I really thought things were going to slow down in December since we didn’t have any weddings booked and the cold was setting in. Little did I know that we would book THREE weddings in December in 4 weeks!! Praise God, seriously! We will spending our New Year’s Eve with this fabulous couple at the Tutwiler Hotel and I can’t think of a better way to end the year. This couple has been planning a wedding from out of state so when they were both in town, we scheduled the engagement session downtown. Of course, it was COLD so we  did some family shots in the Tutwiler then bundled up for some couple shots outside. Love it, love it…. LOVE it!

Thanks guys for a good afternoon hanging out, braving the cold… I hear there are flurries in the forecast for Thursday. : ) That would be great!

P.S. Don’t you love the little one in the hat? Great choice, mom.

This little princess is the third girl in this family. We drove down to Tuscaloosa to see her and her sisters at home. She decided she only wanted to be held my mom and who can blame her! I love this age, brand new from the oven!

I started compiling a year in review for a slideshow to share with everyone a month ago. A month later and I still haven’t added all the families and brides from the year! What an amazing year it has been! I look at all these families and I can’t help but tear up thinking of all the wonderful people I have met this year. If I missed you in the slideshow please forgive me! If I keep working on this slideshow, I will never get it up on the blog.

Every single picture on here means something to me and that is why I want to share it with you. I am once again humbled that this is our job and we are a part of all of the lives here even if for a short time. Thank you for allowing us to live our dream…..I can’t even imagine what exciting things 2009 will bring. I trust that God has big plans and I just let Him drive. And now….. sit back and press play!

PS. We also updated all of our galleries on both the portrait and wedding website. There are so many pictures on the site that I never blogged! Stay tuned for some exciting news to be released this week!!

his is the second year we have photographed a New Year’s Eve wedding. What an incredible way to end out the year! This year we had two weddings the last week of the year and I have so much to share with you! I thought I would share some of the fun we had on New Year’s Eve. We are so blessed to say this is our job. Thank you to the family yesterday for an amazing end to 2008!

Check out a few more on our Facebook page!

I love this picture!

United!

See the reception hall behind the water?

There was good grub!

The Father of the Groom gave a touching speech to the couple!

Just a funny one!

My favorite picture of the bride and groom!

Look how in love they are!

I don’t think there is anything else I can say about this one!

One of many kisses to his mom!

Beautiful!

An abstract view!

Ok, this is totally staged. The only reason they are smiling is to laugh at me. haha! Great picture though!

A very proud papa and a bride looking at her groom. This is about as good as it gets!

We weren’t the only photographers!

So what does a wedding planned in a week look like? A few days before New Years Eve we received a call needing a photographer for a last minute wedding for the last day of the year. Cory and I already had exciting plans to stay at home and do nothing, so we decided to cancel our nothing plans and have some fun! We had a fantastic night! I think this lovely couple is smart. They only had a week to stress about plans and they pulled off a beautiful ceremony and reception. You would have never thought it was all started a week before.

The bride and groom were so in love. This wedding was a blending of families with the cutest little guy as the best man. He wanted to kiss his mom all night and I have several pictures where he is sneaking a kiss. I am so happy to share a few from the event. We are starting to love weddings! The more we are a part of the more we want to do!