Emily and Beau

So...this would be the first wedding I shot with gloves on.  It was...cool...some might say cold. 

Emily and Beau recently purchased a farm house in the Iowa country-side.  It was the perfect location for a wedding.  A great symbol of their new start together and their future that lay ahead.  For us it was an awesome location to photograph.  The wedding day has story upon story to be told.  It includes everything from the cold temps to stray cats to a late arriving bridesmaid speech to the photographer getting lost.  Yes, we were lost.  Thanks Google maps for nothing.

Ashley and I started our day getting a little lost and driving a lot further than we needed to.  I am the navigator and driver so I take full responsibility.   However using my normally reliable resources turned out to be a mistake.  A road that appeared to still be there, but WASN'T, caused us to get off track.  We grabbed a free map from the first gas station we saw and quickly corrected course.  As I said, Emily and Beau recently purchased a new home in the Iowa country side.  Which as some of you from Iowa know means dirt roads and in this case muddy dirt roads. We made our way there and arrived with plenty of time to spare.  

The day was cold and breezy so we quickly made our way through outdoor formal photos.  We were told of the previous night's rehearsal and the stray cat that interrupted.  Farm cats are a stable of Iowa and this one was a typical stray farm cat.  It decided it would like some attention during the ceremony and marched right down the aisle and into the action.  It disappeared as quickly as it had appeared though and didn't cause much of an issue.  

We had a great time at Emily and Beau's wedding. Below are a few of our favorites and all the photos can be viewed here.