Brittany’s Snowy Bridal Session at Keeneland

Brittany’s wedding was at the beginning of November and even though it flurried, it did not snow on her wedding day.  BUT one weekend in December when there WAS snow I hinted that we might go out and shoot her bridal images that day and she jumped at the opportunity!  Of course CATCHING the snow in Lexington is not always easy… our meteorologists must need a raise or something!  We headed out to Keeneland and despite the cold managed to end up with some GORGEOUS images!

When this image came up in the download I knew that this was just “it” for me.  Lots of times couples will ask me how long with a session take to shoot and I always say “Until I get the money shot”… and that is the God’s honest truth.  When I look into that camera and see that one shining moment, which usually happens toward the end of the session, I know that we will not be able to top that for the rest of our and generally that is when I say “done!”.  All of my couples, I am sure will agree, that each of us can pick that ONE photo out of the crowd… this was it for Brittany’s session… Something about it made me say WOW!

Brittany, came prepared for our snowy adventure!  I always want my brides to know that I will never ask you to do anything that I would not do myself.  All the photos that you see on my site of people in water, snow, etc… I am generally in up to my waist with them!  I am not a sissy and I am also very careful to be gentle with my brides!  For that reason, when shooting in the snow, I do NOT wear a coat.  I have my mitten with no fingertips, but I try to dress in similar fashion to my brides and that gives me the ability to know when enough is enough.  I can gage how cold they are because I AM THAT COLD TOO!!!

After her session was posted on Facebook Brit gave me a compliment that brings tears to my eyes!  Brittany said:  “I thought it was the sweetest thing ever that my thoughtful photographer said that she didn’t wear a coat on the sessions so that she could tell how could it was and wouldn’t freeze her brides.  That is the nicest, most thoughtful thing I had ever heard!  Not only is she talented but she has a heart of gold!!!”

So yes, I do care too much sometimes! Sometimes that equals fevers, chills and a friggin cold after my snow sessions but its all worth to know that my clients have these amazing memories to treasure forever!

Lateefah’s Bridal Session

We shot Lateefah and Matt’s wedding in Louisville, Kentucky on the rooftop of the Glassworks building in August but due to time constraints we were unable to fit in a bridal session before the wedding.  Problem solved…do it afterward.  This is ALWAYS an option for our brides.  Before or after… makes no difference to us.  We actually find that brides are a lot braver in their dresses AFTER they have already worn them on the big day!

Now, granted I have known Teefah for at least 15 years now, and spent many long wonderful days with her as Kyleigh’s nurse at the Kentucky Children’s Hospital (shout out to my 4 East girls!), I trusted Teefah with my daughter’s life and I asked her to trust me with her photos.

(Ps… this one took my breath away… I have a few images every now and then that do that… still blows me away that I look into my camera and see THIS.. it is often overwhelming to me that when my clients TRUST me and allow me to be the most creative, that is when they get the most stunning images!)

She of course, was up for anything and off we went.  Through a field, over a railroad track, avoiding a thunderstorm, in a fountain, downtown to Triangle park… we did it all!  Here is what ensued:

My favorite chair from my house + 1 beautiful bride in her golden dress = A.M.A.Z.I.N.G. (right?! )

I mentioned fountains and Teefah was pumped!  So we stood on top of the fountains (granted by this point in the season that water was COLD!) … we tip toed around.. took pics in front and they were great… but then I said… what if you got IN the fountain and this is the look I got:

SURE! …. so in she went!

After her legs and feet were fully numb from the cold water… we got down to business…

Or maybe we, like any good friend and photographer, sat back and laughed as Teefah froze her butt off splashing in the fountain!  But it made for good pics right?

So we laughed for a while and then decided we had better get those WOW images before she froze to death.  Can’t you just hear the headlines?  Photographer pushes bride to get in cold water and causes frostbite!  LOL  Yeah.. we need NONE of that!

Even though a storm was encroaching we decided to hurry down to Triangle Park for a few last minute pics in Teefah’s RECEPTION dress!  I mean… if smoke em if you got em … (and no I don’t endorse smoking… when we flew to Disney our pilot made a joke about NO SMOKING on the place except that our plane had exactly 3hrs and 30 minutes worth of gas and if we were still in the air at 4 hours then we might as well smoke em if you got em!  We thought it was funny … so if you hear us use this during your session… don’t freak out.)

The bridesmaid dress that they really CAN wear again!

I was perusing Etsy the other day and stumbled across this….

Did you know that each of those bridesmaids are wearing the EXACT SAME DRESS????  HOLY crap!  I thought to myself… now THAT is a bridesmaids dress that you really CAN wear again!  I was even more shocked when i saw this:

There are only about 100 different ways to wear this dress… SERIOUSLY.. brides out there… hop on over to Etsy and pick these up for your maids.  They will thank you when they see the price is extremely reasonable and the dress is friggin fabulous!  I mean, really, I want one for myself!

Erin Leigh Heart on Etsy… today you rocked my world!