Jessica and Jacob McConkie 10.11.08

Well, looks like I didn't quite make it by this past weekend on posting Jessica and Jake's wedding, but here they are now! I had a very long weekend with an out of town wedding on Friday, getting home very late Friday night, and uploading all of Friday's 2000 images, then getting up Saturday and doing it all again! Plus my assistants did a Navy Ball for me on Saturday evening, and photo shoots all day Sunday! I do believe that October is the most busy month of the entire year! For the next month or two, I may not be able to post weddings the very next week, but probably within approximately 2 weeks from the wedding day, as I also have two weddings due every week as well as shooting new ones on top of it!

Anyway....Jessica and Jake's wedding was up in the Alma/Mt. Pleasant area, and was absolutely perfect fall day! It was actually a bit on the hot side, but gorgeous color! We had a beautiful drive up there enjoying the fall foliage. Here is a small sampling of Jessica and Jake's wedding day.........














The reception was all decked out with a fall theme, including these ornament leafs hanging from trees, this was the "gift" for each of the guests, which was a really cute idea!





A toast for the camera.....













Jake and the ladies......





This brick wall was right in the shade and made a perfect backdrop for me......














The frosting was actually caramel flavor and tinted dark........wow!


The first dance together.....









I love this one of you Jessica...!!


Altar pictures! This is a particularly difficult altar to photograph in front of as it is backlit by all the windows in the back of the church, the trees outside of these windows were in full orange however!








During the ceremony........




Just after the ceremony....





























Congratulations again, we had an awesome day shooting your wedding, thank you for everything!

McConkie Wedding Coming Soon!

Ran out of time to blog this week, sorry all! By Sunday evening I will have Jessica and Jakes' awesome October 11th wedding preview posted! My first wedding anniversary was October 12th, and my husband really, really, really wanted to go to Mackinac again this year due to our lousy honeymoon weather last year! Well, the weather was just gorgeous and we had a lovely couple days up there, but boy did it take some time away from editing and blogging! Ouch! Anyway, look for J and J's wedding post to come later this weekend!

Fall Family Portrait Special - Thank you!

Thank so much to all the families who came out to see me on October 4th for the Fall Family Portrait Special! We had a beautiful fall day to work with, despite a last minute change of location to Dwight Lydell park, which actually worked out WAY better than Riverside Park anyway!! Everyone's images will be online to view by the end of this week!



My Daughter's homecoming was also Saturday, (Sydney is the one in the royal blue dress on the far right), so the whole gang stopped by the park for a few fun shots before they headed out to dinner and dancing. What a fun group of kids, you guys look great!!


Little Allie loved that apple!


I love Rebecca's little jean outfit!



The Rase Family, what a group!



The Lobdell Family



My good friends, the Duyck family!


Unfortunately I don't have time to put a shot of everyone's families up, but thanks again to all of my families that took time out of their day to come get their pictures taken. We'll have to do this again next year!

Hannah + Jason = 10.24.09

In lieu of me not having a wedding this past weekend, here are a few shots from Hannah and Jason's engagement session a couple of weeks ago out in Holland at Tunnel Park! Hannah and Jason's wedding is almost a year away next October, and check out how Jason proposed to Hannah... double click on this image and read the puppies collar tag!!










You have to catch the sun coming into the tunnel at just the right time as the sun sets for this lighting. Everytime I come out here I have so much fun shooting in this tunnel!






Holding the sun...

Congratulations Jason and Hannah, can we have the puppy at the wedding?

Fall Senior Pictures

Hey Seniors, it's not too late for senior pictures and October is a beautiful month for fall portraits! Call me if you haven't scheduled yours yet! 616.340.9997!!

October Wedding Package Special!

In honor of my favorite month of October (and my own first anniversary), I'm offering a wedding package special of $150 off any wedding package for 2009 brides and grooms!! This special will run through October 31st 2008, and I'm filling up quickly for 2009 weddings so please contact me soon!

Happy Wedding Planning!!

Trash The Dress!!!!!!!

I finally got to do a trash the dress session this evening with my couple from August 31st, Luc and Valerie! They have to be one of the bravest couples around, as they actually got into the water in Muskegon late this evening in about 50 degree temperatures! We waited for the water shots until the end of the session for obvious reasons, and when I told them to walk into the water, they kept going!! I couldn't believe they actually did it, bravo!! It was so much fun to play with images in this way and have such a compliant and fun couple to work with! Here are a few shots from this evenings Trash the Dress Event!!
















We had to sneak up to these birds!












Luc's face says it all here about how cold the water was!! What a good sport!

Thanks guys, I can't wait to get these all done!