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Here’s a little sneak peak from the ridiculously awesome wedding of Deron+Melissa. They just so happened to be the very first folks to book us in good ol’ Seattle. And I’m not sure if they even knew that.:)

Deron+Melissa… we couldn’t be more thrilled to have gotten to know you both (and Marcus) over the past few months. You are an incredible joy to be around and have an incredible family full of more smiles and laughs than one can handle alone! We could not have asked for a better start to working in Seattle!

  • August 20, 2008 - 4:32 am

    Kj - it never fails- i always get chills looking at the moments you guys capture. these pictures are SO BEAUTFUL

  • August 20, 2008 - 12:40 pm

    Melissa - You guys are amazing!!!! You have no idea how excited we are to see the rest! Based on our engagement session we knew the wedding pictures would be great but we couldn’t have expected the amazing shots we just previewed!!!!! You might also like to know that every other vendor we spoke with after the ceremony said how much they enjoyed working with you guys!! Thanks so much!!!

  • August 20, 2008 - 3:53 pm

    cindy - great shots, i love the ones with the sky and clouds!

  • August 20, 2008 - 7:53 pm

    merlin - congrats on the first seattle wedding! wooooo!

  • August 26, 2008 - 8:01 am

    Deron - You two are awesome!! But can you give us the rest of the pictures so I can show off your work!! Thankyou do much for working with us!!

Today is my little brothers 21st birthday and I wanted to send him some internet love! His name is actually Aaron, but has long been called Merlin by our nieces and it stuck with the rest of the world. Merlin is currently living in Florida, and it has been way too long since we’ve seen his cute little face.

So here’s to the best little brother I could ever ask for! We love you bro! Happy Birthday!

(merlin atop Whistler mountain)

  • August 19, 2008 - 3:54 pm

    merlin - YAY! it was my birthday yesterday! thanks guys! love you two (too).

Normally our Sundays are filled with nothing. Nada. Typically we’re busy trying to recover from the day before. And although we need a day of recovery after our spankin’ awesome wedding yesterday… we have far too much to accomplish in such little time.

So here is a sneak peak into our Sunday…

So far, everything’s got a little check next to it.. minus the hockey game that is starting T minus one hour. And the clean the office part. That’s just a disaster.

I’d say we gave Sunday a pretty solid kick in the pants.

  • August 18, 2008 - 7:23 am

    merlin - i thought i was the only one who used sharpies and plain white computer paper for all my to-do lists. that’s funny.

    ps…God meant for Sundays to be a day of rest…not a day of shopping for Whitney’s undies.

Hey all. A big thanks to both Laura and Marjan who recently kicked off some reviews of us at a few spots on the web. Your words were oh’ so kind and we were pleasently surprised to find your reviews!

So we thought we would spread the word and let you know that we are now both on Yelp! and WeddingWire. So if you would like to leave us some love and spread the Brighten goodness, feel free to drop on by and leave a little review. We’d be oh’ so grateful!

Today is sunny. And that is marvelous. Happy Friday.