It seems like only yesterday Mr. B looked like this:

Yet all of a sudden, he’s an adorable, squirmy real live baby who looks like this:

What an amazing thing it is when new, precious life enters the world and how honored I am to get to capture it!

I am getting married! But that is not the news.

It is always my goal to give 110% of myself to my clients and to the art that I am creating. It is also my goal to have a beautiful wedding and enjoy these last couple of months of planning, while maintaining my sanity. It is so easy for a bride to get caught up in the stress and mayhem of putting together the largest event of her life and let other obligations slip or become a rather unpleasant person. I believe that I have managed to avoid this so far (Johnathan and my mom can correct me if I’m wrong). I hope for myself, as well as the brides that I work with, that the weeks preceding the wedding are all about spending time with family and making special time to relax with the groom before taking that leap. I would also like the first few weeks of my marriage to be about quality time with my new husband and adjusting to having a roommate for the first time since my freshman year of college.

With all of this in mind, I have decided that I will not be taking any more portrait sessions until May, 2010. If you have already booked or contacted me about a shoot/event for this period I am still available for those. This also does not apply to weddings or events.

Please contact me if you are interested in booking starting in May or if you have previously contacted me about a session in the next couple of months.

Photo above taken by my [soon-to-be] sister in law, Katy. Check her out!

There may be an actual statistic out there to back me up, but by my experience, I’d say that when it comes to booking a photographer (no matter the type of session or event), there is a 90% chance that a woman is doing it. Aside from the stereotype of women filling the role of planner in most relationships, they just tend to be more interested in having pictures taken. So it is not uncommon that the first time I have any contact with a groom/husband/father is the day of the shoot, whereas I’ve most likely emailed back and forth with the bride/wife/mother several times, as well as having talked to her on the phone and frequently met her in person. All this to say that when I’m going into a shoot, I generally feel like I am well acquainted with one of the participants and I’m always very curious to see what the other one is like and particularly how they interact.

I so enjoyed spending a couple of hours with these two. I’d been warned that they are not very comfortable in front of the camera and that I might have a hard time, but nothing could have been further from the truth. Because they were so comfortable with each other that they seemed completely at ease and that is what showed through the lens.

What a fabulous wedding these two will have. I cannot wait to capture it all!