Recording the essence of life.

Nicole and Dan's Chico Hot Springs Resort wedding.

Greetings friends, family, brides, grooms, parents, blogographers and photos lovers. I just finished the first draft wedding album of Nicole and Dan. Livingston is a hometown kind of place. Populations - around 6,000 depending on whether or not you count the outlying rural areas within 50 miles of city center. Then it might be 7,000!!!

Years ago I met Jane and the Welch family. Jane Welch, Nicole's mother, is a friend of my sister in law. You get the picture. It's a small town!. When Heather and I were young parents and just getting started, we rented a small pull-along trailer from Jane for our family vacations on the lakes of northwestern Montana. Nicole was a highschooler at the time. I did some fun photos with her for her use and my "up start" stock photography submissions.

Time has flown by and now my daughters are off to college and exploring their own futures while Nicole is now a newlywed. Phew! ... how life passes.

Nicki's wedding was dramatic, colorful, passionate, tearful and above all... totally a living testiment to the families of Nicole and Dan. So here's to friends without whom we would be desolate wanderers. Here's to family that will love you regardless of your choices in life. Here's to children that will grow to outshine your own star, and most of all... Here's to love that brings people together from every walk of life and finds there, in the midst of that union, a common inseparable bond.

I present the touching wedding photos of Nicole and Dan.

Keep loving and living. Next week I will have the Hoepp wedding ready to share. I bet you thought I was done... not hardly!

Just in from New York: my next wedding couple were reunited this week after the groom returned from deployment in Iraq. On December 28th, they will be marriend in Helena. It should be a warm and heartfelt Winter wedding. I'm personally excited about about Christmas time weddings because Heather and I were marriend on December 25th.

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