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Early on in her relationship with the Red Bats, Sarah announced that her favorite color is orange. I took pictures in her room while her bridesmaids helped her get ready, and I was kind of stunned by the intensity of her orange-painted walls. She was not kidding about liking orange, I thought, admiring anyone who would choose to live with such vivid color. (I also admire her because she’s tough enough to do CrossFit workouts, and because she’s so incredibly nice.)

Orange was theme color she chose for her wedding, of course, and it showed up in many places that day. My favorite: the orange paper lanterns that hung in the trees at the reception site. They stood out against the green of the leaves, and as the sun was setting, they echoed the color of the sky. I thought of the paintings of J. W. Waterhouse and the illustrations of Maxfield Parrish, and in the days afterward, I kept seeing in my mind those orange lanterns glowing. I even dreamed about them. This contemplation of the color orange led me to do some reading on the subject.

Obviously, with a name like Red Bat Photography, we care about what colors mean. And as you know if you live inside my head, I tend to overthink the implications of every detail of everything, ever, so I ran to the internet to find out about orange. I was going to write a treatise on it for you, but then I remembered how many photos there are in this post (are they done loading yet? no? I’ll keep talking) and I decided to just give you some links.

If you want to know more about the many meanings and uses of orange, you can start with this wikipedia entry about orange, and this entry about color psychology. Or try this page for a good overview on the subject. You can explore the implications of orange using the the Luscher Color Diagnostic method, have a look at the orange chakra, and find shades of orange with strange names at Colour Lovers.

If you don’t want to do any of that, you can get the basic idea from this chart (which must’ve come from somewhere but I can’t find the link to credit the site):

Now keep all of that information in mind as you view these photos of Sarah and Jon and their wedding reception, which may not seem directly related to most of the subjects under discussion above, but are definitely related to having a good time and being in love and yes, the color orange.

Also, notice that they put their engagement photos on their wine bottles. We feel so flattered when people do that.

A sincere thanks to everyone who visited our booth at the Bridal Expo this year at the Cocoanut Grove!  This was our second year at the Expo, and this year was even busier than the last!

Our booth was often pretty mobbed, so if you didn’t have room to squeeze in to talk to us, please drop us a line here and get in touch! We don’t bite. Except when we haven’t had our coffee yet. ProTip: Don’t get between a photographer and his/her coffee.

Also, we are booking up VERY quickly this year, so if you are perhaps on the fence about whether you want us to shoot your wedding, it might be a good idea to contact us to see if your date is one of the many that have received multiple requests. Locking in a date is a first-come-first-served thing; whoever gets their deposit in first gets the date.  So while I don’t want to go all infomercial on you, it really might be a good idea to “act now”!

Finally, we had a TON of entries to our free engagement session raffle, and will be drawing a winner later this week. If you are not the winner, though, don’t despair! We will be sending out an email shortly with a special price for an engagement session, just for you folks who entered the raffle.

Thanks again, and we hope to see many of you awesome people again this year!