Brittney and Steven’s wedding was one of the most unique and fun weddings we’ve been to! It was sort of odd photographing Brittney’s wedding because I’ve known her for about 10 years, and in my eyes she should still be a little girl. But Brittney has grown into a beautiful young lady and has snatched her up a great guy in Steven. I’m so incredibly happy for them and feel so honored to be a part of their day.

Brittney and Steven, congratulations and thank y’all so much. Y’all are amazing and we hope you like your photos !

Brittney getting ready:

And Steven looking all handsome:

The colors of their wedding were gorgeous and I just loved the bouquets!

The rings:

Brittney and Steven decided to see each other before the ceremony, so it made for great pictures and the day flowed so smoothly because of it!
I just adore Brittney’s expression in this picture…it is so her:

So sweet:

And there’s something about this picture that I love love love!

Brittney wanted a FUN wedding atmosphere, so I loved her idea of giving her bridesmaids these to wear:

And we can’t forget the boys! Steven with his groomsmen:

The ceremony was so pretty:

Taking pictures of the bride and groom immediately after the ceremony is one of my favorite parts of the day!

The reception was in the youth building next door to the church and it was a great place with great lighting!

The most memorable part of their day was definitely the first dance. It started out to a sweet and slow love song and they slow danced as seen in the photo above. But then it suddenly stopped and broke down in a full dance montage with several different songs and dance styles mixed in. It was HILARIOUS!!! And everyone was so surprised and entertained.

The cake was breathtaking!

They even had a coloring table with peanut butter & jelly sandwiches for the kids. I love the idea of having coloring pictures of the couple for the kids to color! So cute!!

Gotta love coca-cola bottles!

Brittney and Steven might have surprised the guests with their first dance skit, but the guests in turn surprised Brittney and Steven by throwing cups of birdseed at them as they left. Not handfuls of birdseed, but full cups!

This last picture cracks me up because as you can see, Brittney is so worried about getting the birdseed off of her that she doesn’t even see the new onslaught of birdseed in midair coming for her!

- heather

Who needs to pay for advertisement when we have clients like Janna? Because, seriously, she thinks we’re AWESOME and paused to tell us so about every 10 minutes during their engagement shoot. I think it went to our heads a bit too…because, helllloooo, of course we’re awesome! But not near as awesome as Janna and Kevin are. They seep of awesomeness and you can not be unhappy around them. They both just have a way of making you smile and think of butterflies and puppy dogs and rainbows. And we could all use a little butterflies, puppy dogs, and rainbows in our life.

But in all seriousness now, we really did have an unbelievable time with Janna and Kevin shooting their engagement pics. We had to cancel their shoot a couple of weeks ago due to the torrential rain we’ve been having, and this day threatened of rain as well. We all kept our fingers crossed and prayed that the rain would hold off, and thank God it did! We stopped shooting around 5:45 and the rain came pouring down around 6:00 (that’s all it does here in West Monroe these days is rain..and rain…and rain).

Janna and Kevin, thank y’all soooo much and we are psyched about y’alls wedding in April! Can’t wait!

Aren’t they just unbelievably cute!

While walking around Trenton St. we found an adorable little ice cream shop and had the idea of taking pics of them outside the shop eating ice cream. Well, the shop lady told us we weren’t allowed to do so (arrrghhhh), so we just took them on a cute bench on Trenton St.

Love the ivy wall!

We always try to encourage our clients to think of a place that is special to them to do engagements pics, and Janna and Kevin suggested the ULM baseball park since baseball is such a huge part of their lives and since that was their first date. Love it!!!

In the bleachers:

And in the ULM dugout:

How cute is this baseball that Janna bought Kevin!

Unfortunately, due again to the awful rain, the field was covered up and we weren’t able to take pictures on the field. So we drove to Forsythe Park and used one of their baseball fields for a few pics.

Love these next two..it is just so “them”:

And this picture just proves how in love they are. I told them that I was taking a picture of just the baseball (as seen in the picture above that Miranda got), so they didn’t have to smile or be “picture-ready” or anything, and this is what they did. They cuddle and smile even when they don’t have to .

Lastly, we headed to the levee to get a few more pictures by the cypress trees and river:

Ok, I’m off to think about butterflies, puppy dogs, and rainbows so I’ll forget that its raining outside…once again.
*mental note to myself*…never move to Seattle because your psyche can not handle the gloominess..

- heather

I’ve been friends with Brittany ever since Level 1 of nursing school nearly three years ago. I don’t know if she remembers this, but she made me and rest of the nursing class cookies for my birthday during Level 1. I don’t know why, but that really meant a lot to me…I guess because I came from Louisiana Tech and didn’t know anyone in my nursing class. Most everyone else took their prerequisites together at ULM, so they were all friends before starting nursing school. But I started nursing school knowing no one. At all. I love all my nursing school friends now, but it takes me a while to really open up to people I don’t know that well. But that is just Brittany is…she’ll go out of her way to be nice and make you feel included. So for that, thanks Brittany. And thank you so much for letting us be your photographers on your special day. We can’t wait and had a blast taking y’alls engagement photos! Hope you like them :).

We started out the shoot in downtown Monroe for a few city shots:

Love the mood of this one:

Then we headed to Black Bayou where Mitch proposed to Brittany. This is the actual spot that he proposed to her. And the sun decided to show through the clouds at the perfect time!

So beautiful.

I love adding texture to photos!

We found an awesome field of yellow weeds at Black Bayou and knew we had to take advantage of it!
My view:

And Miranda’s view of the same pose….Miranda wins..

And lastly we found a pond and I knew I had to get some reflection shots.

Thanks again!
- heather

Just a few weeks ago we shot Amanda and Jack’s wedding in Ruston. It was a great day for a wedding. After a couple of days of rain, the sun was out and we were able to go outside for a few shots even though the ground was a little wet.

The lighting was perfect:

The dress was beautiful:

The shoes were awesome:

And the bride was beautiful! Who could ask for a better way to start the wedding day:

I love this picture with Amanda’s grandmother just a few minutes before the grandparents walked down the isle:

Although there was no photography allowed during the actual ceremony, we still managed to snag a few:

After the ceremony, we headed outside for some group pictures:

After the group shots we took a little bit of time with just the bride and groom:

Then we headed over to the reception. Amanda and Jack’s first dance:

A little bit of dancing:

And I’ll leave you with this one. Amanda’s grandmother loved to dance and you can tell that she was having a great time:

Amanda and Jack, I hope that you enjoyed your honeymoon! We had a great time shooting your wedding and hope that you enjoy your pictures!!!!

—-Miranda

I know that it has been a couple of weeks since we last posted anything, but it is only because we are staying sooo busy. Between all of the recent engagement, family, and bridal sessions, and recent weddings we have been swamped. Then add to that the fact that we both have full time jobs we are working hard to stay caught up! I’m certainly not complaining though! We have had a great time with all of our recent clients!
Yesterday we shot Brittney and Steven’s wedding! It was a super fun wedding and we can’t wait to post the pics from that! Now that the wedding is over, we can show a few pics from Brittney’s bridals a couple of months back. We met up with Brittney back in Summerfield (the same place we took their engagements) and had a great time. We shot at a few of the same locations, but also found a few different spots.

We shot at a beautiful barn that we found on the side of the road! I love the sunlight in the next two:

With a little bit of texture:

We headed back to this beautiful church that was built in the 1800’s. This time we took a few inside as well as outside!

The light was pouring in through the big windows of the church:

Enjoy the pics and have a great week!

—Miranda