Camille & Stephen

What an engagement session! Last night, I met up with Camille and Stephen here at the studio for a few photos downtown, and then we headed over to Sedgwick County Park for the majority of their session. As we arrived at the park, I started hearing thunder, but I'd watched the weather the night before and knew there was supposed to be no rain on Monday. The thunder continued, more often and louder, as we went about with our photos. Once, as we came out of the trees, we started feeling some raindrops, but decided to ignore it. At one point, we were standing on the sidewalk where it was dry, and we looked to the east and saw lots of rain falling on the nearby pond. That was crazy! It looked like the pond was vibrating! We took a few more photos over in the tall grass by the zoo, and it started raining pretty heavily at that point, but Camille and Stephen, being the fun people they are (and trying to ignore the raindrops falling directly in their eyes...), were up for as many photos as I was willing to expose my camera to in the rain. Luckily, I was wearing a scarf so I covered the camera with that for awhile. Of course, the rain stopped as soon as we were done! But it made some beautiful clouds for our photos, and a story for the couple to share for years to come!

You can see the raindrops in this one!

Michael + Sara: A Colorado Wedding

My big brother, Michael, married a wonderful girl, Sara, this weekend in Colorado. Get ready for an extra long blog post on this one.

As I was going through the photos we took, I just realized how proud I am of Michael. He's been through a lot, and has kept such a positive outlook on life. He's so goofy and I just love his fun-loving personality. Sara is a sweetheart. She's helped Michael strengthen his walk with God, and I am so thankful for that by itself. My parents love her, she was a part of our family long before the wedding took place. The wedding day was absolutely PERFECT. Sara looked beautiful, and we had great weather and awesome scenery. I could go on and on. I love them both so much and can't believe my brother has a wife now! :) I'll tell more about their day throughout the photos.

Sara helping her little sister Hannah, who was the flower girl, get dressed.

Michael and the guys kept it casual and just wore white shirts and black pants...my favorite for the guys for a wedding!

Michael was pretty skeptical when I asked them to jump, but he thought the final photo was pretty hilarious.

My dad and Michael. He was so proud of his son that day!

Hannah and Sara again.

The beautiful bridesmaids!

Sara's mom, Theresa.

My mom, Nancy. Didn't she look SO good? The bride looked okay too... :) Just kidding, Sara is gorgeous as well!

There was a policeman parked at the church, so we used his car for some photos with the bride!

Michael and Sara wrote their own vows. I'd never seen this side of my brother before, what he wrote was beautiful. He was so excited to marry his best friend. It was a little tricky to take photos through my tears (of joy). :)

My dad hugging Sara right after the ceremony. My parents love Sara so much and are so excited to have another daughter!

Another awesome couple who decided to have their family formals outside. Here is Sara and Michael with her family.

And our family. We went from 4 to 6!

They enjoyed it when I asked them to kiss. :)

After dinner and cake at their reception, we went over to the dam and lake that they spend a lot of time at for photos. I was so glad they decided to go there for their photos...it can't get any better than mountains in the background of you and your new husband.

Congratulations Michael and Sara! I love you and hope you're having a great time on your honeymoon cruise.

Behind the Scenes

Here's a behind-the-scenes photo Adam took of me taking photos of my brother and his WIFE this weekend right after their wedding. Isn't this scenery amazing?! It made me want to move there so I can have this awesomeness as the backdrop for all of my shoots. Get excited for their full wedding post that's coming later today!

Heads Up

I'm BACK! ...for a short time. I will be working long hours this week to get your pictures to you, if you're waiting on them. But come next week, I will be out of town for the entire week. Adam and I are taking some much-needed time away. We're headed to beautiful Yellowstone, so expect some fun landscape photos when we get back. This is just a heads up, and I ask you to please be patient with me, as this will set me back a little on editing and album designing. Thanks for being awesome and understanding!

Also, we just got back from the wedding in Colorado yesterday, and oh my gosh! We got some aMAZing photos. Just you wait, a blog post to come hopefully later today.

CLOSED

Gingeroot will be closed tomorrow - Friday, June 26. I will be in Colorado photographing my brother's wedding, and Lindsey will be in California for a little vacation. We will open as usual Tuesday morning, though Lindsey will still be off, frolicking in the ocean (lucky). Have a great weekend!

Becky & Brad

Last night, I had a super fun (albeit hot) engagement session with Becky and Brad. We had to reschedule once, due to heat and wind, so I'm glad we finally got to take their photos! I've known Becky for a long time through church, I believe she was even at my wedding. Adam and I also worked in the youth group with her parents for a long time, they're the sweetest people! Brad and Becky met just last October and are planning an April wedding next year. They are so much fun together, always laughing and sticking fingers in ears...what? Yeah, a little strange, but very funny. :) I didn't have to coax smiles out of them, they were giggling and making faces at each other the whole time! Thanks for a fun evening, Brad & Becky!

Workin it!