Wedding Wire 2010 Bride's Choice Award

Dillon, Colorado - February 2, 2010 - WeddingWire, the nation's leading wedding technology company, just announced Beaton Photography has been selected to receive the WeddingWire 2010 Bride's Choice Awards for Wedding Photography.

The annual Bride's Choice Awards recognizes and celebrates excellence in quality and service within the wedding industry, as determined by recent reviews and extensive surveys from over 500,000 newlyweds.

Beaton Photography is among the top five percent of all vendors in the WeddingWire community, which includes over 100,000 wedding professionals across the US and Canada. Awards were given to winners across 19 different service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers. Just two Summit County Wedding Photographers and 61 Colorado photographers were given this award.

Other Summit County vendors earning awards are:
All Season Catering
Petal and Bean Florists
Breckenridge Wedding Photographers
Congratulations Rich, Dina & Stacey, and Laura!

"We are excited to recognize and honor the success of the top wedding professionals within the WeddingWire Community" said Timothy Chi, WeddingWire's Chief Executive Officer. "The annual Bride's Choice Awards program has given us the unique opportunity to highlight the best wedding professionals in each region as reviewed by brides and grooms who have utilized their services in the past year."

We are happy to announce that Kay Beaton and Beaton Photography are among the very best Wedding Photographers within the WeddingWire Network, which includes WeddingWire and Martha Stewart Weddings. We would like to thank our past newlyweds for nominating us for the 2010 Bride's Choice Awards.

For more information about Beaton Photography, please visit www.beatonphotography.com.

About Beaton Photography
Beaton Photography has been photographing weddings in Colorado for 10 years. In addition we love taking children and family portraits as well as architectural and real estate photos. Kay Beaton is the lead photographer and uses photojournalism skills learned originally as a photography intern at the Summit Daily News. She loves capturing true moments when the subject’s true personality shines through.

About WeddingWire, Inc.
WeddingWire is the an online wedding planning resource which enables engaged couples to search, compare and book over 100,000 reviewed wedding vendors nationwide, from wedding photographers to wedding cakes. For additional information, please visit www.WeddingWire.com.

Thanks to all of our wonderful brides from last summer for recommending us on Wedding Wire! And to those that found us on Wedding Wire!

Rhonda and Matt's October Wedding in Breckenridge

Rhonda and Matt picked a beautiful fall day to have their wedding this month! They married themselves in the back yard of this beautiful Breckenridge vacation home. Their two boys, Connor and Andrew were absolutely adorable and seemed to be enjoying the celebration too!

Rhonda and Matt's slideshow online here....













And earlier in the week we all met at a park in Breckenridge and spent some time getting to know each other.... here are a couple of my favorite images:






What I really like about these family photos are they are GENUINE! Rhonda and Matt said they wanted to have fun and take candid photos, and didn't anticipate the boys would do a lot of "posing." But these moments are even better than the posed photos! What a beautiful family!

Lauren & Brian's Ski Tip Lodge Wedding July 11th 2009

Lauren & Brian were married at the Ski Tip Lodge on July 11th - one of my favorite romantic wedding venues!

A little rain in the afternoon (right at ceremony time) didn't dampen the fun and celebration - sometimes rain makes things even that much more romantic and memorable! And as you can see from the photos below - the sun came out after the ceremony and everyone enjoyed a little of Summit County's great outdoors!

What a fun couple! Their slideshow is online here!

I love it when couples just "go with the flow" when a downpour happens right before their wedding ceremony - it's a great signal that they are approaching life with a great attitude - there will be rain and sun in every day of life, and it's best to embrace it all!

Congratulations Lauren & Brian! May life bring you more sunshine than downpours, and if not, enjoy the downpours in a cozy place together!














I've noticed more & more how technology enters the wedding photography field - I have more & more photos of LCD screens in my proofs - and I love some of the interactions it brings! And LOVE that I can usually capture a photo of the event through another LCD screen!

Sarah and Matt Married in Breckenridge Saturday!

Sarah and Matt were married in Breckenridge two days ago and it was a beautiful wedding and the weather was perfect! The wedding was held at the unique small chapel at St. Mary's Catholic Church and then the group just walked the two blocks down to Relish Restaurant on Main Street where the reception was held. I love the colors - both in the chapel and the restaurant!

The whole slideshow can be viewed here, and Sarah and Matt's engagement photos here. What a beautiful couple, and great places to hold a wedding! I love all the color in some of these images!












I love this last photo....Matt's college buddies are giving him a hard time and then Sarah pokes her head out to say something and it just looks like a classic moment! Boys, what was going on there?

WPPI Conference in Las Vegas

WOW! I have always wanted to attend the Wedding & Portrait Photographers International (WPPI) annual conference in Las Vegas, but WOW! What an experience! Not only had I never been to Las Vegas before, but I have NEVER been surrounded by so many photographers. I think there were close to 10,000 photographers in attendance. Some of the workshops seated 1,800 people! I tended to cling to the smaller workshops with only a couple hundred people! And where I could see the speaker!

We stayed at the convention headquarters, the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, and it was almost a 10 minute walk indoors to get from the room to the conference center! The lights, the noise, the buildings, the people -were all a new experience!







My favorite workshop was one lead by photographer Terrell Lloyd, called "Diversifying your Portfolio." Terrell was a very entertaining speaker and he shoots weddings, families, commercial work, product shots, and he's a staff photographer for the San Francisco 49ers! Very inspiring photographer!

My favorite event was a shoot at the Neon Boneyard, a non-profit museum on 3 acres of land off the strip with all old neon signs from Las Vegas! I went there with at least 40 other photographers, and it was a riot! Below is my favorite photo from that shoot and the rest are ONLINE HERE!



And then I had the opportunity to do a mentoring session through Thirst Relief International with wedding photographers Chris and Katie Humphreys which was really wonderful! I love all of the Humphreys' wedding images and really admire how they work together as a couple! Having an opportunity to talk with them one on one was really a highlight of my week! AND I met with the folks at Livebooks and am soon to get a new Livebooks website! Yippee!