As you may have heard, we recently had the awesome opportunity to travel down to Florida on what we are considering our first destination wedding. We've had a few Midwest 'destination' weddings that were quite a good distance but still drivable. Clearwater, Florida may "technically" be drivable, but we chose the easy way out and flew. LOL
Our connection to this wedding was a fellow photographer who happened to be best friends with the groom and was thus chosen to be the Best Maid. Her name is Julie Story and we met her through a professional photography message board we are actively a part of, called Showiteers (a networking group associated with the website design program SHOWIT). Back in late Spring she posted that she was looking for a photographer from our group to be the photographer for Ricky and Leann's wedding when she was unable to photograph because of her wedding responsibilities. A large number of photographers responded and Julie narrowed down the group to her top 5 favorites. Ricky and Leann then took those 5, looked at them all independently and came back together with their favorite. Lucky us - they both chose us first!
We had an amazing time there staying with Julie Story. She was an absolute riot to hang out with and a branding/marketing/social media genius! We already knew she was gifted in these areas, but after hanging out with her for a weekend, our own business outlook was inspired, adjusted and re-energized! If you own your own business it is DEFINITELY worth getting to know her for all aspects of branding and marketing. Just make sure you tell her that Kevin and Heather sent you!
Below is a short, high-speed video we shot of our trip. We would have loved to have shot more footage while we were in Clearwater, but we got so caught up in the busyness, business and fun of it that we forgot to turn on the GoPro video camera. Oops! :)
(Caution - you might need to take some motion-sickness medicine before you watch this) LOL
Check back in soon for a few teasers from Ricky and Leann's big day!
~ Kevin & Heather
