Category: Weddings

Soooo, this past Monday…and I said Monday…you heard me right…the Otis & James Caravan of Love pulled back into the Minot Station, for a visit to the beautiful Gol Stave, right here in the middle of good ol’ Minot, in order to be a part of the wedding of the equally as lovely Joshua & Jennifer!

It was an absolutely gorgeous day for a wedding; a perfect summer day, and I do believe that we did get ourselves some lovely photo-graphs of this wonderful couple and their double-wonderful wedding party!

We would like to congratulate this newly-wed couple, and also say thank you for including us as a part of your day! Seriously, though, have you come here to hear me wax nostalgic for the days gone by, or to see some snappy-snaps?? So – Enjoy!

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This past Saturday, the Otis & James Caravan of Love & Stuff pulled up to the great city of Billings, Montana for some super-duper-deluxomatic wedding photographs of Tom & Jenna! This was our first wedding so far West, but we were with old, old friends of Otis & James, and it seemed like home sweet Minot (but a little more West, which is probably common sense to most of you out there, but if not, click here for driving directions.)

Now that you know how to get there, let’s save you the physical trip, and let us instead go on a mental trip, through some super sweet wedding photo-graph samples of this awesome day! But before that, we just want to say how much fun we had, and how totally awesome this lovely couple and their families and wedding party were to work with – but we already knew that it was going to be awesome, as the lovely Jenna and our very own Jamie have been friends for many long years (we even got to see a pic of a much younger and more of a mullet wearing Jamie during the reception slide show – who knew…mullet.)

Alright, enough of all my jabbering on and on about much of nothing at all, and let us instead turn our eyes a little lower, and take a look at some of the awesomosity that occured on this lovely day! Congratulations to the happy couple, and to everyone else out there – Enjoy!

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Good friend of O&J, Tammy, is getting married this Friday – but I’ll tell you what; this past Thursday we did a little dress rehearsal down at the FunCenter for Fun! The results – fantastic!!

Now, if you all promise to pretend like you didn’t see any of these, and that if when you seen her on Saturday you will act totally suprised, I’ll let you see just a little bit….but you gotta promise that it will only be a sneak…like…hold your fingers over your eyes, and just open them a little teeny bit, and look down. Promise??? Alright, put your fingers up…get ready…now look down.

NOW STOP LOOKING!!! You gotta wait ’till Saturday to see the rest! Alright, now get back to work, and let’s pretend like nothing out of the ordinary happened at all.

otis out

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This past Saturday the Otis & James Caravan of Love (O&JCOL) went North, to a land called Bottineau, and a lake called Metigoshe. No, my friends, this was not just a visit to partake in the chaos that is a hot summer weekend on this lake. No, no. We had a greater goal; the wedding of Sean & Chelsea!

Right now, I could go on and on about how the day was beautiful, the location was gorgeous, and how the Bride & Groom are absolutely perfect! I could continue to tell y’all out there about how everyone was so gracious and friendly to work with, I could tell you about how the lovely couple didn’t even blink an eye when my fearless leader James told them to stand on top of a collection of red ants, or sit in a bug infested shady grove.

But I feel that spending time telling all of you out there about this would only delay what you’re all here for – to see some sweet sweet sample snaps from the big day! So, I will not delay any further – actually, I will, but just to say thank you to Sean & Chelsie for being so great to work with! Alright…Enjoy!

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This past Sunday, Otis & James had the good great gosh almightly pleasure of working with great friends of O&J, Amos & Carly, and guess what…it just happened to be their wedding day!

We have had great fun leading up to this point, and the main event proved itself to be nothing other than what we expected it to be: totally and completely awesome on a billion different levels! You know that I mean this when my sentences start to look like they may be typed by an eight grader, it seems like I should have more 🙂 😉 and stuff like that.

Moving on, we truly had a wonderful time working with this lovely couple, and their wedding party. We couldn’t have asked for anything more, and we would like to thank them for all of their effort that they have put forth, both leading up to the wedding and on the day itself. You made your photographs awesome, and it totally shows! BFF 😛 !

Alright, now that I’ve totally gone back to Chippewa Junior High, I think that it’s time for us to just recline the seats, and enjoy some sweet sweet snaps – Enjoy!

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And then on this past Saturday (and I know how it is to start a sentence with ‘and’ – bad…very bad) we took the Otis & James Caravan of Love on a Northward Journey (which seems kind of like it might be the name for the next incarnation of the super-band Journey), all the way up to a magical land called Antler.

What brought us to this wonderful little town was not just some sight-seeing, but instead we ventured to this place for the wedding of Matt & Natasha! Not only did we have the chance to have a wedding in this new town, but it was also an outdoor event – which in North Dakota is a brave, brave decision to make. But even though (and again, I know that I shouldn’t be starting sentences with ‘but’, but oh well…) the weather gave us a couple of scares (most notable being the deafening hailstorm experienced during the reception), it was alway only momentary – and the beauty that followed was stupendous!

We would like to thank everyone involved with this lovely occasion for being so warm and friendly – and for helping us get our missing backpack back the next day! Well, the wait has been long enough – Enjoy!

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Journey with me, if you will, to a land far far away (north of Grand Forks even), in a time long, long ago (we’re talking more than one and one half of one week ago), so we can be a part of the wedding of Aaron & Katie!

It was a gorgeous day, one that was fit for a King and Queen…wait a minute, I think these words were just headed to the land of cheese (and I’m not talking Wisconsin), so it might just be better if I say that we had a wonderful time working with these old friends of Otis & James, and were happy to be a part of their loverly day. But you’re not here for the words, you’re here for the visual stimulation of what is below. So – Enjoy!

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Our Friday (and again, I speak of the one from last week, not today…I know…the suspense of waiting for these things can be madness, MADNESS) came to a lovely conclusion, as friends of Otis & James, Matt & Jen, stopped by the studio on the way to the church for some super-lovely on-the-way-to-the-church-wedding-photographs!

How perfect that we just happened to be here at the studio waiting and ready to take some super-lovely on-the-way-to-the-church-wedding-photographs. A perfect match! Well, we had a great time working with the new Mr. & Mrs., and we wish them all the best life has, especially the best linen. You can never go wrong with good linen. Alright, let’s look at some snaps – Enjoy!

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