I’m first going to start by saying….”IT’S SUMMER!!!!” Today is my first official day of summer and I am loving it already. Sleeping in, no school, swimming…are just some of the many reasons that summer is my absolute favorite time of year!
Last Saturday we shot Jessica and James’s country wedding and are excited to begin working on those pictures soon. But for now we are sharing Jessica’s bridals. We met with Jessica’s at Heather’s grandmother’s house out in the country for some beautiful light and country scenery! It was a beautiful day and the bride was gorgeous so how could the pictures not be great!

We have many more sessions coming soon! So be on the lookout!

–Miranda–

Y’all better sit down and get ready to enjoy about a bazillion photos from Kevin and Janna’s wedding . We got a little carried away with editing their wedding photos for blog, but its okay…I don’t think Janna and Kevin will complain. We absolutely loooooove shooting outside weddings. But we love it even more when the bride and groom decide to see each other before the ceremony because we can take many more photos of just them and the day just flows so smoothly. And their wedding day really was perfect. And they are also just so perfect for each other. You can see their love in the way they simply look at each other, or in the caring way Kevin helps Janna carry her dress and flowers. Its enough to melt even the most cynical of hearts .

They got married at the beautiful Cedar Grove Mansion in Vicksburg, Mississippi. The room that Janna and the girls got ready in was just gorgeous and we had a lot of fun taking dress and shoe pictures.

Janna’s hair was stunning!

Her matron of honor did her makeup and did an excellent job! Miranda, if you’re taking pointers, I want you to do my make as well as Hope did Janna’s .

Janna opening her gifts and reading her note from Kevin:

Kevin getting ready:

Then it was time for them to see each other for their “first look”. Taking these pictures are some of my all time favorite type of pictures to take. The emotion and joy and excitement is just so rich!

I love the way they can make each other laugh:

After their first look, we had a lot of fun walking around the grounds taking pics.

After taking photos of just the bride and groom, it was time to have some fun with the bridal party. Janna and her beautiful bridesmaids:

And Kevin with his handsome groomsmen:

Whole bridal party:

After taking the group photos, Janna and her girls went back to the room to relax and freshen up before the ceremony. They are always laughing and having a good time…just my type of people :

I love this photo of Janna looking out the window at the guests arriving:

Ceremony time:

Reception time:

Their first dance was to Coldplay’s “Sparks”, so everyone had sparklers during their first dance:

When I first saw this photo, I thought it was a mistake since Kevin and Janna weren’t in focus, but then I noticed that it was perfect how it was because it captured Janna’s mom looking on with pride.

More dancing:

Leaving to head to St. Lucia:

Janna and Kevin, thank y’all again for having us be there for your special day. It was a wonderful wedding and we had such a good time. Y’all are awesome

- heather

I know, I know…I promised that these pictures would be up yesterday and I had every intention of doing that! But yesterday, my day was full of other things including locking myself out the house! Since that’s the case, its better to be one day late than never! Right?
You may remember Ashley and Jerred from their engagment session a few months back. The two of them are now married and we got to be the lucky ones to shoot their wedding! Ashley and Jerred were so much fun to work with.

We started out the day hanging with the bride (Of course that’s what we always do. Isn’t the wedding day all about the bride anyways? ) Ashley had a little time to spend that morning sitting around with her bridesmaids before having to get ready. I have to give kudos to Jerred for an amazing wedding gift for Ashley, although I don’t exactly know what it is! lol! Along with some other things, Jerred gave Ashley a tacklebox! Not just any tacklebox, but a locked one that contained some sort of memories of the two of them together. The catch is that she can’t open for another 20 years!!! Talk about a teaser! If it were me, I would probably loose sleep over it! Everyone had there guesses, but I guess no one will know until 4-10-30.

I love this picture of Ashley’s mother looking on as she gets her makeup done! You can tell she’s one proud Momma!

Next stop..the ceremony:

Ashley’s nephew is a complete ham!! We could do an entire wedding album of just him! Especially when it comes to him dancing at the reception. But we just couldn’t pass up posting this picture of him that Heather snagged during Ashley and Jerred’s first kiss! Too funny!!

The lighting was just perfect outside after the ceremony so we took a few of the happy couple!

Last stop..the reception:

Jerred didn’t go easy on Ashley. There was cake from her hair, to her face, and even on the wall!

Of course there were plenty of nurses there considering nursing school was where they met!

Ashley and Jerred, we are so glad that you allowed us to photograph your special day! We had so much fun with the two of you! Let us know if you need us to photograph the opening of the tacklebox in 20 years. I’m curious to know what’s inside!

—Miranda—

A few weeks back, Heather and I shot Ashley and Jared’s wedding. The wedding pictures will be up tomorrow, but I thought I would take today to do a super quick post and show a few of Ashley’s bridals! Ashley was a beautiful bride not only on the day of her bridals, but also on her wedding day! But you will have to wait till tomorrow to see the rest!

