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All right, I finally got the Prom photos not only finished but uploaded! One would think they wouldn’t take long but my life has been a little bit hectic. OK, even more so then usual.
Remember Prom? The corsages, the fancy dress, and the dancing! What’s not to love?
Three couples headed out for their night on the town looking like a million bucks! I hope they had as much fun as it looked like they were ready for.
Don’t they look ready for some fun? If you want to see more, check out the gallery here!
Stay tuned for some early release photos from the wedding I went to on Saturday! (Tie dyed satin wedding gown is a must-see!)
Have Camera, Will Travel (and hang out with fun people)
JS
You saw the preview pictures of this sweet couple and now that I’m done I just have to say one thing: Reliving the day while going through the photos was such an emotional time! This wedding was funny and tender and sweet all rolled into one very crazy day!
Tomorrow is their six week wedding anniversary and I hope that the last six weeks have been just the best six weeks ever for Greg and Marie! They are a great couple and I am so glad to not only get to work with them, but to share their special day.
The good news is that my cyberstalking on facebook has yet to come up with me photobombing any of the guests photos. Thank goodness!
Here’s some of the exciting and glorious day for the two of them!
You are cordially invited… take a look at their program:
Ok, so this is really from the rehearsal, but it is just so funny! As a joke the wedding party decided to hold their bouquets this way for the rehearsal. Really, you just had to be there, but it is still funny to look at the photo! I love that even as things start to mount to the big moment, everyone was still able to joke around.
Marie was a bride with a plan. Her plan involved being a little different from most brides. Because her gown’s hem and train were the most lovely shade of red, she wanted red shoes. She also thought that with all red gowns, her bridesmaids might like to not have red shoes, so she wanted white for them. As it turns out this caused panic attacks on the part of the shoe people thinking they had completely messed up her order. But you know what? She totally made the right choice because look at how stunning her shoes were:
In the Bridal Beehive as I like to call it, the buzzing of activity was high yet we had time to rock out with music provided by the maid of honour:
I love that her gown had all this red that she carried through on the veil… it was absolutely beautiful!
While the bride and her attendants were in a flurry of motion, I popped down to check on the men. Don’t you know they were just kicking back. Must be nice to be able to just lounge around! This is a groom without a care in the world:
I took the men out back to get a photograph and let’s face it… the ring bearer steals the show with his posse behind him!
Back in the beehive Marie’s just about ready to go as her worker bees help her get dressed:
And then there’s this lovely jewelry made for the wedding by her maid of honour (which by the way I think if she starts selling her stuff on Etsy I’m gonna have to start promoting because hello gorgeous!):
The Ring Exchange:
The family that prays together, stays together! I loved that the minister had them have their very first prayer as a married couple… it was such a great moment.
We arrived at the reception with a fanfare… led by the flower girl. I gotta say, I love her moxie! That’s right, the party can finally start because she is here:
Ok, seriously, is this not the most awesome cake? It so matches the theme perfectly! Yeah once more she dealt with the whole, “You want a RED…???” and I say “Red, FTW!”
We went out back of the lovely Lightfoot Restaurant, the reception venue, and took some pictures next to a little waterfall. Here’s just a couple of shots:
So there’s just a few of the photos from the wedding of Greg and Marie. They are a great couple with big hearts and a great sense of humour!
To see more of their photos, here’s a link to their slideshow on my smugmug: SLIDESHOW HERE **Warning – it’s LONG because there’s lots to see!**
–Have Camera, Will Travel (and have a rip roaring good time with ya)
JS
It is now May and while the month is escaping me, it’s a busy time in Teen-Land! Those of you with teenagers know the insanity that begins around this time as the school year wraps up and there is a wild push of activities filling up the lives of your beloved sons and daughters.
Saturday was the prom for some of the high schoolers in our area and I got asked to take some pictures. Silly me thought that even though it was Mother’s Day, my birthday, there was a contest that I entered and needed to do printing for, and my husband needed to travel out of town that I could get my sneak peek up before oh… Thursday. What WAS I thinking?
