My Fabulous 2009 Couples!

First off . . . Do you all just love the new look to my blog??? I sure do, and I have my amazing husband, John, to thank for it. He wasn’t exactly sure what he was doing, but eventually he figured it out, and I just love it! So thanks John!!!

Ok, on to the post . . .Yes, the title says it all! I wanted to just reminisce a little about some of the couples I worked with back in 2009. It was seriously an amazing year! And a lot of change for me too! I just really appreciate those who came along on the ride with me as I fell in love again with wedding photography! So here we go . . . I just posted one picture of each couple and tried to find a picture that I loved that I didn’t post on the blog or website (the new one is coming in less than a week!). There may be a few ones at the beginning which I may have repeated, so sorry if that’s the case. But I believe most of these are new ones that I love.

Elise and Scott asked me to do their engagements even though they were getting married in Texas. I had a total blast with them! Reagan and Sam: I totally loved hanging out with them and creating some of my most unique pictures for their engagement and then bridal session, which I totally loved!

Charaty & Mike: I was honored to photograph their ceremony and their groomal session. I adore this picture of them!

One of my best friends got married in April! Jenny and Brandon! I just love these two, and we had quite the rainy day in April!

Greg & Shandi: What a BEAUTIFUL Manti temple wedding day in May! I miss spring already. This was also the day that changed my life when I got my Canon 5D Mark II. I seriously don’t know how I lived without it before then :) haha!

Blythe & Rob also got married in May. I had one of the shortest after-wedding session with the two of them, but got some of my very favorite pictures too at the beautiful Mt. Timpanogos Temple.

Tyler & Melissa: I loved this wedding! Seriously, such a fun one in June! They get the very best dancing-at-the-reception award! It was a blast!

Adam & Stephanie: For being a July wedding, when it was supposed to be really hot, it was an amazingly beautiful day! It was my first time meeting them on their wedding day, but they were so easy to like, get along with, and I had a fabulous time!

Emily & Robert: This was one of my first “family” weddings. Robert is John’s nephew and it was fun to have family around for the whole experience. Haha this is also the wedding where I had a huge eye infection (thought it was allergies), so I was blind for the whole wedding experience, until picture time where I disobeyed the doctor’s orders, and stuck in my contacts any ways so I could actually see! Fun day though!

Nicole & Cody: They got married up in the Big Cottonwood Canyon in September. We were so happy that it didn’t rain (since it did for a little bit), and they were awesome to do their pictures before the ceremony when the light was just right. I loved the location we went to for their together picts.

Jessica & Kevin: I just blogged their wedding! So we all know what a fun day that was! Cold a chilly, but if you look at this picture, there’s actually green in November! It’s amazing!

Travis & Brianne: They got married in December! But you would never know it by their pictures since there was barely any snow! It was cold though and they braved it! We had such a fun time, were exhausted by the end, but I left the reception that night with a smile on my face because I was so happy for them! (I will blog their wedding soon!)

Aaron & Melanie: So technically they got married a week ago in January, but I couldn’t help posting them a sneak peek of their wedding. It was my first time at the Draper Temple, and I loved it! It was totally freezing, but again, I always get the best couples who are brave and do whatever it takes for the pictures.

2009 was so great! I debated whether to do something like this for my portrait clients, but had no idea how I would do something like that since that’s a whole different story, but the portrait year was so great too! I want to thank all of my 2009 clients for being so amazing, patient, fun, energetic, and open with me to allow me to capture who you are and tell your story of wherever you were in your life at that moment. I gained so many wonderful friends this past year whom I’ll always remember, and hope that I can keep in contact with. Thanks for helping me become the photographer as well as person that I want to be. You all are amazing!!! Thanks again!

May you all have a wonderful 2010 year! :)

Jessica & Kevin’s Beautiful Day – Part 1

It was a very beautiful November day when the Princess Jessica and Prince Kevin sealed their love forever in their castle. They both totally radiated and I was so happy to be apart of their very special day. I was doing my own smiling a lot that day too at seeing how happy everyone was, it would have been hard to not feel the excitement!

Because I am a big sister to brothers, I couldn’t help but feel extra love for the next picture.

My newest fun thing I like to do at the SLC temple. I love how it turns out every time! (and by the way, I have some really great silent cheerers. . . so we don’t make too much noise. Great job everyone!)

For some reason I really like this next one.

Ok, on to Jessica and Kevin by themselves.

This has been one of my top weddings of 2009, and Kevin & Jessica are just so awesome to work with! (I still need to post their amazing groomal session!) They are just those kinds of people who make everyone around them feel important and special. You can’t help but smile when you are around the two of them. They both truly radiate on the inside and out. I feel like a better person after being around them and am so glad to call them my new friends!

It was amazing seeing the love in their eyes for one another. I wish them all the happiness!

Haha! Love this next one!

The fountains were on for like 20 seconds after we saw them, and I caught this shot real fast.

Um, one of my favs!

John caught these next two. Loved his perspective.

And I adore this next one of John’s too:

We’ll end with my favorite. I cut down this post a lot, but not enough, so their reception is coming in another post. Hope you enjoyed this preview! Happy Monday!

Wedding sneak peek . . .

As I was deep in slumber last night, and knew I was preparing myself to go to another wedding today, I was awoken with the fact that I am a total slacker and hadn’t yet posted a picture of my last wedding! Even though I attempted to sleep longer, it was a fitful sleep knowing that I am not where I want to be when it comes to being on top of things, so I bring you these two pictures as penance for my being a slacker ;)

Any ways, this wedding was a total blast as well! They are such a fun couple and totally fun to hang out with! I have lot of funny pictures from their wedding, but this morning was feeling a little more serene, so I picked some pretty artsy ones :)

Amelia's Senior pictures

She really does brighten my day when I see her! This is my awesome niece, Amelia. I was so excited to take her senior pictures back in October. I had so much fun hanging out with her. She'll definitely go far in life with her motivation and detemination. She is a very talented pianist, and has been doing it since she was a little girl, and now is pretty amazing at it! She found a very generous neighbor who let us use their beautiful piano in their home for part of the session.
Here are just a few of my favorites from Amelia's session:
























Thanks so much for hanging out with me, Amelia! I had a total blast! Good luck with after you graduate in 2010!

Shout out to other seniors out there . . . Now is the time to book your senior session, so that I can fit you in before you graduate! It's definitely a fun session and focuses on you and what you're good at. Email me if you're interested!

Thanks for stopping by!