Isn’t Ashley beautiful?

I hope that every Mother out there had a fantastic Mother’s Day! I have the most absolute Mother in the world! And because I know she reads our blog, I just wanted to take a minute to say that I am truly blessed to be able to call her Mom! So Mom…. I love you!

—Miranda—

*For those of you taking count, this is our THIRD blog post in a single week! We deserve a cookie… *

We just recently shot Janna’s and Kevin’s wedding, and we are so excited to now be able to share her bridal pictures that we took back in February. Janna wanted for her bridal pictures to be different and unique and sophisticated…and, well, we really struggled initially on where we should take them to achieve this look. But then Janna helped us discover the most awesome location for bridal pictures…The Rising Sun in Monroe. This was the first time we’ve ever shot here, but it certainly wasn’t the last. We’ve been back many times since then because we absolutely love the look of this place. Its so incredibly cool, and we thank Janna for discovering it for us. And Janna was the perfect bride to experiment at this new location with. She is beautiful, fun, and knows how to WORK IT for the camera! Seriously, taking her bridal pictures that day was so easy that a trained monkey with a camera could have done a good job!

See, isn’t she a gorgeous bride! And if possible, I think she looked even more fabulous and radiant on her wedding day (those pics coming soon!).

I couldn’t decide if I liked this one better in color or in black and white, so since this is my blog and I can do what I want, I’m posting both of them. So HA !

We also went to The Biedenharn Museum and Gardens for a few outside portraits as well. We were a little worried initially about taking outside pictures because it snowed a couple days before the shoot. That’s right, in Louisiana we had SNOW! And not just a few snow flurries, but a couple inches worth of snow. Since we NEVER have snow down here in the south, even the smallest amount sends our area into a state of natural emergency. School close, roads close, and people stock up on bottled water and canned foods like its the eve of the year 2000 again. Luckily, everything went smoothly and most of the snow had already melted. You can still see a few patches of snow in these pictures and I think it makes the pictures look even more magical .

As much as I loved taking pictures at The Rising Sun, you still can’t beat the beautiful sunlight that we had at Biedenharn:

I love this last picture because it truly shows Janna’s personality. She is so happy and is ALWAYS smiling!

Thanks Janna and Kevin and we hope y’all had a great time in St. Lucia!!!

- heather

After shooting Kim and Patrick’s engagement pictures back in the fall in New Orleans, we were really looking forward to their wedding! We met them through our former amazing youth pastors and we’re really glad that we did! It was like visiting with friends after only meeting them one other time before! While down south for there wedding, we also got to visit with Pastor Mo and Ms. Shontel which is always a plus!
Kim and Patrick are such a fun loving couple and you can’t but help but love being around them! We had a great time with the two of them! But instead of going on and on, I know that they are waiting to see their pictures so I will just sum them up in one word (AWESOME) and get straight to the pictures!

Kim getting ready for her big day:

While Kim was still get ready, Heather headed over to get some pics of the groom and groomsmen:

I love this one:

Next it was the girl’s turn:

Ceremony time:

Immediately after the ceremony we headed outside for a few pictures of Kim and Patrick alone, and the sun was cooperating so well! It was gorgeous.

Beautiful:

Reception Time:

First dance:

The cakes:

The awesome groom’s cake:

I didn’t notice this at first, but the score on the cake is 37-10…which is the date of their wedding: 3/7/10! They’re so clever .

Another clever idea they had was instead of the typical “money dance,” they had the bride “kidnapped” and a ransom noted left asking for money for the couple. So fun!

Stephanie and Bubba are also friends that we have met through Pastor Mo and Shontel. They are alot of fun and are coming to Monroe to visit in May! Can’t wait! I think we will use this picture for some kind of blackmail!

Kim and Patrick, thank you so much for allowing us to be a part of your wedding day! We had so much fun with the two of you! Can’t wait to see you both again!

–Miranda–

We are so incredibly blessed with such awesome clients…because, seriously, Ana and Chris are AWESOME!! Ana was referred to us by Janna and Kevin, so we knew immediately that we would like her and Chris. And they were just as fun and easy to photograph as we had hoped for! And it always makes our job easy when the couple is as love with eachother as these two are .

Ana and Chris, we had such a fun time with y’all and we are so excited about y’alls upcoming wedding!!! And thank you Ana for your patience in us getting these pictures done. We seriously wanted to have them done sooner, but we have just been crazy busy this spring. Y’all rock!

Such a good looking couple!

I just love the spring when even the trees are blossoming.

Ana and Chris can make even old abandoned buildings look amazing!

We found some overgrown weeds in an ally and I was able to convince them to sit down in them. So glad they did .

So sweet.

We ended the shoot with some gorgeous setting sun light! Gorgeous light + gorgeous couple = SCORE!!!

