what a beautiful day! i had the very honored privilege of shooting the wedding of some of boyfriend’s and my dearest friends, mark and lisa! (is that proper grammar?? i’m always paranoid about that…) ah…i can remember back when mark used to meet up with us after being at school all day and update us on “hot girl from class.” and now look at them! all grows up and married. it has been so great to watch this entire relationship evolve from the beginning, and even cooler getting to know lisa and seeing how her presence in mark’s life has helped fashion him into who he is clearly meant to…

here is a wedding i’ve had in the books for what seems like ages and have been so excited about. saturday was the big day for sam and chris, whose engagement photos i took last december. i remember meeting them for coffee and talking over some details about the wedding and hearing the story about how sam knew i was “the one” he wanted to shoot the wedding because i have Sigur Ros as the music for my website :) my plan of attracting people with good taste in music worked!  we had an absolutely gorgeous, hitch-free day. after running thru the photos and picking out a few of my initial…

THIS is the wedding i have been looking forward to all year for so many reasons. 1) it was my first wedding of 2009, 2) it was on the BEACH in florida, and 3) because i was a surprise present to brenda, the bride, from derrick, the groom!!!! i did their engagement photos last fall, all the while conspiring with brenda to try and convince derrick that i should be the one to shoot the wedding instead of an old buddy of his. he feigned refusing, blaming it on money, all the while secretly communicating with me and booking me as a surprise! when i showed up to the rehearsal on friday…