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Colorado Ranch Wedding :: Jesse & Ashleigh

As I said yesterday, I was in the wedding party for this wedding…Ashleigh and I have been friends since our first year of College at CBC in Canada, we have travelled in Europe together, been College roommates, road tripped and spent a lot of time getting to know each others’ families and it was so great to be a part of the wedding WEEK! Even though I wasn’t the wedding photographer, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to capture a lot of the candid moments and details along the way. Keep an eye on Stone and Shelby Crandall‘s website for their photos…they are creative, talented and so great to work with!

There were so many great details to capture at this wedding, I love that. Everything about this wedding was so reflective of Jesse and Ash – it was just perfect for them!Amos, he knew something was going one…just needed to check it all out.Somehow I was in charge of the bridesmaid’s bouquets…not my thing necessarily, but they came out alright!The guests starting to walk up the hill to the ceremony.
This is one of the Greenwood boys…he (and all of the kids) did a lot to help get ready for the wedding, he also baked this pie HIMSELF. What a stud.I gave my camera to my friend Bethany to take some shots during the ceremony, I put up a couple so that you can get a sense of the setting – nice work Bethany!All the girls just love Ash – I love this shot!There were probably 60 pies brought for dessert, we made these little tags the week before the wedding so that everyone could see who brought the pie and what kind it was – cute, right?! When I was looking for a pie to take pictures of I just looked for my friend Alisha’s pie…I knew it would be a pretty one.
This one is really pretty too!
Love.The band was great! They played ‘If I Needed You’ from the Crazy Heart soundtrack for the Father Daughter dance…it was so perfect.

This was just such a fairytale wedding, one that I will truly remember always! I’m so happy for you Jesse and Ash, and couldn’t think of two more wonderful people to celebrate in such an awesome way! Thanks for letting me be a part of your day.

Setting the Stage / The Greenwood Ranch

If anyone noticed that I wasn’t blogging as much as usual in the past two weeks, it was because I was in Colorado for my dear friends’ Ashleigh and Jesse’s wedding! I was a bridesmaid for this one, not the photographer. Let me tell you, it is a pretty interesting role reversal for a wedding photographer to give up her camera and put on a bridesmaid’s dress.
I was so excited to be in the wedding party, loved being involved in the whole week leading up to the wedding, and getting that time to spend with Ash. HOWever…their wedding was so awesome that I wish it were possible for me to be doing two jobs at this one!
This is going to take two posts…this first one is just photos of the Greenwoods and their ranch in Livermore Colorado – their ranch home used to be a hotel, built in the 1800′s and there is even an old post office on the property, so awesome. Dream home for sure!Jesse, Ashleigh and I took a walk up to the ceremony site – about a mile or so from the house to a buffalo jump…they had put up signs leading the way – here’s Billy (the ringbearer!) leading the way…This is for Jesse, he loves barbed wire shots.
The view from the buffalo jump, breathtaking!New kittens!This is Hattie Rose Greenwood. Cutest little flower girl ever, but also a little fireball…here she’s squirting Jesse with the hose.I’ve never seen a wallpapered tub before, but I’m loving it.Hello?! Where are we, this is just too perfect.And to top it all off is the sweetest puppy ever, Stubbs, just loungin’ on the front porch.