marie and brian

in the next couple of weeks, i'm going to try to catch up a bit. so i won't narrate too much in order to get everything posted.
marie and brian were married in september. if you haven't kept up, marie is the sister of katie, whose wedding we shot in 2005. marie and brian had a great wedding party, i love their whole family, they're a super cool couple and we had a really great day with them.

nikki and nick

this was a wedding photographer/graphic designer's dream wedding. nikki and nick are both extremely talented artists living in chicago. nikki is a graphic designer and nick is a senior art director. they had the coolest wedding invitation i've ever seen (hand-bound books), but i can't even get into all of the details of that. speaking of details, they had 'em covered. from letter pressed tags on the guest "tree" pens to nikki making the lobby sign for the other wedding in the hotel that night (to keep things consistent), i've never seen it more beautifully done. i had to narrow it down to a few or i would have used up the rest of my storage space for the blog.
i wish i could get into the details of how they met/didn't date/fate/destiny/separation/first-kiss-four-years-later/married, but i have a lot of work to do to get caught up. let's just say it made for a great story.

it's jen, again!

jen was the first bride to come to me to "trash the dress". although we didn't trash the dress because her mom came along to make sure we didn't trash the dress. but we did have a lot of fun and got to do a lot of things that we would never have the time to do on a wedding day.
jen is as nice as she is beautiful. i'm doing her whole family photo this weekend and when she has babies, which i will insist on photographing, she will probably appear on this blog more than anyone else. i think she already does.
but that's good because we love her and josh and the entire bohan/madigan clan.

charlotte's family

some of you old timers might remember charlotte who worked with me for about three years, some time ago. well, charlotte now has her own successful photography business in colorado springs. (see the link to her blog). she also has two little darlings with her husband tryg, who is also a photographer.
although this was another one of those ridiculously hot iowa days, they were serious troopers and we had a great time. it was so cute to see her with her family. we spent many road trips talking about baby names and plans for the future. i'm so happy that she has such a wonderful life and is doing everything that she had hoped for all those years ago.
she claims she can't believe she ever lived in iowa with our hot, humid summers. (I left out the photos with our drenched hair and sweaty shirts) but God threw down a rainbow at the end of our session to remind us that Iowa's a pretty good place to grow up. :)

grace

well, i've never done many seniors. and i'm doing even less now, because that's sort of paige's specialty (besides, obviously rocking weddings and kids). but i did do a few this year, including the lovely grace.
grace is the daughter of my cousin, nora, who is raising these phenomenal children. grace is a real beauty, smart as a whip and carries herself about a thousand times better than i did at her age. maybe a million.
she is getting ready to graduate early before heading off to college in minnesota next year. (she's promised to hit trader joe's for me before she comes home for breaks.)
she's got a lot of aspirations and the world is definitely her oyster.
good luck, grace!