Virginia contacted me in late December of 2009 about her very unique wedding and wedding date.  She and Sasan will be getting married on a Tuesday, on the same day and day of the week as his grandparents wedding!

After several months of talking through email, facebook and over the phone we finally had a chance to meet!  Here are a few photos of the mini engagement session I requested!

Farrar contacted me several months ago about a session.  She wanted to surprise her best friend and get photos taken of her and her daughters, along with Farrar and her adorable daughter.  I don’t normally take sessions like this, but really, you’d have to see their children.  They are way too cute to pass up!  This is just a small sneak peek and what I could get edited right now, so I’ll probably post many more later!

When a bride meets with me for a consultation, one of the first questions I ask is whether they will see each other prior to the ceremony.  Many a time I’ve gotten a weird look with an obvious “No! Of course not!” – then I explain why I ask, and why I urge my brides to consider a “First Look”.

The main reason is the fact that with a first look we can get almost all of the photos with the bridal party done before the ceremony – you wont leave your guests waiting for the reception for 1-2 hours.

The second reason, and the reason I think you should consider it the most, is the intimacy involved.  No crowding, no gawking, just you and your love.  Personally, I love the cuddle time, and the nervousness of the groom as he waits for her to tap him on the shoulder.

Mostly, I love the love that beams from this moment.  Sure, it’s great to see his face as you’re walking down the aisle. But there’s so much distraction, so much going on..the first look gives you a moment that belongs to no one else.

This is Veronica and Jonathan’s first look:

Veronica and Jonathan tied the knot last night and now they are off to a tropical paradise for their honeymoon!!! Congrats guys!!! Wedding blog to follow!!

This is a small teaser for Katie and David and their families.  I will try to have a second part posted after they get back from their honeymoon!

They had a beautiful wedding! Even though it was hot and in July, everyone pulled through and was so laid back.

Random fact: Katie’s family did all of the floral arrangements themselves, and they were GORGEOUS.

Thanks to April Allen at April Allen Photography for shooting with me, like always, I had lots of fun!

Congratulations, Katie and David!

This past weekend I shot David and Katie’s wedding, and now that they’re married, I can post her bridals as a sneak peek before I post the wedding photos!

Have fun in Colorado, guys!

Sorry for the temporary absence from the blog and website!  I’ve been oh so busy.

This month will be full of new sessions and weddings though, I promise!  Stay tuned.

There are also major changes coming to the blog, so watch out for those as well!

If you want to be kept up to date, check out my facebook page here.

Katie and David are getting married in July, I can’t wait!

One thing many of you don’t know about me is that I LOVE to read.  My bookshelves at home are absolutely full and my e-book collection is relatively large at this point. I read enthusiastically and it provides great joy to me.  I have always loved to just “get away” with a good book, my imagination is extremely over-active though, so I tend to get attached to characters very quickly!

Apparently, The Big Read thinks the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books that they’ve printed.  According to this list I read more than the average person, I suppose!

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE, add a strikeout to the books you’ve read but didn’t like.

1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11. Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch – George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34. Emma – Jane Austen
35. Persuasion – Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41. Animal Farm – George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45. The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50. Atonement – Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52. Dune – Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones’ Diary – Helen Fielding
69. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72. Dracula – Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses – James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal – Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession – AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte’s Web – EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94. Watership Down – Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo