I am photographing weddings in North Florida and Georgia now. Have you recently noticed i’ve been posting some wedding photos and thought, hey what’s up with that, I didn’t know she photographed weddings? Well, honestly, I was starting to photograph weddings in Seattle, but when we moved I held off on starting that side of the business here. No longer am I holding off though. I have and will be taking on wedding clients going forward!

Why did I decide to do Weddings again?

Well, I love them. I love all things weddings and I always have. I love the flowers, and music choices, dresses, and personalities, and of course love. I veered away from doing them when we first moved because it’s a lot of work. Between finding jobs, housing, and settling the kids to a new home. Then having another baby, I knew I didn’t have the time or energy to put into photographing a wedding and giving my clients everything they deserved.

Now that we are settled, I knew it was time to expand what I was working on. I started taking wedding clients again about a year ago and am excited for the weddings coming up this year.

What adding weddings looks like for the rest of my business

If you have been following me on my instagram or facebook for awhile you have probably noticed I primarily photograph high school seniors, newborns, and families. So what will this do for the rest of my business? Nothing! I will still photograph all the above categories as well. A lot of photographers specialize in one area or another, and truth be told, I like photographing a variety of everything. It keeps me fresh and keeps me from getting bored. I could never give up a senior session or a newborn, because I love photographing those. Families are just as important to me to capture the interactions and relationships between my clients.

An Elopement

Last month, I photographed my first elopement. Brandi and Ryan are such a sweet couple and their vows made me cry behind my camera! They also made the officiant cry. They are so sweet and their love is really true. I was so happy to be there to document their wedding day.

They have been together for several years and engaged for three. They finally decided to elope and get married and the day fit their personalities and their relationship perfectly. I couldn’t be more thankful for being invited into their day to document their wedding. Check out some of my favorites from their day!

Do you know someone engaged? Send them my way!

Documenting Changing Kids

Kids change fast.  They enter our world as tiny helpless newborns and in a blink of an eye they are running circles around us in the name of a toddler.  I have a toddler myself, as well as an 8 (almost 9) month old.  It changes so so fast. I want to document every minute of it.  The good thing about being a photographer is I can document quite a lot, but I want to be in those photos too.  I want my kids to look back at family photo albums and see how much fun we had together and how much I love them.  That means having family photos done at least once a year.  Much to my husbands dismay it happens more often for us, because I'm obsessed with this profession of mine and I just want all the photos! I also have some incredible friends who are incredible photographers.  Lucky me, right?!

What if my toddler is crazy?

Well my toddler is crazy, and refuses to look at the camera, and runs away and does exactly opposite of what we want him to during family sessions.  You know what though? All toddlers are crazy! Every single one of them! And I love it.  We are documenting this time in your life.  This is your season, and if you tell me your toddler is perfect, I will not believe you.  Or I leave thinking how in the world I got a crazy one and yours is perfectly well behaved.  I promise you, I am a professional, I know how to capture those energetic little humans we created! It is my job to ensure you have a fun session with your family and we capture the joy.  I will make it as painless as possible and guide you through the steps.

What does this type of session look like?

Lots of playing, games, running, tickling, spinning, and the like.  My goal is for you to leave feeling like you just had a family playdate at the park, not painful family photos.  Right before I moved from Seattle to Jacksonville, FL, a good friend of mine with an 18 month old hired me for their family photos.  She really wanted a sunset session, so we scheduled our time for sunset and hoped for the best from her toddler.  Unfortunately, the wild fires were running rampant in the area and the smoke created quite the haze that covered any type of sunset.  So she didn't get her sunset photos, thank you Mother Nature! What she did get was a fun session full of games and spinning.  She left thinking there is no way we got anything good, my little one was so crazy! Guess what though, we got a lot of great ones! No child can resist smiling when they are being tipped upside down!  

Check out some of the photos from her session below!  We even tried to snag some photos of just mom and dad since it was their anniversary, but the little man was not to be left out!  We miss you guys Cevan! I hope you loved your gallery as much as I loved shooting it!