Chad and Allie’s engagement session

I love when I get to work with client who are also friends. Allie has been working for me for the last three years and so when she said she had met the love of her life I literally jumped at the chance to work with them. I loved how happy and in love they are and can’t wait to see what kind of beautiful kids they have someday. Seriously, these two are awesome.

Derek and Katelyn’s engagement session was so fun. I love when I go into a session with fresh eyes. We showed up to a favorite location of mine and lo an behold it was green! I’d forgotten that it rained the week before and was so so thrilled to find a nice layer of grass growing! It turned out looking so good and I’m thrilled with all of the images and especially these, a few of my favorites!

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It will always amaze me at how much more quickly time passes AFTER you’ve had a baby. The eight weeks leading up to Zoe’s birth were painfully slow an the eight following it have flown by. Part of that is probably due to the fact that I’m pretty sleep deprived.

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Riette happens to be one of the funniest people I know. The first time we met was when I was shooting this wedding and I thought to myself, who is this funny girl. Well sometime later I found myself shooting Riette’s engagement session with her new fiancé Jason. I loved working with them at their engagement session, so I knew I’d love their wedding, and I wasn’t disappointed. It was fantastic!

I loved Riette’s dress. It was so fun yet simple and I loved that it didn’t have a train, definitely a change and so nice to work with in photos! I also loved the bright colors her girls were in and the matching ties, suspenders and socks for the men. My two other favorite things were that Jason surprised Riette with a new HUGE ring during the ceremony. The other is that Riette is from South Africa and in a nod to tradition he brought in a steer to act as a dowry. Then he told her parents they really couldn’t keep the steer, but that he’d purchased a huge freezer full of meat to stand in it’s place. It was a cute and endearing gesture topped off with a gift of a cowbell as a remembrance.

I loved the 

Huge shout out to

Cicely Rocha Miller of Life Design Event Planning

Kristin Sanches of Atlasta Catering

Jennifer Hoffman of Encore Creative

Sean Barry at Tugston DJ

and of course Riette’s staff at Bentley Projects!

Riette and Jason say:

I work in the wedding industry and thereby I work with a lot of different photographers.  Choosing your photographer is almost the most important vendor, it is the only item you take with you after the wedding.

Your only physical memory.  There are truly a lot of talented photographers out there, but if I had to make the decision again I would have chosen Darby again for my own wedding.  The key thing that made me choose her was at our first meeting she brought 2 albums the genuinely looked like 2 different photographers had done the work. This told me that she did not have a particular look, but that she created a method and look around the brides personal taste and personality.  And both albums were absolutely AMAZING.

Darby has also shot 2 of my clients weddings and the brides could not have been more different in personality but the photos matched each couple BEAUTIFULLY!  Honestly I cannot say enough wonderful things about her, she will be amazing to work with I guarantee it, she will give you photographs that will make you tear up!

My dad who is not impressed by much could not get over how amazing her work is!  I wish I had better stronger words to convince you how amazing she is and that you should hire her but I cannot think of any, I just know this will be a decision that you will never regret!

Akal is adorable and I loved spending an afternoon with him and his family. His parents are doting and loving and everything a little boy could ever want! Here are a few of my very favorites from our session together.

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…and i’m back from my maternity leave.

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I love my nephew Cooper. He is my son, Jonas’, very biggest hero. And he’s pretty cute.

As much as Jonas loves cooper, he would not smile in their photo together, so I gave up!
           

After the photos of Cooper I wanted to take a quick photo of my family with my in-laws, who were in town for the weekend. Cooper happily volunteered to take the photo. Poor Zoe was already in her carseat so she got left out.

Chandler Arizona engagement session with the adorable pair, Allie and Chad.

LDS Wedding in Arizona

Elizabeth and William’s beautiful LDS wedding in Mesa Arizona.

Arizona Family Photography

I love when I get the opportunity to shoot something a little different. So when little S’s mom asked if I’d shoot her first birthday party I jumped at the chance.