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    1/28/12: I want to give all of the glory to God right now. He is responsible for everything we have received. Everything. Just as we had prayed for it, our faith has grown incredibly over the past year. What an amazing time to get to reach out to people from our blog to encourage them about our Lord and Savior whose love for us is immeasurable! I intend to do this even more in 2012 to show the world where our joy comes from. If you pray to get closer to God this year, be prepared to experience His love like never before.

    Congratulations, Newly Engaged Lovelies!! Yay! It seems like everyone is getting engaged lately, and we are very excited to start hearing from all of you who are new "fiancés"! Just as a reminder: If you have previously contacted us about a date, we only hold dates with the contract and wedding deposit. The first person who submits their contract and deposit will receive that date, and if your date is available today, it is not guaranteed to be available tomorrow. We aren't able to keep up with the status of each inquiry and only record our booked weddings when it comes to holding dates, so please keep this in mind so that you can get the photographer you want (This would be us. Obviously ;).

    2012 Weddings: now! We REALLY want to be your photographers {ESPECIALLY if you read our blog}. We are booking weddings at about a year in advance right now, but we DO still have openings in 2012 (definitely contact us, even if your wedding is sooner than a year away!). Remember: we won't tell if you don't have the ring yet. Heehee....

    Schedule Your Spring Portraits Now: The remainder of the spring (March-May) is being booked right now for engagement/bridal portraits, and newborn/baby portraits are scheduled around the baby's birth (however, book as soon as possible for newborn portraits so that we can keep openings in our schedule around your baby's birth).

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    Hello there.

    Thank you for visiting our blog. I am Lauren Aves, and my husband Will and I are Aves Photographic Design. About a year ago, we moved our studio to 4909 Camp Bowie Blvd in Fort Worth, TX, (soon after which our photography business sort-of exploded; yay! This is only thanks to our God and Savior for giving us EVERYTHING; it's so obvious-how could I not state it before?), and we love our home in Dallas/Fort Worth.

    Contact us if you have any questions at all. We love new ideas, and we are so blessed to be able to work with people who really "get" the kind of work we do. We can't wait to meet you. Thank you all for this enormous blessing, and stay beautiful! Lauren and Will

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    Portrait Availability: Due to our weekend wedding schedule, we only accept portrait sessions on weekdays. We keep all upcoming weekends open for weddings and the events that surround them. Our portrait schedule books up at around 4-6 weeks out (further in advance for popular portrait times of the year like October and March), so we recommend that you schedule your session as soon as you have decided you would like us as your photographers in order to have the best selection of dates you desire.

A wash of a week. BO-ring!

Well, this week was a wash. I am still debating as to whether or not I should actually publish this, but I am now pretty sure I had an ovarian cyst burst on Tuesday. This was not something that was in my plan for the week.

So instead of doing all of the things I wanted to do (work, fun, and list-checking-off wise), I watched tv on the couch all week (it got pretty bad. I even resorted to The Rachael Ray Show for thirteen weak and senseless minutes) and had to move some plans around. Boo.*

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[Who knows if this was acceptable to post on a photography blog or not. But...I no longer follow what is "supposed" to be put on our blog anymore anyway, right? ]

Will started feeling bad for me and my week-long pathetic-looking fetal position and unwashed hair/unfortunate pajama situation, so he got me this:

Mah Cookie Cake Ovarian Style A wash of a week. BO ring!

I maaaay have suggested the cookie cake and may not have let up on the idea for an hour or two until he finally relented, but the funny words were his idea (my birthday was in October).

So, sadly we didn’t get much editing in and I had to rely on Will for a lot (yes, he did bring me my contact case and solution every day. But isn’t that normal? Heehee). After five days of what became REALLY boring really quickly, I think the worst is over. So I can get back to what I love most, which would be posting new weddings on our blog and moving around the pretty new furniture we just got for the studio to many different positions and then making Will move them back when I inevitably get tired of the heavy lifting. Heeheehee…. I’m not sure why Will doesn’t think it’s as fun as I do. He’ll learn. Ooh! Maybe we’ll even go lamp shopping this week! Yeah….

And now, I just get to be super-thankful that my uterus is back to normal and don’t have that kind of thing happen very often! You ladies who have ovarian issues and other annoying things happen that get in the way of life are my heroes. I was not cut out for that nonsense!

As for our blog, it is back to weddings, and you should be excited…I’ve got SEVEN new ones in the queue that I am dying to share. Hopefully we’ll be able to post all of them pretty soon! That is the plan. They were all SUPER-pretty and fun.

Have a wonderful Sunday! I look forward to a beautiful week and a GORGEOUS weekend next Saturday as Amanda and Michael have a fabulous Dallas wedding we’ve been excited about for months! Yeee-it is going to be SOOO pretty! Yaaay, wedding week, Amanda and Michael!!