Oh yeah, it was my usual self… NOT thinking! Welcome to my world where I jump in and try to do far too much in far too little an amount of time.
At any rate, sorry to the teens that their sneak peek took until Thursday morning… but here’s a picture of each couple to get them geared up for their final proofs in a few weeks!
First it is John and his date, aren’t they a lovely pair?
 John and his date before Prom Ok these two are just adorable… I love that his tux perfectly matches her gown in colour!
And finally, the last in this triple date to Prom:
I hope you enjoyed your sneak peek and that you had a great time Saturday!
–Have Camera, Will Travel (I even have dancing shoes!)
JS
It’s been a crazy week for me! I traveled to Florida for some fun in the sun. You know the type of fun I’m talking about when one goes to Florida in may… lots of sweating, lots of walking, lots of fun!
Unfortunately it meant I was far too busy playing to post any pictures…
But! Oh there’s always one, right? The wait should be worth it for all of you because now I can finally reveal my Super Secret Project! Yay! I know you’ve all been waiting to hear since I’ve hinted and hinted…
Two summers ago I entered my first photo contest and I ended up with a photograph hung in the exhibit. This experience humbled me and amazed me. I never thought I would see one of my photographs hanging alongside so many absolutely gorgeous photos let alone being seen by an estimated 10,000 visitors. Even more amazing was at the end of the exhibit I learned that my photograph was one voted as a People’s Choice.
I think I cried when I first got the news. That unbelievable to me.
A little while ago, I received an email from the same group inviting me participate in their new photo contest. I reread the email about a dozen times and then pinched myself to make sure that it was really there in my inbox and not a dream. I then began to make plans to shoot new photos with the theme in mind.
The theme is not one that I particularly spend a lot of time shooting, but I do enjoy. You know the old saying: Stop and smell the roses? Yeah, well I often look at beautiful flowers but never take the time to photograph them. This exhibit deals with the living things growing on the grounds so I needed to focus with that in mind. I got out and walked the grounds in a way I never have before and I looked to take pictures in a way I don’t normally take pictures at this venue. I actually LOVE doing this sort of thing, so needless to say I was excited.
Well, the verdict is in… and they chose to hang not one but TWO of my photos! Seriously? YES! I can’t believe it!
I’m not posting those two… I’ll post them after the exhibit ends. I thought you might like to see a few of the photographs I did take and considered entering!
If you are in the DC Area from May 22-June 20, you might want to consider checking out the exhibit a the DC Temple Visitors Center. The exhibit is free of charge and after looking at the photographs selected… let me just say it will be STUNNING.
I just loved the way the two flowers looked almost like a bridal couple…
So my favourite colour is purple and this lovely bud really screams SPRING to me.
I loved the way the light hit this purple flower making it nearly glow!
The flower looks as though it is reaching up towards the spires, reaching up towards the heavens, reaching up as I feel like I’m always reaching.
This last picture I’m sharing is one that I like because it shows a group of bright and cheerful flowers clustered in front of the Temple and it seems like whenever I am there I see some group of bright and cheerful people clustered in front of the Temple!
So there you go. My Super Secret Project! I hope you enjoyed.
–Have Camera, Will Travel (and turn Mission Impossible to Mission Possible!)
JS
PS Happy Mother’s Day to all!
So seriously, what’s spring say to you? To me it’s all about the new life and a whole lotta rain. (I suppose it takes the whole lotta rain to bring us that new life, right? I try to remind myself that on the gloomy days!)
I’m sorry for no post last week, I got sidetracked by some massive projects. (Namely going through my attrociously large To-Be-Read pile of books. You just don’t want to know how badly it fought with me. I won! Yeah. That’s my story.) That said, I did actually go shooting last week, but alas… I can share nothing with you for several weeks. Not even a sneak peek!
