This is the longest post ever. Brittany and Taylor are some of my closest friends and I was so honored to have shot their wedding a few weeks ago. I've known Brittany since she was in third or fourth grade so shooting her wedding was a little surreal.

Summer, the bride's sister did all of the florals and really designed the whole wedding. She's incredibly talented and when she has a website up I'll post it up here.

Because the wedding was in December we had a VERY small amount of daylight so I called my friend Brian Khang, who graciously came out to help me shoot the ceremony and reception details. So if you're wondering where all the normal details are, they're right here on his blog.

Here comes the deluge of images.

This is what December in the OC looks like:

Some of Summer's handiwork... I told you she's good.

It makes my job easy when the wedding party looks like this:

The guys were ok too:

The ceremony was held at St. Mark's Presbyterian Church in Newport Beach. It was actually a really cool church, inside and out. Because of the short day we shot all of the portraits there as well and I could have shot there for another couple hours. Really cool place.

I love this image of Britt and her dad right before the walked into the ceremony:

On to the reception!

I love these images of the first dance:

And this might be my favorite dancing shot I've ever taken:

Our good friend Whitney doing her best Beyonce impression:

You might recognize the couple in the middle square here. Its Trever and Brooke. I was a groomsman in their wedding last July. I also shot a few portraits of them. You can see them here. Brooke is Brittany's sister.

I'm bringing back the animated gif. I loved this series so much I had to do it this way!

Sparklers are never a bad way to end the night!

This was actually a little nerve wracking as a photographer. The only light I had was the sparklers and while they put of a good amount of light my shutter speed was still pretty low to freeze any motion. I shot these with the 35 1.4 at f2.0 so that I'd have a little wiggle room with the depth of field and at ISO1600 but my shutter speed was still at about 1/60th of a second... not fast enough for action. Because I shoot RAW I knew I could bring up the exposure a stop and not kill the image so intentionally underexposed the image a stop and shot it at 1/125th which froze a majority of the motion. In fact I actually like the little bit of motion blur there is. It adds to the feeling of movement and excitement in the images... at least for me.

This is one of my favorite images I've ever taken.