Addison Oaks Weddings in Romeo, Michigan is one of my favorite places in Michigan for awesome, timeless and gorgeous wedding photography. It is truly one of my favorite Michigan wedding venues because it offers great photo opportunities indoors and outdoors AND in every season.

When the bridesmaids got sick of their shoes I told them to take them off and throw them away. And they did! Love this fun, spontaneous interpretation of what I’d said during an outdoors wedding at Addison Oaks in Leonard, Michigan.Addison Oaks wedding photography offers me the chance to play in a beautiful location, but to also shoot the beautiful, but technically challenging indoor wedding reception area.

The bride and groom sneak a kiss before their outdoors wedding ceremony at the fabulous Addison Oaks Park in Leonard, Michigan.

The bride and groom pose in threatening weather before their outdoors wedding at Addison Oaks Conference Center in Leonard, Michigan.

An Addison Oaks bride posing in threatening weather before her outdoors wedding at Addison Oaks Conference Center in Leonard, Michigan.

The bride and groom pose on a bridge before their outdoors wedding ceremony at Addison Oaks in Michigan.

An Addison Oaks bride posing before her outdoors wedding at Addison Oaks Conference Center in Leonard, Michigan.

The bride’s bouquet at Addison Oaks, Michigan had a baby bonnet added to the stems and pieces of her grandmother’s dress added into the flowers to give it a more personal touch all the while keeping with the color themes.

The bouquet had lots of family heirlooms woven into it for their outdoors, Addison Oaks wedding ceremony in Leonard, Michigan.

I always ask the wedding party what best defines them as a group. This group opted for “dinosaurs”! I’ve never seen that before!

The groomsmen just couldn’t move away from what they wanted to do with the groom which was to dump him in the lake at Addison Oaks before his Leonard, Michigan wedding!

The bride, groom and their most decidedly NOT serious group of siblings pose for a fun, silly wedding photos at Addison Oaks in Leonard, Michigan.

The bride giggles during a wedding photo taken at Addison Oaks in Michigan.

Antique rings on display at Addison Oaks in Leonard, Michigan for an outdoors wedding ceremony.

Antique rings on display at Addison Oaks in Leonard, Michigan for an outdoors wedding ceremony.

The bride looks out the window waiting for her Addison Oaks wedding ceremony to begin. They have a great window to sneaky peek at wedding guests.

The bride and groom exchange vows in front of a curtain of flowers at Addison Oaks in an outdoors wedding ceremony in Leonard, Michigan.

The changing of the moms! The groom watches as his mom and step mom exchange hugs and places on the dance floor during the mother/son dance at Addison Oaks in Leonard, Michigan.

Enjoying the full moon for a quick dip (despite a pulled hamstring!) and an after dark wedding photography session at Addison Oaks in Michigan.

Enjoying the full moon for a quick wedding photography session at Addison Oaks in Michigan.

Dancing at the reception at Addison Oaks in Michigan.

Katie & Ross’s Sneak Peak ~ Here are just a few of my very favorites from their wedding day this past Friday (yeah, two days ago!) at Addison Oaks in Leonard, Michigan. I always love shooting here and for some reason even though every time I photograph an outdoors wedding at Addison Oaks, the weather is always threatening and it always is able to proceed outdoors as planned! My favorite part? It never seems to bother the bride! This county park offers an old Tudor style home (which Katie and Ross loved and wanted to feature a lot in their photos), excellent and experienced staff as well as a banquet style meal that closely resembles what I picture might greet you when you get to the pearly gates! This is one of my favorite wedding locations in all of Michigan. Maybe it draws the kinds of couples I like to shoot (fun loving, go with the flow, deeply in love and highly individualized) or maybe it just lends itself to being a fabulous wedding location no matter the time of year. I’m not sure of the exact reason I love shooting weddings at Addison Oaks, but I’d be very happy to be there every week!

Katie and Ross travelled back to Michigan for their wedding. I loved their calm, fun loving way they enter life and their day. They used a corral and sea theme in their wedding (a nod to her Hawaiian heritage), but the real theme was just to enjoy their fun wedding day! They mentioned right away they didn’t have any nice photos of the two of them together since they both like to goof around. So I made sure we’ve got lots and lots and lots of photos of the two of them together, being together and having fun together. The other aspect I really wanted to emphasize was their very tight knit blended family. It’s always wonderful to see such loving and supportive families come together to thoroughly celebrate their kids. One of my favorite shots of the day was Ross’s mom and “step” mom hugging as they traded spots during the mother/son dance. So sweet. Enjoy their day with them!