The Winning Card

I am doing a Bridal show in February and needed to order some cards to hand out. I did two completely different style designs and then I couldn’t decide which one I liked better. I turned to my Face Book page and asked for a vote. Wouldn’t you know it the vote was split almost right down the middle so it was still a hard decision. The deciding factor was that I already had a vertical holder that the Brick red cards would fit in for a display so the brick red card has now gone to print.

Even though the vote was split the great thing was that I got lots of good suggestions, many of which I incorporated into the card designs and now I like them both even better.

Because the votes were split and I like the blue card too I have decided to get a horizontal display holder and I will order these for my next show.

Happy 5th Anniversary to Steven and Candace

I have so much to get caught up on after the holidays but just couldn’t miss wishing Candace and Steven a happy 5th anniversary. Here is a short video I did to remind them of their special day. I can’t believe how quickly the time goes. It is interesting to look back and see how much my work and shooting has changed and progressed in the last 5 years but also to see how this couple has grown and changed.

There are still happily married with two adorable little kids, a boy and girl. If you want to see the wonderful changes to this family you go to the March 12th post titled Abby and Family and you can see some pictures of this adorable family that I got to take about 10 months ago.

Many couples that I have the privilege of capturing their wedding day memories once they have their photos and albums, unless they stay local and contact me for family pictures or something I really don’t know what or where they are or how their lives are going. (though this seems to be changing with Facebook). With Steven and Candace it was different. I have known Candace and her family for the last 12 years and have watched her grow into this amazing woman and mother.

Steven and Candace got married in January at 4PM coming out at 5) which if you looked out your window today you know that didn’t leave much light. You will see that after the family and group photos I got to really test my skills and we were shooting in very low light. Not bad except we didn’t want to shorten up the depth of field as we still needed shots with the temple in focus. It was a lot of changing setting but I got some of my favorite shots of them as the sun went lower in the sky. In the pictures at the end with the golden windows behind them, those are the window of the celestial room at the Redlands Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day where they got married.

Because this is a couple that I have known for years and love them and their families I had to take a picture of myself with the couple just for me.

I hope I’m around to wish them a happy golden wedding anniversary.