Julie & Brandon | Columbia Country Club wedding | Chevy Chase, Maryland
Julie and Brandon beat out threats of rain to have an elegant but boisterous wedding at Columbia Country Club. These two held a "small" ceremony with their enormous families, then invited all the folks to come have dinner and dancing and plenty of laughs. Plus, there were more cousins than you can shake a stick at. Julie and Brandon:
This, folks, is the face of a man who wants to be married.
We stole off for a few photos around the grounds, with the repeated admonition not to get in the way of the golfers. Those golfers mean serious business!
The kids' table was deserted by mid-meal. I found them in the cool-people area getting into trouble.
And here's Jim and Amy! Aren't they cute?
I waited by the ice cream sundae station (yeah, you heard right) knowing full well the kids' faces were going to do something like this:
You always see high heels kicked off, but I love the addition of tiny shoes here.
Congratulations, you guys!
Julie and Brandon's vendor team:
Ceremony and reception venue: Columbia Country Club
Catering: same
Band: Raggs and the Allstars
Cake: Fancy Cakes by Leslie
Hair & Makeup: Elizabeth Arden Red Door Salon, Friendship Heights
Julie's beautiful dress: BHLDN
Olivia's very talented friend made this bouquet of hydrangeas with flowers from Whole Foods!
Their ceremony and reception was held at the very quaint 
I'd heard of this, but never seen it before. Olivia and Eric incorporated a "ring warming" ceremony into their program. Everyone at the wedding held the rings for a minute and meditated just a second on happiness and health for the couple.
Married!
Gosh these two were a joy to work with. We ended up having plenty of time to do portraits around the restaurant and on the next block over. And do I need to gush over how beautiful Olivia is? Probably overkill.
The upstairs part of the restaurant had this awesome little French country bench thing going on so of course we had to wrap up our portraits there.
Love.
It's too much cute - I can't take it!
Congratulations you guys!!
These two radiated passion. You know how when you're with two people that are so madly in love you can almost feel it coming off them and it's maybe a little embarrassing to be so close to them kissing because they are obviously really into it? That and they did some awesome Latin dancing. It was hot up in there, folks. But first, the dead birds.
One of David's groomsmen bought him this impressive-ass Johnny Walker Blue Label King George V scotch. They were throwing around all kinds of crazy talk like this bottle of alcohol cost hundreds of dollars. Quite a fancy gift, right? It came in a big blue box with accoutrements.
I love the hell out of this shot of David. Isn't he dapper?
It threatened to rain while they were getting ready but they decided to go for the ceremony in the grove and I'm soooo glad they did. This was an amazing setting for a wedding ceremony. The trees lining the grove were too cool.
And they had deer behind them while they said their vows. How much more magical could a wedding possibly get?
I cannot thank Tara enough for letting me tag along for the couple portraits. These two are gorgeous and I'm so happy to share these images with you!
Their bird-themed decor fit right in with the Audubon nature center.
They hired a live Latin band to play ridiculously danceable music for the first part of their ceremony. It really fired up the dance floor.
And then, because I was second shooting and wasn't obligated to anyone, I snuck outside to steal a few images of the grounds and the reception.
Thanks again to Caroline, David and Tara for having me along. Congratulations you two!