Aimee was one of what I like to call, “mystery brides” for 2009. She booked without a consult so it was a nice surprise to see how cute she and Carl were together. I am very excited to be doing their wedding next year! Here are a few I really liked from the shoot. PS…I am officially caught up now on all my posts and weddings…YAY
Initially Carl said he wasn’t crazy about getting his picture taken, but look at how freaking cute and happy these two are! I love that the expression here isn’t “forced”

I guess mother nature is trying to make it up to me that the first part of this year’s wedding season weather was so crappy because Aimee and Shine had one of the most beautiful weather wedding days to date! Aimee and I have so much in common. She’s in the wedding and teacher buisness too. For those who need a WONDERFUL harpist to play at your wedding…Aimee’s you girl!
Click here to see a mini slideshow. It’s a work in progress because I still have so many images to go through. Here are a few favs from the day.

Aimee’s makeup was done by Cindy Rushing and it was FABULOUS
Hair was by April Schaeffer from Panache and it stayed beautifully all day. BOOK THEM NOW. They both did a really great job!
I love everything about this image. Trisha was my second shooter and snagged this one.




and just in case you’re wondering how Aimee got up there in that big ol dress…thanks for the nice pic of my tushy Trish…

Aimee lost a lot of weight befor ethe wedding and looked stunning!



beautiful light

who doesn’t dream of dancing with their dad like this on their wedding day?

Man you can tell wedding season is in full effect because I am super behind in my posts. Here’s a few favs from some shoots over the last couple weeks

first, Nicole is the sister of a bride who was married last year. SHe needed some headshots for a new radio show she is trying to land called “Grey in the Middle”. I LOVE LOVE LOVE Nicole. She is one of the nicest people I have ever met! We had a lot of fun on this shoot and I had a lot of favs but in the interest of time, I’ll just post 3

Next, Here are a couple of Jen Hanneken’s cute little kiddos

and last but not least is Emily and Dan. Emily was my very first bride to book in 2009. She booked back in like late 2007 or something crazy like that. Good thing she did though because I have had like 16 people ask about her date! Here’s a few favorites ( I had a lot)

Funny story…so LaWana booked about a year ago from Arizona. She came in and we did bpics in August…took a look at the contract last weekend and there was no ceremony location or time written down…”No worries” I thought…she’ll call this week…well when I didn’t hear from her by 4:30 Friday afternoon I started freaking out a little…but after a little Private investigator work…I figured out what time the ceremony started and went from there…so that’s my first “first”…not knowing when or where for sure the ceremony was.
It was at New Town Chapel just in case you were wondering!

This is La Wana after telling her to stop looking at me…ha ha

on to the other list of “firsts”
La Wana was the first bride I had to wear gloves…and have silver sparkly nail polish! COOL

Loved the way they looked at each other during the ceremony. It’s the first time I have had the brides daughter be the MOH and son be the best man…It was neat


First time I have seen a 10 year old boy so emotional. He was sooo happy for his mom that he teared up about 10 times during the day! awww


First time I have ever seen a bride with a rifle and the groom holding a dead animal


Kevin shot the goose in the morning and it was only fitting because the theme of the wedding was a hunting/duck theme…Lawan says kevin can’t take a good picture unless he has a dead animal in his hands. ha ha
First time I spent three hours at the groom’s mom house hanging out

first time photographing an arm wrestling match

First time that I was asked to photograph animal mutilation…Kevin, the groom, asked if this was the most redneck wedding I ever shot and ironically enough it’s not…but it is the first time I have photographed something dead..

love that he didn’t even take off the tux…I’ll save the yucky pics for just the bride and groom but here’s a funny one…think of the movie “Brave heart”

first time I have ever seen Busch in a camo can

First time I have seen people whip out their guns…at one point someone told Todd to NOT point the gun at me to make sure they got all the good pics of the goose..ha ha



First time I got to go to the honeymoon suite of the bride and groom…WEEEEEEEE


First time I have snuck into the conservatory to do pics when the wedding wasn’t there


Congratulations you two and thanks for making my day one to remember! Have a safe trip back to Arizona!

Ok ladies…so you think planning a Saint Louis wedding in Saint Louis is rough…picture this: You’re living in Denver and planning a STL wedding…a month or so before the big day your FI gets a job offer in Washington DC that starts two weeks AFTER the wedding…now finding an apartment in DC and packing all your belongings in a UHAUL, driving to STL to have the wedding, flying to the honeymoon, and taking the haul the rest of the way to DC…that’s exaclty what happened to Teresa and Tom…how they held it together so well is a mystery to me. These two are such a great couple. You can tell how awesome they are just by the way their family and friends talk about them. THey are two truly amazing people and I was happy to be able to share theier day with them. Here’s a few favs. They got married at my favorite church EVER

Congrats you two and best wishes!

You may remember the maternity session I did awhile back with Rebecca and Mike Bunn, well their newest addition arrived not quite three weeks before this shoot! Little Carter is just adorable and already full of so much personality. Here’s a few favs
He was snoozing when I got there…then he woke up and..

gave me the “thumbs up” that he was good to go for the shoot

I live in this subdivision that has a cute lake in the front and on the side of the lake…like over this hill and back from it…is this little creek that flows through. I mean there is usually hardly any water in there…WELLLL after all that rain from IKE came in it flooded the creek and the creek overflowed into the lake. It was CRAZY CRAZY CRAZY…here are a few pics. It’s a bummer because people fished in there all the time and I am sure a lot of those fish got swept away. The water was SO strong it was knocking down trees. I just hope my neighbors close to the lake didn’t have any damage!

here is the “creek” which looks like a raging river at this point

This is normally where the hill/bank of one side of the lake is

Here you can see the lake filled up so much it is almost covering the fountain! I wish I would have had my wide angle lens but I was told to “hurry and grab a camera and get in the car NOW”

I wish I had some “before” pics to show you how nuts this was. The water is rushing OVER the hill that leads down the the lake!

hee hee
My school is having a trivia night next Friday September 26th at the Elks lodge on the corner of Miller Road and the West outer road…it’s $100 for a table of 8 and beverages and snacks will be available. I think it’s gonna be a lot of fun. There will be door prizes and silent auctions…and YES I am planning on donating a photography service for one of the silent auctions…you never know you could get a pretty good deal! Anyways girls if you want to get together I think it’s gonna be fun. I am a judge so I can’t actually play but I’d love to get to meet some of my stalkers You KNOW you want to party in Jeffco…don’t deny yourself what could quite possibly be the time of your life…ok now I am exaggerating but seriously if you are interested in getting a table together email me ASAP…I am late getting this out. I meant to do it last week and it just snuck up on me!! Doors open at 6:15 and I am not sure how long it will last!! sjmacky@yahoo.com for more specifics or to register!

It feels like I have known Erin forever. She booked me back in March of 07 so maybe that’s why. Anyways I couldn’t have asked for a better way to spend yesterday than with these two. Seriously the day went off without a hitch…no drama, the weather held off…just basically an all around pleasant wedding. Here are just a few favs, but you can click HERE to see a few more.

I very rarely see brides cover with a veil any more…I love that she couldn’t take her eyes off Scott

YAY!!

Erin is so pretty…

Scott isn’t too bad either..ha ha

Jaime and Gib had a BEAUTIFUL evening for an engagment shoot last Wednesday. I wish the weather could be just like that all year long. Here are a few favs from the shoot!