Almost two years ago I ran a contest on my blog for a free photoshoot. Alicia was the winner! She actually donated her shoot to a good friend of hers that needed photos more than Alicia did. Well, the friend and I never found the right time to get together. I got an email a few months ago from the friend saying that Alicia was pregnant and wanted to donate the shoot back…did you follow all that?? Well, fast forward to now!  Alicia and Carlos just had a baby!  Little Alejandro is so adorable!

Love these next two images 🙂

It was a blast hanging out with you guys – you are a lot of fun!  Thanks for the wine, chocolate and stroopwaffles!!

xoxo, M

Last year at the Dvorak family session, Jake wasn’t quite walking…and Lisa was newly pregnant with the twins!  So new, that I didn’t even know it!  How surprised was I when she told me that had two new adorable additions to the family!

Meet Audrey and Erin!

Guvu isn’t a new addition…but he is an important part of the family!

This was their choice for the Christmas card photo!

Do you know how difficult it is to get 4 month old twins to pose together, look your way and smile?  Trust me. It’s hard.

and of course the two who made it all happen!

So happy to see you again this year, Dvorak family!

xoxo, M

I’m very excited to announce that my dear friend, Helena has started her own wedding coordination company!

You can check it out by clicking here: Divine Events by Helena

You will see quite a bit of my work on her site 🙂  Including her new headshots, taken last month at NTC Liberty Station!

So what are you waiting for??  Go on and check out her site and set up an appointment if you are in need of a FAB wedding coordinator!

xoxo, M

ps The AMAZING website design was done by none other than my studio-mate Cathy with Love at First Invite!  She is now taking commissions for web design, contact her through her own website at www.loveatfirstinvite.com!!

I met Brianna for the first and last time.  Some may remember, she had a disease by the name of Neimann-Pick Disease, Type C.  I wrote about our day at Disneyland in this post.

It’s with a heavy heart that I inform you that Brianna passed away tonight.  She will be incredibly missed by her loving parents and many family members and friends.

I just made a donation in her honor at this website.

Below are my two favorite photos of Brianna and her dad Jeremy on our trip to Disneyland in January.

XOXO, M

My lack of blogging has not been because I am not busy enough. Quite the opposite, actually! I have at least ELEVEN photoshoots to blog right now!! As things start to slow down around here, I’ll be able to get back in the blogging swing of things!

First up, a wedding I attended that I never got a chance to blog! Jodi and Ray were married on 09-09-09 (a wednesday!) in sunny/hot Las Vegas Nevada. They live on the East Coast. This wedding was a bit different than normal for me. I was actually brought as a wedding gift by Jodi’s best friend Cortney!

In Vegas, a lot of the packages come with a wedding photographer and there isn’t much you can do to change that! This is what happened to Jodi and Ray. Cortney still wanted to them to have some awesome photos despite the untrained photographer in their package. So here I am! I had a similar situation like this, for Janice and Andrew’s Vegas wedding. I had to pretend to be a guest and fill in the blanks when possible!

Because of that, there aren’t as many bride and groom photos as normal!  We were very limited in our time at the golf course and literally had under 5 minutes to sneak away and shoot!

The day started off at the Luxor hotel with Jodi getting ready!

The handsome groom, ready to marry his bride!

The ceremony was held at the Bali Hai Golf Resort and was short, sweet and easily over 100 degrees!

These next two images are the ones I had under 5 minutes to capture!

After the golf course, we headed to a lounge/bar place for an intimate reception!

An impromptu first dance…the music downloaded from two cell phones and played simultaneously!

It was a very sweet wedding and Jodi and Ray are obviously nutso for each other!  I was so glad to be asked to be a minor part of their day!

xoxo, M