Thanks again Ana and Chris!

- heather

I still vividly remember the first time I ever became friends with Emery. We were both in 10th grade in the year 2000, and because we were (well…because we ARE) both dorks, we were at the regional science fair at the Monroe Civic Center. Since our booths were near each other, we hung out and talked while waiting to be judged…and our personalities just immediately clicked. During our lunch break at the mall that day, my always graceful and poignant self dropped food all over my shirt. And not just any food, but an Italian muffuletta filled with bright red marinara sauces. I, of course, panicked because OH NO THE JUDGES WILL BE DISTRACTED BY THE BRIGHT RED SAUCE ON MY SHIRT AND I WON’T PLACE AND WON’T GET TO GO TO STATE SCIENCE FAIR (oh the drama…)!!!!!! Luckily, Emery was there to calm me down and save the day. She took me to New York and Co. and picked me out a pink (yes, a pink) dress shirt on clearance for like $4… *whew*…disaster averted (well, not completely averted because I DID buy a pink shirt that day). From that day on, we’ve been very close friends. Over the past 10 years, we’ve had so much fun laughing at “Mystery Science Theater 3000″ in Ms. Storm’s physics class, going on our senior cruise, eating lunch on the LaTech campus in between classes, scrapbooking, beach trips and various other road trips, watching every episode of the tv show “Friends”, countless movie outings, craft nights, cooking nights, long talks about the complexity and geniusness of the Harry Potter series, weekends spent at her parents’ house on the lake, and I could go on and on and on.

Since she has been one of my closest friends for a decade, its sort of bittersweet to see her get married and eventually move away. Of course I’m thrilled that she found Trey and that they are getting married…because, seriously, they are absolutely PERFECT for each other. However, I am still going to miss my friend. But I know that regardless of where they go and what happens, I know we’ll always be great friends (and, yes, I am well aware that just sounded like a cliched Hallmark greeting card, but whatever…). So, Emery, I know we’re both too emotionally constipated to “express our feelings” and stuff like that, but I just want to say that I love ya and that I’m so blessed to have you as a friend.

Ok, with all that being said, on to their engagement pics. Emery is so incredibly creative and talented that it sort of made me nervous about taking their pics. She kept asking me if I knew of any really cool secret location to take pictures, but I knew of none. But one day I was driving to my grandparent’s house and I found it….THE location. So I called Emery and asked if her and Trey could take pictures that very week since I was afraid the flowers would be dead soon. She made an emergency shopping run to pick out the perfect outfit and we met two days later to take pictures. And I’m so glad that we did, but I loved loved loved this location for them. It was just so perfect.

Emery and Trey have a special mutual affection for pie. So, of course she made a yummy apple pie for the shoot. And we all ate it at the end of the shoot while waiting for my dad to come tow us out of the ditch we got stuck in. Good times, good times…

We had AMAZING light for the shoot. Oh, and Trey’s hat was also quite amazing .

They are just so cute together!

And sweet together.

I love the way they look at each other. Again, they are just PERFECT together.

But don’t let all that sweetness fool you, they are also just plain GOOFY together :).

I love the red in this picture.

I am so jealous of Emery’s dimples in this picture!

Trey is so good to Emery.

Its an inside joke thing…

Its PIE TIME!!!

Oh, and they get 4738294723942 bonus cool points for bringing Harry Potter books to their engagement shoot

We’re going to be taking their pics again at another location, so you’ll see them again soon. Till then, have a great day !

- heather

Hello again blog world! I know its been over a month since our last blog post! We skipped the entire of March. It literally flew by and I’m not sure where it even went. We have been staying extremely busy though and have so many shoots to share with you in the near future.
Recently we met up with James and Jessica out in Luna at Heather’s grandmother’s home for their engagement shoot. It was a beautiful day and James and Jessica were so much fun together. They made our job easy!

Jessica and James will be getting married this summer and we are so excited about their wedding at Hatchel Hills Farms.

—Miranda

I’m so blessed to have gone to nursing school at ULM and to have connected with such wonderful people. We just recently shot my nursing friend Brittany and Mitch’s wedding, and now I get to shoot Ashley and Jerred’s wedding..and I went to nursing school with both of them! So that makes it extra fun for me . I had a great time catching up with them during their engagement shoot, and I can’t wait for their wedding in April! Till then, here are some of our favs from their engagement shoot a couple of weeks ago. Enjoy !

Love the boots!

They’re such good sports…when I asked them to sit on the old bathtub, they didn’t look at me like I was *too* crazy .

Loooove that setting sun light!

We couldn’t resist taking a picture in the very building that brought Ashley and Jerred together…so many memories were made in this building. And this proves that as difficult as nursing school was for all of us, they weren’t all bad memories . There’s even a *small* (and I mean teeny tiny) part of me that misses it…a little.

Thanks again Ashley and Jerred!

- heather