3088" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/St.-Johns-Springfield-IL-Wedding-Pictures-112.jpg" alt="St. Johns Springfield IL Wedding Pictures-112" width="493" height="740" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">Scott bought Brandy a wedding day present....and, ummm, even wrapped it himself. :)</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/St.-Johns-Springfield-IL-Wedding-Pictures-114.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3090" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/St.-Johns-Springfield-IL-Wedding-Pictures-114.jpg" alt="St. Johns Springfield IL Wedding Pictures-114" width="493" height="740" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">He included a heart-felt letter for Brandy as well.</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/St.-Johns-Springfield-IL-Wedding-Pictures-115.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3091" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/St.-Johns-Springfield-IL-Wedding-Pictures-115.jpg" alt="St. Johns Springfield IL Wedding Pictures-115" width="493" height="740" /></a> <a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Weddings-at-St.-Johns-Lutheran-Springfield-IL-117.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3094" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Weddings-at-St.-Johns-Lutheran-Springfield-IL-117.jpg" alt="Weddings at St. Johns Lutheran Springfield IL-117" width="493" height="740" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">After Brandy got dressed, I headed over to spend a bit more time with Scott. Even though it was raining outside, we managed to get a few images of the groom alone before the wedding ceremony!</p><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Weddings-at-St.-Johns-Lutheran-Springfield-IL-124.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3096" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Weddings-at-St.-Johns-Lutheran-Springfield-IL-124.jpg" alt="Weddings at St. Johns Lutheran Springfield IL-124" width="740" height="493" /></a><p style="text-align: center;">Scott's boutonniere contained the infant ring he wore at his baptism.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Weddings-at-St.-Johns-Lutheran-Springfield-IL-123.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3095" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Weddings-at-St.-Johns-Lutheran-Springfield-IL-123.jpg" alt="Weddings at St. Johns Lutheran Springfield IL-123" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Mom making sure everything is just so!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Weddings-at-St.-Johns-Lutheran-Springfield-IL-125.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3098" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Weddings-at-St.-Johns-Lutheran-Springfield-IL-125.jpg" alt="Weddings at St. Johns Lutheran Springfield IL-125" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;">Prior to the wedding, the groomsmen had a prayer with the pastor.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Weddings-at-St.-Johns-Lutheran-Springfield-IL-126.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3099" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Weddings-at-St.-Johns-Lutheran-Springfield-IL-126.jpg" alt="Weddings at St. Johns Lutheran Springfield IL-126" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Weddings-at-St.-Johns-Lutheran-Springfield-IL-127.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3100" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Weddings-at-St.-Johns-Lutheran-Springfield-IL-127.jpg" alt="Weddings at St. Johns Lutheran Springfield IL-127" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;">This little man drove Scott's IH pedal tractor from his childhood down the aisle.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Weddings-at-St.-Johns-Lutheran-Springfield-IL-129.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3102" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Weddings-at-St.-Johns-Lutheran-Springfield-IL-129.jpg" alt="Weddings at St. Johns Lutheran Springfield IL-129" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Weddings-at-St.-Johns-Lutheran-Springfield-IL-128.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3101" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Weddings-at-St.-Johns-Lutheran-Springfield-IL-128.jpg" alt="Weddings at St. Johns Lutheran Springfield IL-128" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"> Scott's tears as he watched his bride walk down the aisle.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Weddings-at-St.-Johns-Lutheran-Springfield-IL-130.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3103" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Weddings-at-St.-Johns-Lutheran-Springfield-IL-130.jpg" alt="Weddings at St. Johns Lutheran Springfield IL-130" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;">Scott's mom as she watched her son's reaction to his bride. She had a few tears herself.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Weddings-at-St.-Johns-Lutheran-Springfield-IL-132.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3105" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Weddings-at-St.-Johns-Lutheran-Springfield-IL-132.jpg" alt="Weddings at St. Johns Lutheran Springfield IL-132" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Weddings-at-St.-Johns-Lutheran-Springfield-IL-135.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3108" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Weddings-at-St.