I had the amazing pleasure to photograph the engagement of Lyzette and George in Austin, Texas. I flew out for the day and it was well worth the travel time! We first met at Austin’s Zilker Park, where we found an awesome tucked away place in the hills of the Zilker Park.

Backtracking for a moment, I met Lyzette and George at last year’s Wedding Fair event in McAllen, TX. I will be there again this August, for all you Rio Grande Valley brides out there!

Lyzette had this great idea, before we had the session, to include large balloons in the her shoot. When the balloon man finally came, we had some fun! We found this awesome turquoise wall next to this restaurant! I love it when you just stumble on things while you are shooting. It makes things that more spontaneous and fun!

After hanging out in Zilker Park, we headed out to downtown Austin for some even more fun locations! We first headed to Big Top Candy Shop for some sweet photos…

Isn’t your mouth just watering….mmmmm taffy…..

Then we headed out to another awesome location, but first we got some amazing gold frames that Lyzette borrowed from her friend. Aren’t they so cool?

Then probably my favorite location of the shoot, Hey Cupcake! They have a couple locations throughout Texas, but this one is very cool because it’s a trailer! Haha this session was so full of amazing locations, Austin is such a cool town. I can’t wait to go back and just hang out.

We hung out on the back of the Hey Cupcake mobile for some more sweet photos!

Mmmm cupcakes…gosh this was a mouthwatering session!

Lyzette threatened…I mean warned George that she was going to put the cupcake in his face. She warned him from the beginning, so he should have seen it coming. But from his expression, I think he wasn’t ready!

Check out the full slide show of their session!

A few weekends ago I met up with my clients Natalie and Patrick at the Scottsdale Civic Plaza for their engagement photo session. They are getting married in May at the Ancala Country Club, one of my favorite wedding sites in Arizona. Partly because the ever fabulous Dawn, a Beverly Clark Certified Wedding Professional, is there to help brides keep calm on their wedding day by taking care of all the details! And she helps me stay calm by keeping me on my time line! So anyone looking for a wedding site with a built in wedding planner, Ancala Country Club is a great place to start!

So back to the fabulous, in their own right, Natalie and Patrick. They chose the Scottsdale Civic Plaza as their engagement session location, which I love. Because of the awesome LOVE statue there.

I love the awesome colors and textures at the Scottsdale Civic Plaza. It’s such a fresh and colorful place!

A little about Natalie that I think is awesome…she goes to graduate school at ASU studying something that is way beyond my comprehension! Basically, she’s waaay smarter than me…and she’s gorgeous to boot! Who said you can’t have both brains and beauty? I think Patrick couldn’t agree more!

Although I think Patrick has something special going on for him too….how am I so lucky to have the best and most gorgeous couple’s in Arizona?

I can’t wait for your wedding at Ancala Country Club, Natalie and Patrick! And here’s a special treat just for you…a slide show (click).

I had one of my favorite, or my favorite so far, engagement session a few weeks ago. Sorry, with the Holidays, I’m a bit behind on editing! I’m so happy to finally be posting these images! I had an amazing session with Jill and Matt at the Desert Botanical Gardens in Phoenix. Since they are moving shortly to Colorado, they wanted to make sure their engagement photos truly represented the Phoenix desert, and I thought no better place was the Desert Botanical Gardens. Jill and Matt were so fun to work with! Jill is obsessed with a wedding blogsite called The Brides Cafe. You’ve seen me featured there before, so I was excited that she found me on there. Anyway, being the good bride-to-be, she wanted her engagement photos to be unique, like the one’s on The Brides Cafe. So she found a prop from Anthropologie that she wanted to use. It’s a fabric ampersand, how awesome is that! I thought….wow she totally is my kind of bride!

So part of the session revolved around a prop…but most of it revolved around love. Fresh and unique love. The kind of love that makes me so happy I do what I do. Being able to capture it is so special, and I am so appreciative that I am able to do so. Thank you Jill and Matt for letting me capture this brief moment in your life. A moment, a feeling, that I hope last’s forever.

My absolute favorite image from the session, and 2010…so far.

Last weekend I had the pleasure of capturing the love of two people set to marry in Houston in a few months. Not only are Maria and Brian beautiful in the inside, they scream it on the outside! Of course it helps that Maria used to model…wow that’s such a surprise We went to the Desert Botanical Gardens in Phoenix, Arizona. The whole engagement session almost didn’t happen at all though.

The day before, the original date of the session, I wasn’t feeling too well and had a bout with hives. Luckily I won and we re-scheduled for the next day. Me being the punctual person I am (haha) I was at the next day’s session a half hour early. As I was driving up Galvin Parkway, I found a barricade on the road leading up to the gardens…apparently I was the only one who didn’t know the road was closed for months! I called Brian and told him the news and that I would look for another way to get there. It felt like the session was never meant to be….but fortunately my Blackberry Storm lead me to the alternate entrance to the Desert Botanical Gardens…and the session finally happened! And I am so glad it did!

I hope you two have a wonderful engagement and a beautiful wedding! I’ve seen Maria’s plans and they look Ah-Mazing! Can’t wait to see it!

I have a bunch of weddings and session to edit, so bare with me! I know I haven’t been posting….I will slowely but surely!

So anyway, I had such an amazing experience a few weeks ago. I was able to photograph Tim and Fine’s traditional African engagement ceremony. It was so much fun, so much color, and so much action! I learned there is a whole process for the night, with things enfolding step by step with the future bride and groom seeing eachother finally after a whole night of no contact! That is when the rings are exchanged. It was so much fun and so interesting! I love learning about new cultures and it was amazing to experience it with Tim and Fine. Congratulations you two! I hope you had an amazing wedding and fun on your honeymoon!

There was so much nummy food! hehe I love food! I make sure I get fed at every wedding…it’s in my contract I’m that serious!

Tim’s mom….they’re traditional clothing was so beautiful!

Totally Resevoir Dogs…only with way cooler clothes.

This is Tim…his wardrobe matched Fine’s.

Four of the groomsmen….four of 20….yes I said 20…you’ll see what I mean later.

The beautiful Fine getting ready.

Tim’s family…what I loved about this ceremony is that they break out in song periodically! It was so alive!

The groom’s family spokesperson.

The beautiful sunset that night.

Fine making her entrance.

Two photographers, one couple…..FOURTY groomsmen and bridesmaids. Yes I said FOURTY! It took a little yelling and some putting people in the right place…but we got it!