Archive for the ‘Engagement’ Category

I have soooo many things to share with you and am beyond excited to share gorgeous photos from our photographers, FS Photography, hilarious stories, lessons learned and much much more!

Here’s a wedding day photo our photographers have shared with us!  Talk about a teaser!!!! Ahhhh can’t wait for more!

Engagement Photos:

Jonnathan and I opted to have our engagement photos done at the same venue as our wedding.  We loved the natural beauty, the towering Oak trees and especially the field of tall grass (actually oats).  I had been going over many of the engagement shoots I had fallen in love with over the past year and felt that this was the best location to get the mood and tone we were going for: romantic, laid back, peaceful and naturally gorgeous.

You may recall my design board a couple of months back “Our Engagement Photo Session Plan”. With that in mind I emailed Ryan and Joelle from FS Photography our plans and they were completely on board!  I’m pretty sure they were just as excited as we were.  July 7th came fast – really really fast. I had started a new job and was working non stop and found myself scrambling for every free minute here and there to wrap up wedding details and prep for the shoot. The day before the shoot I rushed to the salon to get those stubborn gray hairs covered up and oops….instead of dark brown with natural looking auburn highlights…I ended up with black cherry…  Of course, I had to work and had no time to turn around and fix it. Little did I realize that the next day in daylight I would see just how red it was…

We drove down to Portland after work and my Mom’s first reaction to seeing me was: “OH! You’re hair is PURPLE!” Oh dear… She kept me laughing about it, even though I was ready to start crying.  We had to spend the next two hours trying on strapless bras that would work under my dress, I swear I tried on over 50!  While I’m trying bras on all I could think about was having maroon hair for our engagement shoot coming up in a couple of hours.  Photoshop can fix that right? Well, a few phone calls to the hair saloon and some hair experts we then spent the 3 hours shampooing my hair in the sink. Thankfully, we were able to get most of the pink/red out and it looked waaaaay better. Mom threw hot rolls in my hair and I ran to the car as we were late for our shoot.

Thankfully, Ryan and Joelle were AWESOME about everything. They calmed us down, eased our concerns and immediately got us into the right mindset for a fun photo shoot.  It was so wonderful to have time to be close to Jonnathan; to reconnect and refocus on us amidst all the chaos of work and wedding plans. We had so much fun! I even pulled off wearing a sweater in 90 degree weather! I’m completely in love with these pics! Hope you enjoy them!

Amanda with Celebrate Life Photography just recently featured Toni & Todd’s Engagement Session shot is Bend, OR. I am truly in love with Amanda’s work! She is so gifted and so perfectly captures the unique personalities of her clients and their relationships. These are my favorites from this session!

Be sure to visit her blog for more!!!

Absolutely Stunning!!!! I love the lighting!

I know…the wedding is right around the corner and we still haven’t done our engagement photos.

We’ve been super busy and wanted to hold off until we were sure about the style of the shoot and….after we lost some weight As we get closer, we are thinking end of May/early June for our pictures. Thank goodness we have such incredibly patient photographers!  THANK YOU FS PHOTOGRAPHY! This is the plan for my outfit. Jonnathan’s is still in the works. Hope you like it! (p.s. I think the sandals at the bottom will be perfect for reception shoes under my dress!) And THANK YOU Simply Bloom and Tec Petaja for the inspiration!!!

Dress: American Eagle. Boots: Durango. Sandals:Victoria Secret.

Natalee & Rhett’s Engagement Session Part 2
Brought to us from Celebrate Life Photography

Be sure to check Amanda’s work (here)

I LOVE her makeup! Vintage Glam! What’s super cute is that Natalee is a  Channel 10 News Anchor in Southern Oregon!