Bright Colors and Balloons - Isaac & Kelley Engaged! Associate Alyssa

What a beautiful day we had for this lovely couple's engagement session! I am so excited to photograph Isaac and Kelley on their wedding day. I met Isaac and Kelley on a trip to Zambia, Africa a couple years back. I am proud to say, I witnessed their early love... because shortly after we were back from Zambia they were dating and now they are getting married! I think you can tell I am pretty excited about it. I hope you love these photos as much as I do. - Alyssa As you can see from below... We had an opportunity for a jumping photo and we couldn't pass it up and I had to add it to this post.

Urban Holland Wedding - Tyler and Hilary married

Graffiti train cars and a perfect sunset in March, who could ask for a better Holland wedding.  Thank you Hilary for asking me to be your wedding photographer.  Having photographed you before as a bridesmaid in a previous wedding, I love, love being able to come back and share in your special day.  Hilary and Tyler live in San Diego and were planning a Michigan wedding... in March.  I can't lie, I was a little nervous.  Michigan in March can be scary, especially this year with the polar vortex, arctic blasts ridiculous craziness.  I was nervous that they had forgotten how Michigan can be in March.  But honestly their wedding was perfect, we even had the most perfect sunset to end the evening.  Plus Hilary is just awesome, I happened to see this grungy train car with pink graffiti on my way to meet the ladies in the morning.  Yes, PINK graffiti.  I was so excited it was the first thing I blurted out of my mouth when I saw her, not "hi" or "how are you", but "oh my gosh there's a train car with pink graffiti!"   Hilary's response was "awesome Phrene, I love you!"  Makes a photographer's heart melt :) Tyler, you are awesome too, you are both perfect for each other and I love photographing your love together.  I wish many wedding blessing to you both, and give you major props for toughing out a March Michigan wedding.  This was an awesome moment, let me give  a little back story.  Tyler and Hilary were originally planning a New York wedding, but tragedy struck and changed the plan a little.  Hilary's brother was in a car accident here in Holland and I guess it was pretty serious.  I don't know the details but I do know that they were so thankful that he was alive.  Hilary and Tyler decided to move the wedding to Michigan so that her brother could be a part of this special day.  This moment when he hugged his sister, brought tears to my eyes.  It's a miracle and blessing from above that he could be here to smile at her, share the joy and laughter, or simply give her a hug.  It makes you realize that life is precious, family is precious. 

Baker Lofts Holland wedding - Hilary and Tyler sneak peek

First wedding of 2014 and what a awesome beginning to the season with Hilary and Tyler. Congrats to the newly weds, we love documenting these special memories with you. Here's just a peek of what was a perfect day.

Ruffled tutu and balloons- baby Chaya is 6 months

Where does the time go?  It's truly hard to believe that my husband and I are celebrating Chaya's half birthday already.  It seems like yesterday we were welcoming her into the world for the first time.  You might remember her from her newborn session back in October.  She's so big now and FULL of personality.  We love her so much and I'm delighted to share new photos of her so you can see how she's grown.  Unfortunately, being the baby of a photographer means you put up with crazy mom ideas and a camera in your face constantly.  It's a good thing she's little and will either not remember, or at least get used to it by the time she can remember.  I had a lot of silly, over the top ideas for her session, at one point Kurt turned to me and said...she's only 6 months old mom.  I said, I know I know sorry too many ideas for one little baby.  The behind the scenes of this session would make you laugh, balloons flying everywhere, confetti going in the mouth, dad trying to help Chaya sit up, keep confetti out of the mouth, grabbing balloons, grabbing Chaya, nap time meltdowns, lollipop sticky everywhere, poor kid.  The funniest part was her getting a lollipop for the first time.  Chaya has never had sugar or candy before, I'm not a crazy mom, I do not feed my 6 month old lollipops.  She had the lollipop in her hand for about 10 seconds, enough time for me to snap a few pics.  It took less then 10 seconds for her to figure out that she LOVES lollipops.  From then on every time she saw a glimpse of that lollipop, it was whining and grabbing followed by a meltdown- I have opened a can of worms.  She was having a blast trying to catch balloonsThis was a little in between moment, she's such a daddy's girl :)