Las Vegas Engagement Photography | Red Rock Canyon | Danielle & Joe

Two weeks ago I had the pleasure of photographing someone I went to High School with in Wisconsin!  Danielle was a year ahead of me at Beaver Dam High School in the early 2000's and long story short, her family is good friends with my boyfriends family and that's how we connected.  Well now, 9 years later, Danielle is marrying Joe.  They met in college in Green Bay, WI and will be getting married in Las Vegas in April this year! They came to Vegas to check out venues for the wedding 2 weeks ago and while they were here, they snuck in an engagement session with me at Red Rock Canyon.  Here are a few of the photos from the day:

Danielle and Joe are two great people and I hope their wedding day is fabulous!

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Las Vegas Engagement Photography: Rebecca & Matt | Wynn & Encore

A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of meeting Rebecca and Matt; a now married couple, as of a few days ago.  (Congrats you guys!)  We met at the glamorous Wynn Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip to start out our photo shoot adventure.  After taking a few shots in front of the Wynn, Rebecca and Matt felt a little uncomfortable in front of the camera which isn't a surprise considering they had never met me before and let's face it, posing for photos to convey how much you love each other isn't an easy thing for most people.  Rebecca jokingly said that they might "need a drink to loosen up"!  Well, I think she was only half joking so I said, "well let's go find a bar!"  We stopped at a center bar in the Wynn where Rebecca ordered some wine, Matt ordered a beer, and I ordered a cocktail.  I'm not sure if it was the alcohol, or the fact that we were finally able to chat and get to know each other a little that made this adorable couple loosen up a little for my camera:) Here is one of our first shots before the bar.  If you ask me though, they didn't look uncomfortable.  I guess when you're really in love, it's hard for my camera to NOT see it!

This one was taken in the same area outside the Wynn where some tourists were nice enough to wait for me to take a photo.  I don't always get that courtesy!

And before we lost all light outdoors, we headed to a small patio area off of the Wynn Hotel Registration.

We then walked the long hallway that connects Wynn to Encore which is home to stores a girl can only dream of shopping at!  When we reached Encore, we stumbled upon a beautiful garden by the pool where I had to nicely ask a security officer for access to ;) (left)

This was taken off a small balcony of a bar in Encore

Rebecca knows someone who works at Encore Spa who said it would be okay for us to take some photos there.  It was absolutely beautiful and I hope to some day treat myself to a service there!

And well... if you put a naked statue of a man in your lobby, of course I will take a photo of someone pointing and laughing at it!

Rebecca and Matt are a great couple and I had a lot of fun getting to know them!  I wish them nothing but joy and happiness for the rest of their lives together.

If you are interested in checking out their entire album, you can find it on my proofing site.

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Las Vegas Strip Engagement Photos | Amanda & Michael

The other day I had an Engagement shoot with an adorable couple from Texas, Amanda and Michael.  They wanted to have their photos on the strip because it was in Las Vegas where Michael proposed to Amanda!  He popped the question at the Venetian so we definitely had to get some shots there to start out.  While we were there, I was asking for engagement details and Michael had this big elaborate romantic plan to ask Amanda on the balcony above the front entrance to the casino looking out on to the strip.  That was how it was, ugh... supposed to happen... Amanda got sick that night and he ended up asking her in the room.  But hey, they can still say that they got engaged in Vegas, right??Here is the balcony at the Venetian on which the proposal was going to happen, it made for some beautiful photos and was very romantic!  Nice work Michael!

This is another one from the front of the Venetian where the gondolas are docked when not in use

Next we headed over to Aria and were able to sweet talk the security guard to let us into the pool area without a room key

Amanda warned me that since her and Michael have been together for eight years that they aren't really lovey dovey and that I may need to give them directions on how to be so for pictures!  But she assured me that they DO really love each other:)  It was clear to me that they were in love, and I really didn't have to direct them to portray that!

Here is one of my favorites from the day.

Amanda and Michael were such a great couple. It was a lot of fun for me hang out with them for a couple hours and photograph their obvious love for each other!  I wish them a very happy marriage, but I don't think that they need my wishes for that to come true :)

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