11.11.11 [sneak peek]

Just a few from Sandra & Virgil's 11.11.11 wedding. I am still working my way through editing the photos from the reception, so here are some of my favorites of the details and ceremony. I'll follow up with a full post once I finish with the photos.

colleen & jonathan [wedding]

I'll admit it, as we headed east on 64 towards their Williamsburg wedding, the clouds got darker, the raindrops started to hit the windshield, and we started to get a bit worried.  Karen and I arrived to the ceremony location early to hopefully scout out some locations for portraits later on in the day. We ran into the groom in the parking lot and as we stood there and chatted with him for a few minutes, the rain got worse. I stayed at the church with the guys while they were getting ready, and Karen headed off to meet up with the girls. 

Once everyone arrived at the church, the ceremony started with Colleen, escorted by both her mom and dad. 

A few others from the ceremony:

The kiss:

After the ceremony, we walked outside to find a beautiful blue sky with puffy clouds and NO RAIN!!! 

Schmidt's Flowers & Accessories provided all the flowers. 

After the portraits, we headed to the Williamsburg Hellenic Center for the reception. I started out by shooting the details and found this awesome guest book. Guests wrote messages for the couple and put them inside small envelopes that were glued to the pages of the book. 

These two did. not. stop. They were dancing the entire time. 

The bride and some friends:

Towards the end of the night, some of the wedding party and other friends snuck outside to decorate Jonathan's car, inside and out. 

I'll end this post with two photos of the new Mr. & Mrs. 

One from their first dance, and one from their exit.

colin and brennan [maymont]

Rather than try to come up with some cliche phrase about the beginning or start of something, [cue The Sound of Music soundtrack, "lets start at the very beginning..."] I figured I would just start with some photos, I'm guessing that is the reason you're here after all. Within the next week or so, I will show you some of my shoots from October, but these are the images I have been working on this week.

Last weekend, I got to spend some time with a great family that I met a few years ago while working at a local portrait studio. Lauren contacted me a couple weeks ago, wanting to set up a photo shoot for her family, and I was more than thrilled to get to see them again and make some great photos.


We started out with some shots of the boys.

When I first met Colin, he was 3. He is now a handsome 8 year old who just lost his first tooth. 

Brennan is an adorable 4 year old who was just a baby when I last saw him. He was so proud of his tie. It was the first thing he said to me as he jumped out of their car, "I got a tie right here!"

The morning started out pretty chilly, but these guys were troopers! We met at the Maymont Children's Farm and walked around for a little while, ending up at one of the families favorite spots at Maymont, this great stone bridge:

I love these next few images, I think they really show the bond between Colin and Brennan, and how much Brennan looks up to his big bro. 

We had such a great time, can't wait to do it again soon!

Stephanie