Shenandoah Mill Wedding- Arizona Wedding Photographer- Nicole + Jayden

Nicole + Jayden

Nicole and Jayden got married at Shenandoah Mill in Gilbert, Arizona on gorgeous March day.

After meeting on a dating app in 2018 Jayden proposed by surprising Nicole by coming home early from a work trip and waiting for her on one knee with roses and a ring (that I freaking love).

I’ve known Nicole since our senior year of high school and she has become one of my best friends in the world over the last seven years. We’ve been there for each other through our first year of college, really shitty break ups, career moves, we were both on dating apps at one time and that was definitely a time to be alive, and she was there for me in one of the most traumatic moments of my life. I had never met Jayden until their rehearsal and I was immediately even more excited for her when I saw them together for the first time. They love each other so much and Nicole was comfortable being 100% herself around him.

Nicole is like me- an anxious human being. Our friendship is made up of text messages from each other that say things along the lines of “I have a headache. Do you think it’s a tumor?” and “have you googled the symptoms of the coronavirus? I think I definitely have it.” (we’re horrible for each other) but I swear I have never seen her so calm in my life! We started at the house her parents rented and drank mimosas and I just snapped photos here and there as things happened. Then I put her in my car on the way to the venue and we hid in the parking lot while we waited for Jayden (who parked literally right next to us and I zoomed away as fast as I could). After we got her dress on everything went as smoothly as it could have and we got all the important photos done before the ceremony. My FAVORITE part of the day was our high school guidance counselor, Mr. Mack, officiating the wedding. He started a club called Tiger Town we were all in when we were in high school and I always said he was our Mr. Feeny. So I obviously cried a little bit.

It was the perfect day. Nicole- I love you so much! Thank you for being there for me over the last two years and I’m so glad I could be there for you on your day! Also, no, you were not a bridezilla. Jayden- I’m so glad I finally got to meet you and hopefully I’ll come visit y’all in Alaska so I can meet you again!

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