Weddings – Page 28 – Otis & James Photography

Scott & Lindsey!

Our Friday came to a loverly ending with a visit from new friends of Otis & James, Scott & Lindsey – and they did not come to the FunCenter to get a VCR, or for a loaf of bread, or to get a new battery for their riding lawnmower, or even to vote in a school board election. Oh no, they came down for some sweet.sweet.e.pics (and, my friends, those that are in the know, know them as e.pics – and you want to be in the know, now, don’t you?), and in case you were wondering, we indeed got ourselves a digital basket full of sweet.sweet.e.pics!

But this was not made possible because of the lens, or the CF card, or the CMOS sensor, or because of us, or even because of viewers like you. Oh no, this was made possible because Scott & Lindsey were absolutely wÃ¼nderbar to work with (that’s German for ‘most excellent’ or ‘dang sweet’), and our time with them couldn’t have been any better! It was a beautiful evening, a beautiful couple, and…again…wait for it…we got some beautiful snaps!

If you wanted to read a book, you would have gone down to the library and rented one. Instead, you find yourself at the blog wondering how many more words will your eyes have to stumble through until you can finally get to the snaps??!! So, with much thanks to Scott & Lindsey for being awesome, and much thanks to the people of the blog for just being you – Enjoy!

Wyatt & Ann!

Is there, my friends, any better way to start the day (and yeah, I do qualify 11:00 AM to be the start of the day) that with a visit from new friends of O&J, none other than Wyatt & Ann??!! NO! Wow, I kind of shouted that no back there, but I mean it – it truly was a great way to start the day!

And this past Thursday, the FunCenter got off to a great start with this wonderful couple, and the results were – how do you say – fantastical! Loverly! Incrediablelyular! I’m not from these parts, you will have to forigive if my language is a little bit rusty, but will any of those words work? Well, basically, they were awesome, and the proof lies not in my lame-oh words, but instead in their lovely sample snaps!

So, much thanks to this wonderful coule for taking the time to come down and see us, and for all you all of you all out there in blogland – Enjoy!

Levi & Emily!

Listen, for I tell you a story (is that biblical, or am I going into the intro to the Beverly Hillbillies?? Oh well…), and it’s about a totally awesomely wonderfully sweet couple that just happens to go by the name of Levi & Emily (these are actually two different names, they are not an Ã¼berperson that is a single entity, we clear on this?), and about how we had a wonderful time this past Tuesday Tuesday past (that’s one of those things that’s the same going forwards and backwords, like 1991…crazy) working with them on an absolutely gorgeous evening!

This story continues with me telling all you all (again, that thing) about how lucky we are to have such great couples to work with, and about how we can’t wait until their wedding day (which, never fails, will be here sooner than we expect!), because if our time together today was any indication, the wedding is going to be totally sweetly sweets! But, I can tell that you out there in the land of blog are tiring from my story, and I think that we should get to the best part of any story, and that’s the snaps. So – Enjoy!

Sunset & Puddles & Kyle & Rhonda!

Do you know what we did this past Thursday evening?? Do Ya?? Well, let me fill you in on the det’s (again, this is superlingo of photo-graphers, and it is short for ‘details, but I can’t be expected to continually explain these things to you, you’re gonna have to start figuring it out sooner or later, and it’s pro’ly gonna be better if it’s sooner, rather than later).

We had a little sunset, we had some puddles, we had a Kyle, and we had a Rhonda, and we put them all into the giant mixing bowl that is O&J, and we came up with some superawesome Engagement Snaps! The resulting product?? Well, I say they absolutely rocked, but it was all them; we just happened to be there with a CMOS sensor with a composite plastic shell and a lens or two to capture it. That means we had a camera.

So, enough with all of this jibberin’ and jabberin’, and let’s move on to what you really came here to see, some sample snaps…so – Enjoy!

Jade & Erica

Our adventure continued. This time it fell at the feet of a lovely couple that goes by the names of Jade & Erica. They live in a far away place called the Cities Twin, or, if you want to fit in with their culture you would call them the Twin Cities.

They returned to their native land, to the land of Dakota (I should write for ND Tourism if I keep this up…all we need is that man with the deep and gravely voice to do the voice-over work…give them a call sometime and you’ll know what I mean), in order to celebrate their vows, or, if you want to fit in to their culture, you would call say to ‘celebrate their marriage!

What I’m really trying to say here, in a really really really convoluted way is that if we go off into the O&J Wayback Machine, to a place called a couple of Sats (that’s photo-graphic shorthand lingo for Saturday, squares ((and that’s super-double lingo for those which are not in the photo-graphic know))) ago we had the good fortune of being a part of the gorgeous wedding that was the wedding of Jade & Erica (does that make sense??)!!

It was beautiful, straight up. There are all sorts of complimentary adjectives that I could use, but I don’t know if any of them could really do justice to the lovelyosity, or gorgeousness that was this day. We just thank our lucky stars of photo-graphs that we were a part of it, and to the newly-wed couple, we say thank you for letting us do just that. You got it? Well, seeing as how my writing indicates that I may have suffered a brain injury somewhere after the first three words, I think it best if I just say thanks to all that made this day so great, and to y’all that are a part of the ether out there in blogland – Enjoy!

