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NEW BLOG

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It's a work in progress, but it looks so much better than this one. In fact, it just went live last night, so if this link doesn't work, it will soon.

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molly + jeff

Molly and Jeff had an awesome wedding at Anderson Center for the Arts.  The ceremony was supposed to be outdoors at the park, but as seems to be the norm this year, was rained out.  It looked like the call to move the ceremony indoors wasn't going to be necessary as it seemed nice much of the day, but as soon as the ceremony started you could hear thunder, and it poured shortly afterwards, everyone would have been drenched!  

Ceremony and Reception:  Anderson Center for the Arts

Florist and Design:  George Urbanski -- He did an incredible job with the flowers, and helped make everything perfect, especially with moving the ceremony indoors the day of the wedding!!

Cake:  Classic Cakes of Carmel  of course you can never go wrong with Classic Cakes

DJ:  Chris with Grapevine Entertainment

Videographer:  northernlight filmworks  I just love their work and they were great to work with, I can't wait to see the video they put together from Molly and Jeff's wedding!

The dress and shoes,  shot by my assistant kim

Molly's mom did her hair, just like she did when molly was little... go mom!

Molly ended up going with an asian theme for her wedding.   She was supposed to arrive at the ceremony in this rickshaw.  Her dad assembled it, she painted it!  It ended up being perfect for the gift table!

Right before dinner, a dragon dance... this was cool

Another great shot by kim

This seems to be the year for great mother/son dances

Thank you guys for letting me capture this wedding!!

To see all their images, click here

The event key is Jeff's last name

Bosnia, last post

I've got a few more pictures I want to post before I get back to regularly posting weddings and e-sessions...

This was right next to the door to a house in Livno, I thought it was cool, and then noticed a little bear that looks like the one Madison carries everywhere she goes :)

On Saturday we drove to Mostar, one of the most heavily damaged cities in the war.  There are still buildings all over that are decimated and some buildings that are in the midst of being repaired.  

This bridge is world famous and was destroyed in the war and was reconstructed in 2003 with the original stone.  

destroyed in the war...

You can see a few bullet holes in this door

I did get to go into a Mosque in Mostar, it was really cool

climbing up the tower...

the last picture of war damage I'm posting...

On Sunday, we drove back to Split Croatia.  I didn't realize how much of a tourist spot Croatia's become, it's really popular now!

Diocletian's palace was right on the beach and was really neat to visit.

We arrived Sunday afternoon, and the place was pretty empty until the stores opened up in the evening.

Found this hole with 'beauty' directly behind where I was standing for that last shot,  the second picture is looking through the hole..

Bosnia, last work day

We're back from Bosnia!  It was an awesome trip, it's so different to "live" in a place for a week instead of just visiting like a tourist.  It's a different pace of life over there, you get used to it and it makes it hard to leave.  

Leaving was a mess anyway, the German airline Lufthansa went on strike the day we left!  We had flown into Vienna where I picked up a USA Today and realized our time in Germany would be interesting :) Our flight back was on a smaller than scheduled plane with basically no food on a 9 hour flight.  More than 80 people were denied seating, and it was literally a first come first serve, those that found a seat flew to the US.  The food that they did serve was Frozen through and through. 

When we arrived back in the states I was shocked to find out our luggage actually made it!  Now I'm fighting jet-lag...  by 2 am my body thinks it's 8 am and it's hard to get any sleep.

Here's a few more pictures of the classroom work we did and the semi-final product.  The classroom is getting a new floor this week and all new desks, unfortunately I won't have a picture of that but I can show you the walls!

Purple, yellow and orange aren't colors I would have picked out but they ended up looking really good together.

 

This is the final product, with everyone hanging out taking pictures 

This is head maintenance guy at the school, he's the guy working with the fishermen in one of my other posts, he's the one cutting the block for the wall..  

Anyway, he came in and said we did a great job.  He gave us One thumb up!  He said he would have given us two, but he's only got one.  Of course that was all in Croatian so it's paraphrased but he wanted a picture :)

And the last picture of the school, this was my favorite part, it's immediately across the hallway when you walk in the front doors.  You can see the mountains through the broken panes on the top left.

I'll be posting just a few more pictures soon.   We visited Mostar Bosnia, it was a city devastated in the war and there's still tons of damage.  The last day we spent some time in Split Croatia and I've got some really cool pictures from there too...  stay tuned :)