save the date

Mike and I were lucky enough to have our friend Seth (www.sethalwin.com) spend an entire day with us taking our engagement photos this past summer. I had an idea for one in which Mike and I would walk towards each other and kiss when we met. Seth was able to capture my idea more beautifully than I ever imagined and thus giving us the perfect image to use for our Save the Dates! I wanted to emphasize the moment we met and kissed, so by making the background black and white and ourselves in color, we were able to really stand out. Since my design philosophy is clean and simple, that's exactly how I wanted the end result of these "save the dates" to turn out. I'm looking forward to designing as many things as I can for our upcoming wedding from invitations, table names, place cards and the programs. I'm going to be one busy girl:)

Chris & Amanda Wedding

So my photographic adventure with these two lovebirds continues as I was recently a second shooter at their wedding. As I recently heard one bride say, "A person should have two weddings (to the same person). Rationale, the first goes by so fast, the second is to ingrain it all in the brain and remember all of the amazing details." That statement called out to me as I was about to photograph such a monumental day as a wedding. My job as the photographer is to slow the day down and freeze those special moments to be cherished forever. Chris, Amanda and their families are so great to work with - what a great day! A small sampling...

Wedding Stationary 2

My beautiful sister, Kerry, was recently married to my new brother-in-law, Ravi. Myself and Mike took part in their wedding in more ways than one. Not only did we both stand up in their wedding party, we were able to use our artistic talents to help make their wedding day extremely special. Mike used his genius computer software knowledge to create the wedding slide show for the happy couple. I designed the wedding programs for the ceremony and also designed wedding menus which also acted as name cards for each of the guests. We were pleased with the gracious feedback from everyone there! (Both pieces were printed on classic white linen paper)