Stephanie came to me in March and asked me to shoot her wedding. Her email started with “I don’t know if you remember me”. heh : ) I went to school with both Stephanie & Josh…back in the day…Cough Cough class of 2005..Cough Cough..So back in the day isn’t really so far back. I didn’t own a digital camera. I was still shooting film and the darkroom was my favorite place to be. I also spent my time painting my nails black,wearing plaid hot topic pants and hating people…. More than anything I was just a choir geek/wannabe photographer who slept in math class,daydreamed about skater kids &  I doodled…. a lot.  Oh how times have changed… Most of my high school friends are getting married now. I feel honored that they’re coming to me to document their wedding day. It’s a good feeling. anywho photo time…

 1st you will see their wedding story…then you will see the engagements in a future post.  

(photos taken by the lovely katy corea ^)

Before I launched my blog I spent time reading about the in’s and out’s of blogging. What I should and shouldn’t write about on my blog.  The experts would say “never apologize or bring attention to that fact that you haven’t been keeping your posts updated”. Well I’m pretty sure everyone can see that I haven’t had a post up in over 3 months…I think  it’s safe to say that they’ve noticed! You’ve noticed! This is the part where I am not supposed to say that I am Sorry…. I am SORRY! Now this is the part where I need to bust out into song….”You tell me that you’re sorry…Didn’t think I’d turn around, and say…It’s too late to apologize, it’s too late I said it’s too late to apologize, it’s too late”   One Republic & Timberland you are surely mistaken. It’s never too late to say… I’m sorry… My personal life crossed over into my work life. I was having a really really rough time for a while; however I am back in action and ready to roll. Here are the next set of blog posts that will be up shortly!

Josh & Stephanie

(taken by the amazing Katy Corea ^ shout out…holla  http://kcoreaphotography.com)

Ray & Becca

Shane & Jodi

David & Meggan

Ryan & Jamie

 Full posts coming soon! Keep checking in!

 When I sit down to start a new blog post I turn on my Pandora music player. Joshua Radin likes to serenade me with his musical talents.( if you would like to read this post while listening to amazing  music click the link.) When I start typing out my introduction sentence I tend to delete it about a dozen times until I am satisfied. I’m not a fantastic writer. I’m mediocre at best. I use “I” far too often. My run on sentences don’t just run on….they run on and on and on. I rarely use correct punctuation.,:; I have never received anything higher than a B in English; however I have had A’s in every art class I’ve ever taken. Hey I’ll take it.  Even in the photography class where everyone hated the teacher; complained that she was just a bitter old shrew that had no idea what real art was…. Apparently she did because I got an A. ; ) 

 Even though my grammar is flawed I still have managed to have a following. Lauren has been following me for quite some time. She was able to look past my flawed grammar and now her friends are stalking the blog. Not my blog… but “THE BLOG”. That makes me smile. I have put so much time and $ into my blog.  It’s nice to know that people enjoy reading my ramblings/ looking at my photos. I love how one person tells another person…then that person tells a friend…and then one day I will have thousands of readers….Ok maybe not..but let me dream…”Dream On Dream On Dream On …..Dream until the dream come true!!! Oh Aerosmith they don’t make music like they used to…and Don Mclean the day the music really died was when Ke$ha showed up on the charts. ” Im talking – pedicure on our toes, toes Trying on all our clothes, clothes Boys blowing up our phones, phones”. What kind of name is Ke$ha anyway – DJ NICE

  Anyway tangent off.

Devin & Lauren-August 7th

Let’s do this…. 

Thank You Katy Corea for shooting with me and capturing imagines like this one ^ : )

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Every couple of months I spend a few hours just looking through wedding magazines at Borders. I sit on the floor in the biography section. I surround myself with very sporadic piles of magazines. From The Knot to Martha Stewart weddings and everything in between. I picked up a small pile of STL area mags and started flipping through the pages. I’ve gotten pretty good at guessing which Saint Louis Wedding Photog shot all of the real weddings in the STL/Kansas City Knot. You know that’s a useful skill to have. hah. Anywho…

As I was going though the venue section I decided that I wanted to blog about venues. My 1st instinct was to complain about all of the venues that would rather me pass out than eat dinner with the guests. Then my second thought was to write about shining stars that have treated me very kindly. However I came to the conclusion that my readers don’t really care about who hurt my feelings or saved me a piece of cake. ; )  Therefore this blog is not going to be about either of those. If your looking for a venue that could be a hidden gem this is the blog you want to read. We all know about Windows off Washington, Botanical Gardens,The Butterfly House,Ball Park Hilton,Union Station…I could go on and on but I won’t. They are lovely spaces..however I’d like 2011 to be filled with venues that I have never been to.  I would love more farm/backyard/rooftop weddings. Here is my small list of neat venues that I would love to shoot your wedding at!

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