During the wedding ceremony the skies cleared. What good fortune! We made our way outside to shoot some portraits while Ashley and Cale’s guests enjoyed cocktail hour. Chance always favors the prepared!

Cale and Ashley originally planned to have their ceremony outside on the impressive grounds of the Lenexa Conference Center. A regal farmhouse shares the grounds with the barn and wonderful little garden sits on the northwest corner. The garden is where they were to have the ceremony.

Rain changed all that. Friends, family and staff hustled to adapt the ceremony to an indoors purpose. It was pretty impressive to watch everyone work, keep their good spirits and improvise a new ceremony indoors. Bravo Cashley!

Needless to say, I had to stay on my toes too. The challenges of photographing an indoor ceremony are greatly different than an outdoors ceremony. That’s why I always keep my tripod and monopod handy regardless of the event.

Outdoor ceremonies are awesome, provided mother nature cooperates. Be sure your outdoor wedding plans have a workable bad weather plan. Forecasters don’t always get it right either, especially during the warm months of the Kansas City wedding season.

What an awesome wedding from such an awesome couple! We fought through the rain and made some really nice shots. Outdoors wedding are always a bit of crapshoot especially for Kansas City. Photography has been my life for so long now I am confident great pictures will happend regardless of what mother nature brings. But to have two people who can roll with it and have fun every step of the way makes my job incredibly easy and gratifying.

Thank you Ashley and Cale. We will blog more of your photos very soon!