Judd Sather Photography Blog

Green grass in December for Chase and Ellie – what a fun day! It’s always challenging shooting in December with cold and darkness, but today we added a twinkle parade, fireworks, and Santa in the bucket of a fire truck to the list! I love the images we took just before the reception out by the twinkle lights down by The Dock Cafe. At Pioneer Park, the engineer guys wanted an image of the two Stillwater bridges in focus with them out-of-focus just to clarify! And then like true gentlemen, they held the flowers for the bridesmaids and mugged for a few images.

Ellie had some new creative image ideas and tons of great details like the ring box and cork-filled centerpieces – so cool. We shot Chase and Ellie’s engagement session of 18 months ago so they really had the details dialed in. I love how The Loft seems so cozy in the winter… snowflakes and people bundled up outside on Main Street while the party is going on inside.

The image of Ellie looking out the bride’s room window just before the ceremony is one of my favorites for the year! I love it as photographers when we have a few extra minutes and grab a quick and unplanned awesome image (in between bites of cheese curds of course – ha!). Thanks Ellie and Chase for choosing The Loft and us to capture your wedding images! – Judd and Josh and The Loft crew

Links: Facebook Album (Top 200 images), Link to all 900 images (Contact Ellie for the password), Judd Sather Photography, The Loft at Studio J

Greg and Kaidra rolled the weather dice by having a rooftop ceremony on October 10 and came up huge! It was a glorious day and we even got some video of the pumpkin drop at Stillwater Harvest Fest.

Some of my favorite images are the blinky ring/ring shot, grandma and mom holding hands during the ceremony, Greg’s Wu Tang symbols, and taking some pretty epic images in the streets right where Kaidra serves at Whitey’s! It was so fun to drive that massive bus around from Pioneer Park, to Whitey’s for a round of jello shots, and the right back to the Loft. Navigating Stillwater during Harvest Fest was pretty tricky but it was really fun having such a buzz in downtown Stillwater (literally) and having all of the celebration close by.

It was such a gorgeous day filled with tons of fun and a special shout out to Lisa’s Catering who set a record by getting 240 guests through the buffet line in 17 minutes! Thanks Greg and Kaidra for letting us be part of your big day and we will literally see you around! – Judd, Josh, and the Loft crew!

Links: See & download all images (Contact Kaidra for password), Facebook Album (Top 200 images), Stillwater Library, The Loft at Studio J, Judd Sather Photography

Sometimes being a good photographer in Stillwater (or anywhere) means you know when the bridal party needs to just stop taking pictures and chow down on mac ‘n cheese pizza from Quickfire Pizza… Their ceremony was on The Avalon Riverboat without food, and when we started the creative time it was pretty clear that almost everyone needed food. So we spent 45 minutes just feeding our faces and having drinks in downtown Stillwater on a balmy day, and man did it hit the spot!

From the moment we met Brason and Lindsey, we had the feeling that there was going to be a whirlwind of fun, craziness, and spontaneity surrounding their wedding. We showed up for an engagement session, got to meet “Pile” the dog, and five hours later we had taken about 600 engagement pictures (mostly due Jason’s erratic driving while Lindsey and Brason were tubing!). Epic.

Lindsey had an AMAZING statement piece designed by Marlaina Stone, and she had them made for each of her bridesmaids’ personality. The massive clasp is what we put the rings around for the ring image. We also grabbed a very cool image of Lindsey laying on the ground that I love – it was inspired by the crazy carpet pattern on the Avalon. It was funny that a couple of her relatives though she had fallen or passed out when we were taking the shots – sorry about that! 🙂

Some other fun random memories: Brason had a puppy pattern tie, the bridesmaid threw their wilted bouquets over the edge of the boat, Chris polished of many people’s beers at the pizza place, the bridal party was flown into the groom’s dinner on Jimmy Buffet’s former plane, the 45 second ceremony (after processional), the bottle of Dom Pérignon on the bride’s room, Lindsey spilling pizza on her dress, rooftop after after party, but MOST of all was the HEIGHT of the bridal toss images at Pioneer Park! So the award for this wedding goes to the highest bridal toss ever, by any wedding party anywhere I’m sure.

It was such a pleasure working with you guys, Lindsey and Brason – thanks for letting us be a part of your lives to capture these images! – Judd and Josh

Links: Link to all 800 images (Contact Lindsey for the password), Facebook Album, Judd Sather Photography, The Loft at Studio J

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