A Personal Note

Handfasting ceremony at Scarborough Faire May 30, 2011

Argghh! The pirate ship captain blessed their wedding with a pirate toast

Mother son dance to the band Sloan Wolf

Matt & Caroline with their awesome cake by Renaissance Pro



My family




Matt, Phillip & Logan (I made the green vests)



Ashley, David and Colten



Ashley & David leaving their wedding

2011 DHS Swingers Show Choir in Deep Ellum

This is the last week of school, and my underclass photo kids are finishing projects allowing me to put in a quick entry. Congratulations to my seniors and the senior yearbook, newspaper, show choir and swim kids who I have watched grow up these past few years of team shots. May your camera always be close. Congratulations to my son Matt and his bride of one day Caroline and to my daughter Ashley and her groom of a week David! Thank you to my oldest son Phillip and his wife Rose who loaded baby Logan up and drove in from Houston two weekends in a row to help with all kinds of wedding preparation and clean-up. Thanks also to all my family and friends who supported me through this crazy year of three children getting married and the birth of a new grandbaby on top of school and the photo business. So ends year three of the five year plan and twenty-eight years of teaching with two more to go. I am ready for the summer!

Ashley's Bridal Portraits-Dallas

Whenever anyone heard that Ashley was getting married, they asked if I was shooting her wedding. I am so thankful that we hired Chris & Angie from Lucky Pro to take care of that since I was a little busy and emotional being mom, but I did do her bridals. We started out the day we picked her dress up from Margo's Bridal Alterations in Deep Ellum. Ashley was so excited to have her dress ready that she put it on and we played around in Deep Ellum then in the McKinney Street area. Her formal bridals were in Las Colinas on the only cold, rainy day in weeks, but it was the only day the schedule worked. After we finished there though, we ran into the Dallas World Aquarium and the Dallas Musuem of Art for a couple of quick shots. We have found that hardly anyone can say no to a bride. : )

Scarborough Faire Wedding

 

Suzy and David came all the way from the Boston area to get married at Scarborough Faire. Their family joined them from all over the country. Suzy used to live in the Dallas area and said she always thought a wedding at Faire would be fun, and I knew from our first contact that she would be fun to work with when she told me this wasn't her first rodeo. But I could tell by the loving looks, the new "David" tattoo, and the way their families had already begun to blend that this will be her last. Their friends and family obviously felt the same way as they came together first on Friday night for a celebration dinner at the Dove's Nest in Waxahachie where one of her oldest friends gave everyone gifts of honey from their hives in Maine. They then all donned Renaissance garb for the wedding Saturday where the same friend officiated. The amazing folks at Renaissance Pro did a fabulous job with a cake designed as a castle covered in dragons, and Suzy made the most amazing book used as both their guest book and during the ceremony. Congratulations to Suzy and David! Slainte!