The last time we saw Jill and Bill, it was FREEZING and snowing during their engagement photography shoot. We were pretty psyched the weather held up for us and we had an awesome day of shooting. Please pardon us for being less verbose on this post - it's 10:30, we just go back in from a shoot, but we promised to blog this tonight! We'll edit some more talking in later :)

I started off with the guys in their hotel room...

And I was over at the Jill's folks' house. The girls were all ready when I arrived, so I shot a few detail shots and the girls hanging out before we headed over to the church.

Now, it was a beautiful day, but it was crazy windy all day. Jill constantly had to try and keep her veil attached to her head. That sentence is so weird - I apologize. Like Rich said, we're kind of beat and the first thing that leaves me is my vocabulary (which should be awesome since Rich openly mocks my vocabulary when I am coherent!).

So, this was definitely one of my favorite shots of the day... why is that a bride getting out of her limo in the reflection of the church's sign? Why, yes! Yes, it is!!

That's totally rad :) This one might be my favorite of the day...but I dunno, I had a lot I really, really liked that we shot yesterday. Yes, we usually blog our weddings the day after we shoot them. I've been told that that's crazy, but the way we work, we feel it's better to dive into the images right away, make sure they're backed up in triplicate and get to editing a few that catch our eye while the whole day is still fresh in our minds. I think it lets us carry over the emotions of the day into our post-production work.

So, the musicians were playing the whole ceremony...

...and when I headed over to the other side of the church, I saw one of the flower girls totally jamming to it!

I love that shot!

We headed to Glen Falls for some bridal party shots, and it was a bit crazy. Seriously, we counted seven other bridal parties there, so we headed back into the more woodsy area away from the falls where no one else was. And Bill's brothers decided they really needed a photo holding Bill upside down.

So we did a round-about wandering sort of shoot to see if the main part of the park would clear out since we definitely wanted to shoot up by the old mill.

The light was righteous the whole way through....

And we totally made it to the mill without having to throw down with any other bridal parties. If there are any doubts as to how many people get married in Buffalo every week during the summer, head to Glen Falls Park on a Saturday...

After shooting at the park, the whole party decided to hit up the Irishman on Main in Williamsville. I immediately started looked for Irish, bar-related ways to photograph rings. That's just how my brain works.

While they were at the bar, I headed over to Glen Oaks Golf Course to get some venue shots before the guests started arriving for cocktail hour. The first thing that caught my eye were these amazing cakes. The two giant cupcakes were professionally done, but one of Jill's relatives made all of the little cupcakes. They looked (and smelled) perfect.

So, Bill and Jill did a pretty killer first dance. It was part Your Song from Moulin Rouge and part tango. Really cool.

We have a LOT of photos of the two of you dancing, guys :) Hopefully it's not too cheesy to say you two had a very, very sweet wedding day. Thank you for having us and we can't wait to show you guys all the rest of the photos we took!

We're absolutely up to our eyeballs in photos to process, but I had to share some ultimate infant sweetness I got to photograph on Wednesday. Meet baby Claire - just a few weeks old and absolutely gorgeous!

Claire's mom is friends with one of our favorite brides ever :)...(had to give her a shout-out for when she reads this!)

Thank you, thank you for having me out - your little girl is an absolutely, unbelievably gorgeous baby. We should do it again sometime soon :)

Mike and Teresa are awesome. I could probably just leave it at that and let the pictures do the talking, but we'll dig a little into the backstory...starting with the last photo of the evening first. This was definitely my favorite of the night...

We first met up a few months ago for Mike and Teresa's engagement photography session and I thought we hit it off immediately. We've been really looking forward to this wedding, too, as we had met a ton of the folks who would be guests when we photographers T's sister's wedding last year.

First off, while I was at Mike's parents' house while he was getting ready, I had a lot of ring-shooting time. We had a comment on the last post (hey Kel!) about our ring shots - so here's four to tide you over until our next wedding this weekend :).

That lead shot is absolutely sick. I was over with Teresa getting ready, and I saw this super awesome giant jar full of old labeled wine corks. I knew I had to shoot something in it, so I grabbed Teresa's e-ring for a couple frames.

Two of Teresa's sister's were at the house doing her hair, nails and makeup. This was one of my favorites from the day...

Hey! Who is that gorgeous hairdresser? Why it's our fabulous bride Jen of the famous plaid wedding!

This mirror was a present to Teresa and Mike from her siblings, and she suggested that I might be able to do something with it. I think I did. :)

You and your mirrors :) That's a pretty fancy shot - I love it. And I love this one too...

I couldn't resist the super-happy toe separators...

That's an adorable shot! Teresa was so easy to shoot - she has a stunning, stunning face that just photographs fantastically!

Oh! This shot is out of order. I hate when that happens, and Rich and I are to tired to go back down to the studio and re-upload the images. So, Teresa's makeup shot is randomly after her getting her shoes on!

Oh man, we are lazy bloggers! I snagged this quick shot of Mike while we were taking some "formals" of him and his family prior to heading off to the ceremony. Mike's suit was PIMP. Custom made, 100% percent Italian.

The wedding ceremony was held at St. Gregory the Great in Amherst. Pretty cool church - on any given weekend you can go on their website and watch whoever is getting married in streaming video - I'm totally going to try that some day.

It was a fantastically bright church, which is always super fun for us.

Hooray, low ISO!

I loved this shot - how his arms mimic the cloth above him. Super fun.

After the ceremony, we headed to Salvatore's and they have taken their venue to another level with the new ballroom. We had just a couple of minutes before the guests arrived after we got there, so we took advantage of the grand staircase and good light. Really, we were pretty impressed by how nice the new room at Salvatore's is - did I mention that already?

The kids all got disposable cameras at the reception. I was trying to give little Dominic some pointers and, well...I think anyone would agree he's already got more natural talent than I do...

One thing that's pretty spectacular about Teresa and Mike is that they run a business together. And that's a really hard thing - to spend absolutely all of your time with one person - it can be very, very difficult. But shooting the two of them, you'd have no clue they're with each other all the time. They're still so sweet and romantic together.

...and they have a lot of fun together.

I really, really, really love this shot, babe. Ridiculous.

Thanks - the first dances were really, really sweet. As a surprise, there was a slideshow of Michael's life playing while he danced with his mom.

That was my shot - and this is yours!

Teresa and Mike kept their bridal party intimate... but she has eight siblings, so they decided to do a choreographed sibling dance. It was... awesome. Yeah, awesome is the only word to describe it. It was a montage of awesome.

Right after the kick line. Because every choreographed sibling dance needs a kick line!

I just had to include a shot of the grandparents - married 60+ years and still dancing!!!

Mike's grandpa = awesome. When he wasn't tearing it up on the dance floor, he couldn't help but dance from his chair. Absolutely adorable!

This little girl was cracking us up all night long (she's the same girl as in the first photo of the post) Once she got of hold of somebody, she was NOT letting go...

She really was adorable. Thank you, Teresa and Mike, for having us with you for your wedding. Your families are amazing, and the wedding was gorgeous. We're so glad we were able to end our craziest weekend ever with you on such a high note. We hope you're absolutely loving your honeymoon, and we'll talk to you guys when you get back!