In just a few weeks Kevin and Aani will be celebrating their 7 & a half year anniversary of their wedding in Columbus, Ohio! This year in 2018 they'll be celebrating their 8th year of marriage! If you remember, last week we blogged celebrating the 7 year & 4 month anniversary of photographing Joanna & Kyle's Ohio wedding and actually Kevin and Aani were wed just a month and a half before those two a bit further northeast in Columbus, Ohio! Kevin was in the infamous funk/ soul band in Columbus, Ohio called MojoFlo (of which lead singer Amber and saxophone player Walter were the friends of ours who just got married in the beautiful cave in Hocking Hills, Ohio in September about 4 months ago). Since Jenny had done band portraits of MojoFlo in 2009 the year prior to Kevin's wedding and was friends with the band, they hired her to capture their wedding ceremony and formal portraits of they and their bridal party and families!
On August 7, 2010 Kevin and Aani were married in a beautiful church in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Being from a very musical family, Aani's sisters sang at the wedding and various friends and family played instruments at both the ceremony and reception. Aani was walked down the aisle by her father and looked beautifully classy in her gorgeous gown and veil crown. She was greeted by Kevin and the priest at the end of the aisle by the altar at the front of the church.
Kevin and Aani are a musician and a singer, so it was beautiful that the whole mass was accompanied by their loved ones playing instruments and singing the hymns throughout the mass.
By the end of the Mass, Kevin and Aani had exchanged their vows and rings. They were officially a married couple! The two received their blessing, exchanged a kiss, and walked down the aisle and out of the church while being cheered on by friends and family!
We photographed some formal photographs of Aani and Kevin together as a married couple, then moved on to photograph formal photos of they and their bridal party.
The two were elated as we made our way through the list of formal photos with their closest friends and family. Their friends and family had gathered prior to the mass to allow us to photograph them more easily, but we finished up the rest of the photos of everyone right after the mass.
Meanwhile right after the ceremony, their close friends and bridal party made their way to the bus they had and got ready for the reception. Kevin's aunt photographed most of the reception since I was only hired to photograph the ceremony at the church, but since I was friends with the band MojoFlo and one of my best friends was also in attendance with one of the band members, Kevin told me to come by the reception as well. I also made sure to some photos while enjoying dinner. Aani serenaded Kevin with a special opera song on the dance floor and then Kevin's band MoJoFlo (still a TOP band in the capital of Columbus, Ohio) played some beautiful music as everyone enjoyed their time. At one point Kevin's "band friend table" where I was seated all decided to wear their sunglasses at night and have a blast. All-in-all it was a great wedding and beautiful day. Shortly after the wedding and start of their marriage, Kevin and Aani moved to Illinois for her Master's program, so it was actually the last time we saw them in person!
A huge congratulations, Kevin & Aani on nearly seven and a half years so far!! We hope you two are doing amazingly well in Virginia and Washington D.C. and we hope that you've had a great start to your 8th year of marriage so far. Here's to a lifetime more of wedded bliss and more travels!
**And congratulations to the band MojoFlo in Columbus, Ohio for celebrating their 10 year anniversary as a band this month!! Original band members George, Amber, & Walter have worked hard over the past decade to solidify their spot as one of the best bands in Columbus, Ohio, and the nation at that! We're so happy for you and wish we could be there to celebrate your success!!
Unrelated: Right now we're abroad out of the country with immediate family after having visited other family members in California. We're in Mexico and we'll be here for another 4 more days until we head back on Sunday! We're SO grateful for Marie & Sarah- friends from 13 years ago in high school- who have been watching ALL 3 of our pets in our home for the past weeks that we've been on our annual holiday visit to family. We're also excited to meet with some couples right when we get back on Monday morning throughout the 22nd, 23rd, and 24th! For now, we'll be enjoying these last few days of well deserved and much needed relaxation on the beach before we come back and prepare for the 2018 wedding season (and book a few more weddings/ couples for 2018 and 2019)!! Next week we share another wedding with ya and we'll close January out the following week on the 31st with all of our favorite photos from all of the weddings that we photographed in 2017! We can't wait to be back, but we also can wait... and enjoy living in this moment for the moment. Catch ya next week from snowy Indiana!