Bergthold - Burnett

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Today started at 9 a.m. as Jeff and Tyffany arrived at Beauty First Salon to begin Jennifer's coverage of her wedding day. Jennifer, two of her bridesmaids, and Jennifer's mom enjoyed laughing and discussing the characters of the TV shows, "Lost" and "Grey's Anatomy". Everyone at the salon with Jennifer knew both season finallies, but Jennifer. She had been so wrapped up with wedding planning she missed the last episodes. It was a running joke all day about how we would go to say how it ended and then remember "oh, okay we won't spoil it for you!" The beauticians finished just under an hour with hair. With plenty of time to spare before having to arrive at the hotel to get ready the ladies ran and purchased some champagne for the toast that would occur later during the reception.

After meeting back up with the wedding party at the Best Western to do make-up and finish getting ready Jennifer was more than ready to see her groom, Jeremiah. The ceremony location at the Best Western Hotel was nicely decorated with navy roses on an arch and highlights of navy and white ribbons on the chairs. The wedding party consisted of their three friends on each side. Jennifer's "maid-of-honor", Kurt, was a good sport and held a bouquet of flowers during most of the formal wedding pictures. After the ceremony Jennifer and Jeremiah were greeted by their guests as they formed an aisle blowing bubbles as they were welcomed into the reception. Jennifer and Jeremiah started the night off with their first dance, "Broken Road" by Rascal Flatts. This was followed by the cake cutting. Guests had several different choices to choose from for desert. Not only did they have their white wedding cake they had cheesecake, double chocolate, red velvet, and two different cobblers. Jennifer and Jeremiah enjoyed visiting with friends and dancing the night away.

You guys were awesome and we hope you get to have a chance to watch the season finale of "Lost". We actually downloaded it and are watching it again as we are typing this. "You know the ending was incredible how......." Keep in touch!

Merrell-Groshans

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May 19th Jeff and Tyffany had an early start at the salon, Perfect Touch, with Jennifer and now husband, Jeff. Jeff's hair didn't take long as the stylist did a quick wash and mousse to his hair (glue as Jennifer called it). Jeff, his dad and some of his groomsmen were also able to take a quick walk through at the car show that was displayed out front of the salon. This was one of the ending events that wrapped up on the last day of the Riverfest here in Wichita, KS.

Jennifer did research for her and the bridesmaids hair to have more of a 40's style instead of the norm with curls on top and all up. The stylists were able to pull it off with all 4 bridesmaids. After hair and make up was done the ladies headed over to the McConnell Air Force Base to get ready and have a trolley take them over to the ceremony held at the Chapel on base. As part of the ceremony Jeff smashed a cup for good luck. The smashing of the cup symbolized a temperate reminder that life carries change. As the guests shouted "Mazal Tov" it was to scare away any misfortune so that the couple may leave the ceremony free from fears.

After Jennifer and Jeff greeted all the guests as they exited the sanctuary we all hopped on the trolley to go around and grab some pics outside. One of these shots included the wedding party on an iron bridge. Then we took them to a near by playground for them to climb on equipment and bring a kid out in each and every one. After playing we needed to head on to the party that was held at the Dole Center. Jennifer and Jeff were able to relax and have fun with friends and family that had traveled all over the country to celebrate the love that Jennifer and Jeff share for one another.

Thank you for allowing us to be part of your special day.

Steffen-Gibson

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Today started as Tyffany and Netanya arrived at Westlink Christian Church to cover bridal prep and details. Ashley arrived at the church with her mom and bridesmaids as they got their hair done by Mindy who is a beautician at Personal Touch in Valley Center. The ladies all mingled and had a good time as Sandi, Ashley's mom, helped the bridesmaids get their toes painted. Ashley's big decision of the day was deciding which four pair of earrings to wear. Her final choice turned out to be striking, classy and perfect in every way! They were long dangling sparkly earrings that went well with her beautiful, stunning, fitted strapless wedding gown with an elegant train.

