Tara and Jared had such wonderful attitudes about the weather. I love it when couple just go with the flow. We can’t change the weather so we may as well accept it and work with it. This goes for the overall wedding day and in my case for the photography. I really try to encourage couples to not be afraid of the rain. It makes everything wet and shiny and glowy and gorgeous! If we can all brave the weather, I promise the photos will be worth it! We actually only had a few drops fall on us during our time at the temple and at la caille, but they were braving it with the chance that the weather could get worse.

Tara’s Anne Barge gown comes from Alta Moda Bridal. Anne Barge chose Alta Moda Bridal to be their exclusive representative in Utah.

Enizio completed her look with hair and makeup. Great work ladies!

Tara’s vision came together stuningly. Her wedding reception was so beautiful in fact that La Caille decided to feature her wedding (my photos) in their “La Caille Dream Wedding” package.

Contact La Caille for details on their Dream Wedding package.

Do they ever stop kissing?

Sean from Sax-Romney created a floral design that tied Tara’s whole vision all together with a neat little bow. Everything floral in any of these photographs were created by him.

He is so skilled and creative. Anything you want, he can do it!!!

Granite Bakery created this stunningly simple wedding cake. Delicious and Beautiful! Sax-Romney provided the floral details for the cake.

Thank you Tara and Jared! You and your family were so wonderful to work with! I was sad to see it all end. Love, Logan

The new studio, dubbed ‘Studio 1053′, is home to ZumaPhoto, its sister studio Sprout Photo, and the Salt Lake annex of the incomparable, 6-time Best of State winning caterer, Culinary Crafts.

Thanks to a lot of help from our partners and friends, we were able to throw an awesome party for some 200 or so of our friends and favorite vendors!  We make a pretty sweet team, if I do say so myself.  ;)

On with the show…

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UPDATE: I have been fielding many email requests about to the song as I forgot to link it:
Jungle Drum from Me and Armini by Emiliana Torrini
(6 weeks at #1 on the German pop charts [but she's actually Icelandic])
I fully expect to be hearing it on countless slideshows.

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We would not have been able to put on such a lavish event without the love and support of our friends and vendors, so in no particular order, here are the ‘credits’:

• The exquisite floral designs were from our good friends at Every Blooming Thing
• The band was Party of Five.  Thanks for keeping us dancing!
• The incredible ice sculpture came to us courtesy of Swanovations
• Bar service and signature drinks by Baccus
• Makeup for the ladies of Studio 1053 by Anna K Style
• Catering, Service and Site Design by Culinary Crafts (of course!)
• Photo booth courtesy of FotoCabina (SO much fun!)
• Invitation and t-shirt design by PixelWhipped
• And of course, major thanks to David Perry for putting this video together for us!
• I would also like to extend my deepest gratitude to the extended ZumaPhoto crew: Logan, Ryan, Angela, Jessica, and Tami. Team Zuma Rules!
• Mascot:  Zen

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THANK YOU to everyone who attended!  The feedback we’ve been getting has been just overwhelming and we so appreciate your support.
We want to give a special shout out to those folks who gave us such wonderful sound bites:

• Christina with LiBella Event Planning (you have such great energy Christina!)
• Carol with Enizio Hair & Makeup Artistry
• Craig with Disc Connection
• Pam & John of Every Blooming Thing
• Nicole from Latter Day Bride
• Hillary of Alta Moda Bridal

Cheers!
- Mitch & Team Zuma

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