Michelle+Alex were married in Vancouver Saturday. Here's a quick post. More tomorrow.

My good friend and fellow photographer Kari Medig [karimedigphoto.com] continues to kick ass. Last week his brilliant photograph of Mr. Firouz, a Himilayan ski guide, won best portrait up at Whistler in the 2010 Telus Ski and Snowboard Festival

Kari works with me on weddings when he's not deep in a snow cave in Patagonia or fat boarding powder on some far-off slope. And like Steve Simon [stevesimonphoto.com], Kari is a world-class editorial photographer. I am so lucky to work with such amazing shooters. Part of our philosophy here is to think of second shooters as more than just another angle covered. Moreso, we see it as bringing in a completely unique perspective. Top editorial photographers bring a lovely, surprising vision and in telling the many-layered stories of a wedding that vision is key in avoiding the obvious, the cliche and the mundane. Kari and I will be working together this weekend in Vancouver on Alex + Michelle's wedding where we hope to once again explore this curiosity and creativity.

Photography from a session we did with Meredith + Ted in New Orleans before they tripped off to Mexico on their honeymoon. Home tonight.

Meredith + Ted's New Orleans wedding Saturday was one of the most romantic I've ever seen. Sure, these two are madly in love with each other. However, Ted sent Meredith a letter just before the ceremony that was a copy of the letter his great grandfather gave to Pearl - his wife to be - in Virginia in 1908. It was the last of a series of letters he wrote in courting her and the beginning of a series he would continue to write in expressing his love. Here's an excerpt: "The aim ... to gain the love and hand of the noblest woman on earth. The second series shall be to hold this love and confidence so gained and to make each hour happier for this grand personage who shall play the leading role in the drama of my life...
Pearl, I know it is one of the impossibilities of the world for me to fully express my love for you."

Here are a few pictures from Saturday including a few from our ever-popular Love Booth.