Erin & Matt {Wedding Week: Day 1} Kansas City Wedding Photography

Erin & Matt

{Wedding Week: Day 1}

Welcome to King City, Missouri!

We absolutely loved every piece of this wedding day and are beyond excited to share it with you this week! We road-tripped our way to the quaint little King City, Missouri (just a couple hours outside of the Kansas City area) last month to officially kick off our 2013 wedding season!

Upon arriving to a wedding, the first thing we do is scope out some great photo spots. Since neither of us had ever been to King City, we gave ourselves a tour of the town! It took about five minutes before we made friends with some curious folks downtown wondering who we were and what we were doing taking photos in the street. When Melissa let them know we were there to shoot a wedding, they said, “Oh, yes! The McMillan Wedding!” The population here is about 1,000, and it seems everyone knows everyone! We captured some fun details from their main street before heading to the wedding. I fell in love with some antique Coca Cola memorabilia I found outside the local grocery store. One lady informed me that the grocery store was still in operation by a husband and wife, Dean and Virginia, who are 81 years old and still work there every day. It was such a great start to what ended up being a truly wonderful day!

Miles of open fields and wind turbines greeted us as we made our way close to town!

Both the wedding and reception were held at Erin’s parent’s home where she grew up. Erin’s three sisters all had their wedding receptions here as well. It’s a gorgeous country home with beautiful land surrounding it.

Umm… how cute is this flower girl?!

Aedan, a handsome little ring bearer, was so proud of his new toy he received at the rehearsal dinner the night before!

Erin’s dad seeing her for the first time as she came down the stairs. So sweet!

Miss Kellyn was also waiting to see the pretty bride!

While the girls were in the house getting ready, the guys were out back getting dressed in the old chicken coop. Yep, this amazing backyard bar used to be where they kept the chickens. Now look at it! When Erin and Matt first told us about this bar that the family had built in the backyard, we thought okay… sounds pretty cool. When we saw it with out own eyes, though… wow!! This is legit. Welcome to the Money Pit Pub!

Tomorrow we’ll have photos from the beautiful backyard wedding ceremony!

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