Sam & Monique: Wedding: Getting Ready!

As I promised here are some images of the girls getting ready! It was crazy to see so many girls get ready in one bathroom, but they made it work and they all looked beautiful! There was many laughs especially when everyone got creative and helped one another with hair and makeup. As the photographer of weddings you are often asked to help with getting the girls ready and help with everything from makeup to change outfit ideas. For the first time I was handed a pair of scissors and asked to help with the ribbon on each girls dress! I had to tie all the dresses the same and then cut the left over fabric off! Talk about making sure not to cut too much off! It went great and everyone was ready to head out and get started with the wedding party photo session! This is when the real fun started!

Sam and Monique: Wedding: Getting Ready!

On August 16, 2009 I and my lovely assistant traveled up to Fremont for the wedding of Sam and Monique! We first start off with the wedding party getting ready! It was a great day with many laughs, tears and then the partying started!



The breakfast of Champions!

Stay tune as tomorrow we continue with more pictures of the girls getting ready!

Bonnie & Chris: Wedding: Getting Ready Finale!

Now that everyone had their hair and makeup done it was time for Bonnie to finally slip into her dress. This is always fun to watch the reaction of the bride and all the girls to finally be able to see what dress she choose for her special day. I feel that picking out the wedding dress is one of the most stressful but also the most exciting part of the wedding planning.

time for one last touch up before we head out to start the couples session!

Now that Bonnie was ready to head out the door you can see the anticipation in her face as she realizes today is finally the big day. For many brides with all the stress of planning it sometimes doesn't seem like the wedding day, as they are so busy with many details, but as soon as you slip into that amazing dress it seems to all come together! Tomorrow we finally get to see the images of Bonnie & Chris together!

Bonnie & Chris: Wedding: Getting Ready!

Today we continue on with more images of Bonnie getting ready for her wedding. I try to always tell a story with the images I take and I feel these next ones really go into detail of all the small things that everyone does the day of a wedding to make it all come together... Thank goodness for family! Where would any of us be without them!!

It was time for Anthony to get some rest before the big day! Hope who is Bonnie's sister was the Creator of this masterpiece! hey it worked like a charm! Oh the power of signs! hahaha

It's always stressful the morning of the wedding but it was a different story being around Bonnie, her family and close friends. It was relaxed and a funny moment that I remember is I was asking what time it was since we had about 45 min. to get to the wedding location to start the couples session... more of those to come later!... and Bonnie was walking around like Oh yeah I better start getting dressed now uh! It totally made me laugh and it truly shows the type of personality Bonnie has! She had a smile on her face from the time I showed up at 9am until the very end of the day!

After I posted the first few images of the Bonnie & Chris wedding I received an email from Bonnie and it brought a smile to my face and so I replied asking Bonnie if I could share it on the blog and she was more that willing to let me post it so here it goes........

Danielle,

Thank you for working so hard for us!!!! I checked out the pictures and they are so amazing!! I can’t wait to see more. You made me feel so at ease and once again it was a joy to work with you!! And thank you again for all your help at my sisters. You went above and beyond there. Thank you thank you thank you! I had a blast!
Maybe some time our sons can get together for a play date when you have a free moment that would be a lot of fun.
Take care,
Bonnie

It's time to get Anthony dressed!!! You know it's going to take BOTH parents for this one!

oh no here comes the TIE!

Trying so hard to get away! But dad had to get his last shoe on! Kids are so darn cute! Stay tune for rest the images of Bonnie getting ready before we kick it off to the couples session! Way to cute....