Before Christmas time, I offered my once-per-year special of gift a session to a friend or family and receive a complimentary session for yourself! Kaja was the first person to purchase the deal, and I was so excited when she did. I had previously taken Kaja and Wyatt’s wedding photos when they got married two summers ago at Bristol Harbor in New York, so I was even more excited to get to be able to take their photos again!
Melhorn Manor Penn State Wedding | Crystal & Luis
Crystal & Luis’ Penn State wedding was extra special for me. I met Crystal thru the Penn State Dance Marathon while I went to school at Penn State. I was active on the photography committee and came to know her sweet family so well. Well enough that we took a series of family photos throughout the changing seasons on campus (see below for LOTS of cuteness). I was so ecstatic when her and Luis got engaged and she asked me to be their Penn State wedding photographer. This was actually the first time I got to take a photo of their FULL blended family. How flippin’ adorable are they! Crystal and Luis had met at Penn State as well thru the same Dance Marathon twenty years ago. And more recently fell in love after bonding over Penn State football and their rooted love for THON. After rekindling after all these years, the rest was history and here they are today as the cutest family ever!
Pikes Peak Mountain Elopement | Melissa & Luke
The smaller the better in my books. Melissa and Luke had a tiny Pikes Peak mountain elopement at the summit of Colorado Springs’ highest peak, and although little, it was not lacking in love. The love these two share is amazing and it’s so exciting when out of town couples come to this gorgeous state to get married. I had so much fun riding up the Pikes Peak highway riding shotgun with Melissa, her dad, and niece. I felt like I was part of their family by the time we reached the top! The whole way up, the skies were dark and there were sprinkles threatening a storm up up. But as soon as the ceremony started and Melissa walked down to Luke, the sun broke through the clouds and shined bright on the two of them as they said their vows together. It really couldn’t have been more perfect.
Intimate YMCA Overlook Chapel Wedding | Julie & Stephen
Tell me you value photography and I’ll love you forever. During our back and forth conversations before Julie booked their wedding with me, she mentioned that despite not having a large wedding budget, they valued photography and wanted to hire an amazing photographer to capture their intimate YMCA Overlook Chapel wedding. I may have blushed a little when she told me that. Photography on your wedding day is so important, and I LOVE that these two valued it so much.
Colorado Springs Engagement Session | Garden of the Gods
Engagement session inquiries are some of my favorite to get. But to make one even better, is when you get one from a friend from college. I went to Penn State with Jess and was so excited when she told me she and her brand spankin’ new fiancé would be traveling to Colorado for Thanksgiving and wanted a Colorado Springs engagement session at Garden of the Gods. They were so freshly engaged, that she hadn’t even announced the proposal yet outside of close friends and family, and wanted to wait so she could use the engagement photos to let the cat out of the bag. I was HONORED. It was a perfect, and pretty typical, actually, November day in Colorado with the sun brightly shining and showing off our gorgeous mountain landscape. Their Colorado Springs engagement session at Garden of the Gods was just stunning. I’ll never get sick of the bright orange rocks. Jess and Matt surely make a great pair and I’m so excited that they’ll be getting married next next June in Pennsylvania. What lucky people these two are to have found each other!