Posts from the ‘Weddings at the Celebration Hotel’ Category

Celebration, Florida

Elsa and Mitch are calming. Elsa is quiet, with an understated elegance that makes everyone else around her relaxed. Mitch is joyful, with a jubilant spirit that brings out smiles and laughter in everyone around him. Together they mesh perfectly into quite a couple, and together they put on one heck of a party!

Their wedding day started at the Bohemian Hotel Celebration where Elsa got ready in a peaceful room overlooking the large lake in downtown Celebration with her mom and sister. They had a romantic Catholic ceremony followed by one of the most energy-charged cocktail hours we’ve ever seen. There was a live mariachi band filling the entire back atrium of the hotel with latin melodies. Their dinner reception led way to an intense dance party culminating with a spirited version of “Shout” including a lot of “hallelujah” jazz hands and white napkins. Maybe you had to be there. ;)

Congratulations Elsa and Mitch!

Ceremony Location – Holy Cross Catholic Church
Hair and Makeup – Knockout Artistry
Reception Location – Bohemian Hotel Celebration
Mariachis – Mariachi Real de Mexico
Reception Music – White Rose Entertainment
Cake – Party Flavors
Photographers- Becka & Nate at Studio222 Photography

Holy Cross Catholic Church | Bohemian Hotel Celebration (aka Celebration Hotel)

How could I have not already posted this?! I had SUCH a hard time selecting images for this sneak peek of Elsa and Mitch’s wedding day. There were so many beautiful moments from their romantic mass at the Holy Cross Catholic Church (led by one of the most entertaining and genuinely charming priests we’ve met) to their Mariachi band cocktail hour on the back terrace of the Bohemian Hotel in Celebration, to their golden and gorgeous dinner reception inside the hotel filled with some of the most hip-shaking reception dancing of all time. The entire day was flawless and we had such a great time documenting it.

I’ve been playing around with a new editing software that I am LOVING and this is the first post that I’ve done entirely in the new software. I’m so excited to share it with you all. Please enjoy these selected frames from the day…

Window light has always been my favorite. But stained glass window light? I might die and go to heaven…

This is one of my favorite kiss shots of all time. The “almost kiss”. A split second before the deal is sealed. ;)

I firmly believe that the phone booth in Celebration has mystical sexy photo powers. Or maybe it’s Elsa and Mitch.

More to come…

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Celebration Hotel | Celebration, Florida

“He told me he sits by the prettiest girl in the world.” One of the bridesmaids gushed to me while Lillian was getting her hair styled. “After the first date he told me, ‘This is the girl I’m gonna marry.’ He came over for dinner and told my mom too. She looked at him and said, ‘Shut up Carl and eat your potatoes.’ We all thought he was being dramatic, but he knew from the very beginning.” She sat back in her chair and smiled at Lillian who was laughing the way people laugh when they are completely and utterly amused by someone else telling a story about them. She picked right back up where she had left off- “Three months in he called me and asked me to meet him to go ring shopping. He would have asked her right then but she made him wait 6 months.” She cast a dramatic glare in Lillian’s direction. Lillian rolled her eyes. She leaned back in to me and concluded, “He finally popped the question at Epcot, 6 months later, but he knew from the beginning.”

Sometimes you don’t need to know. Sometimes he knows. And 6 months later when you know, he’ll have known all along. ;)

A bouquet like this needs something more than your standard bouquet shot. Boom!

Hair by Lauren Rathmann at Salon Salon

Featherd hairpiece by Lo Boheme on Etsy

A last minute letter…

The gorgeous wedding party in front of the gorgeous Celebration Hotel

We had our own placecards at one of the tables. How much do I love that?! Thanks Lillian!

Downtown Celebration