Salt Lake City & Park City, Utah Wedding Photographer-Melissa Kelsey » modern. elegant. real.

Brittany and Braden are so silly and so in love. They’ve known each other for years, their parents are good friends, and they are best friends. Every time I’m with these two, I seem to get sucked into a time warp. Our session was 3 hours long! I think it’s because I’m so comfortable with them and have so much silly fun with them. The bridals/groomals, soon to come, were 4 hours long!!! Whoa, that’s a long session. Brittany and Braden will be married this Wednesday at the Salt Lake Temple and will have their reception at the beautiful, Cactus and Tropicals in Draper.

Thanks for being so fun to be around, you two. Can’t wait for your wedding on Wednesday!

Machel and Mikey looked like movie stars for their engagement photos, especially when they got decked out in their black and white outfits, Machel in a fresh, classic, white strapless dress with black belt and heels and Mikey, in his white pants, black shirt, and stunna’ shades.

Machel had seen some engagements I’d done overlooking the city, right on this-here blog! ;) So, we did photos there, but first, we got together and did some “studio” style photos in their casual outfits and then, went to the field, overlooking Salt Lake City. I also had another awesome location up my sleeve, but we had to wait until dark to use it to its full advantage. Mikey brought along champagne and we decided to capture the opening of the bottle on film at the final location. Mikey looked so cool opening that bottle and then, poofshhhmmmmshhhh! it kind of blew up in Mikey’s face. Poor Mikey had it dripping from his face and on his shirt, but it made for a funny moment. After that, Mikey and Machel enjoyed their champagne and I got some of my favorite photos of them. Check it out below!

Remember how rainy June was? Kind of hard to remember, now that it’s so hot, but trust me, I made it through quite a few rainy weddings and this really rainy, but super-fun engagement session. Avery works at Anthropologie, which is probably my favorite store. It’s European sensibility, attention to detail, collected feeling, and modern, yet classic aesthetic are right up my alley. Avery and Matt wanted an Anthropologie/J. Crew editorial kind of look. Just wait until you see Avery’s bridals (after the wedding, of course)! They are gorgeous and very magazine-y.

Anywho, Avery and Matt and I set out to a gorgeous grassy field while the skies were still blue with those monster cumulus clouds that form before a thunder storm. We captured some amazing skies and then, came the thunder, and lighting, and rain…lots of it.

So, we finished up our grassy field photos under a cute, see-through umbrella and decided to go for it and shoot in the rain at Liberty Park. We sneaked onto the abandoned carousel and ran through the rain from covered spot to covered spot. We had a blast.