Meet Tori and Phillip

Tori and Phillip will be getting married October 22nd at the Pavillion of Two Sisters in City Park. We recently photographed their engagement session in the Quarter. Even though we haven't hit June yet, it was quite humid that day. Luckily, we opted for the morning hours, so it was still bearable. It was cute because they started out a little nervous, but were having a great time by the end. Tori sent me a message the next day saying that they had fun, but they were exhausted after! Everybody always seems to have new respect for models after being on that side of the camera. ;) I loved their idea to also go to Plum Street Snowballs for pictures. And I got to have my first snowball there; I'm usually a Hansen's gal all the way! The ladies at Plum St. were great, they even gave Tori and Phillip matching t-shirts that they sported for the last few pictures. It was a great treat to wrap up the shoot!

Julia and Brock -- Married!

Julia and Brock were married on April 17th at the St. Louis Cathedral with a second line by Dr. Jazz to the Omni Royal for the reception. Both Julia and Brock are very detail-oriented, we had a timeline that was crazy organized! :) And for the most part we were able to stick to it throughout much of the day. They allowed plenty of time in the schedule for us to get some great images of the two of them, as well as the entire bridal party. I'm always like a kid in a candy store when I get that much time for pictures! I must say that I am very pleased with the images we were able to capture. I have many favorites, but two that come to mind are one of the ones of them walking down the street together, and the other of them walking through the saber arch right outside the cathedral -- that one may be because that was my first saber arch. ;)

Thank you for allowing me to tell the story of your day. It has been a pleasure working with you guys and your families too!
Enjoy!!

Jeannie and Ron -- Married!!

Jeannie and Ron were married at White Oak Plantation in Baton Rouge last month. She was able to come in this evening for her image release party to view her images on the big screen at the studio, so now I can release their pictures to you! I love the vibrant colors from their day. Jeannie and Ron were very cute together, both always laughing together. Ron has this great big smile when he laughs that I love. I am very fond of pretty eyes and great smiles. :)

They had a special surprise for everyone at the reception. Ron loves music, and often writes his own little tunes. Jeannie and Ron have a song of theirs that's called, "You, Me, and the Cat." If I recall correctly, I believe the song was also part of the proposal. It was the cutest song! I thought of Phoebe from Friends with the songs she used to sing. ;p Their cat is also named Football. (You'll see a few pictures of Football in their images.) Doug and I were singing the song for at least the next week because we have a cat too. It was very catchy -- I have it stuck in my head again now, but I only know about one line!

Thanks for letting me capture your day. It was a pleasure working with you both! Enjoy!

Catherine in the Big Easy!

Wow!! Talk about a great, fun-tastic afternoon!! I adopted Catherine as my little sister when we used to work together in the summers. She has the cutest, sweetest, fun-loving spirit. We've kept in touch and we still get together for girl's nights. A couple of weeks ago we decided to play around and just shoot some really fun, funky, edgy, beautiful pictures. Doug and I had a blast shooting around each other. We were both shooting with the same light, yet both getting completely different results. That was the even more thrilling part. He was going dark and moody, I was letting the light go bright and crazy. We were like kids in a candy store. I wish we'd have started an hour sooner because we definitely could have kept going. We also got a few shots with her boyfriend as well. I love the one of them by the car. It looks like it could be the poster for some Bonnie and Clyde movie. Thanks again for letting us play around. I'm looking forward to bringing some of this funky to my upcoming shoots. I'll be posting more of these as individual images when I launch the new blog (which hopefully will be in the next week or two!!). For now though, here is a slideshow with some of my favorites.

Eve and Brian - Engaged!

I met Eve at a bridal show in January, and shortly after she contacted me about doing an engagement session for her and Brian. They have actually decided to have their wedding around home in Ohio, but wanted their engagement session to be photographed here in the city. Eve knew that she wanted to take some photos with the LOVE statue in the sculpture garden at City Park. I had tried going there three different times with another couple of mine, but it was always closed or under renovations -- so I was very excited to finally get to go. The sculpture garden area was incredible!! I'm looking forward to going out there and enjoying it very soon. I want to get in one of the boats and float around too. Anyway, we were able to get what we needed there, and then we headed to the Warehouse District. Again, it was still French Quarter Fest, so we thought we'd have less people in that area. We were right, we didn't have any issues. And Tim Robbins even rode between us during our shoot. I was so engrossed that I looked right at him with his sheriff star on his hat, and didn't realize who it was until Eve and Brian asked if I knew who it was!
I hope you guys had a great time -- hopefully we can do a post-session in the city after the wedding!! Enjoy!

Jennifer and Matthew -- Married -Already! :)

On April 10th I photographed Jenn and Matt's stateside reception at the Maison Dupuy. Their official wedding was in the Bahamas in March. Unfortunately, they did not have the best weather in the Bahamas - it actually poured the day of their wedding. Since they weren't able to maximize on the weather there, Jenn definitely wanted to take advantage of the wonderful weather we were having here. We had about an hour to roam the Quarter before their reception started. It was also French Quarter Festival weekend, so the Quarter was quite busy. We made do though, and ended up with some great pictures. We even managed to get a nice shot of them walking on Bourbon. I'm still not sure how that one happened because there were people everywhere!

Stacy and Boomer -- Married!!

Stacy and Boomer were married March 27th in Algier's in a beautiful, intimate, backyard ceremony. I loved the closeness of the whole day! Her brother and sister-in law are both chefs, so they were busy all afternoon preparing a delicious feast for everyone! Both dads were busy helping with the tent decorations earlier in the afternoon. It was such a great family affair to bring these two together. You could also tell their group of friends have probably been around for many moons. There was a very fun, yet relaxed ease to the day. I truly felt like a guest of their reception by the end of the night. :) Speaking of the end of the night...I was lucky enough that we ended up catching the same ferry back across the river, so we got some fantastic shots (and a few goofy ones) with the city in the background. Thanks for being such a crazy fun couple you guys! Enjoy!