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Chris & Shannon

Gather ’round, and follow me on a voyage through time. Hop aboard the O&J Wayback Machine as we travel to a time that was a Friday Friday past, to a special time that we shall call the wedding of Chris & Shannon!

Now, even though this opening sentence of the post was filled to the brim with absolute cheez (that’s what us hipsters call cheese…you know…Velveeta), this wedding was filled with nothing but absolute wonderfulality! It’s not even a word…that’s how awesome it was! All was good with every aspect of this sweet day, and we just considered ourselves lucky enough to be a small part of it, and for this we’d like to offer up the ol’ O&J ‘Thank You’ (worthy of its own quotes, mind you) to them and to one and all involved with the day for making our time so easy – it is not us that makes photo-graphs good, it is those that are in the photo-graphs that make them great. I found that in a fortune cookie.

With all of this milling around our collective blogheads, me thinks it be time to put all of these tired words to bed, and instead head below (under other circumstances, that could have been the start of a beautiful poem, but this is not the time nor the place) and gaze at the lovely pixels that are the wedding of Chris & Shannon – Enjoy!

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Derek & Tammara!

Just a little bit ago, in the time that we shall call ‘the week before last’, we were visited later in the evening, perhaps it was on a ‘Monday’ (I’m putting everything in quotes today..Monday it’s two for one at the useless punctuation store), if you will, perhaps this lovely couple came in for some superawesome Engagement Snaps, heck, not even perhaps, it is true…they did come in for some superawesome Engagement Snaps, and some superawesome Engagement Snaps they did get!

If you peel away the layers of jibberish that are above these current words, you will find that what I’m trying to say is that we had a great time working with this wonderful couple, and we look forward to the main event, which will be here any day now…well…we actually know for sure when it will be, but I like to keep this ambiguity going as much as I can, but we can hardly wait!

Enough, enough already of my tired old words, let’s get to some supersamplesnaps of the festivities, and don’t forget to – Enjoy!

Craig & Jessica

This past Saturday Saturday past (that’s two, y’all) The Caravan of Love that is Otis & James pulled back home, to the Minot station, just in time for the nuptuals (that means wedding, y’all) of the one and only Craig & Jessica (that means Bride & Groom, y’all!)

Could it really have been a year since our first meeting, with this lovely Bride…could it be that we were actually here on the day? How suspensful is this question, really, since I would never really type a post for a wedding that has not occured, and if you happen to have any sort of peripheral vision, you could pro’ly (that’s kool speak for ‘probably’) see that there are photographs at the bottom of this post, and you may even be able to make through the haze that is this peripheral vision a wedding dress, tuxedoes, and all the other goods that make up a wedding day.

So the next question becomes, ‘why is this person…this otisjames…spending all of my sweeth and prescious time on such rhetorical questions? I am afraid to tell you…I mean all you alls that I don’t really have an answer for you. All that I really have are some totally and completely awesome photo-graphs from a totally and completely awesome wedding day! How was all of this possible, you ask? It was all made possible from the lovely Bride & Groom (& Wedding Party Too), and for all of this awesomeness, we would like to extend a huge O&J Thank You (and again, I have no idea why I should capitalize this) to one and all for being so great to work with.

You got all that? Are you going to print these words off and keep it in your wallet? Thought so. So, without any more delay, I present Craig & Jessica – Enjoy!

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Joe & Cheri

We’re now going to step into the Otis & James Wayback Machine (which can be purchased from The Sharper Image…look for their Holiday Catalog soon!), all the way back to the time that was two whole Fridays ago, and in a land called Bismarck (did I mention that the Caravan of Love pulled out of the Minot station and headed down to this loverly land?), for the occasion of the absolutely gorgeous wedding of the equally gorgeous Joe & Cheri!

I could go on and on and on with rambling words that would feebly describe the awesomeness that was this wedding day (for example, the recreation of the cover art from my absolute favorite Beatles album of all time, Abbey Road), but what good would I really be doing? Would you, the faithful of the blog, really come out of this post any more enlightened than you already are?

So, instead of wasting any more time getting to the goods (and I know that you’re all really here for the pics and not the words), I will now only say Thank You (and I have no idea why I am capitalizing this) to this wonderful couple and their sweetlysweet Wedding Party for being so great to work with, and to all of the peeping peeps out there in blogland – Enjoy!

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Lance & Darla!

Shucks, man…I know you’ve been waitin’ for this, but I just hadda build up the suspense as much as I possibly could, yo.

What I’m saying to you, is that the wait if ovah! But one more thing before we go to that special place where as a child I’d hide…whoa…G’N’R flashback…but before we get to the totally awesome snaps of this wonderful couple that we had the great pleasure of ending our day with this past Thursday (and it was even the L-Man’s B-Day!), I’d just like to take a minute and thank this gorgeous couple for making time for O&J.

We know the journey was far, and we can’t tell you how much that means to us! A’ight (I think I’m really starting to speak street!) then, let us dispatch with all of these words, and divert our attention to the space below, where the gorgeousosity of this couple is gonna rock your socks off – Enjoy!