Mike and Sherry's Wedding

Mike and Sherry were married April 5, 2008. What a sweet story! They were high school sweethearts that were recently reunited. As you can see they are very in love. They are such an affectionate couple the moments were very natural. I really liked the first shot. That was during the ceremony after they had lit the unity candle. There is a giant window behind them and I love how it is backlighting them and making her blonde hair glow.
It was a very special day. I liked the second image as well. It really shows the emotions of this happy occasion. Even the pastor can't help but smile at this beautiful moment.
It was also neat because this was the first wedding in the Normandale Hyland's United Methodist Church's new sanctuary. After the ceremony everyone headed to Chateau Lamothe in Burnsville. It was lovely. It was a pleasure to be part of their day.

As requested, my engagements

I had some requests to share some of my engagement photos. These are some of my favorites. My fiancee's name is Tony. The poor guy is very patient with me as I am always requesting we be photographed. I recently got our guest signature book for our wedding in May. I absolutely love it!!! I used our engagement session images to create the book.
We had fun with these pictures!

On location baby shoot.

The first pictures cracks me up!!! I love his expression. Hilarious. My fiancee says he looks kind of like Dr. Evil. How sweet are the other images though! This is little Harrison again. He is getting a little bigger. We did images in his home again. He slept through all of the pictures in the basket. He is a great sleeper. He woke up when we did the naked pictures though, and he wasn't too fond of that. His big brother and sister let us use their stuffed animals to fill up the toy box and Harrison was pretty cozy in the toys. The shoot was a success and his mom was really excited about the pictures before she even saw the finished product. It was a fun afternoon!

Baby Model

Yesterday I shot Julia's photos. She is trying to start her modeling career. (she is very ambitious) What a cute little girl (great name too). I've seriously never met a 16 month old that is so social! Right away she wanted me to pick her up and within 3 minutes she was sitting on my lap. We had fun and I got a work out too because she is so fast!

I loved the images we got. She has such pretty eyes. I wish I had her eyelashes! Hopefully we'll be seeing Julia soon in print!

Bardot's Baby Shoot

Here are some of my favorites of Bardot. She is almost 9 months and what a cutie! We shot these right after her naptime in her home. At first she was a little sleepy and shy, but then she warmed up and boy can she move quickly! She kept me on my toes. I think we got some really nice ones. I loved her hair things and I was impressed she kept them on her head without a problem. We got few good ones with her mom and dad, but Bardot did much better modeling by herself.

Baby Shoot

This is the newest addition to my family, my nephew Harrison. These are a few of my favorites! I have 7 nieces and nephews now and I am absolutely thrilled to be Aunt Julie. There will be more to come soon.

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If you are considering making your own to save money, I would really advise checking out the site. You can get 100 invites and response cards for less than $100. When you consider all the time it takes to pick out the paper, cut, print etc. it is so worth it.

1st Time Blogger

Hello,
Welcome to Photography by Jewels' blog! This is my first time blogging. I am impressed how easy it is to set up an account. So far so good!