Amanda & Caleb’s wedding was so much fun for us!  Having just shot their Sedona bridal session the week before, we knew exactly what to expect from their wedding day and it did not disappoint!  It was completely filled with joy, love and countless beautiful memories.  Amanda & Caleb met while attending a bible study at their church.  Their relationship is so  special and God centered.  You could really see the evidence of their faith and God’s blessings throughout the whole event.  We are so glad that they choose us to capture it!

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The day began at Christ Church of the Valley where the happy couple was preparing for the day.  Love this shot of Amanda’s dress.  CCV was a great place to shoot.  It’s HUGE and has lots of colors and textures and a variety of backdrops for all sorts of photos.  One of the coolest churches we’ve had the pleasure of photographing in a long time!

How cute are these?  Love the fun dangling rhinestones on the straps of her shoes!

Amanda’s daughter Christabel was their flower girl.  Love this sweet moment between them as she was showing Christabel how to drop the petals as she walked down the isle.

How awesome is this shot of Caleb’s brother Christian?  Hilarious!  Ryan snagged this as the guys were getting ready.  Christian totally looks like Caleb’s identical twin with a little more hair :-)

The bouquets, created by the talented Sara Skinner at Bliss Occasions, were so fun!  Love the great mix of colors and the variety of flowers that complimented each other so well.

Their second First Look was just as sweet as the first time around.  Even though they had already seen each other in their wedding attire for the bridal session, it was really important to them that they had some time alone before the ceremony.  A first look worked out to be the perfect way to spend some time together and take in the day before things got started.

Yep.  We lucked out with these two :-)

Love the great mix of greens and yellows in this next shot.

Say cheese!  Christabel was proudly showing off that she had just lost a tooth :-)

We had a lot of fun shooting their bridal party.  Such a great group!

This was a first.  The guys came up with the idea to do a “peeing on the wall” shot!  I was shooting the girls while all the male bonding was going on, but I laughed pretty hard when Ryan told me about this shot.  Gotta, say, I’m kinda lovin’ the results!  Ha ha ha!

As Ryan was taking some candid shots prior to start of the ceremony, he discovered that he has his own little paparazzi!  Their wedding was just full of great little moments like this one.

Can’t you just feel the anticipation in this shot as Caleb waits to make Amanda his wife?

Caleb’s reaction as Amanda & her Dad came down the isle.  He was one happy guy!

No wonder he was smiling :-)

The ceremony was so heartfelt and sweet, especially with Caleb’s Dad acting as the minister.

Just after taking communion, they shared a few quiet moments together in prayer.

There’s one thing that you may or may not have noticed about their bridal session – there are no shots of them kissing!  Well, that’s because they didn’t.  Early on in their relationship, they decided to make the commitment to each other and to God to not kiss until their wedding day.  So as you can imagine . . . everybody was pretty anxious to get to the “you may now kiss the bride” part of the ceremony!

It was pretty cute how much Caleb’s Dad playfully “dragged” out his final remarks, knowing it was so important to them.  So we decided to take a little lesson from him and make all of you wait for it too!  Come back and visit our blog tomorrow for the big kiss and part II of Amanda & Caleb’s wedding!