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We probably book about 85% of our weddings through word-of-mouth, referrals from previous clients, friends, and other photographers. What a blessing! It’s an especially huge honor when another photographer refers us, and a gargantuan honor when a photographer friend sends their own family to us! Our lovely photographer friend, Shannon Cunningham, referred her wonderfully fun brother-in-law, Damian, and his beautiful bride-to-be, Claire, to us and we couldn’t be more thankful! These two are a blast to work with and it means so much to have Shannon’s blessing to shoot their wedding!

My absolute favorite of the day and one of my favorite engagement pictures of all time . . .

Damian’s awesome sense of humor made for some FUN pictures . . .

I adore this one, too!

YIPPEE! I loooooved my time with you guys and I can’t wait for the wedding!

Susannah is Johnny’s cousin and good looks obviously run in the fam! Not only is Susannah sweet and gorgeous, but she also happened to score an amazing guy to share her life with. Dustin is just a plain good man – fun, witty, considerate, and smart. And the chemistry between them? Fahgetaboutit! It’s off the charts! Oh, I love love!

I will never, ever, ever get over how much I love these pictures of Dustin playing the guitar for Susannah. I was like “Dustin – play her a song . . . but you have to make it up right now as you go!” He was brilliant!

Dustin saved us all from a near killer-peacock attack. Thanks, D!

Maybe rollerblading? Sorry, I have no idea what was going on here, but I like it!

We all jumped back about a hundred feet when the guy who lived in this apartment opened the door. He was kind enough to let us use his fabulous red door, but man, he almost gave me a heart attack!

Being around Brandon and Monica reminds me of the feeling of a Sunday afternoon. This may sound super cheesy, but I swear it’s true! The love between them is so warm . . . so carefree and without pretension. There’s something very magical about these two together. I shot their session last Sunday afternoon and decided that I had to post a sneak peek for them here on the blog this Sunday afternoon as a tribute to the little window they gave me into their sweet, loving relationship. I was so reminded of why I wildly love what I do. Thank you, Brandon & Monica – I simply cannot wait for your big day!

I love it when couples bring their dogs! Walter was one of the sweetest and most huggable I’ve had the pleasure of working with!

This was the very last picture I took . . . and my very favorite!

I’m not sure how I forgot to blog these guys, but I sure did!

Hope everyone had a fabulous Valentine’s Day! Stan and I went on a date – without the red-headed monkey! It was so fun . . . we actually had an uninterrupted conversation over a fantastic dinner AND went downtown (like cool young people) and saw Stan’s classmate’s husband play the drums in his amazingly awesome blues band! What fun!

Here are some favorite pictures from Jim and Lisa’s engagement session. These two are the bomb!