You heard me right.  It’s that time of year again.  A time for us to spend a lot of time in church basements, lurking around with cameras in our hands.  That sounds creepier than it actually is.  Trust me, it’s a good thing.  Really.  But I digress.  Where was I again?  Oh yes!  It’s time for weddings!

Now, we never really get to choose what the lead-off wedding of the year would be, but this year God smiled upon us and gave us the sweetlysweetness good fortune of having the ever-lovely Jettie & Jonathan as our first wedding.  You see, my good peeps, we have known this man, this man called Jonathan (aka ‘Jonny’, ‘Jon’, ‘Big Shooter’, ‘Tex’, ‘Sport’, ‘Pal’, ‘Buddy’, ‘Dude’, ‘The Killah From Manilla’ and ‘Typoon Scrimps’) for quite some time, as we used to be business neighbors.

Way back in the day, you see, we used to be North Siders.  North side of Central Avenue, that is.  Our studio was at 6 North Main, and his restaurant is located at 10 North Main (maybe you’ve heard of it…Jonny’s Taco Shack & Fried Food Emporium, Home of the Gut Buster Deluxe?  If not, check it out.  Tell ‘em that Otis sent you.  It will get you nothing other than a stern look and perhaps a slap on the face.)

Well, as we were starting our business, he was working on theirs.  The first time ever I laid eyes upon him [ed.  OK, dude.  This is really starting to sound creepy, even by your standards] he was painting the ceiling of the Taco Shack a deep dark red.  And he was red.  We didn’t know it at the time, but it was the beginning of a wonderful relationship [Ed.  OK.  That's enough.  This is not about you & Jonny, this is about Jettie & Jonny!!]

And here we are, practically six years later.  And in that period of time, we moved to the South Side of Central Ave., and the Taco Shack has only continued to flourish.  More important, however, is the fact that during this period of time a little something called ‘Jettie & Jonny’ happened.  My peeps, I’m going to let you in on a little secret of why that’s so important.  You see, if you work hard & strive to create something – whether it be a work of art, your own business, or whatever – none of it really makes a difference if you don’t have someone to share it with.  When it is all said in done, we can have a list of accomplishments, but the greatest achievement is how we treat one another, and the love we put back into our world.  Macca summed it up when he sang, ‘And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.’  You dig my groove on this?  Cool.

Which brings us back to this past Saturday and Jonny & Jettie, and our first wedding of the season.  Everything about the day was beautiful, wonderful, magical and fantastical!  And none of this would have been possible without the lovely couple and their awesome wedding party!  To say that we had fun would be an understatement, so I’m just going to let the lovely samplesnaps speak for how awesome this event was!

Before I let you go, I need to extend a huge MuchLove to the Bride & Groom, and to everyone that made our day so easy – I will give you digital hugs through the interweb!  Oh, and to everyone else out there in the Land of Blog – Enjoy!

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So, without any further delay – well, actually a little bit of delay, as we need to give a huuuuuuuuuge MuchLove to Lindsey & Matt for letting us be a part of their day – and now, without any further delay – Enjoy!

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Instead, we will just marvel in your beauty, offer up a huuuuuuuge MuchLove to one & all involved with making the day so wonderful, and tell all my good peeps of blog to – Enjoy!

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OK.  Take a look.

Alright.  What do you think?  Well, if you’re in some form of a vegetative state & your eyes aren’t working quite right, let me help you with the answer.  Yes.  Yes.  YES!  We had an incredible time at this gorgeous wedding!  We are so lucky that they chose us to be a part of it, and we want to give them buckets full of MuchLove & ManyThanks for allowing us to be a part of the day!  Megan & Cody…you guys rock.  Straight up.  And not that lame kind of rock.  I’m talking AC/DC rock.  Thunderstruck/Shook Me All Night Long rock.  And that, my dear friends, is rocking out at its finest.

Now, I know that I’ve already told you to take a look at the beautiful pics below, but now I ask you to sit back, relax, truly take them in…and – Enjoy!

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And, as if that wasn’t a great enough reason to be there, the lovely Bride is also one of our long-time friends (back in the college days – when I was going to be a history teacher, and Jamie was going to be a music teacher.  Go Beavers.)  Jamie & Allison were roommates, and we were all happy all the time.  But then we all grew up and went our separate ways.  Do not despair, my peeps, because even though distance came between us, that was all!

