Invitation Sneak Peak!

Ahh! It's been way to long since I've updated my blog! Thanks so much to everyone that left comments on my last picture, though.. it means so much to me. Things have been busy lately, we just moved  earlier this month and I've been working a lot on my business and wedding planning.

I promise to get back into the swing of updating my blog regularly again, especially since I'm 4 1/2 month away from the wedding now, too! AHH!

But, because a post is no fun without any pictures.. I'm going to leave you a sneak peak of our invitation suite so far (there are some things missing and it's not a full suite yet). 

Oh yes, these babies have taken up so much of my time lately. I had to cut out over 560 pieces of paper, print on all those papers, hole punch (can you see it's a heart hole punch?), and make/glue the envelope liners.

I hope that wets your appetites to see the final product!!

Pictures That Make Me Smile #1

This past weekend I shot a wedding and also a Baptism. I love lots of images from both, but there was one from the Baptism that I took of a mother and daughter that just warmed my heart.

(Personal Photo)

I just love the emotion in the picture! I almost missed it, too.. the little girl moved not even a second after I snapped the picture. 

Pictures like this is why I love what I do and makes it all worthwhile.

My Photography Business Update!

I've been working on our wedding invitations the past week and a half and haven't gotten much other wedding stuff done. They aren't quite finished yet, so I can't make a post about them. As many of you know, I've recently started my own photography business and I've had quite a few shoots lately. So, in order to keep my bloggity blog going, I thought I'd share some of my favorites from some of my recent sessions with you all.  

Enjoy.

This one was from a Prom session that I did.

First Communion shoot.

Day at the park shoot (this is actually my nephew!)

Another Day at the Park shoot (this is my niece!)

A wedding I shot a week ago.

Another one from the wedding.

First dance from the wedding.

A two year old shoot.

Isn't he adorable?

Such a ham.

From a family/one year old shoot. Such a cutie!

Family/One year old shoot.

I'm loving all my clients I've made so far and I'm actually booked the next month already! I have another 2 weddings to shoot, a family session, another first communion and a graduation!

RSVP Postcard

Last week I ordered some postcards from Vistaprint while they were having a sale. They were 11 cents per 100 plus the cost of shipping. Unfortunately, we needed 130 for our RSVP's, so I had to order 200. The sale was only good for the first 100 postcards, so I got sneaky and ordered 100 under my name and 100 under Derrick's name. They were suppose to arrive around May 30th, so imagine my surprise when there was two packages sitting in my mailbox yesterday!

Because of the sale, for the 200 postcards + shipping + image uploads/color, we ended up only spending about $28 on them and I'm super happy with the quality.

Here's the front of the postcard.

And the back (address blurred for privacy). I know it's hard to read the actual RSVP in the picture, but I posted the design before with the wording and it's easier to read in person than in a picture due to the flash.

I'm very happy with how they turned out and I can't wait to (hopefully) start getting some pretty good RSVP's back once we do send them out.

Be Our Guest

A couple weeks ago I ordered our photo guest book from mixbook.com. I had purchased $50 worth of photo album credits for $10 from moolala.com (which is like groupon). So I only spent about $17 after a couple extra pages we added to the book + shipping when I originally would have spent close to $70!! Yay for savings!

Anyways, it came in the mail a few days ago and I did what any good blogger would do and took pics!

I didn't take a picture of the spine, but it has our names and wedding date. 

First up, the book cover:

First page (last name blurred for privacy)

I wanted to make sure there was plenty of room for our guests to sign their names and leave messages for us. The book is a little larger than expected, but I still love it!

6 Months!

Today makes it 6 months exactly until our wedding.

You want to know how I celebrated?

(Personal Photo- Please excuse the blurriness, I was still moving on the machine, lol.)

That's right, I headed to the gym and torched those 670 calories on the elliptical in an hour! Boo yah!!

Oh, I'm not done there, either... I'm about to start the 30 Day Shred here in a few mins and then later this evening I'm going back to the gym with the fiance to do some upper body strength training.

Oh yeah.. going to be feeling the burn today!

I'm Going to Party Like It's My Birthday!

Because today is actually my 26th 18th birthday!!!!!

Yummy, right?

It's officially my last birthday before the wedding! AHH! Derrick bought me flowers and a card last night and tonight we're going out to dinner and a movie. I can't wait!!

I hope you have a fantabulous day as well and Happy Mother's Day to all the mom's out there! I would give anything to be able to give my mom a hug, but I know she's smiling down from Heaven today!