First, the GOOD: we have had an amazing year with some awesome clients this year. We have had so much fun with all of our clients and can not thank everyone enough. Our business has really taken off this year in ways that we never really expected. But that brings me to…

the BAD: we are swamped. Literally, we have so much on our to-do list that its scary to even look at. It stares us in the face everyday and laughs at our feeble attempts to conquer it. I know there are so many of y’all waiting for your wedding order and we are going to have them in by Christmas. That is our guarantee. But we have to have a cut-off point. So as of right now, we can not accept any more orders and have them in for Christmas. Of course, people are more than welcome to still place their photo order, but we simply will not be able to have them in for Christmas. We sincerely do apologize.

Thank you all so much for your patience and understanding in this.

- Heather and Miranda

I just love this family. I really do. I’ve been friends with Lindsey for many many years and I cherish our friendship very much. I can remember when we were in high school, we’d get together and “exercise” together (and by “exercise” I mean we would bake cookies and watch tae-bo…no DO tae-bo, but WATCH tae-bo). When we graduated, she and I and a couple of other friends went on a week long cruise to the Caribbean; and when I think back on that trip I literally laugh out loud thinking of some of the memories we created. I’m so thankful that Lindsey has been a part of my life, and I look forward to many many more years creating fun memories .

When Lindsey asked us to do family pics while they were in town, I was super excited because I’d finally be able to meet their precious Anniston. Anniston is truly a miracle, and you can read about her story on Lindsey’s blog HERE . It was so much fun spending time with them while we took pictures.

And aren’t they such a CUTE family!

I love love love this:

And I love the way Lindsey is looking at Stan in this pic:

Lindsey brought a basket and blanket for pictures and it was such a great idea! Look how adorable…

I could just kiss those cheeks all day!

While Anniston slept for a little bit, we took a couple of pics of the mommy and daddy:

They are such a loving family. Anniston is so lucky to have them as parents.

Love that smile!

Lindsey, thank you so much and I can’t wait to see y’all again soon! We’re still going to come visit y’all one weekend :). Love ya!

- heather

Couples like Lauren and Beau remind me how much I love my photography job. How can anyone NOT like being a part of someone’s happiest and best day of their life? Since I am also a nurse, I have the responsibility and privilege of helping people on some of their worst days. There’s a big difference in helping someone recover from open heart surgery or a heart attack one day and bustling a bride’s dress at her wedding the following day. But in the end, I just love people and the connections that people share. I love “love.” And I love photographing love. Lauren and Beau made it so easy for us to capture their love for each other. (And apparently shooting weddings has turned my old bitter and cynical self into a big mushy love sap. Before you know it I’ll be talking about how much I love movies like “A Walk to Remember” and “The Notebook” .)

Lauren and Beau, thank you so much. Y’all rock and we can’t wait to do y’alls “after the wedding” photo shoot!

They got married at the BEAUTIFUL First Christian Church in Monroe! Seriously, there were stained glass window and chandeliers in the bridal room! How awesome is that! The gorgeous dress:

And the shoes:

The rings:

I LOVED Lauren’s flower choices. These bouquets are just amazing!

Lauren looking breathtaking:

And Beau looking quite handsome himself:

I have to say that my favorite part of the day is taking the “first look” photos if the bride and groom choose to see each other before the ceremony. I look forward to it the most and they are always the first pictures that I go back and look at after they are downloaded. You just can’t beat the raw emotion that these photos capture.

Plus, doing a “first look” allows for plenty of time for portraits of the bride and groom.

We had some fun with the bridal party! Oh, and do you recognize Bridgit in this picture from her awesome wedding seen here?

But for some reason the guys didn’t want to walk arm in arm together

Right before walking into the church:

This is one of my favorite bride and father pictures EVER!

Like I said earlier, the church was so pretty!

They had their reception at Austin’s. I love this venue.

I thought the cake topper was so unique.

I really enjoyed playing around with some off camera lighting with the couple. We’ll definitely be playing around more with this technique.

I got some pictures with my camera flash on for their exit, but I actually really liked this picture not using my camera flash.

Ok, that’s all for now. Miranda and I are finally starting to get caught up on our business work, so there will be lots more posts coming up within the next few weeks.
Stay tuned!

- heather

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

This past weekend my family and I (and of course my best friend Miranda who is practically family anyways…plus we needed a photographer for the family photos ) went to Gulf Shores for a final summer trip “hoorah.” We had such a fantastic time, and spending time with my wonderful family always reminds me how lucky I am to have them. The condo we stayed out was AMAZING…by far the nicest place I have ever stayed and probably ever will stay. The only bad thing about the weekend was that it rained a good bit of the time, but luckily we still had a great time shopping and even managed to squeeze in a family photo shoot when it wasn’t raining. Here are some of pics from our weekend.

The inside of the condo:

I loved the decorations…”beachy” but not too cheesy:

The balcony was HUGE and even had a jacuzzi on it!

The place had like 3 pools and a lazy river:

The lazy river at night:

Seriously….#10??? Who violated that rule to the point that they had to put it up on a sign?

Miranda and my little cousin Dawson:

And me with another precious cousin of mine, Addison:

Something about this picture of my mom and my uncle Clint makes me smile:

Like I said earlier, Miranda came along to take family photos of us since we haven’t had big family pictures since like…ever.

I love this photo…its so typical of our family…just laughing and having a good time:

And of course I love this picture because I just love jumping shots…I think I may be obsessed with them.

We also took individual family shots as well. Here’s me with my beautiful family.

Oh, and I also love feet shot…another obsession of mine. Maybe I should branch out more…

We’re so cute

Me with my handsome brothers:

Can you believe this gorgeous mom is almost 50 years old?!?! Me neither…

My mom and dad:

After being in photos, I was ready to get on the other side of camera and help take photos with Miranda. Here’s my uncle Clint, aunt Tonya, and my cousin Quint:

My grandmother whom I just adore. She’s an amazing lady:

And I know y’all have seen this beautiful family before. My aunt Darla, my uncle Mike, and their gorgeous kids Addy, Bria, and Dawson:

I love picture of Bria:

And then my Dad so kindly took a picture of me with my very best friend. Thanks Miranda for taking such wonderful pictures of my family!

Oh look, another jumping shot:

I’m so blessed….

- heather

We took Brittany and Andy’s engagement pics last week, and we had a fabulous time with them. They started off the shoot talking about how nervous they were and how “unphotogenic” they are. This couple not photogenic?…..yeah right….

A lot of our clients have claimed to be unphotogenic before, but we’ve proved all of them wrong, and now we can prove Brittany and Andy wrong as well because check out these photos of this beautiful and awesome couple. I don’t think they are capable of taking “bad” pictures.

We found an abandoned shopping cart and they were just awesome enough to climb in.

Gotta show some tat love .

I love the texture in this photo:

Y’all know how we love the setting sun light!

Brittany and Andy, thanks again guys and we had an amazing time with y’all! Can’t wait for y’alls wedding!

- heather