Kyle & Taylor’s Hometown Maysville, Kentucky Engagement

I have gotten used to seeing brides MOST of the time in the booking process.  About half the time I see the groom before the engagement session and the other half I won’t meet him until then.  As supportive as most guys are… many are really hands off with the wedding planning process.  NOT this groom!  Kyle was the first to contact me and I knew from the start that he must be a keeper!  Kyle and Taylor have had a whirlwind romance that quickly led to an engagement.  I was honored to be able to meet up with them in Taylor’s hometown, Maysville, KY for their engagement photo shoot.  I have to say, I have only ever driven through the outskirts of Maysville before so it really was foreign to me but after spending some time walking the downtown streets with this amazing couple, I could totally see the appeal of living in a small town!

What will stay with me from this session though, is the absolute tangible love between Kyle and Taylor.  Not that every couple I meet are not in love, because they truly are, but sometimes, you find a couple that just has that extra spark.  These two definitely have it!  We can’t wait for their wedding day!

Emily & Chris’ Richmond / Eastern Kentucky University Engagement

Tonight we traveled to EKU for Emily and Chris’ Engagement session.  We were so happy that the rain held out because we definitely got some amazing shots!  I was also especially proud of the amount of UK blue that Emily had planned for her wardrobe!  She may have gone to EKU but it looks like she bleeds blue!  Can’t wait for their wedding in June! Here’s a sneak peek:

Happy Wedding Day Joe & Helen!!!

Well we have made it to the end of Schmidt Studio’s biggest year ever!  30+ weddings in a single year.  Many memories made, tears shed, laughter abounded and FRIENDS made who will forever be called family.  Today, is our last wedding of 2011.  In less than 8 hours our “shooting” year will be done but we STILL have many more weeks of work ahead of us, proofing, and getting the year wrapped up!   We cannot think of a better way to end our year than with Joe and Helen’s wedding TODAY!  It is a beautiful fall day and we are SO excited to call them friends.  I know today will be a beautiful joining of two lives and a heck of a party after!!!!

So, Joe and Helen… get ready!  The Schmidt’s are ready to make this one amazing!

While you are waiting on their wedding peeks… here are a few from their firehouse engagement!

Happy Wedding Day to Candace and Danny!

Yup.. It’s 11/11/11 and that means a TWO wedding weekend especially since 11/11/11 fell on a Friday.  I first met Candace while working in the wedding industry but have gotten to know her over the past year since we photographed Maureen and Chad’s wedding!  We are SO happy for Candace and Danny.  They are the couple who you just know will be together forever.  Mutual adoration is how I would sum up their relationship (from our perspective! LOL)…

Can’t wait to see them say I do!!  See you guys in just a few hours! Happy Wedding Day Candace and Danny!

Happy Wedding Day to Blair and Austin!

Blair and Austin will be getting married today in their hometown of Mt. Sterling!  We are honored to be photographing their big day and wish them a life full of happiness, love, health and wealth!

Here are a few from their engagement session a few weeks back:

Happy Wedding Day Sarah & Ben!!!

Well we made it!!  We are here in Bradenton, Florida for Sarah and Ben’s destination wedding on Anna Maria Island!!!  This is actually our first destination wedding for a Lexington couple!  We are so super excited for them and know it’s going to be an AMAZING day!  Happy Wedding Day Sarah and Ben… while you are waiting for their wedding sneak peek, her are a few of their engagement photos. (sorry for the blatant overuse of exclamation points in those sentences…LOL)

Happy Wedding Day to Jill and Aaron!!

Happy Wedding Day Emily and Alex!

The day is finally here!  When I saw the engagement pics go up on Facebook at Christmas I knew the year would go by quickly but man… it has flown.  I remember Emily as a little girl dancing with her Daddy at our Wedding.  She was just a little older than Owen is now.  To me, that feels like yesterday!  I know I will turn around and it will be my own kids that are headed down the aisle.  We are SO happy to officially welcome Alex into the Schmidt Family and know that he will continue to make Emily a very happy woman for the rest of her life!

Congrats you two!  Today is the day you have been dreaming of for 8 years!  I pray that God will bless your life together and that today you will be able to take time to enjoy the day because it will go by far too fast!

Happy Wedding Day to Brad and Ashley!

Today is a big day in the Wedding world.  Any day that has a “significant” date is always a popular and busy day for wedding professionals!  Today happens to be 9/10/11.  AND it is Ashley and Brad’s wedding day!  We are packing up and will soon be headed to Ashley’s hometown (Bardstown, Kentucky) for their beautiful wedding!  Ashley has worked her bum off planning this important day and we are honored to be a part of it!

Not only that, but after all the cruddy weather for the past few weeks I know that MOST of the Lexington brides HAD to have been on edge!  But… low and behold… THIS is what we get today!  Furthers my philosophy that God smiles on Wedding Days!

These are a few of our faves from their Engagement Session on Ashley’s parent’s land in Bardstown!  Look for wedding pics coming SOON!!!

CONGRATULATIONS Ashley and Brad (and Caiden too!) we will see you guys in just a few short hours!

Kelsey and Justin’s Romantic Farm Engagement

**If you are a friend / family member of Kelsey and Justin’s… don’t forget to leave them a comment or compliment below!! **

When Kelsey told me that there was a family farm with an OLD barn that she would like to have in their engagement photos… it was like the heaven’s opened up and the sun shone down… Seriously… this is the stuff I live for!  Creeks… barns.. dogs… I am all about it!   When we arrived at the property I was unsure if I was even in the right place because I could not FIND the barn!  But there she was… hidden behind MUCH brush and MANY chiggers… (my ankles suffered!) there was this beauty…

Can u see her???  If not look closely…

NOW you see her right?!  I love it when people take me to locations that are sentimental and special and this barn definitely is both of those things to Kelsey and her family!  Standing inside its crumbling walls I couldn’t help but wonder how many mouths that one barn’s profits had fed over the years and how many kids had played hide and seek there.  There is a certain form of reverence that I feel for old buildings like these… similar to the respect I have for elderly people… my mind just goes in a millions ways wondering what it was in it’s hey day!

And what would a FARM engagement session be without a dog… and not just any dog… HUCKLEBERRY HOUND!!  Cute right?!!  He was WAY excited to be included in the photos!  I hear that when Justin proposed he was informed that he was getting a package deal… Kelsey AND Huckleberry!

Obviously Justin and Huckleberry get along just fine…

And yes that would be Troy… aka photographer… aka husband… aka Dog Whisperer.  I think his exact words to Huckleberry were “Hey look here dog… you’re gonna sit your butt down there and we are going to take this dang picture…”  LOL

Kelsey had also requested that we go to their favorite Creek for some photos…. so we did!  We braved the skeeters and the chiggers and the random cats!!  The pics made it totally worth it!

We even found this cool old building on a hill … like I said before… old buildings… speak to me.  Troy may be the dog whisperer but I think I am the “crappy old building” whisperer!

Right about this time a random cat decided to befriend us.  I managed to lure him away once with the promise of something in my hand and a hearty “here kitty kitty kitty” the second time… she was not fooled!

As night fell… we managed to get some pretty cool shots near an amazing rock formation that turns into a waterfall when it rains!  Wish we had had some rain!! Of course it has rained EVERY DAY since then!  Sheesh.

And so adventure over the creek and through the barn was over but stay tuned… the wedding images will not be far behind!