-Johns-Lutheran-Springfield-IL-135.jpg" alt="Weddings at St. Johns Lutheran Springfield IL-135" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Weddings-at-St.-Johns-Lutheran-Springfield-IL-131.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3104" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Weddings-at-St.-Johns-Lutheran-Springfield-IL-131.jpg" alt="Weddings at St. Johns Lutheran Springfield IL-131" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Weddings-at-St.-Johns-Lutheran-Springfield-IL-133.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3106" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Weddings-at-St.-Johns-Lutheran-Springfield-IL-133.jpg" alt="Weddings at St. Johns Lutheran Springfield IL-133" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Weddings-at-St.-Johns-Lutheran-Springfield-IL-137.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3110" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Weddings-at-St.-Johns-Lutheran-Springfield-IL-137.jpg" alt="Weddings at St. Johns Lutheran Springfield IL-137" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Weddings-at-St.-Johns-Lutheran-Springfield-IL-139.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3112" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Weddings-at-St.-Johns-Lutheran-Springfield-IL-139.jpg" alt="Weddings at St. Johns Lutheran Springfield IL-139" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Weddings-at-St.-Johns-Lutheran-Springfield-IL-141.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3114" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Weddings-at-St.-Johns-Lutheran-Springfield-IL-141.jpg" alt="Weddings at St. Johns Lutheran Springfield IL-141" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Weddings-at-St.-Johns-Lutheran-Springfield-IL-140.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3113" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Weddings-at-St.-Johns-Lutheran-Springfield-IL-140.jpg" alt="Weddings at St. Johns Lutheran Springfield IL-140" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Weddings-at-St.-Johns-Lutheran-Springfield-IL-138.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3111" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Weddings-at-St.-Johns-Lutheran-Springfield-IL-138.jpg" alt="Weddings at St. Johns Lutheran Springfield IL-138" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3116" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Weddings-at-St.-Johns-Lutheran-Springfield-IL-143.jpg" alt="Weddings at St. Johns Lutheran Springfield IL-143" width="493" height="740" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Weddings-at-St.-Johns-Lutheran-Springfield-IL-144.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3117" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Weddings-at-St.-Johns-Lutheran-Springfield-IL-144.jpg" alt="Weddings at St. Johns Lutheran Springfield IL-144" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3115" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Weddings-at-St.-Johns-Lutheran-Springfield-IL-142.jpg" alt="Weddings at St. Johns Lutheran Springfield IL-142" width="493" height="740" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Weddings-at-St.-Johns-Lutheran-Springfield-IL-145.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3118" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Weddings-at-St.-Johns-Lutheran-Springfield-IL-145.jpg" alt="Weddings at St. Johns Lutheran Springfield IL-145" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Illinois-State-Fairground-Wedding-Pictures-146.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3121" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Illinois-State-Fairground-Wedding-Pictures-146.jpg" alt="Illinois State Fairground Wedding Pictures-146" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">So...when it's raining on your wedding day AND you have a farming background, where do you go for wedding party pictures?</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Illinois-State-Fairground-Wedding-Pictures-147.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3122" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Illinois-State-Fairground-Wedding-Pictures-147.jpg" alt="Illinois State Fairground Wedding Pictures-147" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">To the livestock pavilions at the <a href="https://www.agr.state.il.us/spacerental/facility/expo.php" target="_blank">Illinois State Fairgrounds</a>, of course!! Scott shows livestock, and so there was nowhere else that he thought would be more perfect than to have their pictures where he's spent so much of his summers! It ended up being FABULOUS!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wedding-Party-pictures-at-IL-State-Fairgrounds-101.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3123" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wedding-Party-pictures-at-IL-State-Fairgrounds-101.jpg" alt="https://www.agr.state.il.us/spacerental/facility/expo.php" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">We started in the show ring...with the wedding party!!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Illinois-State-Fairground-Wedding-Pictures-110.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3127" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Illinois-State-Fairground-Wedding-Pictures-110.jpg" alt="Illinois State Fairground Wedding Pictures-110" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">From there, Scott, Brandy, and I walked around the pavilion and took advantage of the great light, textures, and lines for their portraits!