Victoria and Sean were married on March 26th, 2011 at the Farm at South Mountain in Phoenix.  After shooting weddings in Arizona for six years now, we only just had our first wedding at this venue the weekend prior to this one, then we had another wedding there the next weekend ... always feels strange when we do the same venue back-to-back :-).  I love this venue!  It has so many possibilities and the light plays gorgeously through the orchard grove!

This couple is so amazing and sweet and we had so much fun working with them!  They also have the most adorable baby boy, Owen :-).  The whole event was magical but the reception brought the bigest news of the day when Sean announced, to a shocked audience, that he and Victoria are expecting their second child ... what a great moment full of happiness and tears!  Congratulations to you both!

A side note on this wedding: before the ceremony we were doing portraits and we heard a dog get hit by a car on the busy road in front of us.  We had actually seen this dog when we first arrived and thought she belonged to the Farm.  Turned out, she was a stray.  Luck would have it that she wasn't hurt too badly, just clipped, but she still had a bit of a limp.  She was extremely sweet, but with no road sense, we knew she would probably not be so lucky the next time.  An employee at the farm asked if we wanted her to call animal control ... we emphatically said no!  She is not a puppy and we feared she would be put down.  With that, Victoria's bridesmaids found a secure door to put her behind for the rest of the event.  At the end, Kevin and I loaded her into the car and took her home ... she is now the newest member of our family :-).  Her name is Bump and she will be highlighted in the next posting!

This wedding is a great example of why it can be really cool to have your big day during Arizona's monsoon season!  Cheryl and Josh held their wedding last July at the Sedona Golf Resort.  They live in Chicago - we have a lot of clients that live in Chicago, don't know what that's about - but have family in Arizona, so they decided to have a destination wedding among the beautiful red rocks of Sedona.  They started off at the Red Agave Resort and then headed to Schnebly Hill for some pre-ceremony photos before ending the remainder of the day at Sedona Golf Resort.  The weather was typical monsoon-type weather ... dramatic, dark clouds hovering all around threatening rain, but mostly just show with little punch.  It was actually a beautiful day and we absolutely adored the couple :-)!

Karima and Terry were married March 20th, 2011 at the Farm at South Mountain in Phoenix.  I LOVED everything about this wedding ... the bride and groom, the colors, the venue, the personalities of everyone there ... it all made for wonderful photos :-)!  Karima and Terry were referrals and they were such a blast to work with.  We also need to make mention of one of Karima's bridesmaids.  She is a professional wedding photographer herself and we can't thank her enough for being so wonderful to us!  We have had instances like this in the past, many of which have not been very pleasant experiences for us.  We are usually either treated very poorly or the person tries to step in and handle all the posing, etc. themselves.  Karima's friend did none of that.  She helped us when we asked and otherwise extended us the professional courtesy of standing back, thereby allowing us to do our jobs freely and creatively.  To her we say a big THANK YOU!!!!  We also want to thank our Associate Photographer, Angie, for helping out on this one!

Karima and Terry, thank you both so much for having us as your wedding photographers.  We had such an amazing time and we love the photos we shot at your wedding!  Hope you enjoy the sneak peak!

Kristina and Justin are both pilots living in Dubai ... how cool is that!  They wanted to have there day-after shoot somewhere that meant something to them.  Given their shared passion for aviation, they thought it befitting to do the shoot at the Pima Air Museum in Tucson.  They were so much fun to watch ... like two kids in a candy store :-)!  They loved looking at all the planes as much as they did doing the session.  We found it both fasinating and inspiring (plus we had two great and knowledgeable guides with us) and I personally loved the whole vintage look to the shoot!  Thank you both!  It was such a pleasure getting to know you!!