XOXO,

Lauren

PS-That was an iphone picture. Just so you know.

*At least the Dr. Phil Family was on one day. I’ve gotta say, that family is my FAVORITE to watch on Dr. Phil. I really need to get a DVR for the “special episode” that is coming on in two weeks (I know, we are quite behind the times in that area. We’re too lazy to call Dish to set it up. I so should not have admitted that). If you know what I am talking about, what were YOU doing home watching Dr. Phil?? Haha.

Amanda - Lauren, bless your sweet heart! I’m so sorry you have felt so crummy! I will keep you in my prayers this week. And thanks for the shout-out!! hehe :) I can’t believe it’s finally here!!! XOXO

Katelyn and Sam! Katelyn and Sam!

A teeny sneak-peek for your Wednesday. They (and all of their extremely awesome friends and family) will be VERY excited to see these. I can’t wait to share the full post! Soon, my dears. Very soon.*

Here are two moments that I fell in love with when I saw them.

This one was taken as they were being introduced and were already to the dance floor, getting ready to start their First Dance. I just loved the joyfulness. And the movement.

And the candidness.
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This one, I just love and I think it’s hilarious because of Sam. Either he just got burnt by a sparkler, or he is ducking to avoid being hit by one. Heeheeee! SO funny.

(There are non-ducking pictures of Sam in this series too where they are both smiling, but this one was just too awesome not to include in the first lil’ sneak-peek.)

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They had this gorgeous pink lighting at their reception, so the color photos will be REALLY pretty. They have a totally different feel to them. I just loved the black and white film look these two had because I felt like it brought out the emotions. You’ll love the color images when you see them, too. I’m sure of it.
XOXO, Lauren and Will
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*Did I just sound like an old lady when I said that? It was totally not something I’ve ever said before (“my dears”), but I thought it made me sound cool. Now…notsomuch. I could erase it. OR I could leave this exception at the bottom so that you know I’m not totally behind it but wanted to try it out.**
**I guess that’s what I did.

laurie colburn - EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! I LOVE THEM!!!!! What is the right adjective for the looks on Katelyn’s face??? Happy, joyful? Estatic? radient? bliss? excited???? words do not do it justice!

Can’t wait!

laurie

Lauren and Paige: Events 2aT

Lauren and Paige are fabulous event designers who we LOVE, and we can’t get enough of their work. Their wedding and event coordinating business is called Events 2aT. If you are needing someone AMAZING to coordinate your wedding or to help you design it, you MUSTmust call them: 817-915-3813.

I am going to post more in the future about them to show off some of their amazingness, but for now, here are the headshots that we did for them a few weeks ago. Oh, and here’s Lauren’s wedding that was held at Stonegate Mansion last year, which was the fabulous color combo of blue and cranberry that I have loved for awhile now due to the the modern and happy and pop-y fabulous look.

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{five minutes later}

Ohmygoodness, I just went back and looked at Lauren and Casey’s wedding. I seriously LOVED those details. The Grecian Goddess Cranberry Rosette dresses were to. die. for. And they completely tricked out Stonegate. To a T (ahh, the puns. The puns).

And the monograms. OHHHHH, the monograms.

…And how perfect was it that our photo booth matched the event perfectly? I would say very.

Okay, I’ll stop now. You can go and read it for yourself.

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Yay for being gorgeous! Headshot clothing ideas right here.

Aves Photography Event Planning Headshots Dallas Fort Worth 3373 Lauren and Paige: Events 2aTPS-They didn’t pay me to post this. No one ever does because we don’t do fake advertising in the form of pretending to like someone (although that’s an idea….j/k…until someone actually does, in which case I will accept it. Haha. Well…as long as they’re good ;) Anyway, I am totally joking so don’t take that the wrong way. Should I stop talking now? Okay).

We really have to like them. We just tell about the vendors who we think are fabulous because we knew you’d want to know.

XOXO, Lauren and Will

PPS-A New Year means New Year’s Resolutions! Starting now the blogging is a-pickin’ back up. I’m serious. I will not skip more than one day per post from now on and will try for almost every day (goodness knows we have enough pictures to share!). Will has agreed to do more post production so that I can do more blogging. Well, sort-of. He just doesn’t know he has yet, but he totally will. You’ll see.

Jolinda Moreno - Looooove the blog post!! I’m so excited and thankful I get to have all 4 ( lauren, lauren, paige and will) of you help with my wedding ;)

Lauren Aves - Does that look like a creepy smiley-face? It’s not.

