Reception!

Gotta love a beautiful cake table backdrop. :)


The traditional guys sing to the bride. :)


Big smile. :)


And a smitten groom. :)


I don't know what my brother in law (far right) was doing. Strange.


Grooving.


More of Heath's move-busting.


Fr. Nick being his jovial self. :)


And Fr. Drew ... well, I'm not sure what exactly he's doing. ;)

Friends at the wedding!

With Miss Allison and Nathan. How I miss teaching CCD with Allison! :)


My hottie hubby shaved off his goat for our anniversary a few weeks ago. AND he kept it up through Kristine + Heath's wedding. Doesn't he look HOT AND YOUNG?!?!?!???


Miss Susie, MRS Kristine and ME! :)


Fr. Drew and "the ladies." HA! Ok, so I haven't seen/spoken with Fadda since he officiated at our wedding more than a year ago. Good to see him again, though!


Showing off our bling-bling. Married women, bye bye singleton life!

Wedding from my point + shoot

So, this was my second appearance in a wedding as a bridesmaid.

I couldn't leave all cameras AT home ... so I took the trusty point + shoot. :)


Bride.


Flower girl up to no good.


Future dazed + confused groom. ;)


Miss Susie with her praying hands salt + pepper shakers.


Gotta love colorful flowers!


OK, so my Chuck Taylors ... I wanted to have some good dancing shoes. And boy did I get COMMENTS about those bad boys. Crazy times!

I am such a dope when it comes to names and the like .... so I started calling them Chuck Norris shoes. And then once Erik pointed out I'm a dope, I started calling them Kenny Chesneys just to be jovial. ;)

Wedding break!

About a month ago, I stopped in a local antique store on a whim. Weeeeell, I found a plethora of old-fashioned hats, which I knew my friend, Miss Susie, would enjoy immensely. :)

So after our bridal party pix for Mrs. Kristine's wedding, we headed to the antique store for some fun of our own! :)


The netting is kinda fun!


Yeah, fun. :)


And MORE fun!


DOUBLE TROUBLE!!!!


Check it out from the top!


And from the front.


This is what we ended up selecting. Miss Susie took all the photos of me, so if I'm lucky and she sends me some, I'll post 'em here. :)


Of course, we opted to show them to the bride ... and they were good for a laugh! ;)

Kaley got HITCHED!!!!

About a week ago, my buddy, Kaley, got maried!


I LOVED her vintage-ish dress. SO classic .... very Kaley.


Check out us being dorks! Who'd have thought when we met we'd both be married within the span of a year of each other. Crazy talk!


Lastly, check out these awesome "reception shoes!" I fully advocate for reception shoes. Especially BLUE ones! :)


Also, check out how they sway together ... they both had this internal song only they seem to hear ... throughout the wedding ceremony AND reception, they were .... just swaying together to their own rhythm.

Aaaaah, Mike!

Who said wedding photographers were stiff, crusty old blokes? Not me.

Mike shows Lori how he wants her to sit for her portrait.


I think Lori kicked Mike's butt, though. ;)


I don't think I've EVER seen Mike laugh/clown around so much. Here he was showing Derek how to kneel by his bride.

Wedding book ....

My friend, Anne, put together this awesome project .... photographing Vegas wedding chapels on Valentine's Day.

CLICK HERE to read her awesome blog post about it. :)

Lately ...

I've been running around, insanely busy. But that's a blessing. :) I have to keep telling myself that.

Cruise on over to the Heartland blog to check out some super-fun family sessions from Oklahoma this weekend.

And .... today, Miss Sarah and I played dress up. :)


I'm having MAJOR space issues on my computer, so I can't give it a proper edit right now ... but there will be more to come. :)

Beer shower

This post is also a LONG time overdue. In fact, it happened on my birthday last year whilst photographing Shauna + James' wedding.

Well, there was a keg stand during the wedding. Believe it or not, until that point, I'd NEVER seen a keg stand. Yes, I DID go to college, but I'd never seen one. Maybe I missed something in college?

As a matter of fact, I'd seen plenty of beer bong photos, but again, no keg stand photos. SO, I'm sidetracked. At the wedding, there was a keg stand. So Mike takes the first shift at the bottom, taking photos of the person doing the kegging. For the second person, who was the bride's brother, I hopped at the chance to be at the foot of the keg.


Well .... there was a pause.


Then this face ...


Then an even BETTER face ...


And OUT IT CAME.


All over my brand spankin' new 5D camera + me. :(


Mike, of course, kept taking pictures. :)






And everyone was 100% all good in the end. :) He was absolutely apologetic about it, but truthfully, it really cracked me UP.


Strange how my ShootSac seems to be a magnet for beer. Later in the summer, I was shooting a wedding w/ my friend Jeff in Lawrence and the SUV limo .... let's just say the wedding party's beer was not secured and it went flying all over the interior, including my camera bag.

I better wash that thing out before our weddings in a few weeks. ;)

Wedding photos from Heather!!!!!!!!!

Oooooooooook peoples, Heather has posted some of our wedding photos on her blog. To check out the images, CLICK HERE! Oh, be SUUUUURE to leave a comment and tell her what a super-fabulous job she did! Ttuly! I think her record for blog comments is 12 ... but I'd love to see us leaver her WAY more than that. Ok?


But the photos have been up on our proofing site for quite some time, so if you want to access them, CLICK HERE.

YAY! On Heather's Blog!!!!!

FINALLY! At long last, there is ONE photo from oru wedding on Heather's Blog (scroll all the way down to the bottom)! Granted, it's on why it takes so long to get photos turned around .... yikes!

Mike and I have a way shorter process, but as Heather said, every photographer is different. I have the luxury of having Mike to help me do all of the heavy lifting. :-)

Crossover — Hindu/Christian Wedding

Ooooooooooook. I've been waiting a LONG time to post this. But I wouldn't dream of doing it w/o the heads up from the primary shooter of the day.

Aren't these eyes hot, hot, hot?!!?!?!???!


In early September, I went back to California to help my buddy, Jessica, shoot a 3-day Hindu/Christian wedding. Wow. It was so incredibly awesome! I LOVE experiencing other cultures and learning about their religious customs/traditions. I seriously EAT IT UP.

Speaking of eating, I couldn't get enough of the freakin' awesome Indian food!


And I'll close with a few dancing images.

Being at an Indian dance was incredible! IT was so cool! EVERYONE danced, no matter how young, old, male or female they were. Even the older guys were out on the floor busting a move! It was freakin' awesome!


My favorite photo of the day:


To view the entire post, please CLICK HERE.