Weddings – Page 25 – Otis & James Photography

Maureen & Danny!

More so than pre-marriage counseling and all that jazz that goes with it, the real test as to whether or not a couple is meant for eachother can be found here, at the FunCenter for Fun.

We don’t have a fancy machine that tells us this. We don’t have a fortune teller predicting the future. We don’t have some sort of a new-age guru sitting around ready to dispense advice at a moments notice (as it turns out, I actually applied for and got that job). Nope. We don’t got none of that.

What we do have is a studio, a camera, and some lights. You see, we turn these things on, and take some picto-graphs of the lovely couple, and we can tell you the answer right there on the spot. Because, you see, the couple that photographs well together is the couple that stays together. Think about it. If you find a couple that is in love (wow…did I just say that…did the blog just become some sort of a weirdly emo place?), I defy you to find a photograph of them in which they look like they are experiencing discomfort at the situation. No no. Every one – even though they technically may not be as sweetlysweets as ours are (did you see me pat myself on the back right there??!!), they are still wonderful, because there is nothing but love love love, sweet love going on!

And that’s what we had during our visit by the everlovely Maureen & Danny! We had a wonderful time working with this lovely couple, and now is the time for us to give some love to them for stopping down to the FunCenter, and now it is the time for you to look at the sample snaps – Enjoy!

Marisa & Joel!

Saturday.
Doors.
FunCenter.
Opened.
Wedding!
Joyous Mayhem.
Laughter.
Love!
Beauty.
Grace.
Fantastical!
Magical!
Particle!
Past Participle!
MuchLove!
JahRastafari!
Otis.
Out.

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Tyler & Valerie

This weekend past (and for those of you playing the home edition of the FunCenter, that means not this current weekend, but the weekend that happened last weekend…ummm…yeah), the Otis & James Caravan of Love was packed up, and headed west…to a land called Ray!

We did not do this just so we could say that we spent the day in Ray…oh no…we did this so that we could be the official photo-graphers of Tyler & Valerie, and on their wedding day! How Grand! The caravan, (sans Otis – who wants to let the happy couple know that he really really wanted to be there, but he is sure that you are probably happier that he did not come and get anybody else sick!), pulled into Ray, and the rest – as they say, was absolutely fab!

Jamie submitted her report on the days festivities to me (four pages, double-spaced, Times New Roman 12pt), and from her I have come to understand that she had a wonderful time working with this beautiful group, and she was very proud of how brave they were in order to find the perfect picto-graph!

It’s not every couple that will brave the November North Dakotan elements for the sake of a picture, so we (and again, I say we because I was there in spirit…looming over the event like a flu-riddled phantasm) were highly appreciative that they were so easy to work with! We had a wonderful time, and we would like to thank them again for allowing us to be a part of their day!

Well, before I go and get too sentimental on y’all, me thinks it best to stop this rambling and get to the part where you click on the smaller pictures to make the bigger pictures, which, in turn, will make your feel all warm inside! MuchLove and many thanks to Tyler & Valerie, and to all of my children out there in the land of blog – Enjoy!

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Lance & Darla

And so it was, that after a mad summer and fall filled with weddings that we found ourselves at the end of the road [cue: Boys II Men/dim white lites/bathe stage in blue/solitary spotlite on Otis]. Where do we begin? It seems, to be cliched, just like yesterday that we started the season up. It was May, and all of what we know now to be the past was still potential.

Days become weeks become months, and here we found ourselves finishing out the end of the wedding season, in a land called Fargo, with a gorgeous couple by the name of Lance & Darla. We could not have wished for a more wonderful way to end this season, as every aspect of this day was perfection to behold!

This perfect state started at the top, with the wonderful couple, and continued down through the wedding party, family, and every other person involved with the day. Our role was just to take a little bit of this perfection, and put it into a form that they will, through the years, look back upon and marvel at how wonderful their day was, in the town of Fargo, on the third week of October in the year of 2006.

It was a perfect end to this season. To Lance & Darla, a big offering of muchlove from o&j.

[fade out stage lites/fade out music]

And to all of you out there in the land of blog – Enjoy!

[fade out Otis spotlite]

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SMBF v.11 :: The Kelly & Nikki Edition!

And, our voyage in the WayBack Machine (which is actually not that bad on gas) continues, and this time we are setting the coordinates to a land called Tioga; and it’s not just because we want to find out more about this lovely town, but because not this past Saturday, but this SaturdaySaturday past (and for those of you that aren’t 100% up to their math skillz, that means it was two Saturdays ago) the Otis & James Caravan of Love, Sponsored by the Otis & James Center for the Study of Marsupials, and Marsupial Gambling Habits (O&JCFTSOMAMGH) pulled into this wonderful town for the wedding of Kelly & Nikki!

We had an absolutely fantastical time working with this lovely couple and their equally lovely wedding party and family! We put them through all sorts of total nightmare shooting situations (most of which involved freezing their arses off), but they did it, and they did it in style! I often wonder what it is that goes through the heads of our willing subjects as we put them into all sorts of uncomfortable situations in search of that perfect picto-graph, but it doesn’t take that much imagination to think of what might be going through their heads, but even so, they were totally wonderful, and handled all of our requests with grace!

So, to say that we offer one and all ‘muchlove’ for being so good is an understatement, but it will have to do for now, as I don’t think that the word for how awesome they were has been created yet! Well, I need to stop all of this talking and get on to the part where we pull up a chair, and gaze at the superawesomesamplesnaps! So, I will not delay this process any more – muchlove, and – Enjoy!

