The City Park Wedding, Part 2 - Mariarosa & Paul 5.23.10 (Denver Colorado wedding photographer)

Getting married this year in City Park? Email Chris to see if I'm available to photograph your wedding! City Park is a pretty amazing place for photos.

[Visit here for Part I]

Mariarosa and her father, moments before her wedding...

The Sun did an AMAZING job lighting the ceremony. The Denver skyline as the backdrop made for a pretty special event.

Totally married!


Mariarosa's family is 100% Italian (Abruzzo region, to be exact), and one of the proud Italian traditions is the corteo nuziale, where the bride and groom lead the entire party in a celebratory walk after the ceremony to the reception site, with musical accompaniment (here, a violin and mandolin).

When Mariarosa told me about the corteo, I was psyched and was instantly reminded of the corteo in The Godfather. I want to spend a year in Italy just shooting weddings!

Some familiar faces from past weddings. It's great to see happy people coming back for more merriment.

City Park has great light and even better backdrops. Walking the grounds before the reception got us some pretty sweet moments between Mariarosa and Paul.

Que bella::


Anche::

New bling::


Cake tastiness provided by Kathleen at Mulberries Cake Shop::


Florals spectacularly arranged by Belle from Bonnie Brae Flowers::


One happy bride! Mariarosa exuded a certain elegance about her the whole day. She was an amazing bride and I checked, I don't have a bad picture of her!

Catering once again provided by Flying Horse Catering in Castle Rock. Great people.




My second-shooter had this brilliant idea, so I got the shot from the side::

Stephanie's set of the first dance::


Also, of the bride's mom, dad and relatives during the first dance, love the expressions::


Mariarosa and Paul, seriously an A+ wedding! Thanks for signing me on; it was so much fun and I can't wait to hear about your honeymoon in Scotland (freedom!).


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The City Park Wedding, Part 1 - Mariarosa & Paul 5.23.10 (Denver Colorado wedding photographer)

Getting married this year in City Park? Email Chris to see if I'm available to photograph your wedding! City Park is a pretty amazing place for photos.

I'm noticing a trend: someone from the wedding party of my last bride and groom tends to be my next client. I met Mariarosa and Paul at Mario & Jenni's wedding back in December, and I was super-excited when they mentioned their wedding plans at City Park this summer.

It was great to see everyone again at this amazing outdoor wedding in Denver's City Park. But first! The girls started their day at File-N-Style on Colfax for some beauty prep::

Needlessly to say, I was THE ONLY BOY there, and I didn't really understand all the girly goings-on, but I was pleasantly distracted by the décor and colors of this salon::


The bride in her wedding-day colors::


At the City Park pavilions, the families assembled the reception so efficiently. They were like professionals! Really impressive in the DIY tradition.

My second-shooter for the day was Stephanie and I totally scored having her help me out. The next couple are hers::

Finishing touches before portraits::


Here's a first: the bride had THREE flower girls. They assisted her the whole day like one big flower-girl entourage. It was hilariously cute to watch them follow her.


Shoes in platinum tones::

Meet Paul! The handsome groom::


Mariarosa worked the birdcage veil::















Stephanie's action-shot of an eager bride. The ceremony site was just ahead::


Another one by Steph. One last moment, it's really sinking in! I'm about to be married...


Go straight to Part 2 for the ceremony and reception. You don't want to miss it...

+ Contact Chris for wedding bookings and inquiries. 2010 is go for launch and 2011 is filling up!
+ Check out future wedding images by Chris — subscribe to his blog via Google Reader by clicking here.
+ Check out the portfolio back at my wedding site.