Featured on the Wedding Chicks! Hip Hip!

Exciting news! Spindle Photography was featured on The Wedding Chicks (really great inspiration blog that I personally subscribed to as a bride!) last week! I'd love for you to take a peek around their site and leave a comment (especially if you know Erica! her wedding was amazing!).

Either way, hooray! It is fabulous to see Erica's wedding where it belongs, amongst all of the other fabulous weddings they feature!

Erica & Yorgos: Reception

for their first dance, Erica and Yorgos recreated the Zorro Anthony Hopkins/Catherine Zeta-Jones number which was a huge hit, and way more fun than your typical sway.

























A huge thank you to Erica, Yorgos, and all of their guests for including me in this surreal and awesome event! I am obviously very excited about the wedding with all of my postings and I'm sad it had to end. Best wishes for your ridiculously happy future!

Erica & Yorgos: Dinner

After the ceremony there was a lovely seated dinner at one of the resort's restaurants, Asadito, an Argentinian style steakhouse. I loved that the entire group could sit at the long table, decorated with candles and coral. The setting fit very well with the intimate feel of the whole wedding.




This was truly a DIY wedding done right, Erica was responsible for all of the details!

Erica & Yorgos!

how gorgeous is this lobby?

Erica & Yorgos: Ceremony

The best part. Erica had been planning the look of the ceremony for months and I really love her all white theme. The bridesmaids and groomsmen in white and the bride and groom in a champagne/khaki set look amazing together. It made for such a classy look, and subtle is the new black. Sorry to inundate the blog with images, but I'm in love love love with this wedding, if you couldn't tell already.


A never-before event on the blog, this image was taken by my darling husband, Garrett! He's a natural with the camera and I'm so lucky I got to take him along as my second-shooter. I'm hoping I can convince him that he's in love with it too, because every time I'm at a wedding my heart beats fast as I watch a couple in love and think about us. It's really good therapy for people in relationships, it reminds you of the good things and I love it!

I love the look on Yaya's face.


At the beginning of the ceremony the rings were passed around to each guest so that they could bless the rings. I freaked out a little at the rehearsal when I heard that it was going to happen (what if someone drops the rings!) but of course it went without a hitch (except for the actual hitching, which happened later). It was a really special part of the ceremony and it's great that the group was small enough to make it a reality.

Erica's dad read a passage of scripture and Yorgos's dad officiated!

Pay close attention to the blonde groomsman.

He was our major excitement for the day, as he passed out halfway through the ceremony. Apparently the same thing happened at Yorgos's parents' wedding, so it must be lucky.

Here's a final image from Garrett as well. I better watch out, he's got some skills.

Erica & Yorgos: Pre-Ceremony

After a few scares during the day and a light sprinkle while we did portraits of the girls, we were relieved that for the ceremony the sky was beautiful.

The woman on the right, Yorgos's grandmother, introduced herself to me as "Yaya." And Yaya can dance.

Erica & Yorgos didn't see each other before so this was a fun moment of giggling and hiding for all the girls.

Next up is the ceremony!