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SMBF v.10 :: The Nathan & Jeannine Edition

Well, I don’t think that we’ve fired up the o&j WayBack Machine in quite a while. Yes sir, from the looks of it, it hasn’t been activated for quite some time. Well, that’s about to change. You see, we have to go back in time now, to a land, a land of space & time that is known as not this Friday past, but the Friday Friday past…yes, you heard me…I know you’re thinking to yourself, ‘How on earth can we go this far back? What are the risks? Will I ever see my family again??!!’

Well, I don’t have the answers for you on any of those questions, but the reason for our mission is of great importance, and that is so we can go back and be a part of the wedding of Nathan & Jeannine! We need to go back so our faithful bloggers can see the photographic wonderfulness that was their wedding day!

We need to put behind us any fears of what the consequences may be, and we need to focus (and for those of you keeping track, that’s the ‘hat-trick’ of me using that lame old pun this evening…thank you…thankyouverymuch) instead on the benefits…not just to us, but to the world as a whole!

What’s that you say, delusions of grandeur what? Well, you can keep those fancy words to yourself, because our mission awaits us. For all of you out there in the land of blog, we do this for you. And to the happy couple; thank you for letting us be a part of your day, and – Enjoy!

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Vince & Laura!

I can’t wait for their wedding.

Seriously.

I can’t.

I wish it could be next summer now.

Seriously.

Look at these two.

Wowza’s.

Holy.

Gorgeous.

[but]

I will have to wait.

But I will have these sweetsamplesnaps to temper my impatience.

Vince…and Laura…you guys rock. Straight up. Holla at ya. MuchLove.

Enjoy!

Tom & Pam!

Our Monday Monday past came to a lovely conclusion with a visit from new friends of Otis & James, none other than Tom & Pam!

I know that all of you, my faithful bloggerites, are smart…smaht people. I know this because you are a bloggerite, and by default that makes you smahhht. So, I will not test your patience in taking you through all sorts of twists and turns, playing with your digital emotions and what not, just to wind up at a place in which we find out that the reason that this wonderful couple came down to the FunCenter was for some SuperSweetEngagementPics, and we had a fantastical time working with this lovely (I need to find another adjective…I know…but lovely is just so perfectly lovely) couple!

Instead, I will just tell you that we had a great time during our SweetSession, and we can’t wait until the main event (and for those of you that don’t pay attention, that means their wedding), which will be here before we know it!

Well, the hour is late, and you really must be getting to the part when I say goodbye and let you look at the pics (or else face a rebellion from the Bloggerites, and I would rather be the benevolent King than the one that is rebelled against), and call it a day. So, it’s Tom & Pam – Enjoy!

Chad & Amy

Is it time? What’s that…it is!! I’ll race you to the WayBack Machine – come along now, because our destination is a land and time far away from here. Have you ever been to the mythical land that is called Hazen? What’s that…you haven’t?? Well, are you in for a suprise, because we’re headed back to a time that, for your sake, I’ll just call ‘a few weeks ago’, because if I were to actually speak the name of this time in the actual space language of time, your head would expand to three times its normal size, and none of your trucker hats would fit.

Don’t worry, I’m gonna tell you…in fact…I’m gonna tell you right now the reason that we’re making this epic voyage. It is for the wedding of Chad & Amy! Can you believe it! All the planning, all of the hard work has all finally come together, and we’re gonna go right into the heart of it, because the O&J SuperCrew (shout out to my peeps Elise & Rob) had the good great opportunity of being a part of this absolutely wonderful day! Ahh…shoot, man, we was truly lucky that we were chosen to be a part of the wedding, and we’d just like to give some mad props as well (and for those of you that are still firmly stuck in the language of squares, that means that we would like to offer up thanks to…you got it??!!) to the lovely Bride, Groom, Wedding Party & Family for being so wonderful to work with!

The SuperCrew had an absolutely wonderful time with one and all, and the proof of this statement lies not in some pie chart, graph, or scientific notation, but instead lies in the SuperSweetSampleSnaps that are only a few more words away (remember, I get paid by the word, and I’m going on an adventure next week, and I need all the sweet sweet cash that Jamie will allow me to have…but enough of me). So, let us dispense with all of this writing, and get to the business at had, which is the wedding of Chad & Amy – Enjoy!

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Justin & Shannon

This past weekend, we traveled to the far east, to a land that is known as the Grand Forks, and we didn’t do it for hockey, or sugar beets, or, any number of other thingst that they do in these forks so grand, no no no, we made this epic journey for one reason, and one reason only…the wedding of Justin & Shannon!

People came from far and wide, they converged on this town so grand in order to be a part of this wonderful day, and I’m here to tell you that any distance that was traveled was far worth it, as the day was filled to the brim with wonderfully happy good times, and friendly people!

Due to the far away place that Justin & Shannon live, the day of their wedding was the first time that we met face to face! We must admit, whenever there is a situation like that, a little bit of you wonders just what kind of peeps that you will be working with. But, this nervousness went away in a heartbeat as they, along with their wedding party and families couldn’t have been any more gracious and awesome to work with!

The day was beautiful, the couple was beautiful, and they made some beautiful photo-graphs! We would like to take a moment to thank Justin & Shannon for allowing us to be a part of their wedding, and to all you out there in the land of blog reading along with me, I say two things: MuchLove, and – Enjoy!

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