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Mindy + Tim : Grand Californian Wedding Reception

January 17, 2013 by Jensey 4 Comments

(Continued from Mindy and Tim’s California Adventure Engagement Session, Downtown Disney Rehearsal Dinner, and Disneyland Wedding posts!)

Favorite. :)

Mindy and Tim’s reception was at the Grand Californian Hotel, where we’d photographed Victoria and Brian’s wedding the year prior. Tim and Mindy held their cocktail hour at my favorite Disneyland wedding venue- Brisa Courtyard, where the monorails pass overhead. <3

Tim and Mindy’s tables at the reception were named after their favorite television shows as a couple. Tim is actually a writer for one of our favorite shows, so that bumps their cool points as a couple to #1. :)

Another favorite!!

Yay for familiar faces!

The end! :)

All of Mindy and Tim’s wedding links :

Mindy + Tim : Disneyland Hotel Wedding

January 16, 2013 by Jensey 8 Comments

(Continued from Mindy and Tim’s California Adventure Engagement Session and Downtown Disney Rehearsal Dinner posts!)

Mindy and Tim’s wedding was our first-ever at the Disneyland Hotel and we were super excited to work with the Disneyland wedding team again. Mindy had the most amazing room to get ready in, and I love that she was able to overlook the Rose Court Garden where her ceremony would be in just a few hours.

Her headboard had light up fireworks on it! :)

From what I understand, Tara Fontana is the Patricia LeJeune of the west!

The story of how Mindy found her wedding dress is one of my favorites- She spotted it in the window of a local thrift shop and bought it for a whopping $15! Mindy had a seamstress put in the corset back, shorten the skirt, add some tulle, and voila! Her dream dress. :)

Hair and make-up ran pretty late, so I felt awful rushing Mindy through what should have been the most relaxing part of the day- portrait time! This is one of my favorite photos from the day- Mindy decided she wanted to reverse the typical first look so Tim walked up to her and not the other way around. I love the flowers all around her!

Mindy made her own flowers which you can purchase in her Fairy Tale Floral Shop here on Etsy. :)

Married!

Mindy planned her wedding down to the tiniest detail- Even the pens they used to sign their marriage license!

Off in their carriage to the reception! Those photos to come tomorrow. :)

Related posts on the Root Photography blog :

Mindy + Tim : First Look on the 1st

October 1, 2012 by Jensey 3 Comments

I would like to send a huge thanks to Mindy of Budget Fairy Tale for October’s First Look on the 1st! You can visit her blog here, and read her full wedding recap here. :)

We had always known we wanted to do a “first look” before our ceremony simply for logistic reasons. We didn’t want to have to rush through our photos between the ceremony and reception, and we also wanted to join our guests at our cocktail hour (hey – we were paying for it, after all). But my strong, feminist side has always had a problem with the way traditional first looks perpetuate the myth that the bride is somehow more important than the groom and has to be hidden away for a big reveal. So we elected to do a “reverse first look,” where Tim came up behind me and I turned around to see him. This actually worked very nicely for me because I had yet to see his full wedding day ensemble. So when I turned around to see him, I actually was truly surprised and excited! It was so nice to have some time to ourselves before the chaos hit.

One of the unexpected perks of the reverse first look was it resulted in one of my favorite pictures from our wedding day, which is the photo of me standing in the grass among the fallen petals of a Jacaranda tree, waiting for my soon-to-be husband. Even though I had walked around the grounds of the Disneyland Hotel several times before, the place felt different and the area felt so much more magical to me at that moment, and I was standing there by myself waiting for Tim it really hit me that my fairy tale was coming true.

Related posts on the blog :

What’s a “first look?”

Carrie and Patrick’s First Look

Erin and Steve’s First Look