Welcome to Paul Retherford Photography, LLC. I will be blogging my Wedding Photography, Random Photography, Opinions, Fun news, Travels, and more. All of my images are free to use if you keep the watermark on them. If you would like the images without watermark please contact me. Make sure to bookmark my Photography blog and come back often.
I am a full time Wedding Photographer, based in Michigan and traveling around the World, with over 7 years of Professional Wedding Photography experience and hundreds of Weddings completed. My style is very stress free and I love to tell the story of the Wedding day through the bride and groom's eyes. I find that my relaxed attitude and smile brings out the best in my customers.
I adore traveling and I would love to capture your Destination Weddings around the World. Please contact me with any questions about my Photography. You can call me directly at 231.445.1793.
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Our first beautiful daughter Julia Currell Retherford
Our family is elated to welcome our first baby Julia Currell Retherford into the World. I have been busy being a dad and that is why there have been minimal updates on the blog. Expect to see LOTS of this girl since I am capturing images of her daily. Already have a few thousand images of her and there will be lots more.
Julia was born February 26, 2010 at Northern Michigan Hospital in Petoskey, Michigan at 5:17am and weighed 6.5 pounds and 19 inches long. She came two weeks prior to my wives due date but is full term and healthy. I would like to thank Dr. Cockfield for your expert hand in delivery and all of the team of doctors at Northern Michigan Hospital. We saw all of you along the way and each of you added a bit of useful knowledge. You all do amazing work! We would also like to thank the team of nurses, lactation counselors, kitchen staff, janitors, and everyone else that I missed. We really felt at home during our stay and you all did a fantastic job. Keep up the good work and healthy babies!
The whole family is getting used to the new addition. We had the dogs kenneled during the birth and after for a few days. We dropped clothes off to them so they could smell their new sister. When they came home Sampson, our Blue Weimaraner, was very interested in Julia and Asta, our Vizsla, kind of avoided her. They both are getting used to the new sounds and smells in the household. As for Megan and me, we couldn’t be happier right now. Life and new life are precious!
New love is in the air at the Retherfords.
Julia is doing so well and she just had her 2 week appointment. We are so happy to have her in our lives and look forward to raising her to be an exceptional citizen in society. She has been really easy to care for up to this point and we are crossing our fingers that it stays that way.:-) Check out the first seven days image slideshow that I put together below.
Our baby was due on March 15, 2010. We had a baby appointment on Wednesday and we didn’t have any idea what was coming the next morning.
I awoke with Megan at 6:30 am and started my day as normal. Sitting on the couch putting together a packing plan for the baby birth at 7:30am Megan called for me to come upstairs. She says, “I think my water just broke.” If you could have seen the blank stare on my face, not to mention all the things that ran through my head in less than one second. I switched into high-speed packing mode. Megan called the hospital which was 1 hour 20 minutes away.
Not only did I not have my stuff packed but I needed to pack for the dogs too. Megan had her stuff almost ready and the baby things were ready too. By 8:00 am the car was warm, packed, and ready to roll. We were on the road to the kennel calling Carla to be prepared for the crazy doggies. A quick drop off and back on the road to Petoskey ~ Northern Michigan Hospital Emergency.
When we first arrived they had Megan in a wheelchair, she was laughing and nurses were commenting that she must not be too far in labor. In fact, she didn’t start active labor until almost 6pm. It would be a LONG day and night with the baby being born at 5:17 am on February 26, 2010. Julia was 6.5 pounds and 19 inches long. She is beautiful, healthy, and our first adorable child.
Megan is doing great recovering. It looks like we will be heading home today, about 36 hours after the birth.
You can watch the blog and see LOTS of images of Baby Julie or “Jules” for the rest of her life. Get ready to be in front of the lens ALOT baby. We love you more than anything and we can’t wait to raise you and be a part of your life!
How are you getting from your Wedding Ceremony to your Wedding Reception? Maybe it is in the same location so you can walk or ride a bike. What if you want to go off-site and do some fun images along the water, architecture, overlook, nature, etc. At some point you need to consider Wedding Transportation and also who will be with you on this Wedding ride.
There are a lot of options out there for you to consider. Limousine(limo), bus, limo bus, antique car, semi, trolley, wagon, sleigh, sled, snowmobile, atv, buggy, helicopter, sailboat, pontoon, sport car, convertible, horse, boat, your own car, bike, carriage, scooter, someone’s shoulders or back, or the old fashioned way, walk. Check out some of the options that I, Paul Retherford Wedding Photography, have photographed.
Getting some ideas for your Wedding transportation plans?
Stories about Wedding Transportation and rides
This last photo the bride was delivered to the ceremony on the pontoon with an umbrella over her to hide her from her guest. They decorated the dock and the path up to the gazebo for the Wedding isle. Dad met the bride at the dock and walked her all the way up to the gazebo where their were chairs on both sides, a acoustic singer, and lots of beautiful flowers and details. Following the ceremony the Wedding party jumped back on the pontoon, the sign was displayed and they took a tour around the lake. I rode on a separate pontoon and captured lots of fabulous images.
Just last month the bride and groom hired a bus to take the Wedding party from Monroe to Ann Arbor for the Wedding Reception. The bride and groom met a horse drawn carriage downtown Ann Arbor and did a Wedding ride through beautiful Ann Arbor by the University of Michigan campus. I ran next to the carriage and captured images for about a mile. It was really cold but really worth the images.
Some Wedding ceremonies are a stone throw to the Wedding reception. Sometimes the bride and groom elect to do something fun like take off on a tandem bike for a few images following the ceremony. I have had brides and grooms that ride in on a bike when they are introduced. The sky is really the limit.
You know that your time in the Wedding Transportation is typically going to be short so keep that in mind when booking your Wedding Ride. Make a list of everyone that you want to include. Sometimes brides and grooms like to include spouses and partners on the ride. It is your day and you will have the images after the day to remember it all. Think about they dynamics of having these people on the ride with you. Will it add to your day or make the people more reserved.
Lastly, feel free to really put your personal stamp of uniqueness on anything you do. I always enjoy the people who go the extra mile to jazz up their Wedding Transportation to really make their images all the more spectacular. On the other hand, if you have Wedding Transportation that is unique then you made need just the beauty of the bride and groom on the ride.
For more ideas and images of past Weddings please see my work, online images and proofs(open to anyone), and other information at my Wedding website, Paul Retherford Wedding Photography
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