Melissa's Bridals

I had so much fun taking these bridals! Melissa's neighbors had this awesome backyard, and they graciously allowed us to take pictures here for her bridals, and also to use their living room for some awesome piano pictures!
Um this first picture . . .yep my very favorite! She reminds me of a real princess.
Enjoy!



















Remember the story of how Melissa met Tyler? Well we went to the exact room where they first met to the 2nd part of her bridals. As I said before, Melissa is an accomplished pianist, and the night they met, she was sitting at this piano playing, while Tyler sat on the couch to the right of her when he first saw her.






End with another fav which is just barely different from the first picture.

You're so beautiful Melissa! It was a blast hanging out with you and taking your bridals!

Check back for pictures of their wedding in June!

Sneak Peeks . . .

Wedding Albums - Now Offering!

It's long past due time to share this great album that I made for one of my December weddings. For a very short time I was offering albums. Honestly, I didn't know if I could do one or not, but why not try it? Well this couple decided to get that package, and so I had the fun, exciting adventure making a flush mount album for them. And let me tell you . . . I did not want to mail it to them! I wanted to keep it for myself! Haha! Yeah . . .well after a long sigh, I did put it in the UPS box and mailed it, but not before I took some pictures of it. Of course my pictures don't do justice to a beautiful leather book with the beautiful, glistening, thick pages of the book. But bear with me . . . just know that I was never cut out to be a stock photographer. Well I never wanted to be any ways. A picture just isn't a picture to me without people in it! (well at least my pictures)

So here . . . bask with me in the beauty of this book! Also this is mostly for the benefit of the brides I'm working with now. I'm offering these books at a very low cost to my current brides while building my album portfolio.

This is a 10x10 inch leather flush mount album book with 20 sides (10 pages).

Look at the nice thick pages. Good and sturdy.

Oh yes! This next page was my very favorite!!! One huge picture spread across both pages. That's the glory of these books!

There is just a 1/16 inch seam between the picture which in my opinion does not distract from the picture.



This next one also turned into one of my favorite pages.

Let's compare sizes now, shall we? :)

Compare the huge 10x20 inch picture with the 4x6 inch print. Big difference? Oh yeah . . .

So there are the couple of pictures I took of the beautiful album. Here are a couple other favorite spreads that I made for this book.

(Disclaimer: of course my logo and watermark are not apart of the book. )

The front cover:





Um . . . this next one . . . perhaps one of my other favorites (yeah they all were pretty much favs)



And the last side of the book to end it all.



These albums are so great for those who love to display their wedding images as true art. I design each to match the feel and mood of the wedding. For each page (2 sides), I like them to look clean and fresh and not too cluttered. So besides a few collage looking ones, I will use 1-4 pictures per page. The pages will also be printed through a professional printing lab so they will be in their true colors.

I think these books are a great investment, especially when most people just tuck away their pictures in a box somewhere, unorganized, to only look at after a long time. These albums are meant to tell a story through the photography that you invested so much in for that special day, and to help bring back the emotions and happiness you felt and shared in with your family and friends.

Ahh . . . yep. Maybe for my next anniversary I'll make an album with our wedding pictures.

Well thanks for stopping by! Have a great day!

Gabe Eating His Cake!

This little guy, Gabe, was one of my first newborns to photograph. Now he's 1! I just can't believe it! He was seriously so smiley and happy the entire time. Come on, who wouldn't be with that yummy chocolate cake?! After staring at me for a few seconds, he started to dig into that cake, and quite enjoyed it! Here ya go, Carrie, your cute little guy's cake pictures! He is just too adorable!

A little action . . . eating the candle

Silly kid!

About half way through the pictures, Carrie and I remembered the leggings that we had! We thought that it was cute! (of course my husband will argue that it's not a manly thing to wear leggings. Carrie and I didn't care. We thought it was just too cute on this little guy with the balloons, hat, and cake!)

Ahhh! I love that cute chocolate face!

Ok, on to some of the non-cake pictures of this handsome little guy:

We did a few with the balloons at the same time, and they were too cute! I think Gabe's playing "Peek-a-boo" with the camera and mommy.

End with two more of my favs in his cute green outfit!

Thanks for bringing him in Carrie, even though it was a few weeks after his birthday due to him feeling sick around his special day. He is just too stinkin' cute! And it's so fun to have photographed this little guy several times during his first year. They just grow way too fast!

Well till next time! Have a great day!

Just for Daddy . . .

This picture is dedicated to this baby's Daddy, who has not met his little girl yet in person, and who is probably missing his wife dearly. May this picture give him and his wife comfort as they are apart as he serves our country.

More to come soon . . .

Sassy

More of this bridal session to come tomorrow :)

And I have now hit 10,00 visitors since September! Wahoo! Thanks for stopping by! :)

Senior Season Special

Here's a Shout-Out to all you 2010 High School Seniors! Now's the time to book a Senior Session with me for your custom photography!

So here's the deal:

If you book your senior session with me before May30th, you can get $50 off of your Senior session!

Also . . . For every high-school friend who you refer to me and who books and uses me for their senior session this summer, you can get an additional $20 off. Make sure they mention your name!

Remember that you need to mention this ad when booking if you want this deal!

Shandi & Greg's Groomals

These two love birds will be married today in the Manti Temple. I thought I'd quickly share some of the beautiful stuff that we got from their Groomal session.
Beautiful Shandi!








This one is just too cute!

Isn't her ring gorgeous?!

So Shandi wanted to do a serious, old-fashioned picture at the end. Well This is what we got from that:

We'll end with my favorite of Shandi:

Well wish me luck today! It's going to be a beautiful day and full of the sweet love between these two people! Their wedding post to come soon!