"Mawwage, that bwessed awwangement"...

Lynn and I are still reveling in the most amazing experience of getting married. We got engaged the end of March, started planning in May, and we got married September 10 - proving you can plan a wedding and have a blast doing it in 4 months! We're both amazed at how incredible a feeling it is. We had our wedding in the mountains of Colorado, and it was absolutely gorgeous with the yellow aspens, great weather for our outdoor ceremony, and family and friends to celebrate.

Here's a shot of our rings we took a few days ago on the last day of our honeymoon roadtrip around Colorado. The aspen leaves are a reminder of the surroundings that day, and the wheat represents a part of our ceremony where each person brought up a wheat stalk and gave us a wish, blessing or happy thought for our life together. A truly amazing part of the ceremony for us...talk about holding back the tears!


We must thank a few people for their efforts and just plain love that went into making our wedding the best day of our lives.

THANKS TO:

~Lynn~
For being my wife!

~Ben & Judy~
For making the wedding possible, and all your LOVE and support!

~ Denny~
For our very special family ceremony!

~Nana~
For waiting 95 years for this day to come!

~Dave, Donna, Laura, Amy, Mike, Katie & Julie~
For your love and support and ALL OF YOU being there with us.

~Robin Peglow~
For being our "reverend"! We simply can't imagine having anyone else marry us.

~Jesse Placky & Trista DeSousa~
For an outstanding job of filming everything and especially setting up the live broadcast to the family back home. We can't tell you how much it was appreciated!
Jesse owns Trevnu, his video production company. Awesome point-of-view camera work and much more talent. Here's his details:
www.trevnu.com
jesse@trevnu.com

~Mark Cafiero, photographer~
For amazing images of the entire day. Thanks Mark and Jenny Campbell for beating the pressure of photographing the wedding of two wedding photographers and coming through STRONG! We never had a doubt. You guys absolutely rock.
Cafiero Photojournalism
www.cafierophoto.com
www.PhotoJennette.com

~DJ Goatee - a.k.a Scott Maurer~
Thanks so much for your efforts and being the go-to guy for the music, audio/visual, electrical technician, and MC maestro...AV Geeks unite!

~Bev Kohzadi~
For arranging all our flowers in such a beautiful and creative way... what a gift!

~Heather Harmon~
For your incredible poem that we will remember forever, and an awesome assortment of teas for our guests at the reception... phenomenal. Check out Heather's website-- she has a wide array of organic tea blends for health, joy, and new mothers:
www.gnomeandlotus.com

~Wild Horse Catering~
We love your food!

~Todd, Dave, Danny, Dave ~
For sharing your amazing musical talent!

~Linsey, Danni, Deana, and Jeff~
@ Snow Mountain Ranch -- Thanks for everything!

~Astrid Koch~
For Lynn's bead ceremony, you set the tone for the entire day for Lynn.

~Marc, Bill, Chuck~ for being Dave's best men.

~Lisa, Cindy, Heather~ for being Lynn's women of honor :)

~Andy & Lisa~ for your reading during the ceremony, HUGE help, support and logistics management!

~Mike & Lauren~ for sharing your love, heart and soul in our ceremony.

~Azar & Lacey~ for helping with the wheat during the ceremony.

~Everyone~ who was on the decorating committee....it looked awesome!

Thanks to all our friends and family who celebrated our marriage and made it a day we'll never forget.

Honeymoon Roadtrip!

After deciding to skip hurricane-ravaged Puerto Vallarta, we opted to stay in beautiful Colorado for our honeymoon for one of our favorite things---ROADTRIP! We borrowed our friends Stephan & Carrie's Westy (THANKS GUYS!) and hit the road....A gorgeous tour of Colorado, we visited some favorite areas and found some new ones. Sunshine, blue skies, rain, snow...we had it all, man we love this state!....Here's the first batch of images, enjoy!

The Westy gets prepped..

Zula's doggy smile says she's psyched for the trip, but I don't think she called shotgun.

First stop, the western slope to Palisade for the fresh fruit...

...and the grapes! We hopped on the bikes and toured the valley, tasting only a handful of the area's 40 vineyards, but ohhh so good. So many wineries, so little time, so fun to ride when you're buzzed on wine...




Mmmm, breakfast....grilled bagels with honey cinnamon butter and nectarines!

Lynn shooting the yellow aspens up on Grand Mesa, at 11,000ft, its the world's largest flat-topped mountain. Thats big. And beautiful.




On to Ridgeway in the San Juan Mtns. We treated ourselves to studio apartment lodging, hot springs, and massages!

And pumpkin ravioli with blue cheese cream sauce!.....and Lynn's new ring :)


We headed up to Yankee Boy Basin out of Ouray, one of the most bee-you-tiful places anywhere. We had an awesome bluebird dayhike up to Mt. Sneffels 14,150ft. Lynn carried our food, and I lugged up the 4x5 field camera up for some large format image-making.







Its always fun to wake up to new snow. Hey this ain't Mexico is it?


Definitely made for some great fall foliage photography with the snow coated evergreens.

The snow was blowing off the ground in Crested Butte, Lynn captured this gust beautifully.

And lots of snow on top of Cottonwood Pass. muddy wet roads on one side...

...and plenty dry on the other to haul ass on the bike!

Our last stop was further north to Fraser/Winter Park for one last swanky stay in a cabin in the woods, mimosas and truffles for breakfast, and hot-tubbin before heading home. What a trip!

We rode bikes to our ceremony site and I (symbolically) carried Lynn across the threshold...

We saw some awesome sunsets, here's a reflection of one of them in a pond near Devil's Thumb Ranch...

And one last soothing hot tub before heading home. We even ordered up a ranch burger and home style potatoes to go!


Coming Soon - The Honeymoon Slideshow!
at http://www.davidlynnphoto.com/slideshows

David Lynn Photography

Welcome to our blog....We are David & Lynn Townsend, officially as of our wedding two weeks ago! More on our amazing day in a later post. Needless to say, this summer has been an amazing time, starting down the new paths of our own marriage and our joined photography careers. Early 2006 we combined our wedding photography to form David Lynn Photography. We love photographing weddings together, and the greatest reward is hearing the comments and seeing the reaction of the people whose weddings we've photographed.

We also have our own photography endeavors, Lynn specializes in portraits, maternity, and lifestyle photography, and I love nature & landscape photography, as well as the portrait world. You can get to these websites through the "Links" on the right margin!

Weddings: www.davidlynnphoto.com
Dave's images: www.townsendphotography.com
Lynn's images: www.illuminephoto.com

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