Save the Date cards!

I've recently had a ton of couples ask about doing save the date cards with their engagement pictures, so I thought I'd share a few of my favorite ones that I've done so far! This is a really cool way to 1) let everybody know about the wedding date and 2) share some of the fun pictures!

I try to design these things in such a way that they fit the personality of the couple, which makes things pretty fun and interesting :)

My Best friend's Wedding!

Yesterday was, in a word, amazing. Two of my closest friends, Dave and Jenny, got married yesterday in La Jolla, and I can truly say that I've never seen two people more excited, happy, and ready to get married!

Dave's dad performed the ceremony, and he did an incredible job. I don't know how he got through it! I'll admit, I definitely shed a few tears (but if you know me, that's probably no surprise!)

My friend Shyla was their photographer, and she did such an amazing job! It was really wierd for me to be at a wedding without my camera, and going in to the day, I was much more nervous than I ever am shooting a wedding. I guess holding a camera give me a confidence boost, or something. Anyway, I did grab my camera twice - once for Dave & Jenny's portrait session, which Shyla and I double-teamed (which was a BLAST), and then once after the reception for a little photo session down on the beach at the Hotel Del Coronado, where Dave & Jenny spent their first night.

Here's some pictures from the day! More to come soon! Shyla will probably be posting some on her blog soon as well, so check that out!

Photo Guest Books!

Ok, this is something I'm really excited about. I've started offering to all my clients photo guest books for their guests to sign "yearbook style" at their wedding. Today, I actually did the design on my first book, and I'm really excited to send it off to get printed!

They are 7" by 7" hardcover books with pages that lay totally flat (which makes signing easier!) and are 20 pages in length. They are just too cool.

Click here to see the whole book

Ryan & Ashlee - Slideshow!

I was in a slideshow kind of mood tonight, so I decided to make a little slideshow of Ryan and Ashlee's engagement session that I did a while back. They are such a fun couple!

The song that I used is a Plumb song that I just heard recently and I've fallen in love with. It is such a cool song! So be sure to crank up the speakers!

Click here for the slideshow

I'm blue....

Ok, so I'm not feeling sad or anything, so there's no need to be concerned! I'm in Phoenix right now for my friend Stefanie's birthday, which we all celebrated last night! She just turned 25, and had a "Blue" party where all the decorations were blue, and everybody that came wore a blue outfit of some kind. It was so much fun!

This is a picture of my crowning achievement in the party decorating- what I call the blue tornado! All the girls were doing "cute" stuff with the streamers and decorations and stuff, so we decided to bring the whole thing from simply "awesome" to "legendary" so we taped a bunch of streamers to the cieling fan. And thus, the blue tornado was born! It was so sweet!

I wish I had gotten a picture of it during the party- when the guests arrived the whole place was lit up blue, and it looked so good. It was such a fun party! Remember that song "Blue" from a few years back? Oh yeah, we definitely played that song a lot!