I had an amazing engagement session this evening with Sarah & Aaron. I promise to post a full peek later on in the week, but for now I just had to share one. We had the most amazing light and setting, I love my job. 🙂
Much, much more coming soon, enjoy!
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xo em
If you have lived in the Portland metro area for longer than 5 minuets you know this amazingly beautiful and witty soon to be mama. Daria is absolutely fabulous in every way, so when I heard on the radio she was expecting I just knew I had to do her maternity session. When she contacted me and asked if her fantastic husband Dallas could come, I said heck yeah!
We had a great time. I just love a pregnant mama that wants to show her sexy side. Daria & Dallas were a riot, and I think we got some great images!
Here are a few of my favorites so far:
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You can tell Daria is loving being pregnant, she looks so comfortable with that beautiful belly.
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They are so perfect together.
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Such a bombshell this mama.
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She knows how to vamp it up!
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How perfect is the big belly heart. So glad this dress still fit D!
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I love that they got all giddy talking about their little dude. He is going to be one loved baby.
So after a few of the ones above I asked Daria to break out a comic book or two.
I always like to include people’s art and passions. Well a comic book or two later we ended up in full on Batman costume! How freaking rad is Dallas for making it work. 🙂
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this one is my personal fav. I love the contrast of the belly & the batman. I could see this one printed BIG.
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Miss Daria art directed this shot. Have I mentioned they were super fun? I love clients with a vision.
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and this one is just so them.
Daria & Dallas, I had an absolute blast meeting the two of you. Thanks for letting me have free reign over your home to make the shoot work. I hope you love these as much as I do. I can’t wait to hear all about your little dude. He is one lucky boy! I am already having visions of him cradled in super hero arms. 🙂 And as I do for all new clients I would be happy to offer you a blog challenge. If you can get 25 people to comment on this post I will throw in an 11×14 mounted wall print. You know that is if you can spare a little room on your beautifully covered walls.
So get commenting people. How could you not have something to say!
xo em
You might remember Whitney & Michael from their fun and romantic engagement session earlier in the month. I also posted a quick teaser a few weeks ago but now I am back with a full on post full of fun images from their big day. The event was over the top beautiful. Held and the fantastic Benson Hotel it was all about downtown elegance. Every little detail was well though out and beautiful. I had a wonderful time and was so happy to come out with some great images. You can tell it was a great wedding when you can not wait to edit and start working on the album!
Here are a few of my favorites from the first part of our day.
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Whitney’s dress was elegant and gorgeous. Just like our bride!
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Whitney was the perfect bride, calm elegant and beautiful. She almost made my job too easy.
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Michael was also a fabulous groom to work with. Super laid back. I got reports from my lovely Second Shooter for this wedding (the lovely and talented Jen) that the boys were great and a bit of a crack up.
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She had a rough job hanging out with smart and handsome doctors all afternoon. 😉
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The girls were also fantastic. Every one beautiful and witty. Most of the girls met in dental school and own their own successful practices so you know they are on top of it all. 🙂
After everyone was primped & pressed we set up a first look outside the beautiful hotel.
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I can not tell you how lucky we were to get such great weather in the beginning of April. Michael & Whitney were absolutely visions, and a joy to photograph.
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I had a wonderful time, just look at these two! As usual I have far too many for one post, I will be back with more later. I am thinking a slide-show is in order too! If you would like to see the full gallery when it is ready leave a comment below so I can capture your email and notify you when it is all ready to go.
Whitney & Micheal I had a great time getting to know you and your whole family at the wedding. Thanks again for choosing me to be a part of your special day. I will have much more for you very soon! I have some great stuff from your ceremony, great details and even more downtown portraits to come. I can not wait to get working on your album.
xo em
No really they are, and that might even be an understatement! I met this lovely couple a last year in their search for a wedding photographer, Meghan and I both showed up to the coffee shop early so we got a chance to chat before Matt showed up. We laughed and giggled like old friends, by the time Matt came to meet us I knew I just had to do their wedding. Well after months of planning, sickness, rainy days and scheduling conflicts we finally met up again for engagement photos. And yes I will say it again, these two are FUN! Their wedding has a bridge theme so we met at the beautiful Cathedral Park in the St. John’s area of North Portland. We had a blast, we laughed we giggled, we talked about poop jokes, it was great!
It was very very hard to choose, but here are a few of my favs so far. Be warned there are allot of them!
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We started with the whole family, their little lab girl was such a cutie! And this yellow wall was perfect with Matt’s favorite collage jacket. It’s Go Huskies right? Gah I am so bad about remembering teams.
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Did I mention the cute pup? She was such a sweet girl, and only licked my lens once!
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Once we got a few with the sweet doggy we got under the bridge to get some of that cool architecture. I just love the view here, and I can still hear Meghan’s cute laugh!
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Some couples have to take a little time to warm up, not these two, they were so great in front of my camera!
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no we did not graffiti the park, but yes we did use it, how perfect right.
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They are just so cute together.
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I absolutely love this one, I think it would look great printed super large!
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you can not tell here but Meghan is about to bust up here 🙂
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and speaking of busting up, oh my dog these two had me in stitches! the scene on the left is what they call “Surfing Meghan” I believe. They bust out that move at weddings I hear, I am so hoping to get that one on their big day again. Can you imagine!M&M get ready!
Guys I had an absolutely fabulous time with the two of you. I will have the whole set for you soon, and we can get started on that sign in book of yours! Thanks again for being so fun! I even have a little blog challenge for you. If you can get 3o people to comment on this post I will give you a 11×14 wall print on me. I just know people have stuff to say about those fish faces, so get commenting people!
xo em
We have already seen the amazing Jarett & Julie a few times here, once for their “day before” session, and then the “getting ready” post. And now with out further ado I bring you the big show! The full wedding party & ceremony.
And a beautiful wedding party it was!
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I had so much fun with every single one of these girls.
The little flower girls were beyond cute!
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Our handsome grooms men, again they cracked me up the whole time!
I tried to get them to to give me a serious “reservoir dogs” look, but these guys were all laughs.
So on to the ceremony, to say it was moving would be an understatement.
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The venue was amazing, the wedding party looked just amazing coming down the stairs.
Jarett’s face as Julie walked up the isle was just classic, a mix of tears and laughter.
and can you blame him with this stunning woman coming his way!
did I mention the venue was amazing?
Julie does amazing work at a Children’s Hospital, she asked the resident chaplain to preform the ceremony and he did an amazing job. It was just the right balance of humor & emotion. I have to admit even I teared up a few times. Everyone involved did a beautiful job. 🙂
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After the big kiss Jarett & Julie walked down the isle as husband and wife with the biggest smiles. I caught this one just as they slipped out.
I will have more for you all again soon. The reception was awesome! And of course I have all the fun just bride and groom, those are always my fav.
So much more to come!
xo em
Happy.awesome.ness.
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