I know. No fair. Tell me about it. Because I can tell you now, there was this one great shot… and then this other…
It’ll all make sense. Later. When I can share. I need to go through those photos and see if I need to go shoot some more. (Bah, who am I kidding? I’ll be there again on Friday. Who thinks I’ll probably end up going early to shoot some more? Yeah, there’s a distinct possibility! I’m under a super time constraint, so we’ll see.)
To make up for the taking pictures and not even a sneak peek to give… I wrapped up those adorable pictures of Baby Lillian. Now you guys all have to know… this girl owns me. Like seriously. She is in firm control of me and she knows it. I’m madly in love with her, so I took way lots of photos even though she was grumpy at the rainy yucky day.
So you wanna see? All right! Me, too! (Because really? I went through her photos FOUR times because I just couldn’t get enough looking at her! You can say it now…” SUCKER!!!!!!”)
See, this is the proof right here… she’s saying to me, “Really? I mean, really???!!! IT IS COLD AND WET OUT HERE! But you know I’m still cute!”
“What’s that clickie box for? Oh me? OK, well I suppose I can be cute, but really, you are AWFULLY demanding!”
So I love that picture. Words just can’t begin to describe how much I love it. I just do. Almost as much as I love this sweet little girl!
To help cheer her up, we let her get some playtime with Mommy. You probably remember mommy… I dubbed her a Goddess. Just so you know? She is one. How did I get to be friends with her? I’m just THAT lucky. But, not as lucky as Baby Lillian who has a Goddess for a mommy!
As you can tell, Lillian loves some Mommy-daughter play time!
We tried the backyard, but mostly Lillian wanted to look at her mommy! Isn’t this just sweet?
I really love it when children and parents interact. There’s just something about it that touches my heart. Insert your “awww” right there. I’m such a sap!
This is a girl with a lot on her mind… I’d love to hear what you think is going through that cute little head of Lillians!
Now it just has to be said… I think this is the funniest picture. Maybe she needs some extra fiber in her diet? Somehow I think that’s the wrong kind of fiber, Lillian!
And just because we need to end on a super sweet rot your teeth out picture:
Lillian? I LOVE YOU! I can’t wait to see you again for your 1st birthday! This time? We will WAIT for NO RAIN! I promise!
Meanwhile, for all the rest of you… I’m a little busy over the next week. There might be pictures. There be pictures of twins. There might be pictures of a castle. Maybe there will be pictures soon from last week. You might want to stay tuned… especially in case there might be twin photos. Because hello… twins are like DOUBLE THE CUTE!
–Have Camera, Will Travel (To a previously unmentioned secret destination you’ll just have to wait to find out about!)
JS
I am still editing away at cute baby as well as wedding photos so I can share the final products with all of you, but today I went out driving and took a country road. I like my backroads in VA!
Spring pollens are kicking our butts out here so all you hear everywhere you go is raspy voices and a litiny of hacking. As miserable we are, Spring gives us this beautiful view…can you believe it?
I sure hope my phone captured the surreal super saturated green of these trees!
Happy Spring and I hope you are doing better with the pollen then all of us!
–Have camera, will travel (and do battle with killer pollen)
JS
After like a year and a mess of the usual sort of pre-wedding insanity, these two crazy lovebirds are hitched! Today they head off on their honeymoon cruise which is fitting since they got engaged on a cruise. Here’s a great preview of their wedding day for all of you to enjoy while you wait for them to get home. (Something tells me they’ll see this post long before they get home…)
Our morning started at the way still dark hours of the morning. I hear the hotel coffee was awful, but I suppose even awful coffee can wake a person up! I staked out my usual spot in the Bridal Beehive while Marie and her various attendants set off to beautify themselves… but she paused long enough to try to log onto facebook:
 The Queen Bee triess to log on from the Bridal Beehive! Too bad there was no wifi at the Church! *GASP* That’s when she swiped my new Droid phone to do some playing.
So normally I wouldn’t share these during the preview, but I can’t help myself. I really can’t. Greg and Marie chose to go traditional in that his first glimpse of her was as she came down the aisle. I’m a sucker for the first glimpse. Call it the romantic in me. Greg’s first glimpse blows me away.
