I love when I get to work with family friends. What I love even more is when they ask me to be in on a surprise! I love surprises! Well, at least I love being in on the planning of a surprise. 😉

When Traci contacted me about photographing a surprise anniversary party for her mother-in-law and father-in-law who are celebrating 50 years of marriage this year, it reminded me of

I’ve said on this blog before that when I started my photography business, I thought I’d never shoot a wedding. I always LOVED wedding photography and would buy wedding magazines for inspiration, but for some reason I thought I wasn’t meant to photograph weddings. That all seems so silly now that weddings are one of my favorite things to shoot. I LOVE photographing weddings! Even before I was hooked on photographing actual weddings, I always dreamed of doing a styled wedding shoot. It just seemed like it would be the most fun job ever. Thus, when I received an email asking if I wanted to photograph a Kate Spade inspired styled shoot for Mobile Bay Bride Magazine, I immediately said yes and started counting down the days until the shoot.

I love everything Christmas so this fun and festive dinner party was definitely a treat to photograph!

When Sam contacted me to schedule a portrait session, he told me he was planning a surprise for his girlfriend Ashley. The pictures were not the surprise. The surprise was a proposal! YAY!!! I could barely contain my excitement. Sam and I hatched a plan to put the session together so that Ashley wouldn’t get suspicious. She’d been wanting to do a portrait session with Sam for a while, so knowing they were having pictures taken didn’t make her suspicious that there would be a surprise. What Ashley didn’t know was that Sam was carrying a ring in his pocket for the first half of their session! The suspense was killing me!

A Rustic Senior Portrait Session I’ve spoken about my love of senior portrait sessions before, but I really have to say again how much I LOVE them. They never get old to me. Senior year is such a special time and I love preserving that for high school seniors and their parents. As spring has […]