And this was oh so evident on this wonderful day, when all of us could be reunited one more time for this joyous occasion!  It was a blast working with this group – it’s really cool when the wedding party are not only awesome, but are old friends.  And they were definitely both!  I mean, I’ve said this before but this time I really mean it – we just showed up with the camera’s.  They did all of the awesomery (not a word, but I’m going with it.  Use it in your conversation tomorrow.)

Oh.  And one more thing.  There is a sample snap that is of a crazy piece of machinery that is used to put tar down on a road (no Jamie, it is not a street-sweeper), and you may be wondering why this pic is here.  If you were at the wedding, you probably know why, but I’ll explain.  You see, as soon as the ceremony was over, there was a lovely receiving line outside of the church.  Gorgeous day, lots of smiles, and a road crew just a-waitin’ to put some sweet sweet tar & rock down on the road directly in front of where we were all standing.  These guys were on schedule.  They did not have time to wait 15 minutes for a silly wedding receiving line…that tar had to go down!!!  And go down it did.  And become a part of they day they did as well!  It was all good, though.  Slightly surreal, but all good!  The wheels of road maintenance never slow down…they just keep on keepin’ on (that might be the City of Fargo Road Department motto.  And if not, it should be.)

And that’s the story of that.

So, now is the time that we give a huuuuuuuuge MuchLove to Allison & Eric for letting us be a part of their wedding day, and thank everyone that helped make the day such a breeze.  And to all of you, my good citizens of Blogville – Enjoy!

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It was on a day not all that long ago that the Otis & James Caravan of Love pulled out of the Minot station, pointed to the North & East, and headed to a land of giant turtles called Bottineau!  And, my dear dear friends, we didn’t head there just to go waterskiing on Metigoshe.  Oh no, we were there to be a part of this totally awesome wedding, and how lucky we were to have been!

Now, I’m going to tell you why we were so lucky.  Because the day was beautiful, the bride & groom were gorgeous, and everyone else that worked with us couldn’t have been any more wonderful.  Once again, we just showed up with the camera, and everyone else made all the magic!  Oh, my good peeps, I could go on and on and on about this glorious couple, but I will spare you all of my silly words.  Instead, I will just offer up a huge MuchLove & ManyThanks to Kaela & Josh, and now I’m going to tell all my good citizens of Blogville to – Enjoy!

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But instead of me telling you about how the gears of the machine turn ’round & ’round, how ’bout we just jump right in with a lovely wedding couple that we like to call Rebecca & Kyle!  In fact, I can think of no better way to jump back into this crazy little thing called bliggity blogville than with shiny happy sample snaps from this most wonderful couple!  I’ll weave the yarn now.

My friends, it was on a day not all that long ago when we had the goodlygreat pleasure of working with this wondrous couple on their wedding day.  It was a perfect day for this perfect couple.  Like, duh.  Would there be any other way?  I think not.  Everything was gorgeous – from the couple, the wedding party, their families – everything, I tell you!  Really, I could go on & on & on about just how wonderful everything was, but there are only so many words in my thesaurus for the word ‘perfect’, so instead I’m just going to offer a huge MuchLove & ManyThanks to everyone that made our day so great, and to you – the faithful citizens of Blogville – Enjoy!

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I could do all of these things.  I could even go on to say that their wedding party & families were also incredible to work with as well, and everyone made our day truly fantastic.  Yep.  I could do all of these things.  But I’m not going to.  Because it would be akin to telling you that the sky is blue, that birds sing, and that a pot of gold is at the end of every rainbow – because everyone reading these worlds knows that all of these statements as already being fact!

So I’m just going to give a huge, a big 0l’ gigantic MuchLove & ManyThanks to Alyssa & Jason for letting us be a part of their wedding day, and to all my good peeps out there in Blogville that are ready for their day to get just a little bit better – Enjoy!

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Double awesome, and that’s the straight dope.

MuchLove & ManyThanks to one & all that made this day so wondrous, and to my good peeps out there in Land of Blog sleeping the night away – Enjoy!