Lauren DeRosa - First of all: Thank you, thank you, thank you for posting! We love working with you guys and you are truly magicians behind those magic camera lenses! Secondly: The link to my wedding pictures just made me tear up all over again. I just love reliving that day and love how it is immortalized on your blog :)

You guys rock! :)

Swept Away. Tracey and Josh’s Wedding.

I probably shouldn’t post this many pictures from one wedding…But I’m gonna. Be ready for tons of gorgeousness in the form of wedding fabulosity.

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This was a day Will and I were particularly excited about. For one thing, we’d gotten to know Tracey and Josh and their friends and family really well. And they. Are. Awesome. Like, we literally love them more than photographers should love their subjects. But not in a scary/obsessive sort of way. We are definitely cool by association when we’re with them. And this, in turn, makes us awesome as well. We planned it that way.

From the first day in our studio as we excitedly talked about the wedding plans with Tracey and her mom, to the Engagement-Session-in-the-middle-of-nowhere in which Tracey and Josh followed us to some ridiculous swampy area we found on the side of the road and totally let us do whatever we wanted for the pictures, including dragging them and their cute pup Olive through the mud and making them sit on a boat full-o-bugs that looked like it had been there since 1955 (WOW, that was a run-on sentence. But I’m going to let it slide). In their fabulous clothes. Let me rephrase that: In Tracey’s fabulous shoes. {Aside: I also have to give Will props here for carrying that heavy gold chair down the side of a huge hill. And across a reeeeally long road. And past a pond. To a muddy area covered in cattails and spiderwebs.}

And yes. It was worth it.

Fast-forward a few months past the wedding planning marathons and the bridal showers. The drives up and down I-35 as Tracey and Josh visited each other in Oklahoma and Fort Worth each weekend. The nightly calls they wished they could’ve had face to face. And constant thinking about how it was going to feel when they’d finally be married. And together. For-real together, not just in theory.

The day was suddenly here. And it felt like a dream.

But the best part was, it was real.

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Dun da da DAAAHN! An ode to the pretties…

OHHHH, The Valentinos. The Valentinos. Wait. I must stop here. Hold on.

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{…fifteen minutes later…}

And now, a poem set to the tune of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “How do I love thee?” Sonnet.

Valentinos, How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

I love thee with the depth and breadth and heeeight

The heels can bring, When feeling out of siiight

For hidden under a dress they’re being and ideal grace.

I love thee to the level that they’re not everyday’s

Most quiet heels, by sun or candlelight.

I love thee freely, as ladies strive to own outright;

I love thee purely, as they deserve praise.

I love thee with a passion and would put to use

In my old griefs, and with my satin-loving faith.

I love thee with a love I’ll never lose

With my other lost shoes-I love thy sparkles and thy bows,

The tiny peep of toes- and, if God chose,

I shall but wear them even after death, bare-legged. Without pantyhose.

ThankyouI’llbehereallweek.

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I would write another sonnet for the earrings and the hang-ey sparklies that served as ties at the back of Tracey’s gorgeous dress, but I’d like to still be considered a professional after this. So I’ll refrain. And I’ll just sing to myself.

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The house was filled with a rush of excitement, from the minute the door opened to us. We made our way straight upstairs to the rooms full of pretty ladies (Will liked this because he’s usually stuck with boring ol’ boys. Now do you see how much more fun it is with the girls, Will? And no, I’m not switching you).

Faaahbulous lashes, Tracey.

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One closed door away from the Backstreet Boys Karaoke, Tracey finished up a card to her mom and dad. It was hard to think of the words to express how thankful and happy she was at this very moment. But they knew.

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Ian Lobreto from Vagaro was responsible for this amazingness. So couture.

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The gorgeousness that day wasn’t just limited to Tracey.

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Why, look at that fabulous hair. Gorg.

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Here, Tracey’s hair and makeup are perfected.

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Her makeup was done by the fabulous Makeup by Courtney DiLynne.

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Courtney was also one of Tracey’s bridesmaids, which made the morning of getting ready even more meaningful.

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At the church, Tracey slipped into her wedding gown.

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I think that she absolutely looks fierce here. Like a Hollywood starlet. Hair and makeup, gooood. Eyelashes, gooood. Dress, gooood.

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Tracey did wear these beauties all night. Just so you know.

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Upstairs, Josh paced around the Sanctuary until he was stopped by people who love him. He was so ready to see Tracey, he could barely stand it.

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Back downstairs, her MOH Lauren helped her put on the finishing touches, these gorgeous sapphire earrings.

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Everyone quietly slipped out of the room so that she could be in her own little world of Joshness as she wrote him a card about her feelings that day. It was sweetly titled, “Will You Love Me Forever? Check Yes or No.”

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She sat at the table, pouring her heart out in the card. At the same time, Josh was only steps away outside. He stood at the end of the sidewalk, positioned for the First Look and waiting for her to come out of that door. He had no idea what she’d look like, but he knew she’d be beautiful.