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Illinois-State-Fairground-Wedding-Pictures-108.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3125" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Illinois-State-Fairground-Wedding-Pictures-108.jpg" alt="Illinois State Fairground Wedding Pictures-108" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Illinois-State-Fairground-Wedding-Pictures-118.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3129" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Illinois-State-Fairground-Wedding-Pictures-118.jpg" alt="Illinois State Fairground Wedding Pictures-118" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Illinois-State-Fairground-Wedding-Pictures-126.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3132" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Illinois-State-Fairground-Wedding-Pictures-126.jpg" alt="Illinois State Fairground Wedding Pictures-126" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Scott does the 'smoldering' thing quite well, doesn't he?!!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3131" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Illinois-State-Fairground-Wedding-Pictures-128.jpg" alt="Illinois State Fairground Wedding Pictures-128" width="740" height="493" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3133" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Illinois-State-Fairground-Wedding-Pictures-130.jpg" alt="Illinois State Fairground Wedding Pictures-130" width="740" height="493" /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Illinois-State-Fairground-Wedding-Pictures-142.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3136" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Illinois-State-Fairground-Wedding-Pictures-142.jpg" alt="Illinois State Fairground Wedding Pictures-142" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Illinois-State-Fairground-Wedding-Pictures-138.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3135" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Illinois-State-Fairground-Wedding-Pictures-138.jpg" alt="Illinois State Fairground Wedding Pictures-138" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Illinois-State-Fairground-Wedding-Pictures-136.jpg"></a><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Illinois-State-Fairground-Wedding-Pictures-124.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3130" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Illinois-State-Fairground-Wedding-Pictures-124.jpg" alt="Illinois State Fairground Wedding Pictures-124" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><h3 style="text-align: center;">An Illinois State Fairgrounds Exposition Building Reception</h3><p style="text-align: center;">After we were done with Scott and Brandy's portraits, we headed over to the reception at the beautiful <a href="https://www.agr.state.il.us/spacerental/property/exposition-building/" target="_blank">Exposition Building at the Illinois State Fairgrounds</a>.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wedding-Pictures-at-Illinois-Fairgrounds-Exposition-Building-125.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3156" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wedding-Pictures-at-Illinois-Fairgrounds-Exposition-Building-125.jpg" alt="Wedding Pictures at Illinois Fairgrounds Exposition Building-125" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;">A beautiful venue, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5;" href="https://www.agr.state.il.us/spacerental/property/exposition-building/" target="_blank">the Exposition Building</a><span style="line-height: 1.5;"> has brick walls and aged steel beams that reflected so well the warm, country feeling that Brandy and Scott wanted for their guests. And Stephanie Irby at <a href="http://www.eventsplusdecatur.com/index.html" target="_blank">Events Plus</a> in Decatur made sure that the venue was beautifully decorated!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wedding-Pictures-at-Illinois-Fairgrounds-Exposition-Building-1241.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3155" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wedding-Pictures-at-Illinois-Fairgrounds-Exposition-Building-1241.jpg" alt="Wedding Pictures at Illinois Fairgrounds Exposition Building-124" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wedding-Pictures-at-Illinois-Fairgrounds-Exposition-Building-107.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3143" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wedding-Pictures-at-Illinois-Fairgrounds-Exposition-Building-107.jpg" alt="Wedding Pictures at Illinois Fairgrounds Exposition Building-107" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="line-height: 1.5;">Scott had brought in an antique hay wagon from his family's farm to hold the cakes and desserts.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wedding-Pictures-at-Illinois-Fairgrounds-Exposition-Building-106.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3142" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wedding-Pictures-at-Illinois-Fairgrounds-Exposition-Building-106.jpg" alt="Wedding Pictures at Illinois Fairgrounds Exposition Building-106" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wedding-Pictures-at-Illinois-Fairgrounds-Exposition-Building-105.