Archive for June, 2010

My kind of Wedding Day [Utah Wedding Photographer]

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

Rain [x]
Bright Sun [x]
Cactus [x]
Lots of B&W pictures [x]
Snow [x]
Mountain [x]
Curry [x]
Bird Cage [x]
Haiku Poems [x]
Music [x]
Beautiful Bride & Groom [x]

My favorite shot of the day.

Katie purchased her bird cage veil, bolero and fingerless gloves at Etsy.com. Brides, DO shop there.

Their reception was at Kimi’s Mountainside Bistro at Solitude resort. The details, the food, the setting- PERFECTION.

My favorite part of the reception: a family band, and haiku poems made by mom and sisters. Adoring!

Dave and Katie’s expressions say it all.

Fancy things for fancy me.

A special thanks to my friend and amazing photographer Chuck Liu, who not only second shot this wedding with me (the amazing ring shot belongs to him) but kept me in good company.

Spotted: Aubrey & BJ’s Wedding Day

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010


I want you, Bride or Groom out there, to look at this and know what YOUR wedding day will look like- if you choose to work with me.
Aubrey and Bryan tied the knot at the Oquirrh  Mountain LDS Temple.
I met them for the first time that day , and I was happily surprised with their gorgeous looks. I mean, look at them! It’s a fierce competition on who’s the hottest ;)

Enjoy.


They had the perfect backyard reception, full of little details that only Aubrey (who is an interior designer) could throw together

Soulja Boy, yes, they did.

 

XOXO,
P

Love, Chelsey & Austin.

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

After I leave a photo shoot, I just want to run home to my computer and check the results. If I don’t do it, it drives me nuts. It’s like wearing shoes at a formal meeting, and having and itchy toe that I just cannot scratch. It makes me jittery.
Then, when I first see them, I register my reaction. *This is important because, assuming I have a decent common sense, my client’s reaction will approximately be the same .

Well, these made my heart melt on the spot.
I hope it melts yours too ;)

Austin plays baseball for UVU, so we thought it’d be fun to use that as well.

One of Chelsey’s facebook interests is “Boys in baseball hats”. Her man sure looks charming with his ;)

Just a bit more love.

XOXO,

Me

Spotted: My girls & I

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

One day, when I was 11, my dad decided that it would do our family well to move to a FARM.
A month later, there we were. Tinny town, in the middle of nowhere.
On our street, you could see ONE car passing by, twice a day: my dad leaving and coming back from work.
The closest thing to our house was a bar. Three miles away!

In school, everybody was somehow related, and every single one of them was italian and very catholic. The words “nona” and “caspita” were thrown around just like that. The city’s priest would often come to my classes and throw some holy water on my desk, and call me the “mormon girl”.
I felt like an alien, from day one.

Until I met them. They rescued me from spending the whole break reading Harry Potter behind the school. After a few lessons on their weirdness, I was good to go.

Ten years later, and we stand strong. To celebrate our sisterhood, we took these on my last trip to Brazil.
I’d be nothing without my girls.

*Please forgive the angles and crops in the pictures I am in. Try to be the photographer and model at the same time, and you’ll see why.

And now, some fancy ones of my beauty queens:

Aren’t we lovely?

XOXO,
P