Category archives: portraits

Sean & Bobbi

family


This was a fun wedding! Bobbi and Sean tied the knot on 06/07/08, which turned out to be a very popular date. (Sorry to all those other couples who asked about my availability for that date — it pays to book early!) This was a wedding that I had been looking forward to because I knew it was going to be a killer party. It turned out to be very sentimental too. These two have a great bunch of friends and family, many of whom traveled from Bobbi’s tiny hometown in Iowa to be here for their special day. And unless you live in a cave I’m sure you’ve heard that Iowa is battling massive floods right now, and those same people are hard hit, so if you want to help you can donate here: http://american.redcross.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ggl_main&s_subsrc=DonateToRedCross&s_src=F7FWE001&gclid=CO28ufeUh5QCFRZjnAodnjN_WA I made a donation via the internet and it took about 30 seconds — easy peasy.

I had a great time documenting your day Sean and Bobbi — warmest congratulations! And to those in the midwest suffering through all this flooding, please know we’re pulling for you!

Dress: Maggie Sottero Couture from Danelle’s Bridal
Flowers: Karol Peat at Spring Creek Willows ‘n’ Weeds
Ceremony: Pauline Memorial Chapel, the Broadmoor
Reception: Phantom Canyon, downtown Colorado Springs
Cake: Bella Cakes
Deejay: Sensational Sounds










I love a long, dramatic veil!


Bobbi & Sean hired a party bus to take them bar hopping between the ceremony and reception. What a fun couple!

First stop: Tony’s, where they first met! Who says you can’t meet your soulmate in a bar?

I call this one “Bud Light With Bridal Couple”

Bottoms up!

The cake was snickerdoodle with cinnamon filling. I’m not really a cinnamon person, but I swear this was the yummiest wedding cake I’ve ever tasted!


Phantom Canyon always serves such top notch food. I love doing weddings there!

The best man, Kyle, jokingly had one of the groomsmen hold up cue cards for his toast.

But then he got a little choked up delivering it! This was a great moment.

The first dance

An emotional dance with Dad

That’s Bobbi’s grandma on the left, gettin’ down to KC and the Sunshine Band! (Click on the image to see it larger.)



Marianne & Mel

day after shoot


On Saturday, June 7th, my beautiful cousin Marianne married her longtime boyfriend, Mel. Since I couldn’t attend their wedding (I was shooting Bobbi and Sean’s wedding, which I’ll blog next!), I gifted Marianne and Mel with a “day after” shoot. I love the concept of the day after shoot — there’s no wedding stress, no time constraints, no distractions. Just one more chance to wear your wedding dress and glam it up for the camera and get some really amazing shots. It’s a great idea and every bride should do it! (You can even do a little trash the dress if you want, and make it even more fun!) It only makes sense. Your wedding images are the ones you keep for a lifetime, what you save if your house is on fire, what you show your grandchildren. Yet on a wedding day I usually only get a few minutes alone with the bride to capture those iconic images. Just think what you can do on a day after shoot!

We did Marianne and Mel’s shoot at the Broadmoor, where they had held their wedding reception. Mel was feeling a little under the weather so he went home after the first half hour, but Marianne and I really went for it and took some amazing pictures. I wish I could have been there on their wedding day, but this was the next best thing! I think Marianne makes an awesome, beautiful bride, don’t you?












Stephanie & Brandon

Denver

A couple of weekends ago I drove up to Denver to shoot engagement portraits for Stephanie and Brandon, who are getting married next month. It was one of those perfect spring days with lots of sunshine. These two are adorable — I think they are the perfect complement to each other. Stephanie’s a petite little dynamo and Brandon’s tall and pragmatic. Each is a great foil to the other.

We took some of these at Cheesman Park, just across the street from their place, and a few in the Lodo. It was fun getting to know them a little better — now I can’t wait for their wedding. What a great couple!

We had to take a few shots on their rooftop because they have such a killer view of the Denver skyline from up there.







This shot is really simple but I think it’s my favorite of the day.



Mason & his peeps

family

This is Mason and his mom and dad, Andrea and Travis. These guys took advantage of my spring family portrait special. Mason’s five months old and is the master of all he surveys. What a cute little guy! Seriously, he was just adorable. We did these portraits about a week and a half ago in their home and at Monument Valley Park. Mason was in a contemplative state of mind so he only gave us one smile, but no matter what his expression he is a cute little stinker! He’s right at that age where he’s holding up his head and curious about the world around him, but not quite able to scoot around yet and explore. It was fun capturing all the cute expressions on his little face and watching his adoring parents dote on him.

This cute little smile is the only one Mason would grant me, and it was before the photo shoot officially started! Glad I had my camera at the ready.



Just look at those big baby blues! Heartbreaker!







Jay & Aleisha

love

I am so behind in blogging! Sorry, loyal readers! I’ve been shooting so much that I haven’t had much time to do fun stuff — I’m spending all my time trying to keep up with the editing! Anyway, here’s Aleisha and Jay, high school sweethearts that will be tying the knot at the end of next month. We actually shot these almost two weeks ago. What a cute couple! We had so much fun on this shoot. It was almost like we were doing a Gap ad or something (I love my job!). Some of the pics were taken at America the Beautiful park (such a cool sculpture/fountain there), and some were taken in my favorite alley south of downtown. These guys were up for anything photographically speaking, so we tried a bunch of different stuff. Can’t wait for their wedding — you know it’s going to be fun and different!




Look, we all wore the same shoes!





Aleisha is going to be a beautiful bride.

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