Just Married Session.

On Tuesday we had a "Just Married" session with Tasj - originally it was meant to be an engagement shoot, but on the day it was storming and dark like nothing else, so we postponed until after the wedding.

This is the result.

We themed the photoshoot around the early days of our relationship. Our first conversations were about Zac's guitar and his Mad Skillz. He fell in love forever when he found out I could bake.

The rest is history.

Zac is a rockstar. I am his groupie :P

First Look.

We loved seeing each other before our ceremony, of course, it didn't help with any of the emotion when I was walking down the aisle - I still looked like a leaky boat!

Here are our first look photos :)

All photos by NK Photography

Photos.

Not sure if our photographer will post anything (I think she's in Europe!) but if you want to be the first to see our photos, be sure to check out her blog:

http://www.nkphotographyblog.com/

Legend.

I keep finding myself saying... "I would totally do that, if our wedding was in Summer..."

This is one of those moments. How sweet would it be to rent heaps of bicycles and BIKE TO YOUR CEREMONY AND RECEPTION? I've heard of people walking, hiring buses, trolleys in San Fransico, but never have I seen bicycles en masse.

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I'm not such a fan of the whole attire theming (each to their own) but I am digging the bikes. Apparently they STOPPED TRAFFIC. What legends.

I wonder if the photographer had to be riding a bike to take some of these shots? Mad skills!

First Look.

We have been thinking about having our photographs taken prior to the ceremony, in the USA I believe they call it a "first look" which is a whole lot lovelier than saying "we don't have time between ceremony and reception to have photographs taken, as a result we eshewing tradition and are reversing the order to suit our timeline"

Though we may have started entertaining the idea because of scheduling purposes, it quickly grew on us for the following reasons:

1. We have confronted every tradition to do with weddings and questioned whether it still applied to us and what we would like. Some things we have kept, some, like Zac seeing me for the first time at the aisle, we aren't. I'm also not wearing a veil. If this worries you, read on.

Both of these traditions started from arranged marriages and the concern that if a groom saw the bride before the vows were said, he would possibly take offence to her appearance and back out of the nuptuals. Well, Zac knows what I look like, he still asked me to marry him and we're both so excited I don't think anyone will back out at the last minute no matter what I'm wearing.

2. Zac and I want to be totally 100% focused on the vows we are about to make. He doesn't want to be thinking "oh God, oh God, oh God, don't cry, don't cry" and I don't want to be thinking, "Does he like my dress? Oh God, don't cry, my makeup! Does he like my dress?"**

We know those emotions are part of a wedding and they are beautiful, but we are thinking that, for us, they can happen at any time of the day - so why not before everything gets crazy? A private moment (with Tasj, our photographer, hee hee) will be lovely to calm any nerves, get some tears out of the way and just have a quiet moment together before the ceremony and celebration kicks into gear.

Here are some sweet "first look" sessions from around the web:

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How cute is the surprise element? And that rooftop setting.... vois comme c'est beau

**At least if he doesn't like my dress, he can have a few moments to suck it up and remember it is not about the freaking dress.

Bright lights, big city.

This photo first made the rounds on the wedding blog scene when I first started looking at wedding blogs, a long time before we got officially engaged.

It still inspires me.

New York Public Library

Candles

Ethereal

Beautiful

One of the best best bridal portraits I have seen, despite seeing ~1,000,000

Photograph by Christian Oth

GUNS.

The most bad-ass bridal party portrait photo. Ever.


Too bad we've already done the rustic thing or I would be seriously considering setting up something like this for the wedding. How funny are the GUNS!!?

Reminds me of this:images from Green Wedding Shoes and here