Las Vegas Photography | Wendy & Brandon | Fremont Street

Hey Everyone! Wendy and Brandon are a married couple from Alaska who live in Vegas now.  Their story is very similar to me and Eric's where they met in High School and then met again later in life and got married!  In High School, they both worked together and then years later, fate brought them back together and they fell so hard for each other that they married in Vegas at a wedding chapel!  Since they were married at a chapel, they never really had any good wedding photos so they hired me to get some shots of them together.

We decided to meet on Fremont Street, aka: Old Downtown Vegas.  I had never had a session there before or even BEEN there before so a couple days prior to our scheduled shoot, Eric and I headed downtown to scope the area and to have a few cocktails :)

Old Downtown was surprisingly a ton of fun!  I had always heard bad things about it so I was really surprised.  I love all the character and old neon signs!  So needless to say, it resulted in some really amazing photos, some of my all-time favorites so far!  Here are some of my favorites from their session:

This one was taken in an area with some old train cars lined up.  It was an awesome location with amazing light!

These old casinos had so much character!  This is in front of the Main Street Station Casino where we discovered margaritas for $1!  Wendy and I only had a couple, I promise ;)

These two are so cute together!  Wendy constantly had a smile on her face.

So many cool neon signs on Fremont!  I love it.

Just so happy together!

I'll end this post with a shot of Wendy's awesome ring.

Even though Wendy and Brandon live in Vegas, Brandon still works in Alaska!  He goes there and works in a gold mine as an electrician for a few weeks, then comes home to Vegas for a couple weeks and then goes back again!  We discovered that we're pretty much neighbors, so next time Brandon is working, you should call me Wendy!  We'll hang out :)

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Las Vegas Family Photography | Danielle, Ralph, & Ava | Discovery Park

Hello Everyone! Danielle and Ralph found me through my Groupon Feature and booked a family photo shoot with me for them and their beautiful 6 month old daughter, Ava!

We decided to meet at Discovery Park in Henderson early in the morning to avoid the deserts intense sun and midday heat.  Well... this just happened to be the week where it rained pretty much every day so it was uncharacteristically humid for the desert.  I mean, it wasn't just a little humid... it was like mid summer, Wisconsin humidity and it's about 85-90 degrees on top of it!  We all walked out of our cars to meet and were immediately sweating.

We made the best of it though and stayed in the shade pretty much the entire time.  We got some really great photos despite the heat, humidity, and sweat!  Here are some of my favorites from the day.

Everyone showed up to the session in their converse all-stars.  Including Ava!

Great looking family!

Ralph making little Ava smile :)

I love her little heart pockets.

Look at those eyes!

Love this one of Ava on the slide!

And I'll end this post with this great one from the end of our session where Ava was about ready to go home and we were all so hot that all we could do was laugh :)

Here is a link to their entire album if you want to see more!

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Las Vegas Engagement Photography | Kris & JD at the Neon Museum

Hey Everyone! A couple of weeks ago, I met Kris and JD at the Neon Museum (aka the Neon Boneyard) for engagement photos!  It's no secret that this is probably my FAVORITE location for engagement photos.  I actually just found out that it's going to work out for my wedding photographer to come to Vegas and take MY engagement photos there!  Wooohoooo!!  But enough about me....

Kris and JD came to town from Montana.  I know a few people from Montana and for some reason, they all seem to be some of my favorite people and it turns out Kris and JD were no exception!  They were just the nicest people and so clearly in love that it was infectious.

They came to Vegas during that crazy week where it rained every day for about 6 days straight.  I've lived here 3 years and can't remember a time this has ever happened!  We really lucked out with their shoot and only had a few sprinkles at the very very end of our time.

In my opinion, it's pretty hard to take a bad photo at the Neon Boneyard because it's just so beautiful every where you turn :)  Here are a few of my favorites from their session:

I can't even tell you how many times I made JD pick Kris up like the photo on the left!  He was a sport though :)

Probably my favorite of them all!

I am seriously loving non-traditional engagement rings recently.  Kris' is a beautiful moonstone.

They are so in love I love it!

It may have been slightly sprinkling here... we didn't let it get in the way!

Kris and JD will be getting married in Vegas in a little over a week!  I'm so happy for them and wish these two great people nothing but the best in their future together.  It was great to meet you both!

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