Jeff and Barry with Fat Cat Productions were able to grab a few shots of Chase as he played touch football and pool with his groomsmen. As 3:30 approached it was time for Ashley to slip into her dress and go see Chase for the first time. This is where she gave him a card that he read out loud softly to her and tears from both streamed down each-other's faces. They didn't even notice us, Jeff, Tyffany, Netanya and the Fat Cat crew Barry and Steph as we were all in the sanctuary documenting their private moment. Their eyes and emotions were solely on each other. It made for killer shots for us and amazing footage for Barry and Steph. The ceremony was another tear jerker as parents cried during the ceremony as they were so happy to see their children so in love with one another.

On the back of Ashley and Chase's program was a quote nicely stated by Nora Ephron, "When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible." Ashley and Chase had really built a strong friendship-based relationship for five years and have planned so much for this special day. Ashley kept saying it was hard to believe their wedding day was already here.

After the ceremony Ashley and Chase had an Excursion limo waiting for them outside where guests gathered with handfuls of rose petals to shower over them as they made it to the limo. Then the driver of the limo took them with the wedding party, Jeff, and Steph to Reflection Ridge to grab some beautiful sunset shots in front of a pond and a golf course as the backdrop. Having a few more minutes left with the limo we had time to stop off at Sedgwick County park to get a few more pics. Then it was off to the reception which was held at Camp Hiawatha. The events rolled right along as they cut their cake, had their first dance, father-daughter dance, mother-son dances, garter toss, bouquet toss, wedding party dance, money dance and then the longest couple married dance. The longest married couple ended up being a tie for 56 years of marriage. Into the evening Chase had a surprise that shocked everyone towards the end. He went and got the microphone from the DJ and sang "Cross My Heart" by George Straight to his new bride and always bride Ashley.

We really had a wonderful time today documenting all the details, smiles, laughter and happy tears. Thank you guys for allowing us to be part of your day and we hope you have a blast in Florida on your honeymoon! :)

Featured on Trash the Dress.com

As the buzz of the eXtreme session grows with more and more brides open to this idea, we continue to focus on promoting this session. Recently both Fat Cat Productions and T&J were featured on trashthedress.com. This is a very cool site where other photographers in coastal areas and a small amount of the mid-west are posting this similar concept.

The idea is to help brides understand the importance of these sessions. Imagine getting the killer photos and video of you and your husband or wife! The coolest thing about this session is that it is not limited to new brides! During one of our recent consultations we had the brides parents express interest in having their own eXtreme session to be played at the 25th anniversary. As the years move on after being married these sessions are a way to tell of the passion and affection that still lives between a husband and wife. Looking back at our own parents it can often times be hard to see the affection that lead to them falling in love. I think this true for most of us when we look at our parents. It's not that they don't love each other it's just odd to look at your parents in that light. Now imagine having a timeless photo and video to share with your generations to come to relive that emotion!

The dress is something that is normally only worn once, we're not saying to destroy the dress but not to let the dress limit the surroundings the way it often does on the wedding day. Please feel free to post any comments or email us questions about the eXtreme session.

Remember it's never to late to go eXtreme! Also our eXtreme sessions are NOT just limited to past brides!
Well back to the editing game. Stay tuned for more debuts as the studio has had a busy weekend documenting two more weddings. Till we type again, Later.

Cochran-Nowell

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Stacy started her wedding day at Salon Bella to get her hair done and then traveled over to Eric Fisher East to do her make-up. Following her make-up and after grabbing a bite for lunch at McAllisters she drove to the church where she met up with her bridesmaids. Stacy did most of her planning online via E-Bay, e-mail and phone to get all the details organized and they fell into place nicely. Online and phone was the best communication with Stacy and Luke to plan their wedding being that they live in Georgia and a lot of Luke's family was from Kentucky. With that being said and when they set their wedding date for May 5th they didn't even think of it being the 133rd Kentucky Derby. Stacy and Luke knew that May 5th was the best date to work out for their wedding, so they made sure they incorporated the Kentucky Derby in the wedding reception. They had the tables labeled with different horses' names that were in the Derby and table #7 ended up being the lucky table, Street Sense! Luke's side of the family stayed posted to how the Kentucky Derby was going throughout the day and kept up on how the horses were doing.

