I am trying to catch up on blogging! Brittnie and Tony were married at the first of this month and it was such a warm day….I forgot how warm it was I feel like I’ve been cold so long 😀 It was a great day and they had a gorgeous reception. There designers came up with a gorgeous fall theme including custom lighting that looked like bare branches on the walls.
I think I am loving these temple pre-shoots, especially when I get to do them with my friend David Perry of David Perry Films. 😀 We always have a great time-Travis even came to help out and came up with a cool shot of the couples rings floating in the reflection pool with the temple as the reflection. Very nice 😀 I really do love pre-shoots for temple weddings because their wedding days seem to get pretty full and this makes it so you don’t need as much time at the temple-so that means less stress on your wedding day, and who doesn’t want that? Another great thing about them is you get to shoot when the groom actually sees the bride for the first time-which doesn’t happen in the temple. I loved when Tony saw Brittnie-he couldn’t stop smiling and hugging her. It was so cute. Brittnie got a gorgeous bouquet from the Window Box and her dress was from Gateway Bridal.
I have done Wyatt’s pictures every 3 months since he was born and it was so great to finish our baby’s first year sessions with such a cute concept. His mom made the hot air balloon basket and the layered rainbow cake. It was REALLY cold outside but Wyatt was really good for us. After he dug into his cake he ended up puking up a bit of it. Luckily he was fine the rest of the night. We were even able to get some cute pictures of his parents too 😀
Zach called me two days before their engagements to tell me he wanted to give Dani her ring during the session. Little did I know he had been teasing her all week with proposal type situations (I love you puzzle in cupcakes, dinner at a fancy restaurant, and flowers being sent to her work repeatedly) . So during the session I told him our code word would be I would bring up football somehow. So I did, posed them where he was squatting down by her and then he turned to her and proposed. It was so cute. She was REALLY happy-then she hit him for taking so long. It was really funny. Then we went onto take more pictures and found some cool new spots on accident too.
Melani and Chris win for the shortest engagement on a wedding that I have ever shot! Her sister called me less than two weeks before the wedding and when she asked if I had that date open, I said….”for this year?!” Luckily I was able to move around some sessions that day so I could shoot for them at the temple. They are both so easy going and fun so they were the perfect couple to pull off a less than 2 week wedding! I loved that they had wrote little messages on her blue Chucks and I loved that they had red, white and navy blue as colors. I don’t see that too much and it was really cute. I especially loved the bridesmaids red shoes. I love me some colored shoes!
Kayla and Bryan had a ring ceremony and reception a week after their wedding in San Diego at the gorgeous Wadley Historical Farms. After the ring ceremony performed by her grandfather, Kayla performed a Polynesian dance for Bryan (she has been taking lessons) and Bryan sang her a song he had wrote for her-which was so sweet. After that we took a few pictures before the dancing began. When Kayla danced with her dad I literally started crying (I’ve never done this before-I see a few of these ;D) and could hardly see to take pictures! I felt like such a baby! I think I have just gotten so close to this family and it was just a precious moment for sure. Her friends really fought for the bouquet, which was hilarious!