 First Glimpse numero uno  He totally lost it! Oh yeah. He lost it. I keep staring at this photo and I want to burst into sappy mushy gushy tears. Yeah, I’m THAT girl. Don’t mock. You know you wanna cry at the adorableness of Greg.
He’s about to become the happiest man on earth!
Now here’s the coolness about my droid… I was able to live update from the wedding itself. OK, so I’m not only super sappy but super geeky. Sue me. I snapped a photo and hit facebook and let it load for anyone unable to make it to the wedding. HOT! While it did it’s business uploading, I took this one with my good camera for this preview post:
Don’t you just love all that red in her dress?
Since I have done two pictures primarily focused towards his face, here’s a picture of her:
She’s just as happy as he is! Isn’t that so sweet?
I’ve seen a lot of first kisses in my life, and here’s one I love (mostly because it reminds me of way back in the stone ages when I got married and my husband’s method of planting one on me):
 Now THAT'S a first kiss! And here’s a picture of the couple leaving the Church to head to the reception:
So here’s the final photo… it’s just so funny and absolutely indicative of today:
 Gotta update my status on Facebook to MARRIED! That’s right. She swiped my Droid again so she could facebook her new marital status from the limo on the way to reception! Even funnier was everyone in the limo had their phones out to “like” the status as it hit the web! I love it!
I hope you enjoyed the preview of Greg and Marie’s big day. You crazy kids just got the largest preview post I think I’ve ever done.
That’s right! It’s shaping up to be quite the shindig! After spending a day with the wedding party, I am in full wedding mode! I am so excited for their special day and taking photos for them!
I got this new phone and have been playing with the features…like the ability to blog on the go! If I can learn to use the point and shoot built in…that will make for a fun addition to the site, right? I know…NERD ALERT! It’s alright. I have known for a long time that I am nothing but a great big dork!
So for now, I must finish my preps for the morning! I am going to share a few photos from the fun of today for your viewing pleasure!
Have camera, will travel (and be goofy with you!)
JS
Tomorrow is Marie’s big day and today she is getting pampered like the queen she is abt to become. Every bride should get some pampering!
–Have Camera, will travel (especially for spa days!)
JS
PS Posted from my new Droid, tell me what you think!
Since I was taking pictures of the every beautiful Lillian, her mom asked if I minded just a quick snap for her business card. Two kids will take a nasty toll on a woman’s body, but she was said NO WAY!
I read her blog, and enjoyed cheering her on a very long weight watcher’s journey. I gotta say, they should hire her for a spokesperson! I’ve worked out and watched my food and everything this year and NOTHING. I still weigh the same. So frustrating. While she zipped off the baby weight and looks stunning.
I did a full body shot first just because she needs to flaunt this new bod:
 Lynne is the Weight Watcher's Goddess! Sorry boys, she’s TAKEN. I know! He’s a lucky man!
I have two pretty similar photos she can look at for her new business card. Seriously, her business card looks nothing like her. Here’s one of them:
Finally, just to make her day… here’s ANOTHER sneak peek of her precious baby, Lillian (after all, I know you guys are dying to see more and I’m making you wait till after my vacation):
 Baby Lillian is too cute! I mean really, how could I NOT post that? Isn’t she adorable? I know. I love her, too!
Big love to both of you lovely ladies! And seriously, you ARE a Weight Watchers Goddess!
–Have Camera, Will Travel (To Mount Olympus to hobnob with Goddesses!)
JS
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My Upcoming Schedule Posts:
More Utah Photos
Coyote Run - Marson 2010
Greg and Marie's Wedding
Shoots:
May 2-5, 2010 - Personal - Secret Location... You'll just have to stay tuned!
May 19-22, 2010 - Balticon - MD - Personal
June 5, 2010 - VA - Susannah + Sweetheart = Married!
June 21-26, 2010 - Fredericksburg Stake Girls Camp - Personal
June 26, 2010 - Janellen's Family Reunion
Book me now! I really wanna travel! *GRINS*
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