Rob & Ashli’s Las Vegas Wedding Photos!
Well friends, it is finally time to share all the fabulous photos from my brother’s recent Vegas wedding! I know I’ve kept you waiting…I apologize. It was in part because I’m busy – but who are we kidding – I’m always busy. It’s mostly because I had no idea what to write. Whenever we photograph our friends and family – usually for significant life events like marriage or the addition of children – I use it as an opportunity to say something along the lines of we love you, you rock, thanks for keeping us a part of your awesome lives. We all (I hope) have special friends and family members that we feel that way about and it just isn’t too often you get to actually say those things. With this blog and my photos, I get a cool forum for actually doing that and I love it.
But what in the hell are you supposed to say when your brother gets married??
Your little, red-headed, ornery ass brother.
When all of a sudden he ain’t so little and he appears to be a man. And a well dressed man, rocking a black tux, on top of it. I’m still sitting here looking at these pictures going “What the f*ck is happening?! What is going on?! Why is he OLD?!”
But I digress, I’ve processed the images, I’m coming to terms with the fact that we are, apparently, both adults now. So here we go…
To my not-so-little brother and his new wife:
I am so happy for you. I have no idea what else to say. Because, what else is there really, to want for your little brother other than to know that he is happy. That someone has his back. That someone’s going to make him laugh, make him work hard, call him on his bullshit. That’s about all there is really. I mean, I could want for you to be a millionaire or own 15 houses in places I like to visit or to be famous and take me to red carpet events. But the truth is, I don’t know how any of those things turn out. I do know how it turns out when you marry your best friend. And that is why I am so, very very happy for the two of you.
In case no one has attempted to dispense unsolicited marriage advice to you, I’d like to do that now…
Do mundane bullshit together. But leave each other alone sometimes. Pick on one another. But know when to stop. Fight. But try not to yell too much. Go on as many adventures as you can manage! But appreciate boring nights on the couch. Have a lot of sex. But try not to disturb the neighbors. Keep it real, always. But don’t fart on your wife…too often.
Remember you’re a team now – you win together, you lose together, you sit out a few games together. Don’t worry too much about the people who try to tell you how to play the game…it’s yours.
Much love and happiness to you both!
On to the photos! Fi
rst some pretty details…
Time to get snazzy!!
We arranged for them to have a First Look outside the hotel – I think Vegas is the trickest place to pull this off…oh so many people!! But it turned out perfectly : ) (Psst…these next two photos are a perfect example of why having a husband/wife photo team do your wedding photos is fabulous – double the view, double the photo fabulousness!)
After they got a quick look at each other, we hustled them into a cab and across town to the Neon Boneyard. This is where old Vegas neon goes to die. Except here, it doesn’t die, it is kept wonderful in all it’s colorful glory. Its like my dream land. Colors, colors, colors. Lots of rust. Fading paint. Blown out bulbs. Oh man. I loved it. And check out the resulting photos, it couldn’t get more Vegasy than this…
There was a lot of laughing! As someone who has witnessed quite a few wedding days…I promise you all the best ones include a lot of laughing! Don’t take your wedding day so seriously that you forget to have a really good time together. You will forget the fabric you choose from your table clothes. You will forget how much you spent on flowers. But you won’t forget laughing with each other, dressed to the nines, about to say I Do. 
This next one was just to appropriate not the take…
An “R”! (For Rhynes, of course…)
So happy with all them…you guys totally rocked those photos!!
Only in Vegas can you serve as bridesmaid/groomsman AND wedding photographers!! (And drink champagne the entire time.)
I’m going to save all the crazy stories for my full-length Vegas trip report. But I’ll give you some highlights here…
After the wedding we celebrated with ridiculous amounts of food and champagne at the amazing Wynn buffet. Then the groom went to the dessert bar and came back with this and all the mommas in the room cried… He had no idea why.
Then I had too much of the unlimited champagne and everything started looking artsy…
Then this guy sang Elvis ballads, with a Spanish accent, to the bride…
Then I had even more of the unlimited champagne and declared how much I loved my brother… He’s a very tolerant person.
Then…well… how should I put this…
My mom stole a schooner glass of champagne from the buffett, which struck me as the funniest thing on the planet and I peed my bridesmaid dress right there on the Wynn casino floor, next to a $50 minimum craps table.
Okay, fine, I didn’t pee. But I almost did. But I made it the bathroom. Where I continued to laugh so hard I nearly threw up my unlimited champagne. Which my mom thought was the funniest thing on the planet. Then we proceeded directly to the airport where my drunk ass caught a flight home and I woke up with the worst hangover in the history of man kind.
If that doesn’t make you want to come back and read the whole story of our Vegas trip then I don’t know what will.
PS – Rob & Ash – sorry I talked about peeing and vomiting in your wedding blog.
PSS – To all our future wedding clients…I was way off the clock by the time these behaviors occurred. Fear not.
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