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!

Jilian and RIcky were married yesterday in one of the neatest churches I have shot in. It’s called “Little Flower Catholic Church” and the place is round with the altar in the middle!

Jilian was such a beautiful bride…she’s one of those people who probably wake up looking like a million bucks..but yesterday she was truly stunning. Her dress had buttons that you had to use a needle to close!! Soooo neat!

There were literally over 900 images that turned out yesterday…so I could probably post a million…but in the interest of time…I’ll just post a few more favs and then you can watch the SLIDESHOW

These guys were a BLAST…I am excited because I hope to see some of them again next year when I shoot Keith and Jackie’s wedding!

These girls were all so pretty and very photogenic…

oooooooooook so funny story…we were at Wash U and this little Asian man kept following us around. He was from Seatle but didn’t speak very much English…He kept telling me he could give me “some tips” so after following us around and taking our picture, Jilian made me go stand next to him and she took our picture! hee hee

Last but not least, I wanted to send a “thank you” to Joe Switzer. It was the first time I have gotten to work with him and let me tell you…HE IS SO INCREDIBLY CREATIVE AND TALENTED and a BLAST to boot…I am not sure of his website but if you are interested you can email me and I will find it for ya! Here’s a pic of us being silly…while Trish was checking the lighting out on her camera…which by the way Trisha, thank you very much for second shooting for me yesterday! Hope ya had as much fun as I did! See you again in October!

Let’s see…I think I will start with the oldest stuff first..
Long story, but this isn’t actually Alyvia’s first day of school…but it is her first day of coming back to my school…so here she is…a big third grader now

some funnier pictures are these…I NEVER EVER EVER get my picture taken…and someone was very insistant that I get my stupid picture taken because I had on a dress…which also NEVER EVER happens..but it was open house and I was attempting to look nice instead of my grubby old hair in a hat and skater short self…also in case you didn’t notice I am also attempting to bring the 80’s back one curl at a time (remember the hair delema awhile back?…yep decided to go with the perm) looked cute for about 3 days back in June and now it just looks dry and very much a lighter color…oh well..it’s just hair right?
look I couldn’t even smile…but at least Brady was excited to get his pic taken

this is me saying ” if you take my picture I am going to hurt you” only I happened to be smiling when I said it..ha

On to more interesting stuff…Some past clients…Brian and Susan welcomed their first child into the world a few weeks ago. Meet Kane…here are a few cute ones

love this one because he looks like he’s smiling..but I am sure it was something else!

And last but not least Brittany and Alex had a beautiful day for a wedding last Saturday. Here are just a few favs

let’s

This pics is a little OOF but I wasn’t originally trying to get the kid…it’s one of those when I went back and looked closer I can tell the bow tie was bothering him and thought it was cute so I am posting it anyways even though it’s not totally in focus!

mmmm yummy

this was a first for me…it was so hot in the church Brittany almost fainted and they had to get a chair

ok well every weekend now through just about November I have a wedding and tons of other shoots as well so stay tuned for much more!