Elena and Sid: Married!

I've been looking forward to Elena and Sid's wedding for a long time. Aside from them both being super duper cool, the wedding was held at the most beautiful home in the entire city: the Magrath Mansion.

But before that, on the night before the wedding, Sid had a series of challenges and tasks to win the right to marry his bride. This is a Russian tradition called the ransom, and it is always super fun!

Let's just say his average performance on all these tasks were mediocre... hahaha! But that's what makes it so funny, so that's kind of a good thing. Despite that, he finally made his way through and found his bride.

The next morning, it was wedding time! Here is Elena's beautiful dress hanging up in the beautiful mansion.

Sid makes his own preparations

As does Elena...

...with her awesome team of girls!

The ceremony was outside in the backyard. It was a lovely ceremony.

And they're finally married!!!

Then we had the super rare privilege to shoot inside the mansion.

And a traditional champagne toast!

We stopped in at Starbucks for a drink...

...on the way to the U of A campus!

The whole gang is here!

Elena is so unbelievably pretty!

Some fun at HUB

Reception time! It was such a happy, funny, and a blast of an event!

The first dance

And I thought it was so cute how Elena, her sister, and mom lit up the dancefloor together. You can tell these three have lots of fun together!

Elena and Sid, congratulations on your gorgeous wedding! You guys are all class through and through, but definitely know how to have fun also! This is a great combination for a beautiful relationship, which comes out so obvious to anyone who has hung out with you two. Thanks for the opportunity! I will hope to see you guys again soon!

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