In early July Ashley and I photographed Kelly and Dan's Urbandale wedding. It was pretty warm out, but not bad enough to keep us from starting photos outside. We have been on a good streak of doing first sights outside this year. The lighting is drastically better and the photos show it. We decided to photograph Kelly and Dan's first sight downtown at the state capitol. We followed that up with photos in the area. Typically we would want to take those between the ceremony and reception so everyone is a little more relaxed and can have a real good time, but this bride, groom, and wedding party were as relaxed as we've seen before a ceremony.

We headed back to the church to do formal photos before the ceremony. Again we shot outside, which was definitely the right choice given the great location and weather. Aside from little hydraulic grease on the bride's dress everything went pretty well. When the bride get's grease on her dress it is not a good thing, but it didn't spoil anyone's attitude and we kept moving. Beautiful day, beautiful wedding, beautiful photos. Congratulations Kelly and Dan!