I was so excited to photograph Brenna and Mark. They both have such contagious smiles and they are both so genuinely sweet. They met while working together at Outback, which hits close to home because that’s exactly where my hubby and I met and here we are today! The botanical gardens was so beautiful and it was such a perfect day! Their reception was at Brenna’s mothers house and of course it was catered by Outback! Thanks for everything Brenna and Mark and thanks to my BFF Kelly Rashka for making the road trip with me and kicking bootie!

Getting ready!

She approves

Awesome shot by my Kelly bear

Anotha stunna by Kelly

Cute momma by Kelly

We rearranged the bulletin board letters to spell Mark's brothers names!

We also used the bulletin board to hang the rings!

Love this pretty one by Kelly

The first encounter!

There's that contagious smile! Photo by Kelly

And there's hers!

Photo by Kelly

Brenna's adorable niece

My second, third, fourth and fifth shooters!

Beautiful shot by Kelly

Another beautiful one by Kelly

I’m so thankful that Matt and Abigail accidentally found me! They live in Phoenix and stumbled upon my website while trying to locate another photographer. They told me they were getting married at the Boojum Tree, which I had never heard of, but was very intrigued by the name! It was an awesome venue to say the least!

Starting the year off with this amazing couple gave me just what I needed to get super excited for the upcoming wedding season. When they hired me, I only got to meet with Matt in person because Abigail wasn’t able to make it to our meeting. It was clear how in love he was and from the way he spoke about her, I knew she was an amazing person.

Abigail is a softball player. She contacted me about a week before the wedding and told me she got hit in the eye with a softball and had to go to Urgent Care to get stitches. You can only imagine how nervous this made me! She told me “It should be fine, we’re going to cover it with makeup.”

When I arrived the day of the wedding I walked in and Abigail greeted me with a big hug! I was pleasantly surprised to see that her injury wasn’t as bad as I saw it in my mind. In fact, with makeup on, it wasn’t noticeable at all! During hair and makeup Matt had someone deliver her a special card….a Christmas card…..on the morning of their wedding. Hilarious. We had a blast with them and all of their family and guests! A million thanks to you guys and thanks to Jessica Wills for driving up to Phoenix with me to help out!

We were greeted by Gracie's adorable face

 

Abigail's amazing sister Megan

 

Abigail's beautiful momma

 

The happy momma's

 

The dress!

 

A little pre wedding snack

 

Gracie's dress

 

Trying not to get pizza on the dress

 

The hilarious, but totally cute Christmas card

 

Photo by Jess

 

Showing off their dresses! Photo by Jess

 

Sweet girls. Photo by Jess

 

She looks ready!

 

Good little helpers

 

The details

 

The first time Abigail's dad saw her

 

Photo by Jess

 

Eeeek those eyes!

 

Photo by Jess

 

Lots of L.O.V.E

 

Abilgail's family made a beautiful slideshow for her and Matt

 

How to run like a bull

 

I was totally craving doing a newborn shoot so thank goodness Linzee contacted me to take Miss Rylee’s pictures! She is such an amazingly sweet….and HUNGRY girl! She pretty much ate the whole session…my kinda girl. Finally, when we were all finished taking pictures, she passed out! I just have that effect on babies. KINDA made me want another one! Eeeeek!

Congrats Cole! Thanks for choosing me to take your pictures, you did awesome. And a special thanks to Cole’s grandpa for being our chauffeur….and for the last minute basketball run!

It seems like it was just yesterday that I took Chrissie and Kenny’s maternity pics! I was so excited to meet the bundle of cuteness! I was told that Anne was hardly ever awake so I was thinking the session would be a piece of cake. Anne was so excited for her first photoshoot that she was WIDE awake the entire time…only to fall asleep after the last shot was taken. She was amazing and beautiful. Happy new parenthood Chrissie and Kenny!

This was when she fell asleep at th end!

Im so excited for these two! Their baby girl will be here anytime now!!! Thank you Chrissie and Kenny for inviting me into your home and CONGRATS!

Check out their views!

Andy and Danielle were adorable and so fun to work with. They have 2 beautifully adorable kiddos Cole and Audrey who both stole our hearts. They got married at the beautiful Montelucia Resort in Scottsdale in a private casita where everyone got ready and then the ceremony was in the backyard facing Camelback Mountain! It was gorgeous.  We had tons of fun joining in on the dancing, burger eating, photo booth and most of all the amazing red velvet CAKE BALLS! Thanks for making our job so much fun guys! Also a big loving shout out to my main wo-man Kelly Rashka for shooting with me!! I lub ya!

The Casita!

The dress!

This is what dudes do before weddings

The beautiful bride

Cole fueling up!

Getting the sillies out

Sweet Audrey. Photo by Kelly

Photo by Kelly

The Boots!!!

Photo by Kelly

Danielle's momma getting beautified

Danielle's dad taking a drink break. Photo by Kelly

Photo by Kelly

Kelly was killing the Andy portraits! Photo by Kelly

I LOVE this one!!! Hilarious! Photo by Kelly

Awesome photo by Kelly

LOVE!

Rock Star!

Dress time!

Photo by Kelly

The first encounter!

One of my favorite portraits of Andy being hard core! Photo by Kelly

One of my favs of the day! Danielle is HOTTT!

Photo by Kelly

Photo by Kelly

Photo by Kelly

This was a very fascinating moment for the guys. Plane by Kelly, dudes by Jen. We work so well together!

The red velvet cake balls arriving!! Photo by Kelly

The deets by Jen and Kelly

I loved how many of these laughs happened throughout the night

Photo by Kelly

The amazingly delicious CAKE BALLS

11.11.11 with my leftover french fries!

Dad doing the burger boogie!

Danielle's dad had the best facial expressions!

Peace and Love

The great cake ball heist

Hilarious

Dave and Aimee were visiting family from Virginia for Thanksgiving. Unfortunately I ended up catching the flu while they were here. I didn’t think we were going to be able to make this shoot happen, which would’ve been HORRIBLE….but thanks to a day off with rest, DayQuil, and some motivation, I made it!!

It was a cold day, but a BEAUTIFUL one! Can’t wait for the wedding!

HOT!

Look at these love birds!

Our beautiful, cold day!

When Kelly asked me to take pictures of her family I was super excited. 11 people, 7 adults and 4 kiddos age 4, 2, and 5 months! I love a good challenge 😉

The kids did great. We chose a place with lots of distractions….ducks, leaves, secret trails, and large areas to RUN! We had a blast!

Thank goodness for these leaves!

Fun with grandpa!

Sweet Darby

I don't think she realizes that these were rocks....not leaves!

Since photographing the Vincent family a year or so ago, they’ve had a new addition come into the family! I got to meet miss June and she is just as beautiful as her big sis Ava. We had a blast at the park! They are Christmas fanatics so everyone…..including me, was rewarded with Christmas cookies that they recently baked! YUM!

COOKIES!