I can’t recall how I found out about A Northwoods Wedding but I know one thing, I’m smitten!  They feature only midwest weddings and I know I’ve heard quite a few of my clients mention that it’s SO hard to find weddings on some of the wedding blogs that are midwest and not all beachy or big city.  I was asked to be a part of their “12 Days of Christmas” feature and I got to write about one of my favorite parts of the wedding, venues!!!  I chose 7 unique venues you’ll find in the midwest and featured images of Landoll’s Mohican Castle, Stan Hywet, Jilbert Winery, Holden Arboretum and Culinary Veggie Institute.

"Corey Ann is a Wedding and Portrait Photographer in Northeast Ohio. Her work has been featured in books and magazines across the country. You can read the original blog post here Press: A Northwoods Wedding."

I have to confess, I am doing a MAJOR chair dance right now.  To me, Style Me Pretty has always been that scary big blog that I didn’t think I would ever get accepted into.  Style Me Pretty to me was always kind of like that super hot guy in High School that you loved from afar but never thought you had a chance.  Well, after a bit of talking myself up, I submitted my first wedding and it got accepted!  Not only was that simple fact amazing to me but I was so excited that Jon and Alyssa’s amazing love story was able to touch more people.

Please click here to revisit their wedding day again and see even more images that didn’t make the blog.

"Corey Ann is a Wedding and Portrait Photographer in Northeast Ohio. Her work has been featured in books and magazines across the country. You can read the original blog post here Press | Style Me Pretty."

What a fun day discovering all the goodies below on Get Married!

This one took me completely by surprise!  I was scrolling through Facebook and my image immediately caught my eye, then I saw the article attached from Get Married!  Fun!  Interesting tidbit, the image featured is the first image I took at the first wedding I ever photographed professionally (Anna and Adam).  It’s not only in the article but the opening image in the slide show on the main page!  Whee!

But wait!  There’s more!

In the Alternative Wedding Cakes slideshow, you will find images of K.C. and Kyle’s buckeyes and brownies and Rebecca and JB’s Dirt Cake shooters!  YUM!

"Corey Ann is a Wedding and Portrait Photographer in Northeast Ohio. Her work has been featured in books and magazines across the country. You can read the original blog post here Get Married!."

Wow, twice in two days!  Today’s image is from Crystal and Brant’s wedding and is still my favorite father/daughter dance image.  They saved the best for last so it’s #16!

"Corey Ann is a Wedding and Portrait Photographer in Northeast Ohio. Her work has been featured in books and magazines across the country. You can read the original blog post here Press | Get Married | A Father’s Day Tribute."

Yay!  A couple images of Renee Landry’s delightful creations from Christi and Eric’s wedding are on Get Married.com today! Check the slideshow out (their images are #2 and #3)!

"Corey Ann is a Wedding and Portrait Photographer in Northeast Ohio. Her work has been featured in books and magazines across the country. You can read the original blog post here Press | Get Married | Beach Weddings."

This past week I was delighted to find out that Katie + Grey and Jennifer + Brian’s fun bouquet extras were featured on Get Married’s website.  I was out of town for a wedding in the Outer Banks so I wasn’t able to blog about them until now!

"Corey Ann is a Wedding and Portrait Photographer in Northeast Ohio. Her work has been featured in books and magazines across the country. You can read the original blog post here Press | Get Married."

I was super excited to see that Van & Jonathon’s adorable placecard/favors made it into Get Married’s Cinco de Mayo wedding theme slideshow!

"Corey Ann is a Wedding and Portrait Photographer in Northeast Ohio. Her work has been featured in books and magazines across the country. You can read the original blog post here Press | Get Married."

Today not one but two images are featured from last summer on Get Married’s website feature of unique cake toppers.  The first is from Kate + Grey and the second from Heidi + Matt.

"Corey Ann is a Wedding and Portrait Photographer in Northeast Ohio. Her work has been featured in books and magazines across the country. You can read the original blog post here Press | Get Married."