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3141" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wedding-Pictures-at-Illinois-Fairgrounds-Exposition-Building-105.jpg" alt="Wedding Pictures at Illinois Fairgrounds Exposition Building-105" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Scott's Groom's cake reflected his farm heritage...and his personal preference for red horsepower!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wedding-Pictures-at-Illinois-Fairgrounds-Exposition-Building-103.jpg"></a> <a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wedding-Pictures-at-Illinois-Fairgrounds-Exposition-Building-101.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3140" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wedding-Pictures-at-Illinois-Fairgrounds-Exposition-Building-101.jpg" alt="Wedding Pictures at Illinois Fairgrounds Exposition Building-101" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wedding-Pictures-at-Illinois-Fairgrounds-Exposition-Building-108.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3144" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wedding-Pictures-at-Illinois-Fairgrounds-Exposition-Building-108.jpg" alt="Wedding Pictures at Illinois Fairgrounds Exposition Building-108" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wedding-Pictures-at-Illinois-Fairgrounds-Exposition-Building-113.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3147" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wedding-Pictures-at-Illinois-Fairgrounds-Exposition-Building-113.jpg" alt="Wedding Pictures at Illinois Fairgrounds Exposition Building-113" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wedding-Pictures-at-Illinois-Fairgrounds-Exposition-Building-111.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3145" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wedding-Pictures-at-Illinois-Fairgrounds-Exposition-Building-111.jpg" alt="Wedding Pictures at Illinois Fairgrounds Exposition Building-111" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wedding-Pictures-at-Illinois-Fairgrounds-Exposition-Building-114.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3148" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wedding-Pictures-at-Illinois-Fairgrounds-Exposition-Building-114.jpg" alt="Wedding Pictures at Illinois Fairgrounds Exposition Building-114" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Shortly after supper, the speeches began, and Scott and Brandy's friends spoke so highly of them as a couple and as individuals. There were a few tears in the house.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wedding-Pictures-at-Illinois-Fairgrounds-Exposition-Building-121.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3152" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wedding-Pictures-at-Illinois-Fairgrounds-Exposition-Building-121.jpg" alt="Wedding Pictures at Illinois Fairgrounds Exposition Building-121" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wedding-Pictures-at-Illinois-Fairgrounds-Exposition-Building-120.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3151" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wedding-Pictures-at-Illinois-Fairgrounds-Exposition-Building-120.jpg" alt="Wedding Pictures at Illinois Fairgrounds Exposition Building-120" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wedding-Pictures-at-Illinois-Fairgrounds-Exposition-Building-118.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3150" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wedding-Pictures-at-Illinois-Fairgrounds-Exposition-Building-118.jpg" alt="Wedding Pictures at Illinois Fairgrounds Exposition Building-118" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wedding-Pictures-at-Illinois-Fairgrounds-Exposition-Building-116.jpg"></a> <a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wedding-Pictures-at-Illinois-Fairgrounds-Exposition-Building-122.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3153" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wedding-Pictures-at-Illinois-Fairgrounds-Exposition-Building-122.jpg" alt="Wedding Pictures at Illinois Fairgrounds Exposition Building-122" width="740" height="493" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3157" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wedding-Pictures-at-Illinois-Fairgrounds-Exposition-Building-128.jpg" alt="Wedding Pictures at Illinois Fairgrounds Exposition Building-128" width="740" height="493" /></p><p style="text-align: center;">And then the dances began.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wedding-Pictures-at-Illinois-Fairgrounds-Exposition-Building-129.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3158" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wedding-Pictures-at-Illinois-Fairgrounds-Exposition-Building-129.jpg" alt="Wedding Pictures at Illinois Fairgrounds Exposition Building-129" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wedding-Pictures-at-Illinois-Fairgrounds-Exposition-Building-132.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3159" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wedding-Pictures-at-Illinois-Fairgrounds-Exposition-Building-132.jpg" alt="Wedding Pictures at Illinois Fairgrounds Exposition Building-132" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">I posted this image the day after the wedding on Facebook. To me it summed up so much about the relationship between Scott and Brandy that we all were so privileged to witness on their wedding day.