Posts Tagged Awakened Weddings

Atsuko and Conrad were married back in April in the Hummingbird Garden at the Hyatt Tamaya.  You all may recognize Atsuko and Conrad from their engagement session back in March.   The wedding was loads of fun and quite educational.  I learned about some Japanese wedding traditions, mainly, tea, fruit trees and sake but I’ll get to that a little further down the post.  Linda Mertz from Awakened Weddings presided over the ceremony and did a spectacular job as always.  Thanks, Conrad and Atsuko for letting me be part of your special day.

Rick Meiers – Dry Heat Photography

The very cool tea set for the ceremony. 

These traditional wooden sake cups were pretty sweet.  As was the smashing of the sake barrel.  I can honestly say that in 15+ years of shooting weddings, I have never seen anything like this.  Nor had I ever tasted sake, note to self, when drinking sake from a wooden box, drink from the corner otherwise you’ll end up with a little mess. 

I couldn’t resist the graphics on this one, just in case there wasn’t enough excitement in smashing a sake barrel with a wooden mallet.

You’ve all met Rose and Rick before in their Engagement Session and now here’s the wedding.  On April 4th at Casa de Suenos Rose and Rick were married.  This was an unusually beautiful event with an all star cast.  Karen Stallard with Celebrations was coordinating, Rob from Distracted By Decor produced an incredible display to set the stage, Linda Mertz from Awakened Weddings did the officiating, Melba made the flower arrangements, Jay Powers from the Devonshire made the cake, Justin Johnson from Complete Music was in charge of entertainment and, of course, the staff of Casa de Suenos brought everything together.  I was thrilled and honored to be part of this wedding!

To Rose and Rick, thank you so much for making me a part of your Special Day!

-DeAnna Dimmitt

Dry Heat Photography