Vintage Guthrie Wedding

In a few hours, on this beautiful January day, I will be heading out to second shoot a wedding with my good friend Cheryl! I enjoy getting these opportunities to see her and shoot some beautiful weddings :c) I realized I had never shared my last wedding we shot together in December. It was such a beautiful, classy wedding held at the Sand Plum in Guthrie (the same place my sister will be getting married at, only in a different room!). Without further ado..

The stunning dress fit in well with the location

Loved this beautiful birdcage veil.

The bride got all of her bridesmaids custom antique jewelry

And her own was absolutely stunning

The groom was busy preparing himself

Getting every piece in place

and looking mighty dashing himself.

You can tell the bride thought so...

The details were beautiful

and the ceremony sweet

but their love for each other was unmistakable!

Sweet embrace

I just love this image!

A little dip fun

All of the sudden the December sky turned purple, which made the perfect backdrop for this beautiful cake!

And check out this cool cup that they both can drink out of!

Love their tenderness towards each other..

The bride really pulled off the antique look, changing into this stunning dress for the exit!

and exiting in this pimp car!


Excited for some more shooting tonight! I hope you guys enjoy this beautiful Friday!

Coles Famliy Pics

Last Saturday I was blessed to shoot my first family session of the year, the Coles. I work with Allison at Deaconess, you may remember me mentioning her on here for a prayer request. Last fall Allison's husband Sean was diagnosed with lymphoma cancer, shortly after his 30th birthday. He started his chemo as soon as they received the diagnosis and recently they did a PET scan to check the progress. It was not what they were hoping for. This Monday they started a new, pretty intense, chemo regimen. So we wanted to sneak in some family pictures before all this started. We were blessed to have such a beautiful day on Saturday to be shooting outside, and once we got away from the windy park, it really wasn't that cold by they lake. I hope that you enjoy the pictures of this precious family!

Sean and Allison are on a journey that they did not ask for, but now they are forced to deal with. Under these circumstances, some people will turn their anger on God, but it has been the most beautiful thing to watch as these two have grown even clsoer to God. Sean was baptized the day after this shoot, and I am tearing up right now thinking about it. As a nurse, honestly, I sometimes struggle with praying for healing. But for Sean, I am praying for a miraculous healing as a child of God. I believe in a big God, who can do big things, and that He is being glorified through this all. If you want to join me in this prayer, it is greatly appreciated. Thank you and thank God

Photo weekend

Is it already Sunday?
I had the busiest photo weekend of the year (meaning, I actually picked up my camera ;c)
It started with a blog post that I finished, but didn't get posted because I had gotten kicked out of google (will repost later, just wanted to let you know that I did try).
Then I went to our photolife.tv's maternity session with our one and only Deshawna at the fabulous Limerick Studio. Deshawna was beautiful and patient, we had a wonderful turnout, and an absolute blast!
Saturday evening I shot a family session for a friend and God blessed us with some amazing January weather! You'll be seeing that soon too.
Then most of today I spent on a project for my sister (it's a secret..), but super exciting, so I'll share that when I can :c)

For now, here's a few unedited shots from our lifegroup shootout.

Beauty

I am so ready for Owen to be here!

Love her honest laughter here!

Behind the scenes..

Hidden in the depths of the P&S...

When I bought my point-and-shoot camera, I though, 'I'm a photographer, I'm used to uploading photos, I'll keep this up good'.
Well, today I went to pull 2 pictures off of my camera from a night out with friends this weekend, I realized I had not connected my camera to the computer since this summer! Yeah, there's 'keeping it up good'! So here's a few pictures from the past half year that I wanted to share with you :c)

First, our night out with Matt and Juliana Friday night.

Ray and I on Friday

I remember planning to post these on here, but this is actually a picture from the wedding my friend Chainey and I shot in Mexico.

A beach shot

In our van transport, we enjoyed our driver!

Next up was the Tipton chruch picnic!

See the excitement?

Mom, Summer, and I

Gotta love the dime toss!

The next day we took a trip up in the hills of Blue Hills

Family and friends in the back of the truck

Headed up the hill

To enjoy the beauty God created in central Kansas (don't mind my confused face).

My sister, cousin and I had to sneak in a laughing picture

Beautiful sisters!

Weird friends

Gorgeous group members

Fabulous friends

and an amazing husband :c)