Judd Sather Photography Blog

Here is a compilation slideshow from all 10 photographers at Studio J from 2008. The bulk of the images are from Judd Sather Photography. We are excited to announce that we can handle up to 4 weddings per date this year! We already have 14 weddings booked for 2009 (two dates double booked already) and two weddings for 2010! Email us for availability and new pricing info if you’re interested in us capturing your wedding! All our collections this year include the CD of negatives to print photos on your own.
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It’s a little know fact (not any more) that I design holiday cards with the same first-class look our wedding clients enjoy. Here are a couple examples including my family’s holiday magnet (on fridges everywhere once we send them out!). A bride just emailed me and called me a workaholic! After back-to-back 7am-midnight workdays these last two days I guess I deserve it… it is amazing what you can get done 16 hours in one day! Let us know if you want some sweet holiday cards next year! -Judd

Click here to be notified when Jesse and Chelsey’s pictures are online, and receive the $10 gift certificate!
This was the last wedding I will shoot until May and what a way to end the season – the 43rd wedding in 31 weekends and we get a major snowstorm and crazy slippery roads on the way down to Red Wing! The day started out at this cool bed and breakfast where the women were getting ready – totally decked out for the holidays with gigantic snowflakes falling outside the windows. After my brain caught up with Chelsey’s ultra-fast rate of speech, I was able to get some really cool shots in front of the window including my favorite shoe shot I have ever taken (below). We had to grab umbrellas for the bridesmaids for the snow shots since the snowflakes were so big and wet – the reason you only see one umbrella is because Chelsey broke the first two she tried to open! 🙂 Groom Jesse (aka the American Assassin ultimate fighter) and Chelsey didn’t see each other before the ceremony so we got out of the limo and pretty much walked right down the aisle in this small country church in the middle of nowhere. There was this crazy looking wolf-dog that almost attacked video guy Joe. I love the regal look of military weddings, the saber arch, the discipline, etc. Jesse got word a few weeks ago that he is being deployed for a year to Iraq Jan 9 (5 days after they get back from their honeymoon). We shot two weddings of Army officers in the Red Bull company that were deployed for 22 months and came back last summer; Jesse we’ll see you when you get back and thanks for your service to our country. We are turning around these photos in a record 2 days so you two can enjoy it together for a few days! -Judd, Amanda, Joe, and Kristina

Click here to view their album larger! The shopping cart will work once Jesse and Chelsey have seen all the pictures first and released them.











Here’s their highlight video!

Blustery day! Should calm down nicely tonight to get some cool shots in the fresh snow. Click here to see their virtual album pre-design!
OK, best man Larry gets “Slippery Finger of the Year” award for dropping Val’s engagement rock just before the ceremony. There was quite an awkward moment at the time to exchange rings as there was Doug’s ring. Val’s wedding band, but not the diamond engagement ring… Larry’s face was bright red as he dug in his pockets but no one really knew why. I was up near the front of the church to get a cool angle of the unity candle and I noticed a ring on the floor, slipped it to the pastor and all was well. I’m pretty sure Doug, Val, and Larry were sweating bullets for 10 minutes or so though. This was easily a top 3 wedding stories ever – I’ll enlighten you with the other two in a week or so. This was another fun referral wedding – about 12 clients that were guests, and I took a shot of 4 women at one point and had shot 3 of their weddings. Zimanski did his “Staying Alive” dance with the unusual gusto again, Froi cut the rug and quoted Caddyshack as usual (and gave a fantastic toast revealing that Doug actually happily went to a Dido concert with another guy), and Horner drank quite a few beers as usual – all on par with other weddings we’ve captured. We all froze at a stop at Hamiline (Go Pipers!) before the reception, but I got the ladies to show some leg in 10 degree weather – fantastic! There was this cool blue-lit christmas tree we got a few shots at, and how about that snow angel?! Can you say “rental tux”? Excellent. Last thought: everyone should have the hot chocolate bar they had – great idea Val! Well I guess if you’re getting married in the heat of summer then the hot chocolate bar doesn’t work quite as well… -Judd, Jessi, Allie, and Aron







Here’s their highlight video!

Blustery day! Should calm down nicely tonight to get some cool shots in the snow.

Blustery day! Should calm down nicely tonight to get some cool shots in the fresh snow.

Click here to receive the $10 gift certificate for Denise and Mike’s Wedding! This is going to be a blast – many surprises in store… I think my food coma is over from Thanksgiving, so I should be good to go. 🙂
I’ll post some shots soon, just up at 5am Sunday morning here with one of the kids and had to blog about this wedding…
Just when I thought I’d seen it all we get whips and daggers at the reception! To quote Mike, “Denise said no to an Indiana Jones-themed wedding, but not an Indiana Jones-themed reception! Cue the Indy outfit (hat, jacket, whip), Indy ice sculpture, Indy groom’s cake with cake topper, entertainer Johnny Pheonix doing a bit with Denise “mind reading” and snapping a blue feather out of evil twin (best man / cousin) Al’s hand with an Australian bullwhip. Oh, I almost forgot: they cut the cake with a familiy heirloom authentic German dagger taken from a World War II battlefield, complete with nazi insignia – creepy cool. Truth is stranger than fiction; Mike and Denise get the award for “most uniquely themed wedding reception – ever.” Joe is showing off the “Grizzly Adams” caricature of us; just a slight resemblance I hope. The artist lives in a country shack near Red Wing – cool. Denise and Mike, thanks for the memories and stores; I’m pretty sure I won’t see another Indiana Jones ice sculpture, home-made ball and chain, or WWII dagger for cake cutting! -Judd and Joe