Just for fun | My Trip to Boston to Visit My Sister

Hey Everyone! So I've been posting so many blogs for "work" lately, that I've decided to write a personal one!  (And I use the term "work" loosely because I love what I do so it's tough to call it "work" sometimes!)

A couple of weeks ago, I went to visit my Sister, Marie and her Husband, Kevin in Massachusetts.  My Mom had a trip to visit them planned and when I got engaged in May, we decided I should fly out there too so us girls could go wedding dress shopping together!  I did find a dress AND shoes!!!  I can't post photos of my dress for obvious reasons, but I will give you a little preview of my wedding shoes:)  They are Valentino and when I saw them, I seriously HAD TO HAVE THEM!  I can't think of any more perfect wedding shoes!

From the side....

Alright, now that we have the shoe photos out of the way, on to details about my trip.  The first night of my trip, Kevin's parents were visiting them also and our trips overlapped that one day.  Kevin went to Maine to pick up some fresh lobster straight off the dock for dinner!

Ugh, pretty gross huh?  Now I shouldn't say "lobster", I should say "lobsters"!!!

He bought MANY lobsters!  10 or 12 if I remember right.  I have eaten lobster before... but I've never had to get the meat out of the lobster myself before.  It grossed me out so much that I barely ate that night:(  My big sister had to rip the tail off for me!  I guess I'll always be the baby...

The next couple days consisted of dress shopping in multiple stores in Amesbury (the town my sister lives) and then Boston on Newbury Street!  I found my dress at Vera Wang and my shoes at Saks Fifth Avenue on Newbury St.  I never knew how exhausting dress shopping could be.  It's actually sort of tough to get in and out of these things that are just layers and layers of fabric.  Not to mention the stress of being in my underwear in front of total strangers to are helping me get into the dresses!  It was all worth it though.  When I put on my dress, I knew it was the one (even though a different dress brought tears to my Mom's eyes...) and finding my shoes that day was the icing on the cake.  Now I just have to wait 5-6 months for my dress to be made and 1 year to wear them both!

The last day that I was in Boston, my flight didn't leave until about 9pm but my Mom's left at 11am... so me, Marie, and Kevin went to the Boston Harbor and other parts of Boston to walk around, hang out, and take some photos.  It's too bad our mom wasn't around for it because it was a lot of fun and it's where I took the most photos on my trip!

We took most of our photos playing what Marie calls, "The Photo Game" where you give your subjects a scenario and then they react as if they are in that scenario...  It was really fun and I'll try to remember what scenarios we were in for these photos...

I think this one was, "Pretend that you just got asked to dance at your first Middle School dance"

I like to think that my expression says, "Oh me??  I can't believe you picked me!" and Marie's expression says, "Oh yippie!  I get to dance!" hahahaha!

This photo was, "Pretend that Kevin just won the Presidential election!"

We came across the Pirate-looking ship and Marie is looking out to sea for trouble...

Then we came across an old bridge at the Harbor and I made Marie and Kevin take some "normal" photos for me:)  Kevin grudgingly did so, but I'm happy he was a sport because I love these two!

After the Harbor, we walked further into the city and came across this cool carousel!  We started playing the "Photo Game" again, but I can not remember what our scenario was for this.  Whatever it was, I like our reactions:)

Just my pretty sister...

After all this walking around, we ended up back at the Harbor and went to an awesome Italian restaurant.  Right outside the restaurant there were these benches that had really high backs and Marie and Kevin were excited to see benches that were, "their size"!!  Marie is 6'1" and Kevin is 6'7".  You can see his excitement at this find...

After dinner, we went back to the car and I went to the airport.  It was a really fun time and I'm so excited to have my wedding dress and shoes!  It was such a great experience to have my mom and my sister there.  It was a once in a lifetime experience and it couldn't have been better!

Sorry for such a mishmash of photos but I hope you enjoyed my very personal blog:)

Thanks for reading!

Las Vegas Photographer | Nichole's Bachelorette Party | Las Vegas Strip Photos

Happy Monday Everyone! This blog is about photographing my first Bachelorette Party!  Bachelorette Parties aren't normally something that I do, but one of my High School friends had purchased a Groupon from me to photograph her one year old son and when those plans fell though, we decided to use the Groupon session for her Stepsister/my good High School & College friend, Nichole's Bachelorette Party in Las Vegas!  (Did you follow all that?  haha!)   Nichole and her bridesmaids (Sara, Kelly, & Keri), maid of honor (sister Jenna) and her Mom (Anne) invited me along to dinner and drinks after to get some photos of their shenanigans one night.  We mostly hung out at the Cosmopolitan in the Chandelier Bar, but hit up a few other spots too!  Here are some of my favorite photos from this super fun night!

The night started out with Anne, the Mother of the Bride getting carded! (notice her shirt is clearly labelled)   Anne was so shocked she jokingly said, "you better get a picture of this!".  And I did :)

Here is the beautiful and so-much-fun, bride to be, Nichole!

A close up of that blingin' crown

The whole group cheers-ing with their delicious martini's from the Chandelier Bar!

Speaking of the Chandelier Bar and Martinis....

The whole group again at a different bar at the Cosmopolitan!

The back of all their custom-made tank tops had Nichole's soon-to-be last name and their wedding date!

The whole group again, minus Anne since she was on crutches and stairs didn't really agree with her :(

The age old debate... I know it's ongoing in my house!

Ok, how cute are these undies?!?!  We somehow convinced her to show them off... in the middle of the casino!!  hahaha!

Here is one of the last photos we took that night, and possibly one of the cutest so I will say farewell with it!

It was a lot of fun girls!  Thanks for inviting me along :)

Here is the link to their entire album!  Check it out!

Thanks for reading!

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 :)

Click here to see their entire album!

Thanks for reading!