The weddings on!  Grab your river shoes and your spf 45 sunblock.  Welcome to the River Rendezvous Wedding at the River Ranch in Noel.  Let the wedding bliss begin…

Funny story…I’ve never been to Noel before and you know how you create what a place will be like in your head.  Becca told me it was going to be a river float trip wedding, and that it was going to be in Noel.  (Remember I’ve never been to Noel before)  In my mind I’m picturing a small little cabin along side a river with an old guy in a rocker out front, maybe a straw hat on.  And as you pass by to go inside, he says “howdy”.  Maybe a few cabins and a little tent area by the river and  mostly just people there for the wedding.

Well, looking at the map, Noel, MO doesn’t look like much, but once we arrived….WOW!  First we pulled into a parking lot with cars everywhere, buses going in and out loaded with river goers.  Campsites all over, multiple buildings and what looked like different groups from all over.  I thought, WHERE did this ALL this come from?

The place is like a great big party and I think the wedding was the headliner.  So without further ado…..we present the River Rendezvous Wedding.

After a good nights camping, its rise and shine wedding goers for breakfast before the ceremony. 🙂

Here is your first tuxedo t-shirt sighting…..

Notice the sign:  You are almost there!

Ok, if you guys are going to do that I’ll just look the other way….

There it is, four layers of River Rendezvous cakeness!

This amazing custom cake starts out at the top with a canoe on a blue river of icing that extends all the way to the bottom layer! 😉

Each layer is its own theme that represents something cool about Shane and Becca.  (Brilliant!)

Here is Seth and Janay,  a great young couple that are full speed ahead of the game.  You guys are are most impressive! 🙂 We are so excited that we were able to hook up for these great photos.  Janay told me about the park that we shot them at,  I wasn’t sure what it was going to be like, but I think you will agree that the location was great.

Austin was looking at this shot with me and we liked both, so….we can post both, right?

doesn’t everyone have an engagement photo in front of the restrooms at the park?  Ok, probably not…but you didn’t have us take your pictures then, didn’t want to leave this one out.  😉

How do you follow up a restroom used as a backdrop…how about  Wendy’s attempt to give a “traditional pose” for the moms and grandmoms.  Well, how’d we do. (Even went for a more traditional “branding” logo thing)  Now if we were just inside you might think we were at JCPenney.  Ok, enough of that, beautiful shot guys, but now back to our regular progam….

Seth found this sign on the ground as we were walking to another great spot to shot, we thought…perfect.  Here is the result.

So what does this have to do with anything?  Nothing, just a random sign I thought I would include. 🙂 (Well, it was the park we were at, not like it was a sign from a different park, that wouldn’t make sense.)

This might be the sweetest thing ever.

I think I blew up the server with all that.  So many super shots.  Oh, wait here is another one, cant leave that one out.  No, just kidding.  But really, Seth and Janay, thanks so much for being so great.  🙂

So, back again…i know you say, ive already seen SHANE + BECCA e n g a g e m e n t.  Well, that was only a few of our favorites and we shot the wedding a couple of weeks ago and well, you cant post wedding photos before a better look at the engagement session. (not to mention that they are not ready yet,  maybe a sneak peak or something soon though)

As i was going back through these, i like so many.  Really had to narrow them down to keep the blog post under control and so that the gater host server doesnt get overloaded.  (not really, they have plenty of space im sure)  🙂

Shane and Becca are so much fun, i think you will see that in these super photos.  Shane is great and Becca…well…she is one of the funniest people i know.  Together they perfectly compliment one another.  The more we are around them the more we see it.

Ok, enough of this love letter…get on with the show……. 🙂

so good….have to start the post with this shot again!

HOT TAMALES!

Wendy…stop crying 😉