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As soon as she came out the door and rounded the corner, he gasped, “She’s so beautiful.” {Side note: everyone who was in earshot of this started crying because it was so sincere.}

And it was true. Never could a woman be more beautiful than at this moment, when she walked toward her husband for the first time on their wedding day. She felt like she was floating on a cloud as her dress carried her to her love. When you feel this happy and right with the world, it shows.

It was a moment they’ll never ever forget.

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A smile broke out all over his entire being and his eyes sparkled as she swooshed toward him.

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Tears filled both of their eyes before they even neared each other.

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It was the most meaningful of embraces.

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The first few moments they got to be together that day were surreal to both of them. But they did feel every ounce of happiness they’d imagined they would.

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I love this.

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As we set up for a shot, Josh and Tracey quietly talked in disbelief. That the day was actually happening, and that it was finally happening to them was unreal. The way Josh leaned into her and the way Tracey clenched up her fists showed their excitement for what was about to happen.

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He makes her feel pretty. She makes him feel dapper.

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A close nuzzle.

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As we were finishing up the “Bride and Groom” portraits, Tracey’s dad showed up. This exchange between them was priceless.

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This is an example of how fabulous girls can be. And yes, they are as awesome as they look.

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PS-The Enchanted Florist did the florals at this wedding. Ah. Ma. Zing. Every one of their arrangements and bouquets are ALWAYS lush and beautiful. Always. I’m telling you, Enchanted all the way.

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Josh and his group of guys.

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This was one of my most favorite images from the whole day. I love the candid nature of it. Tracey will love how awesome her hair looks and how tan she is in it. And she’ll also love that it takes her back to those moments inside the room with her dad, right before walking down the aisle.

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A squinched-up smile and a blurry walk as they elegantly made their way into the church. If you can’t feel her heart in this one, you’re not looking directly at it.

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Josh’s face as she walked down the aisle was equally beaming.

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The kiss had just happened. The Pastor announced them as husband and wife. And they turned to face the crowd. Tracey looked up at Josh to see his proud and excited smile. Her new husband.

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This one just makes me excited for them.

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The room they huddled in after the ceremony was full. Warmth, joy, and beauty filled it. This is why I love weddings so much. Right here.

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Tracey’s dad immediately came up and embraced her as soon as he came through that doorway.

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Terry hugged her new Son-in-Law and they stood there for a moment, taking it all in.

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Not even moments later, she looked over at her daughter and beamed. And so did Josh. He shared her sentiment.

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Amongst all of the excitement you could see Terry watching her too.

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Josh and his grandmother had a moment. Times like these really bring out the best feelings, don’t they?

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The pretty sparkly lights of Sundance Square awaited outside.

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Next to their Horse and Carriage.

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More Enchanted pretties below.
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There were so many sweet moments during their First Dance. I couldn’t just pick one. Like I said, I included WAAAY too many pictures this time. But I didn’t think you’d mind.

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Terry’s toast to his daughter and her new husband was completely heartfelt.

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To be able to stand there with your new husband as your dad tells everyone in the room that he’s proud of your choice and the person you have picked is a really good feeling.

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Tracey agreed: Josh is a pretty great guy.

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At the end of the dance, she hugged him. For all that he’s done for her. Tonight. This year. And her whole life.

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Nice beret, Josh. Very husbandly.

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Yay! They like our props! Haha.

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This was actually a test shot taken by Will that I deemed okay enough to include in the post (only because it is one of the better ones out of the hundreds of bad test shots. See? I am just as vain as you).

If you can’t tell, I’m trying to look cute and/or funny but it’s not really working. Instead, I look annoyed even though I’m not. But that’s okay, there’s pretty sparkly light behind me! Haha.

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Back to the reception. These are some of the great dance moves we witnessed.

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Yes. Best bouquet toss ever.

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Don’t Stop Believing.

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Hold on to that FEEL-A-EA-EAN.

Okay, I’ll stop.

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The Last-Dance-Embrace. One of my favorite moments that I hope will happen at every wedding. I wait for it. And it is awesome.

Every time.

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Leaving amongst a flurry of bubbles, and they were off to Bora Bora!

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Tracey and Josh (and family/friends who we’ve also come to know), you guys know how much we love you. Now we just need to go back in time and do that again. Except with…well, no except-withs. We need to do that again EXACTLY as it was. Because it was perfect.

XOXO, Lauren and Will

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Shelsea - These are breath taking…. it’s rare a photographer can catch not only the posed great looks, but the feelings in the candid…. I had tears!

S Perkins - Absolutely STUNNING! You captured the moments of a lifetime! Thanks for sharing.