Jack and Ruby Photography by Kara Wieler and Becky Radtke

How do your write a blog post about your best friend’s wedding? Well i’m not sure how you would do it, but I(Becky) procrastinated. I edited, edited, edited all the pretty pictures and put off the writing part until now. I can’t put it off any longer because it’s time to share Julie and Kyle’s wedding!

Julie is my BFF. I lived with her for 8 years and we’ve had an infinite number of adventures and shattered many many shopping budgets together. Julie and I swore we would live at our condo together forever. We planned to one day be the old ladies in the common room at 3pm everyday having coffee. Even though we planned to stay single forever I always knew Julie had the qualities of an amazing wife. Julie took care of me for 8 years, cleaning up after my messy self, baking special batches of cookies – some with chocolate chips just for me and shopping for me when she was away and I wasn’t with her. When Kyle came into the picture I knew Julie was serious about him when she bought him jeans, William Rast jeans at that…any boy worth William Rast jeans was probably pretty special to Julie. I was SO excited to get the call that Julie and Kyle were engaged! Kyle takes such good care of Julie and it’s nice that after taking care of everyone else for years Julie has Kyle to take the best care of her!

So four months ago the planning began and for a girl who does not like weddings Julie had a lot of people who do love weddings on her dream team….a sister-in-law who is a magician with a make up brush and a flat iron, another sister-in-law starting up a wedding decor business….all Julie really needed to do was pick a dress! The trip to find the dress was sure to be a memorable one, Tracy and I had strict instructions to keep anything “frilly and wedding-ey” away from Julie, she wanted something simple simple simple. We were in good hands with Jackie at 7th Avenue Fashions….we LOVED Jackie!! And as soon as we spotted her Michael Kors watch (the same one Julie has!) we knew it was meant to be that she was helping Julie! When Julie stepped out of the dressing room in her first dress mouths dropped all over the salon….this was it, this was THE dress! It was 100% Julie – glamorous and sophisticated. With that purchase almost everything was done in record time, she was ready to walk down the aisle.

When Julie asked me to be her ‘Best Gal’ and wedding photographer I couldn’t say no and if I would have said no I probably would have changed my mind after I saw the dress. Come to think of it, she never even gave me a chance to say no, she called me and said “dude, will you be my best gal? oh and you’re my photographer too”. The wedding day was such a labour of love by everyone involved, and I couldn’t have pulled double duty without the help of two super special ladies. Kara: THANK-YOU for pulling more than your weight! Thank-you for getting every shot while I got caught up in moments, standing and watching when I was supposed to be shooting! I am so lucky to shoot side by side with you!! Tracy: THANK-YOU for picking up my bridesmaid slack! Thank-you for packing the best wedding day snacks – we really do want to hire you to pack our lunches this summer! Thank-you for your never ending smiles and positive attitude all day long, even after being up so super early to make us all look pretty! You are the best at what you do, second to none.

Big shout-out to the lovely staff at Rembrandt’s! Julie floated down their spiral staircase during the ceremony in the gorgeous Bistro. What a lovely place for a wedding and to top it all off the food is amazing! Kara and I can’t wait to shoot there again in June!

Check out the SLIDESHOW for some more pics set to some lovely throwback music just for Julie

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We loooove Tracy! She was up early to beautify all of us and when I walked in the door at 7:35am she had already done her own hair!

We found these shoes in Vegas one year and Julie left them there but never forgot about them. When we went back the next year they were still there, on sale AND her size! It was meant to be!!

A funny moment during the ‘first look’, we thought Kyle was coming out of the elevator but he was waiting downstairs and Julie’s brother Darrin came out instead!

Julie is affectionally known among family members as “the Queen” so we thought it was fitting to work in some royalty to the bridal photos.

What a special little purse

Here’s a special ring shot just for Kyle. Go Jets go!

BLING! Julie’s gorgeous custom made rings were from Her Dream Diamond and those shiny silver pearls from Tiffany.

Julie’s gorgeous flowers were put together by her new sister in law, Shawna.

Once Julie and Kyle had enough of the cameras pointed at them we did a little mini session with Tracy her hubby (Julie’s brother) Darrin. How cute are they??

Don’t forget the SLIDESHOW!!