Guestbook

One of the products I get the most excited to offer my clients are photo guestbooks. These products are great not only for weddings, but also for high school seniors for their open house. They are beautiful and serve not only as an album documenting your engagement (or senior) photographs, but they also offer a space for your guests to leave comments and advice. I have my own engagement guestbook from my wedding, and my husband and I still love to look through it to remember our engagement session and read the wonderful things that our loved ones wrote for us on our wedding day.

I photographed Dina + Grigor's guestbook, which they used at their wedding on August 20.

These books can come with a custom hardcover (shown) or many classy leather and antique leather cover options.

On the front page, we leave a message from the bride and groom inviting guests to sign their book.

I design them with lots of white space so they are clean and simple and leave plenty of room for comments.

The binding of the book also gets your names and wedding date.

The pages are hinged and lay totally flat, which is awesome because it allows the guestbookto lay flat when it is on your table and when people are signing it.

I love this product! I can't wait to design more for my future brides & grooms!

Happy Thursday!

Krista + Ryan

I realized this morning that I still haven't blogged Krista + Ryan, so here goes:

We had the most amazingly ridiculous amount of fun with Krista and Ryan. I already knew Krista - she was a fellow IU student and she's a wonderful mezzo-soprano. She's the kind of person who always has a smile on her face and whose amazing attitude is infectious.

She and her awesome fiance Ryan are getting married in Minnesota this coming fall, and though they had already hired a wedding photographer, they weren't going to get back to Minnesota in time for engagement shots. That's where I came in, and let me tell you, did I feel blessed to have the opportunity! They were ridiculously easy to photograph and their love was so beautiful and they weren't afraid to express it!

We started things off at the Griffy Lake Nature preserve.

How are you guys always SO CUTE?

If you guys ever start an indie duo, this can be your album cover.

Throughout the whole session, Ryan kept on goofing around and Krista's reactions were adorable. I love it when a couple is 100% themselves in front of my lens, and these guys were at 110%!

Ryan wanted to sit in the grass, and I love the result.

Aaah! LOVE YOU GUYS!

I'm pretty sure Ryan was goofing around during this shot too...keep it up Ryan. High fives to Ayron for capturing the moment perfectly.

This one is my favorite. Engagement sessions are the best!

Ryan had all of the good ideas that night...he wanted to get in the water in their clothes, and Krista didn't even bat an eyelash deciding to get into the water with Ryan. A million cool points for Krista! The resulting images are pretty cool, I think:

We met up a couple of days later to finish their session at the farmer's market. You guys WIN for engagement session locations!

Ryan was responsible for those sunglasses, too! Ryan, you also get a million cool points.

I love you guys! Thanks for giving us the priviledge of documenting your gorgeous, honest, amazing love. You guys were such a blast! We wish you the best at your wedding and in your new life together!

To watch more of Krista & Ryan's engagement session, click the slideshow below! :)

Dina bridals

I am trying to get back into the swing of things after a crazy month of August. I am hoping to actually get caught up for once (how long have I been saying that?!) and I'm going to kick off a new round of blog posts with Dina.

Hopefully I will be blogging Dina and Grigor's wedding next week, but just before the wedding, Dina and I snuck out to a private property here in Bloomington to take a few bridal shots in her dress. Sometimes the wedding day can get hectic, and it is nice to be able to take an evening out and get some editorial shots in the gown that are relaxed and fun (and at a location that you might not otherwise get to shoot at on the wedding day).

Sorry in advance for the large amount of photographs. My blog, my rules! I'm bad at narrowing down my favorites...

Dina's amazing gown is an Oleg Cassini (mine was too!) and she looks oh-so-beautiful in it! Dina, it was such an amazing priviledge to capture your bridal beauty! We had some incredible August evening light that night!

Dina, your beauty is effortless...

We came across this totally awesome swing, and I was so excited when Dina was adventurous enough/willing to give it a try! I think it is so beautiful!

As an afterthought, I grabbed a chair out of my living room. We almost didn't use it, but at the very end of our session, we pulled it out for a few shots, and I'm so glad we did! Dina, you're a model. Just saying.

I love wide shots where the subject is small. So beautiful!

Dina, your eyes are so beautiful!

You're a princess.

Helloooooo yummy light!!!

I can't handle your beauty!! Oh, and thank you to the granddaughter of the owner of this property. She had her wedding there a week previous - the rose petals that just happen to be in Dina's wedding color are courtesy of her!

More of your sassiness in the chair...LOVE!

Have I also mentioned that you are FIERCE!?

Dina, I can't say how much I LOVE you! Your engagement, your bridals, and your wedding - you are so easygoing and gorgeous and I can't wait for you to see your wedding pictures. (SOON!)

Happy Friday!!!

Jamie

Meet Jamie! She is a gorgeous musical theater student at IU who was tons of fun to photograph! I apologize in advance for the fact that there are so many photographs on this blog post! Jamie's session was so fun, I had a hard time choosing my favorites.

Jamie, you did an awesome job picking outfits with lots of color and texture, which I always love. I had a bit of fun doing artistic versions of many of Jamie's images!

Jamie, you have the best laugh/smile ever. I smiled until my face hurt when I edited these photographs.

Hello gorgeous eyes!!!

Can we just talk about how amazing the combination of your pale skin and your dark hair is? You are so beautiful I can't handle it!

Your gorgeous laugh again...

Jamie, thank you so much for the amazing photo session last semester. You are beautiful, and your gorgeous smile is infectious. I hope you are doing wonderfully and I can't wait to see the amazing things you'll do!

Ken

Ken and I shot his headshots and publicity shots back in January, and we had a blast! He was so easy going and was a blast to work with (I love Jazz musicians! Just sayin'.) 

I always find shooting people with large instruments a challenge, but I think that Ken's shots were a lot of fun and they represent him well!

I love areas of old brick - especially when two different types come together side by side! Ken, I love this picture of you! You look totally relaxed and really cool. If I didn't know you, I'd want to!

 

You have the most beautiful bass guitar I've seen! (I guess this was the first time I've seen one that is all wood). It look so great in your photographs!

Ken, it was awesome to get to work with you and wonderful to photograph your recital, too! I hope you're doing well in your travels and loving life!

For anyone who is interested, Ken's website is here. :)

Happy Thursday!