However, the ceremony started at 5:00 and the race started at 5:04. The ceremony was very elegantly performed by Luke's uncle, Dr. Dwight Moody from out of state, and the home church minister at Plymouth Congregational. Stacy used to sing in the Maize High School choir and had kept in touch with the director. She had the whole Maize High School choir sing a few songs in the balcony during the ceremony. Because Stacy has been away to college in Georgia for 8 years her and Luke had grew accustomed to the limestone and old architecture. This is why they chose Plymouth. It was absolutely gorgeous. Stacy and Luke also wanted to make it special for their guests during communion by handing it out themselves to all their friends and family that attended the wedding.

After the wedding Stacy and Luke had rented a trolley to go around to different locations of Wichita to get some urban photos taken as they traveled to the reception which was held at Rolling Hills Country Club. Before being announced at the reception, Jeff was able to grab a few shots of the wedding party on the golf course. Stacy and Luke, with their parents at their side, lined up to have a receiving line as the guests moved from the cocktail hour to the main ball room to start dinner with a salad and garlic bread. The reception consisted of Stacy and Luke getting the chance to say hi to everyone, cake cutting, first dance, father daughter dance, mother son dance and a contest for the longest couple married being over 60 years. The guests sent the couple on their way in their decorated car around 10 p.m.

Thank you Stacy and Luke for allowing us to be the ones that were able to document your special day capturing much laughter, happy tears, hugs and many details that really will tell the story of your day when all the pictures are posted.

New Additions To The T&J Studios Family

This past Monday we welcomed Netanya to the team as we hired her on as an intern. She is getting a 2 year degree from a division of Oklahoma State University and graduating in December. Her degree is in Visual Communications with an emphases in Photography. Netanya has 270 hours to use towards her internship throughout the summer with us.

To back track a little on how Netanya and how she found us. We were approached by her advisor from OSU a few weeks ago to see if we were interested in an intern. We feel like it was a blessing as we head into the busiest months of our year. The call couldn't have been better timing. Once we met with Netanya we felt she would fit right in with the crazy crew here at T&J Studios. She is excited to go along with us to a few weddings in the coming months.

Also with the new addition to the family Tyff graciously allowed Jeff to have another computer. It is Mac (of course). And he is proud to say that it is faster than Tyff's. Tyff did have the fastest for only a few months. When the new Apple arrived we played musical computers here at the studio. Jeff got the new, Brett got Jeff's old computer and Netanya got Brett's computer.

Jamie & Jaye's KC Engagement

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In April we traveled to Kansas City to meet up with Jamie and Jaye to do their engagement session. We met them on the Plaza on top of The Cheesecake Factory. We went all over town capturing their emotions they had for each other. The last location we went to was near their condo in Market Square. Jamie and Jaye asked if we wanted to go on up to see their place. They have a beautiful condo and grabbed a few pics of them on their couch and in their kitchen. Thank you guys for giving us the opportunity to shoot in KC for your engagement session and we look forward to working with you on your wedding day capturing memories.

Kansas at 80

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Here's a quick slide show of what we saw driving back from our KC engagement session. All of the photos were take from the car doing 80!!! No I wasn't driving and taking pictures at the same time. Tyff was driving while I was trying to catch as many pics as I could before the sun went down. We just caught a few of the fields burning but were not able to get any closer to the burn area since we were driving on the turnpike. Oh well, maybe next time.

We'll be posting some of the KC engagement pics later today, And hopefully have a write up finished to post about another addition to the T&J family...

We are still working and waiting to find out more on a big announcement that we can hopefully share before years end, but still need to wait until a few more details are finished up.

Check back later to see the KC pics, till then later.