Jeff and Amanda are Married!

Wow...I am really behind on my blogging.  I didn't realize it had been so long since I've blogged.  It's certainly not that there isn't much going on, on the contrary, I'm up to my eyeballs in editing.  I have so much going on it's overwhelming to figure out how I am going to catch up.  My apologies for my lack of posting.  I have five more weddings to blog but let me start with a wedding I shot earlier in May.  Amanda is my husband's cousin, and mine now too :)...and Jeff is the awesome guy she wed on May 16, 2009.  This wedding was extra special because it was for family.  I'm always flattered when someone entrusts me with shooting their most precious memories but I was extra flattered when a family member asked me to do the honor.  Aside from the threat of rain and gusty winds they day was flawless.   

So, Amanda had a fabulous underskirting to add that extra fluff to the gown...however, trying to figure out how to get the dress on over the underskirting was quite the predicament.  As you can see solution was tucking and tucking and tucking the fluff into the dress.  It was quite funny to watch...and photograph.




While I was hanging out with the girls Kendra took the guys outside for some photos.  They look pretty nice huh!  Good job Kendra.
I have no idea what is going on here, basically the guys are giving Jeff a hard time I imagine.  
This series cracks me up, Daniella was the flower girl and she was in charge of making people laugh for all the family photos.  She did such a good job, she had everyone cracking up, plus I had great natural smiles from everyone for all the family photos...I think I'm going to bring her along for all my weddings.  

The beautiful bride
I really love this barn in the background, I think I want to come back and see if they will let me borrow it for more photoshoots, what do you think?




Funny story here, Amanda had mentioned that she was looking for a cool feather pen to put with her guest book.  Wellllll... a few cousins (and my mother- in-law *giggle*) thought it would be cool to make her a one-of-a-kind feather pen.  This is totally a one-of-a-kind pen, probably not quite what Amanda was thinking.  It was totally a joke.. we all had a good laugh and the pen had to make its debut on the big day.  
My mother-in-law, Roxanne, makes delicious Christmas sugar cookies.  It's a tradition to all get together around the holidays to decorate and frost cookies, so for Amanda's wedding we had these yummy cookies as table favors.  All the girls got together a few days before the wedding to frost cookies, this picture makes me hungry for those cookies!
This is what Amanda is saying  here..."Be nice Jeffrey, you be nice, I mean it, be NICE!"

He wasn't nice, though it could have been worse...just ask my husband :) right honey

At least they were nice in the end, I like the clean up shots.  
This is Kaeler, the ring bearer.  I think he enjoyed his cake too.
My hubby, how adorable.  I saw him making his way back to the table with not one but two pieces of cake, and no, one of those pieces was NOT for me.  He will kill me if I tell you this, but it wasn't his first trip for cake.  It's okay honey, I didn't want any cake anyways.  I think that's his dainty hand, I don't know exactly why the dainty hand gesture came out, I probably said something smart at the time.  Sorry babe, it's not the best picture I've taken of you.  I'll post better ones later, love you :) 

p.s. you look cute in suspenders
Doesn't Jeff look mischievous
I know I posted this in the sneak peek but I love it enough to post it again.  
And here are some other compositions I liked too. 

Yay!!! Your a Mrs Chapman now, hmmm it's going to be hard for me to get used to that.  Congrats you two, thank you for letting me be your photographer!