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!

Hold a Wedding at Keystone Resort - get two free season passes!

I just learned that Keystone is offering a unique incentive to couples booking weddings to be held before November 30, 2010. Two free season passes! More information online at www.keystoneweddings.com.

Details of the offer are on Keystone's Website - or you can email the wedding coordinators in Keystone's Events Office at keystoneweddings@vailresorts.com.

Keystone weddings are really a step above the others.... they have so many different venues to choose from! I have photographed weddings at:

Ski Tip Lodge





Timber Ridge at the Outpost






Keystone Back Ranch


And you can download a great PDF of Keystone Weddings by going to their website www.keystoneweddings.com

Summit County Wedding Vendors

Favorite Summit County Venues
Sapphire Point
Keystone Ski Tip Lodge
Keystone Back Ranch
Griffith Lodge - Breckenridge
Silverthorne Pavilion

Favorite Summit County Florists
Petal and Bean - Breckenridge
Bloom - Breckenridge
Garden of Eden - Frisco

Favorite Summit County Caterers
Hearthstone Catering - Breckenridge
All Seasons Catering - Silverthorne
Gilchrist Catering - Dillon

Favorite Weddings Links
Rocky Mountain Bride - magazine and planning website for Mountain Weddings
Wedding Mapper - started as mapping service for weddings - now planning tool also
Wedding Wire - Online Planning tool and forum for brides
ListPhotographers.com
WedDJ.com - listing of wedding vendors
Blog Catalog

Favorite DJ's
Rockin The Rockies - Denver & Mountains of Colorado

Favorite Wedding Planners:
Custom Weddings of Colorado - Wendee Walter
Bella Design - Emily Campbell
Rocky Mountain Bridal Consultants

Favorite Salons:
Serenity Spa - Keystone
Southern Exposure - Dillon

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!

Jennifer and Andy's Hudson Gardens Wedding

I had the pleasure of photographing Jennifer & Andy's wedding last month at Hudson Gardens in Denver - a beautiful venue, a beautiful couple, but the weather was ANYTHING but beautiful! Downpour of rain, gray cloudy skies, few locations for group portraits. But it didn't dampen anyone's spirits and Jennifer smiled throughout even as her beautiful dress got wet and muddy!

Sometimes I think it's a good sign that your marriage starts out on a dreary rainy day.... you learn right up front that every day will not be sunshine and joy, but together you can help shelter each other from the rough spots. Seems like the Apache wedding blessing says something about that..... AND from the dancing photos, which there are HUNDREDS of, I don't think the rain dampened any of the guests' spirits either! Dancing photos are some of my favorites - and the tent actually makes some of these more interesting!

You can view the WHOLE SLIDESHOW here....

and a few of my favorites!

Serena and Aaron - married at Sapphire Point by Leon Littlebird!

Serena and Aaron were maried on August 22nd by Leon Littlebird at Sapphire Point. It could NOT have been a more beautiful day! And the ceremony that Leon performs is absolutely amazing...... most guests (and the photographer) were in tears, as you can see the bride and groom and parents are!

You can view the whole slideshow here......

Serena and I said we were meant to connect as bride and photographer, and it was really the most amazing ceremony and reception! Beautiful!

Photography Workshop at Lake Clark National Park

I had the pleasure of joining Dale Franz for another Franzfoto Safari while at Lake Clark National Park - there were 8 of us photographers total, and it was an amazing experience! Some of the photos on previous posts were taken with Dale's Class, but I thought I would share a few photos of the group!

Dale has another similar trip planned for the first week in July 2010 and I highly recommend it! They will be staying next door to the Homestead, the Silver Salmon Creek Lodge.








I thought that Lynn's mosquito netting above was funny the first day, but I donned it day 2, as it's a necessary part of the equipment. In this photo below, I don't know if Art was taking a rest on his Canon 500mm lens or if he was just dodging mosquitoes! Art was on last year's Yellowstone trip - so it was good to see another fellow student! Art has been back to several of Dale's trips - that's the sign of a great photography instructor, lots of return students!




This last photo shows the gang traveling via ATV guided by Drew from the Silver Salmon Lodge. Drew has been living out there for several years and even spent a couple winters as a caretaker, so he's the local brown bear expert!

Kirk took this photo of the gang from his ATV and Heather & Tyler were with him. When 9 year old Tyler saw me with the gang of photographers, he pulled me aside & said, "Mom, do you know you're the only girl in your workshop?" Luckily it was another GREAT group of photography students and they welcomed me although I'm not one of their kind!