Another image from Sarah & Zack’s gorgeous wedding has been used, this time on the Wedding Channel in a slideshow of centerpieces.  I ADORED them so much and I’m glad they are getting some air time!!  Props to Heidi for making that 9 perfect!

"Corey Ann is a Wedding and Portrait Photographer in Northeast Ohio. Her work has been featured in books and magazines across the country. You can read the original blog post here Press | Wedding Channel."

As I mentioned in my previous blog post, Monday night/Tuesday morning, North Canton got nailed with a lot of ice – and that part of the storm was supposed to be the ligher of the two waves we got. Last night was the “major” event of the two with us receiving another 1/2″ plus of ice – possibly a full inch. It was hard for me to tell because after the first couple jaunts out to investigate the surrounding trees started loosing limbs in earnest and while I may be adventurous I am not stupid and I know that one of those branches was bound to hit me if I went out much more into the fray. I hunkered down inside and watched the freezing rain fall for another night a causing limbs to break and transformers to put on a spectacular show. The inevitable happened around 1AM – we lost power. I knew it was bound to happen and it was only a matter of WHEN not IF.

We didn’t have power all day and by 3PM we started making preparations to get our generator going to at least get heat going in the house again. I couldn’t get a hold of AEP to find out when our power was slated to be returned but had heard from a few sources to expect no earlier than Sunday. It was pretty chilly in our house – down to near 50ºF and luckily I have a loving Kitty that wasn’t adverse to cuddling for heat (hubs had to go to work but came home early to work on getting the generator set)! Of course the way it always seems to go, as soon as we had everything set up to get the generator running again, the power was restored! I confess, I was doing a mighty big happy dance for that!

When checking back in with the world, I found out that an image of mine was shown on The Weather Channel by Jim Cantore at 10:45EST last night. That’s pretty awesome and the inner weather geek in me may have died along with the photography nerd. I also hear an image of mine was used on the WEWS website but I don’t know which one or when. Needless to say, I’m elated!

I ventured out in the early evening and took some images of the maple frozen in the front yard.

This is the image that Jim Cantore used on The Weather Channel.

I went back out about 15 minutes later and got a measurement of about 3/4″ of ice and this was around 8PM.  We had another 5 hours of freezing rain after this!

During this adventure a limb broke off the tree and scared me enough to stop taking pictures of the maple in the front yard.

About an hour later though I still had an itchy shutter finger so I went out from our walkout basement and stayed under the deck and captured a few more shots of the weather.

This image is of our neighbor’s lilac bush which was really eerie but pretty.  By far NOT a perfect shot but it was handheld, lit by a spotlight and I was getting drenched in freezing rain.  The fact it turned out at all impresses me.  LOL

The morning after.  I saw that my neighbors had a LOT of limbs down, which I heard falling throughout the night.  It is one of the weirdest and most ominous sounds I’ve ever heard – the creaking and cracking of a tree, the limb falling and crashing to the frozen ground and then finally breaking through the ice glaze on the snow.  It’s wild and scary.

Luckily my backyard was pretty good considering, just a few limbs and a lot of small branches.

My next door neighbors were not nearly as lucky as we were.  Here’s a shot of one of the bigger branches down in their back yard.

Their front yard was worse but the lucky thing is that nothing hit their house or garage.  My bedroom is right beside the garage and in the middle of the night I heard this crash and WHOOMP.  I was worried it was a roof or much worse, I think it was this all coming down at once.  Crazy!

I took a spin around the neighborhood and saw that a house a few doors down that probably got the shortest end of the stick (ha ha) when it came to tree branches coming down.  Their yard was LITTERED with large branches and limbs but again, luckily nothing hit their house.

Here’s hoping Mother Nature gives us a bit of a break and it’s back to the regularly scheduled blogging tomorrow!

"Corey Ann is a Wedding and Portrait Photographer in Northeast Ohio. Her work has been featured in books and magazines across the country. You can read the original blog post here Ice Storm: Day Two."