Photography

While reading the Pikes Peak Wedding website, you've probably wondered why an inn sells a wedding package. Sure, we like having a full B&B inn here in Manitou Springs, Colorado. However, the true reason goes deeper that that. We have an innkeeper with an art degree. What better way to use that training than in making stunning bouquets and taking great wedding photographs? Sally artfully takes 96 photos of your wedding as well as portraits (more as the number of guests increases.) Within sevearl days and sometimes by the next morning, they are presented to you along with all of your negatives and a CD of your photos. You can then make prints that you want for family and friends, as well as create your own enlargements for a special wedding album. You will own the copyrights for your own wedding photos.

If you'd like more wedding photography, you may choose to have more than the usual 96 photos taken at an additional cost of $3 per exposure. Remember, if you invite guests, we automatically include more photos as part of the price per guest, increasing your photos by one roll (24 exposures) per every twenty guests. Sally has photographed over 300 weddings by now, but she always welcomes suggestions for new poses. Last autumn, a bride took off her high heels and leapt onto a rock in the stream for a photo. We're always happy to try something new. There are many photo opportunities here on the historic Briarhurst estate. After your wedding ceremony, reception and family photos have been taken, the bride and groom will be photographed with Pikes Peak in the background, the prettiest mountain in Colorado.

Other photos will be taken by the stained glass windows of the historic Briarhurst gothic revival carriage house. It is probably the oldest standing structure in Manitou Springs, built by the founder of the city. The shade under towering cottonwoods by the gently arched bridge at streamside is also a beautiful site for wedding photography. Upon completion of those photos, the wedding party is usually ready to depart for a wedding dinner We will post photos of you on our PikesPeakWedding.com website within a week or so of your wedding. You may have fun calling friends and relatives to pull up the website, surprising those who didn't know of your Colorado wedding plans!

402 Manitou Avenue Manitou Springs, CO 80829 (800) 398-7949 (719) 685-3899