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family, newborn, and JETS!

August 20, 2010

We have been lucky to have been connected to some pretty amazing clients, who we’d also like to think of as friends. We owe a lot of our connections to one awesome couple, in particular. This family was one introduced to us by that couple. We met them when baby R was just 6 months old. So sweet to watch her change in the months between our visits. Now, they’ve welcomed a new baby girl to their family, and we were lucky enough to photograph it. Being around a newborn just made me nervous…she was so so teeny, and we’re out of the teeny, uncontrollable head phase. I hope next visit I’m ready to hold her! (she just needs to put on a few lbs.!)

Sweet big sister playing games with her little baby.

Oh a sleeping baby. Is there anything sweeter?

I couldn’t ask for better advertising with these photos on the wall. We’re copying the set up with pics of Finn for our house!

And onto the BIG sis.

Love the big kid toys. (can’t wait to have our house filled with them!)


LOVE this. As she’s playing, Dad says, “I’m a little obsessed with airplanes.” Perfect lead into the next shoot we did with them.


We were lucky enough to join them on a special day for their family.

Can’t wait for the holiday shoot, G Family!

I’m doing things a bit off for now because I’m plugged into the hard drive that has the “love” pictures from Lauren & Zach’s wedding on it, so those are coming first. LOVED working with these two! We had such a great time first shooting their engagement on a cold-ish dreary day in December, and their energy was awesome and so much fun on their wedding day. (along with their whole bridal party; shots coming soon!) It’s so fun to be with a couple who are such GREAT FRIENDS.

Yay, Lauren and Zach! We wish you so much love and happiness, and know that your life will be filled with fun and laughter.

tease-ah time!

July 24, 2010

A wonderful (traveling) wedding weekend. Friday night in Akron for Emily and Brett, back supah early Saturday morning for Katie and Josh. The hardest part of all these weddings? Listening with envy to where each couple is going for their honeymoon! We want a vacation!!!

Thus ends the back-to-back Cleveland to Columbus weddings for the summer. We MIGHT think twice about booking these next summer. It’d be rough with just the two of us, and add in Finn, (and Bella) and it’s all a little bit harder.

And we’re right in the thick of the dog days of summer. One-hundred heat index.

Ahhh, tomorrow = picture editing, AC, and baby time. We missed the Finnbot!

Emily & Brett

and Katie & Josh

Check back soon for Katie and Josh’s couple shots. Probably my FAVORITE shots we’ve done!

a break from work

July 14, 2010

Finn seems to have a trend of goodweek-badweek (badweek = less naps, a little more fussy), and we’re in the midst of a fabulously wonderful goodweek that’s been filled with almost giggles and lots of smiles. So as a reward to myself, for Mike and I clearly being such wonderful parents to have raised such a happy baby (this week anyways :) ), I decided to take a break from the weddings to catch our family pictures up to date.

I can’t believe how much Finn changes in such a short period of time.  I’m truly now loving this parenting thing. Not that I wasn’t before, but I know that all the mom’s out there understand what I mean. We had a sort of ten week get to know you period. Now he knows I’m his, and he’s mine, and that’s fun for everybody involved!!

Jagee takes Finn swimming at Nanny and Papa G’s pool. So happy that he was able to go in, and that we have pictures of it. My mom swam here when she was a little girl! Such an important summertime place for our family.

Finn helps us scout out wedding shoot locations :)

Finn and his cousin Ellise. Every time I’m looking at a picture of them, I think, “they’re going to be REAL people someday. What are they going to think about all the crazy pictures their parents made them take together!?”

….and my babIES. Trying to keep Bella as loved as she was before Finn boy came and stole the spotlight.

Back to editing for me! I’m absolutely loving the weddings we’ve done so far. Each has been so unique and special. Two more next weekend that we hope are just as fun!

teaser time!

July 12, 2010

Here’s a quick little look at what I’m (yes, I’m = Jess does ALL the editing!!) working on between two days of “real” work, a growing baby, and some lovin’ on Mike….

Steph and Jon’s vintage-y wedding celebration from the Holden Arboretum.

Dawn and Ben’s Belgian Waffle Brunch wedding from the Everal Barn in Westerville.

….And Lauren and Zach’s purpley goodness from around Columbus!

As promised, the rest of Lucy and Matt’s wedding pictures. We LOVED stealing them away and getting some of just the two of them. Hopefully they can fill their walls with beautiful pictures of them on their wedding day, and they will always remember what a wonderful day their wedding was when they look at these pictures!

Coming soon (when Finn decides to take more than cat-naps during the day…) more WEDDINGS!! Ben and Dawn, Steph and Jon, and Lauren and Zach!

We couldn’t have asked for a better start to our wedding season! We both went to college with Matt, and had a chance meeting with him and Lucy at World Market around Thanksgiving. We talked briefly about how, yes, we are doing wedding photography…oh you’re engaged, congrats!! And Matt emailed later that Lucy was the one who put the two together.

We are super huge big fans of Friday night weddings; as photographers, but we also wish we would’ve known so for our own wedding. They allow one night for formalities (the wedding) and a whole weekend full of family and fun.

Matt & Lucy were married at the Clintonville Women’s Club, a perfect place for our first wedding  as it took us all of 5 minutes to get there from our house, so if there was a major Finn emergency (thanks for the babysitting Car, David, Mom and Dad!), we could shoot right home in no time at all. We originally planned to head over to the Park of the Roses for some formals, but after Mike and I checked out the location, we realized there was plenty of greenery and fun-ness for Matt + Lucy shots.

The details were perfect. Just felt…like….summer!

Did I mention how gorgeous Lucy is??! She looked like the perfect bride in her HOMEMADE dress…her mom made her dress for her, and when we asked if we could take it outside to photograph it, we knew that it would be us re-ironing it if anything happened to it!

Just about my favorite part of wedding shooting is the getting ready with the Bride. I love feeling like a fly  on the wall experiencing the excitement and anticipation of the events ahead of her. It’s all so very real and natural, and, as Lucy is: beautiful!

Matt cleaned up pretty nicely, too!

The ceremony was perfect, their friend, who also happened to introduce them, was the person who married them. It felt like we were in the woods, with only Matt, Lucy, and their commitment to each other to focus on.

I LOVE this picture of them. We could’ve taken all the posed ones and pulled them away to take portraits for hours, and I’m quite sure not one would make me happier than this. (speaking of the portrait shots, though, they’re coming SOON!!) They had so much FUN together the WHOLE day. I’m so glad we got this shot!

More from M & L soon. For now, a little two month old (TWO MONTHS! Where is the time going?!?) deserves a little Momma love!