April – Adorable and With Child

I’ve had some interest in seeing more of my maternity pictures, so you’ll see some this week that never got posted!  I first posted a few of these over a year ago!  My friend April went through the photography program with me at BYU and had an adorable little munchkin that I still haven’t met.

These first ones were all taken in their old apartment in Washington – they had amazing light!

Love these next ones… :).  I imagine every woman who’s been pregnant can appreciate these camera angles!

The boat pictures are my favorite!!  While driving to our next location we shouted when we spotted this row boat in the middle of a field.  It was raining (as you may see), but we ran out and shot as fast as possible.  It made us so happy.

April wanted something different and kind of edgy. She found this way cool location, that worked out great because it protected us from the rain (most of the time)!

April and I ran excitedly around the dirty, abandoned building like children (not that you would usually take children to such a place).  It was different than many of my shoots, but it was awesome.

By this point, it was pouring, but it created a really cool reflective look on the cement outside our hiding spot.  Isn’t her belly the cutest?

When April went into labor I started getting text updates every now and then. I later found out that I was included on the exclusive texting list for the grandmothers – I was equally as excited! 🙂

Emily+Andrew Married!

This was such a fun wedding for me.  I had THREE of my brides there!  The first time I met Emily and Andrew was at Emily’s best friend’s wedding last year in Washington.  Emily and Andrew BOTH caught the bouquet/garter and I think you can see from this image below that she was pretty excited about it :).

They got engaged not too long after that and I was so excited when she contacted me to shoot her wedding!  It turned out so unbelievably beautiful.  The details are all amazing!  I had a really hard time narrowing down all the detail shots for the blog :).

LOVE these shoes.  Love them.

The flowers, oh the FLOWERS.  I could do an entire post on just the flowers, but these will have to suffice.

Emily was so excited to email me a few weeks before the wedding to tell me she convinced Andrew to do a first look (which is when the bride and groom see each other prior to the ceremony and I photograph the meeting with just the 3 of us and then we take some portraits).  I am SOOOOO glad we did it, as it started raining during the (indoor) ceremony and we wouldn’t have gotten any outdoor shots otherwise!  We also did most of the bridal party portraits before the ceremony.  So what do you think, worth it??

In case you didn’t notice, Andrew is TALL.  Even with those awesome purple heels on :).

Married!

Bride and Groom #1

Bride and Groom #2 (and Emily’s sister)

And all three couples with me!

Emily also has a rockin’ blog that you should check out!  She keeps posting so many cool diy projects and fun wedding ideas.  Congratulations and Merry Christmas Eve!