Carrie + Luke Pt.II {knot is tied!}

On a sweltering, yet, beautifulll day in Brown County, Indiana, Carrie and Luke tied the biggest, arguably, most serious knot that could be tied. ;)

You may remember these two fellow-Franklin College-ite friends of mine from our engagement shoot last summer, where we giggled and shot around the heart of downtown Indy.

Carrie and her twin sister, Amanda, were too sweet and adorable to shoot - especially together! The flower girls and ring bearer were also sort-of too-presh-for-words. :)

This wedding was an extra treat because I got to drive again- after 10 months of pure walking and subway travels in NYC! ... driving fast through the fields of Brown County was a blast {i've missed driving on sprawling highways - sans traffic, mind you ;)}. thankfully, i didn't get pulled over, driving my dear bro's car, heh ...

I wish the {once giggly} couple alllll of the very best, and am mega-super honoured to have been a part of their loverly wedding ... CONGRATS, Carrie and Luke!!!

... now. mayhaps next time it won't be quite as long 'til my next bloggity ... :P
happy july!!

xo
la


how cute are these two {newly vowed Haworths}?



sassafrass young flower gal ...

and then ... {i was exactly the same at age, heh}


someone said something really funny ...

then someone ruined the mood ... by taking some posed pics ... ;)


flower girls a-runnin'! :)


this was truly a Franklin College wedding reunion - almost the entire wedding party and many of the guests were old FC friends or staff!


Carrie's beautious bouquet ...

i'm baaack {erin & dan's wedding}.

boy, have i been a LAZY bloggerphotog.
it's been over a month since my last post, and MY has life been a mass of iiiinteresting and somewhat chaotic change since august 8th.
you've probably been heartsick with my lacking correspondence, and for that i am everso sorry.
;)

since my last post i've moved to Manhattan, learned to navigate the subways, contracted pink eye, met loads of adorable models, been OVERWHELMED, homesick, ecstatic, found+disposed of mice in my apartment, been to and from Indianapolis TWICE, saw Jessica Biel and PINK {and random other starst} around the city, had my camera+flash break annnnd shot 2 weddings {and that's just the Cliffs notes} ... WHEW.

i had some much needed time to do some photo editing, so now i have some brand-spankin' new wedding photos to share with you! {YAY}

erin and dan are an extremely sweet couple that i met via CraigsList back last winter. they got hitched a couple of weeks ago on a bipolar soggy-ish + sunny-ish day in September at Fort Benjamin Harrison. the couple only had 60 guests, but dan went ahead and rented out an entire inn for their wedding festivities {which the rain halted for just in time!}.

it may have been a more intimate group of guestes - but they certainly were not lacking in the hootzpah! the men and kiddies ripped up the dance floor like non other - perhaps it had to do with the custom bottled wine on every table {for the fellas, at least ;)}.

thank you, erin and dan, for the pleasure of shooting your engagement and wedding - i wish you all the very best!!!

enjoy the pictorial, and i promise more blogs to come soon {photos from the city - FINALLY}.

xoxo



you know i can't resist cute shoesies. ;)





not only was it an open bar, but every dinner table had 2 specially brewed bottles of wine, made by the groom's parents ... suffice it to say, everyone was having a grand ole time.


a rowdy group, indeed. dan insisted we do a modern day rendition of his parents's VERY serious old school wedding portraits - so cute.



arguably my favorite of the day ...





these were mocha ... and there were also carrot cake ... undoubtedly some of the most scrumptious wedding "cake" i've ever had, ever!


and i was in food photography heaven ... :)

Lynds 'n' Will {tie that knot}

Last Saturday was a bride's weather nightmare - chilly storms galore. Fortunately for Lyndsey {bride}, all that nasty, dreariness cleared itself out by the time I met her to shoot her evening wedding! {i'm fairly certain we all did a collective ::WHEW:: at seeing the light of the sun ;).

Lyndsey looked like a modern day Cinderella, in her pretty, poufy white gown and tiara. Groom William shed a few tears seeing her walk down the aisle {Lynds had to wipe a drop from his nose during the ceremony - sweet, heh}.

Many a mini tux was scampering about that evening, as she and her older sister, Brittany {who you may notice from a post from last summer} have 3 cute little boys between the two of them. Lyndsey's youngest son isn't exactly scampering at all yet, so his "tux" was actually a baby christening suit {awwww}.

I am SO glad the gloomy, wet day transformed into a gorgeous summer night for Cinderella and her prince, William {no, not the one from the UK - harhar}. The rustic outdoorsy shots we got would have been a tad more difficult had a storm been involved. ;)

Cheers to the new Mr. and Mrs. Glaze!


Baby tuxes = too presh.


Mama love before the ceremony. :)


Hey there, Cinderella!




pretty sisters! i'm shooting brittany's wedding in spring of 2010. :)


This is what wedded bliss looks like. ;)



Another wedding photog in the making??


the kids definitely got DOWN that night.




Another fav of mine of the bride. I always find dark hair and blue eyes so beautifully striking!

xoxo
la

love, marriage & 4th o' July {rain}

although it was independence day for the rest of America, lovebirds, jeremy + holly GLADLY gave theirs up on this holiday. ;)
the couple is adorable and the day went without a hitch, except for the blasted weather ::shakes fist toward the sky::.
is it just me or does it ALWAYS seem to rain in Indianapolis on the 4th of July?? :P

annnnywhom.
there are quite a few brides that would go bridezilla-psycho-mad over the downpour of rain we received that day, holly didn't let the unfortunate weather get her down in the least {which was refreshing}!

we made due with the overabundance of unwanted rain drops by doing "budoir" pics and other little tricks, which was an interesting challenge. this wedding was the perfect example of making lemons into lemonade.
there may not have been any fireworks blazing the sky that evening, but i definitely saw some between the new mr. and mrs. huffman {i have to be cheeeeesey sometimes, eh? ha}.

here's to hoping for a sunny 4th next year! ;)

xoxo
la

evvvvveryone wanted a piece of holly!


my fav of holly and her mama.


flower girl was so not camera friendly - everyone was cheering this on anyway {and we are all going to hell}.


the kiddies were all adorable, of course - especially when not bawling! ;)



can you tell jeremy's a bit of a goofball??


CONGRATULATIONS, YOU TWO!

Christi + Bobby: The Wedding

Barely 48 hours after my trek back from NYC, i made another trek - this time it was down south. Entirely opposite in pretty much every way possible, this trek took me a 2.5 hour drive to Madison/Hanover-land, Indiana.
I had made this trek almost a year ago {already, whew!} for Christi and Bobby's engagement session {you may or may not recall that lonnng ago, heh}. ;)

This time, i came back to this beau-ti-ful, charming town to shoot their nuptials!
I had really been looking forward to shooting this wedding because of how exceptionally adorable this place is. :)

Personally, i don't have the guts to have an outdoor wedding myself, but Christi + Bobby had quite a gorgeous afternoon for their day - for which is was suuuper relieved!!

The couple couldn't be sweeter, as was their wedding party!
I snapped a TON of pictors that day, but here are some highlights ... i may have to post more a bit later, just for kicks.

Happy, happy Fathers Day + verrrry 1st day of SUMMER!!!

xoxo
la


My ole college pal + Tri-Delta sista, Amanda, is just adorable. :)



A little bit o' romance ...



Possibly my favourite guy group shot, ever.




Who doesn't love some silly kiddie pics? hehe.


Christi can come off as very timid when you first meet her, so this exaggerated face just gave me a chuckle.


Behind the happy couple you can spot Kentucky. ;)