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Now, it would be enough for me just to have some random snapshots of this beautiful couple, as they are just that wonderful.  But the pics that I have to share with you are way more than that.  MmmmHmmm.  They are samplesnaps from their wedding day.  You heard me.  Their wedding day!  See – I’m not messing around here.  This is the real deal.  There’s no time for jive-talking, there’s only time for straight-talking.  And that’s what I’m going to give you right now.

See, there was this magical day, only a short time ago, on a beautiful early Summer Saturday, when we had the wondrous pleasure of working with this lovely couple, as well as their lovely wedding party & family!  And we were lucky enough to be a part of it, and we are so happy that this was the case because each & every person that was a part of this day made our job so easy.  Push the button.  Take the pic.  That’s all we did – they turned on the magic, and that’s the straight talk, baby.  No jive.

But enough of me telling you about it, it’s time that you witness what it is that I am jibbahjabbering about.  Before we get to the samplesnaps, we would be remiss to not give a huge MuchLove & ManyThanks to Kelly & Josh for choosing us, and to all of you out there in Land of Blog on a late night/early morning so fine – Enjoy!

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You heard me right, folks.  A wedding!  Yahoo for weddings!  And a doublewahoo for the wedding of this awesome couple!

We loaded up the Otis & James Caravan of Love (now featuring a 3 gallon jug of cheese puffs), and headed South to a magical and fantastical land called Bismarck.  The Mighty B.  The Capitol of our state.  Whatever you want to call it – we went there.  But not only did we go there, we also went to a pretty freaking sweet place where huge flying hawks that are black are, and took some of the straight up coolest pics we’s ever taken.

But it wasn’t the locations that made this day so awesome, it was this sweet couple and their equally sweet family & wedding party that made our job a breeze.  All we had to do was push the button on the camera – they were the ones that made all the magic.  We would love to give a gigantor MuchLove & ManyThanks to Kassy & Zach, and also to everyone that made our day so great!  Oh, and to all of you out there reading this on such a lovely summer day – Enjoy!

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I suppose you’re wondering why we were in B-Town with this lovely couple, arent’ you.  Well, it wasn’t just so we could eat at Texas Roadhouse & stop by The Walrus for a couple of drinks afterward (even though that does sound good.)  Nope.  We were there for the incredible fantasticalmagical wedding of Jenna & Stephen!  Wahooo!

We had an absolutely wondrous time with not only the Bride & Groom, but with each & every person that worked with us to make this day so mightlymellow and gorgeous!  Truly, one of those things where we just show up with some cameras & stuff like that, and they make all of the magic happen – we just stand back and let the good times roll.  And you can take that to the bank.

Seeing as how I’m now just rambling on a bunch of non-sensical stuff, I think it’s time that we put a lid on all of these words, give a huge MuchLove & ManyThanks to Jenna, Stephen & their lovely Wedding Party, and to tell you…the good People of Blog to – Enjoy!

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What’s that you say?  You need some proof to back up these word that I’ve thrown your way?  Well, how ’bout you just relax for a second there, because I’m going to weave a little yarn for you.  It’s about an absolutely wonderful couple that goes by the name of Laurie & Scott.  What I’m going to tell you is this.  There was this day that was not all that long ago – if memory serves, you can practically count on your hands and with the help of a foot the number of days since this wonderful, magical fantastic day was!  Let me continue weaving this yarn by telling you that not only were the Bride & Groom wonderful to work with, each & every person in their wedding party helped make the day a breeze!

So, I hope you are all strapped in, because we’re in the middle of it, and we’re gonna keep on going ’till dawn.  I have no idea what that means, but I’m trying to find a way to finish up these words.  Let me just say, MuchLove & ManyThanks to Laurie & Scott for being so good to us, and to each & every one of you out there in Land of Blog on a night so fine – Enjoy!

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Now, it would be enough if just this awesome couple were so easy to work with, but not only were they – but their entire wedding party was just as wonderful!  We tore it up, we tore it down, we came, we saw, we conquered, we showed wedding pictures just how they need to be done.  If you don’t believe me, then I just invite you to – as soon as these words are done – to look at the sweetlysweet samplesnaps.  You’ll see what I’m talking about, and it ain’t no jive.  Nope.

Alright, enough of all this blibberblabber, it’s time for us to give a huge MuchLove & ManyThanks to this awesome couple, and everyone else that made our day such a breeze, and to you, my good citizens of blogville, I tell you this – Enjoy!

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