Justin + Melody: 09.05.2010 (Northwestern College and Scandia family farm)

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The toasts are my favorite part of weddings because they are so unscripted and heartfelt. Cathy and Paul are amazingly articulate, well-spoken, and funny. Paul talked about Justin's humility, and I was thinking about how both Justin and Melody have the same uncanny and perfect blend of confidence and humility.

I also love family farm receptions - they are so personal and it's fun looking around at all the details that required countless hours of preparation: sod lines cut around the tress with perfect mounds of mulch, new wax on the hayloft dance floor, sheer fabric strings of lights in the animal stalls, underlighting in the seemingly cloned trees lining the driveway, homemade signs for parking, and crazy animals like the growling Scottish Highlander cow and spontaneously sprinting shetland pony. Nice job Syd and crew!

We have been lucky enough to capture images of Melody 4 times now. The first time was when we just captured a single image of her in a dress that her mom wanted her to wear for the wedding, and Melody presented it to her during her battle with cancer. The whole wedding day, it seemed like we were almost working with models at a staged wedding because we felt so comfortable shooting with each other in a very short timeframe and because, well, Justin and Melody are really beautiful people (inside and out). Except as Cathy and Paul pointed out in the toasts that Melody is a slob and Justin loves hair product. Humility! Awesome.

Some of my favorite images are below and they don't need much description, other than the cool barn spider and Justin and his pipe (we thought it would be funny since he is a philosophy professor.) We shot a little video during the day and we'll try to post that as well at a later date. -Judd, Josh, Joe, Jenna, and Melissa

















Here is their engagement video:


And the fashion video Melody debuted her magnificent mermaid dress: