Molly + John were married on October 17th, 2009 at one of our favorite places to shoot, The Shade Hotel in Manhattan Beach (this is also the home of our next LYON-SHOP to take place on January 12th). Everything about The Shade Hotel screams style, from the straight lines, to the long green curtains, to the whirl wind fire places in each hotel room...we heart this location! On top of such an amazing location we had the ever fantastic Molly + John to work with! Great style, sweet personalities, and they were ready to party the minute we showed up (you'll see that I actually got dragged into it their party if you make your way down to the bottom of this post)!

What would a wedding post be without a slideshow?! Don't forget to click here to see more from Molly + John's wedding day.

Here's one down, now only three weddings from 2009 to go, keep a look out!

"Happy New Year everyone! We are very, very excited to say that today we are welcoming in 2010 with the launch of our annual Best from the Best Fashion Report! A look back at the best wedding images of 2009 from the world's leading wedding photographers! With thousands of images submitted to us by hundreds of photographers across the globe, Blair, Kim and I were in heaven editing them down to what we considered the best of the best- the images that blew our minds, made us gasp and tear up and grin from ear to ear at the same time, and quite simply, made us love photography even more than we already do. We salute every one of the hard working photographers out there who sent in their images for consideration. It has been an honor to see such stellar creative work, and we sincerely hope that all of you, our readers, are as moved by 2009's Best from the Best as we have been."

Thank you to the fabulous team of ladies (Kim, Blair, and Christy) that run Junebug Weddings, we are so happy to be part of what you are all about! Be sure to check out the entire collection of images, there are so many amazing photos featured by so many amazing photographers! We were part of the report last year, so it is great that we get to have such an amazing opportunity twice in a row!

I love this opening image by The Image Is Found.

Here is our featured image!

For this particular post we chose images from each wedding, some are from "my favorite shot of the day", some are ones that I can't let go of, and some images we chose because we think they are just plain-fabulous (pssst...if you look cloesly you might even see some shots from weddings we haven't even featured on the blog yet). Enjoy!

We are definitely looking forward to the future with the weddings we've booked for 2010! Happy New Year to everyone, we wish all of you much success and many-many blessings!

To Matt & Wendy, you will be receiving the following:

-up to 8 hours wedding day coverage

-online proofing

-two photographers (including myself & Justin)

-engagement session

-one 11x14 15 spread flush mount album from Renaissance Albums

-high resolution digital negatives on disc provided at one year anniversary

To the other four finalists, since we have fallen in love with each one of you and we feel strongly that you shouldn't have to walk away empty handed, we want to give each one of you an engagement session! This includes:

-up to two hours coverage

-online proofing

-high resolution digital negatives on disc

BUT, that's not it!! We have the most amazing and talented friends! Five other photographer friends of ours have let us know that they also would like to pitch in! They would like to shoot the other four weddings! So, each of these finalists couples is going to get their wedding shot for free (if they would like) by one of the following photography studios:

This is obviously based on the availability of each photography studio, etc. So if each of the couples would please email me at amelia@amelialyon.com, we will put you in touch with the other photographers and get the ball rolling!

Congratulations again to Matt & Wendy, we can't wait to meet you in person! We also want to take a quick minute to thank Renaissance Albums for generously donating a beautiful wedding album and Fotofafa for sponsoring the post processing!

Thank you again to everyone that supported, voted, commented, and participated! HAPPY NEW YEAR! See you all in 2010!

*More to come in the next few weeks: Best of from 2009, Best ring shots from 2009 & our last four weddings of 2009!!!