Formals

I guess most people do these in advance (so they can have pretty pictures at their reception? I've never been sure exactly why, really.) but we took our formals in the week after the wedding because I just didn't want to show Joseph my dress before the day of! Also I wanted mountain-y, fall-color pictures and that would involve tromping through dirt, which is not a good idea for the white dress you only plan to wear once. Thus, you need to do all tromping after said dress has had its glory days. 

OH ALSO: I didn't plan for a separate formals bouquet of flowers (I know it came up in the consultation, but we hadn't chosen our photographer at that point, so...I guess I said no), but since formals were after the wedding, I could just grab the flowers from one of the centerpieces and call it a bouquet! In all cases, this turned out to be a good life choice. 

Anyway, here are a few way too many of my faves from the pictures we took that day. Photographer Amber knows AF canyon really well, so we followed her first up there to a magical bridge and then back down to a magical field. It was freeeezing but I won't complain because we were blessed with the best October weather ever known to Utah for our actual wedding day, so I guess this was the trade off. I'll take it. 

I lovelovelove the way these turned out.