Shelby and I were friends when we were teenagers. We spent the night at each other’s houses. Applied face masks and told secrets. Then we both grew up and went in two totally different directions. She is now a teacher in China!! Like I said totally different directions. Before Facebook it was a little more difficult to keep up with everybody’s business so we ended up loosing touch. (Which I have since appologized to Shelby for) Well one day on Facebook I see that she is engaged!! I am totally thrilled I think to myself OMG I HAVE to photograph their wedding! I don’t care if I have to fly to China to do it! Well I did! It was an AMAZING experience! I can now say that China will always be in my heart! One of these days I want to take my husband to see what Shelby and Stephen are up to over there.

So a little side story about them from what I remember (Shelby tell me if this is wrong they are both american and ended up meeting at a garden that Shelby loved to go to and then became friends and the love grew from there. So I mentioned that Shelby is a teacher, well Stephen is an AMAZING artist! I will be posting some of his work and a link to his site soon after I finish with the wedding post. They are such a sweet couple and compliment each other so well! Their humor is AMAZING and together will crack up the sourist of people ie Chinese taxi drivers HA HA HA I don’t know what I am talking about ok on with the pics….

So the wedding was held at The Orchard in Beijing China. The ceremony was on a little island surrounded by a moat outside of the resturant. The island is just big enough to hold the little screened structure were the ceremony took place. Then it had this beautiful bridge to it so of course I had to take a pic of them on it! So this is just the ceremony more to come!

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3 Responses to “Beijing wedding – Destination wedding ceremony”

1. Carol Smith says:

   July 19, 2010 at 8:59 am

   OMG, BEAUTIFUL!!! What a precious couple…they look PERFECT together…and what a GORGEOUS wedding! (( :
2. Shelby says:

   December 21, 2010 at 9:47 am

   Thank you so much!! You have blessed us more than you know! We are so thankful for your awesome skills and great heart!!
3. admin says:

   December 21, 2010 at 11:46 am

   Ahhh thank you! It was such a pleasure! Honestly it was a tad bit stressful (not from you guys just stress since it was the first full blown wedding to help Beth style) but soooooo worth it! I reallllly love the results! The knot is already interested YAY!