An unbelievable day with amazing people. A huge post will come soon, but I wanted to get a quick preview up to show you all. Without further ado.

The bride and groom… Her dress was amazing. Truly.

The whole crazy crew…

The bride…wowzers! Gotta love her natural look and I’m diggin’ the freckles!

The lovely ladies walking downtown Main street…

The kiss… Shot by a “guest” in the crowd. More to come from that “guest” later.

The first dance…

Matt and Amy’s wedding was absolutely wonderful! I just had to post a few images as fast as I could! To all of you who were a part of their day…it was an honor and pleasure to meet with you all and to hang out!

Many more, including the proofs, will follow with detailed descriptions and such…

The best to you both, Mr. n’ Mrs. Bradshaw!

This session is really, really, really special to me. Really. Do you want to know why? Really? Cool, I’ll tell you why…

Josh is my cousin. In a lot of families, cousins are distant relatives that live in a galaxy far, far away. This is not true with most of my humongous extended family. I was a few years older than Josh, but when we would hang out as kids nearly every week, we were the only boys around the same age, so we played together while all the girls (my sisters) hung out in his two sister’s rooms.

We played with tons of toys like he-man, batman, star wars, g.i. joe’s, micro machines and matchbox cars. We collected baseball cards and garbage pail kids. We ran around outside with capes and hit each other with toys swords, making cool sound effects all the while. Josh and I shot at each other with toy guns and played kickball, and fort, and cops/robbers, and james bond, and wiffle ball and basketball. I even tried to play soccer with Josh, but he was always faster and better than me, because he actually played in a competitive league. We grew up together and I feel more like siblings than cousins.

Josh grew up (so did I, kind of…) and we did grow apart due to life and circumstance, but Josh has grown into an awesome man of God that has a confident, fun-loving personality that has an enormous positive effect on every person he meets. One of the most amazing persons he has met is Beth. Beth is kind and sweet and has a kindred funny spirit…not to mention she is gorgeous! Way to go, Josh!

They have been engaged for a while now and are getting married in a few short weeks. I look forward to being a part of their day and capturing every moment.

We hung out down in Westport, MO for their engagement session, grabbing some coffee at Broadway Cafe and walking around enjoying the beautiful weather. I hope you all enjoy the photos…and sorry for blabbing on and on.

Much love to you all,

-dustin

Oh…and as a sidenote, I shot this with a Nikon D300 (which I rented from borrowlenses.com) and my 24mm f/2.8.