Phillip & Michele's GORGEOUS Wedding

Phillip and Michele have been friends of Tony and I for a while....so it was super fun for me to be part of their wedding day. We started off at one location I have been dying to shoot at forever: Daniel Boone's Peace Chapel. It is gorgeous in every way! It is quaint, bright, and perfectly lit. So, I was in heaven shooting...and the day just got better, the reception was a perfect romantic tea mansion reception! LOVE! Awe....it was amazing. So, check out some of my favorites of the day! (It was soooo hard getting it down to blog!)

The wonderful Peace Chapel:


Michele gave Phillip this wonderful gift before the wedding:


The guys!


Love this candid shot!


The gorgeous girls! Love how the colors just POP! Wow! Love it!







The wonderful wedding party...


Michele was a gorgeous bride!!! I love this shot, has her gorgeous profile and flowers.


FAV. of the day!!! You can just tell how in love they are!!! WOW!




The reception mansion...one word: WOW!

The amazing cake and sweet cake feeding.


The tea party theme was incredible...fav. theme at a reception yet. There were sweet details to enhance this...gorgeous pink flowers, light teal table clothes...love love love it!


Their first dance...I love this sweet kiss!




Then we "snuck" out of the reception for a little bit to take some more pictures...this time around, they were more relaxed. This was my favorite from those:


And a way to leave the reception in STYLE...with sabors!

Philip and Michele, I had a blast at your wedding! CONGRATS! And enjoy allll your pictures!

3 AWESOME Families!

These three family sessions for me were super SPECIAL!! All of them were previous birth story clients. I always LOVE seeing those sweet babies grow up! And they do that sooo quickly! Incredible how big they get, soooo fast. Enjoy these 3 session favorites!

Meet the Schierding Family!! They are super sweet and have the adorable Caroline!


Close-up of little Caroline...


Could she be any cuter?!?!?


Caroline brought some friends, well her whole family, her grandma, grandpa, aunt, uncle, and cousin. This is Eleanor's family!! She was soooo sweet...here she is with her mom and dad!


Look at that sweet smirk/smile:




Grandma and Grandpa:


LOL!! I kept this one because it made me laugh!! LOL! Don't worry, the next shot I got the kiddos to smile:




Now for the Reinken family! Sophia is getting sooo big!! I cannot believe how big she is getting!!


Kyle is sooo sweet with his little princess, I love getting little details like this from their sessions.


LOVE IT:


Big smiles!!


The sweet couple...Ashley and Kyle!






Ashley, too gorgeous!!


And now the Thompson family!! Another one of my favorite families to take pictures of...Addie ALWAYSSSSS has these adorable dresses on and beautiful bows. So had the most gorgeous red dress for this session.


Sweet Addie with mommy:




This was hilarious, Addie had to hold up her dress in order to walk! FAV. of the Thompson session!


She could not be any cuter!!!




Hanging out with Daddy...she had the biggest smiles with her daddy!


And finally, getting some amazing sun!!!

Martin and Kim!!!

Martin and Kim met me in Lafayette Square/Park for their awesome St. Louis engagement session. They flew in from San Diego to do this session and I was soooo excited to finally meet them. Since they live in California, I had been conversing with them about their wedding mostly through email. So, I was on pins and needles EXCITED to meet this couple...and they were AMAZING!! I cannot wait for their September wedding in CALIFORNIA!!! Oh, boy, this couple has personality and they are very much in love. Check out some of my favs. of their engagement session:


Kim is GORGEOUS! She also has such a great smile! Love this one...


The beautiful couple:


Sweet kiss:


I love getting detail pictures of flowers like this on an engagement session...


Love how they interact together...so natural and they had the biggest smiles on their faces each time they looked at each other!


HOT!


THE BLING!!!!




Martin looking good!






Kim and Martin, I had a blast meeting you both and shooting your session. You guys are awesome and I cannot wait to see you guys on your "turf" this September for your big day!