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3160" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wedding-Pictures-at-Illinois-Fairgrounds-Exposition-Building-134.jpg" alt="Wedding Pictures at Illinois Fairgrounds Exposition Building-134" width="493" height="740" /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Knowing Brandy's father, Mike, like my family does, this image made me tear up. He loves her so dearly and would do anything for her.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wedding-Pictures-at-Illinois-Fairgrounds-Exposition-Building-139.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3162" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wedding-Pictures-at-Illinois-Fairgrounds-Exposition-Building-139.jpg" alt="Wedding Pictures at Illinois Fairgrounds Exposition Building-139" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">And the same can be said of Scott and his mother, Linda. Such a treat to witness the happiness they have of Brandy joining their family.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wedding-Pictures-at-Illinois-Fairgrounds-Exposition-Building-138.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3161" src="http://buckleburyart.goodgallery.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Wedding-Pictures-at-Illinois-Fairgrounds-Exposition-Building-138.jpg" alt="Wedding Pictures at Illinois Fairgrounds Exposition Building-138" width="493" height="740" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Scott and Brandy, words can hardly reflect what a privilege it has been to share these past months with the two of you. I look forward so much to seeing you as a family grow in the coming years. Blessings to you both, for now and always! Kelly</p>Nick and Kelly McCormickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782334496683065022noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-447225140848161116.post-32887425226840067772014-06-26T13:30:00.000-05:002016-12-09T16:51:59.191-06:00Seven Years of BlessingsI've been working on a project....a new website design, and one of the tasks associated with a photography website is sitting and going through your work...deciding what should be on your website, smiling at some of the memories of weddings gone by, and seeing how you've changed, grown, and how life has changed in the process.And as I've sat at my desk the last few weeks and looked through my first blog, my first wedding, and all that has come since, I really had the peaceful sense of how blessed I am. How I have been so blessed these last seven years by friends, my family, and clients.So, tonight, as I pack my bags and head out to a wedding tomorrow morning, I want to take a moment and list all those that I am so thankful for in this beautiful journey the last seven years have been.I am so blessed to have friends like my childhood friend Cydil, who, knowing that I had a mild interest in photography, invited me to a photography conference where I had the opportunity to touch albums, chat with printing companies, and listen to some of the most successful photographers in the world discuss their work. From there, she naively invited me to second shoot with her that summer at her own weddings; so, armed with my Rebel camera and one lens, I began making the trip to Lexington, KY, where, exhausted and six months pregnant, she would let me take quick naps in the car when the receptions ran late at night.I am so blessed to have Jan, Cydil's college friend, who although she lives half the country away, she is an email jockey and makes it feel like she's right next door. A veteran in the wedding photography industry, she always has sound advice and knows where I need to turn to for anything that comes up.I am so blessed by my sisters and parents, who always build me up with kind words and (mistakenly) tell me exactly what I need to hear when I need to hear it....although that might just be to get cheap pictures in return. :)I am so blessed by my first couple, Nicole and Eric, who asked me to photography their wedding without even having a sample album to look at...and to all of my couples afterwards, who have become friends to me in the process. And, I'm excited to see all of their families grow and their relationships deepen.I am so blessed by my partners in the wedding industry. It's taken me a long time to find them, but my editors, designers, and album printers are the most talented, sophisticated...just the best in the industry, and I am so excited about working with them.I am so blessed by my mother-in-law, who regardless of if it's a Friday night engagement session or all-day Saturday wedding, she'll take care of my children in a pinch, and I know that they're spoiled by her in my absence.And, last, I am so blessed by Nick, who in my seven years of photography...several of which were while working a full-time corporate job with extensive traveling, never once has sighed or complained. He is the first one to volunteer giving me a few kids-free hours on a Sunday to sort through that Saturday's wedding. He encouraged me to leave my corporate job and all that was safe and rational in life to pursue what was a hobby into a full-time job. And if I need help at a wedding, he also makes a darn good second shooter, as well.So, excuse me this maudlin post, but it's really just struck me over the last couple of weeks how life has changed SO much in the last seven years. I never would have imagined that this is where life would take me, but at the same time, I wouldn't trade it for anything either.Blessings to you!KellyNick and Kelly McCormickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13782334496683065022noreply@blogger.com0