Category: Engagement

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Sit back, relax, my good Children of Blog, because I’m about to weave a little yarn [ed.  What does that even mean?].  A long, long, long, long, long, long…well…you get the point – a long time ago there was this place of employment.  And this place was located in the mall.  And in this place in a mall there was this oh so sorry & miserable balding man working there.  There was also this fresh-faced and eternally optimistic woman working there.  These two people didn’t have that much in common, but as time went by, they soon realized they were…well…friends!

As time went by, this lady moved on to bigger & better things, and this man gained a new perspective on his life, made some changes, and left that mall.  Now, years later, this dude & this lady meet up once again!  And this time, this lady has with her a man that will soon be her husband, and these two spent a little bit of time in a place that we call FunCenter – and now this once sad & miserable balding man is now known as the Otis.  He is still balding, but life has changed much since those days oh so long ago – and he thinks that she was one of the people instrumental in helping him out of the rut he was in!

So here we are today!  There’s the Otis & James, but more important – there’s the Katie & Cody!  We couldn’t be any more happy that we will soon have the goodlygreat pleasure of being a small part of their wedding day!  Life is crazy, you never know where it is going to take you, but it looks like things for that lady (the ever lovely Katie) and that dude (the bald & bespectacled Otis) have turned out pretty darn good!

Well, yarn spun.  Now, we need to give a huuuuuuuge MuchLove & ManyThanks to Katie & Cody for stopping by FunCenter, and for being so awesome!  But enough of these words, we need to get to the awesome part where I say – Enjoy!

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Sometimes you gotta work for it, and sometimes you just gotta turn on the camera.  When Jenna & Brent came to town, and by town I’m talking about walking through the doors of the FunCenter.  We never know what we’re gonna get until the gettin’ get’s to goin’, got me?  Great.  It could have been tough.  It could have been like pulling teeth, which requires a wrench and a lot of muscle.  It could have been like that.  But it wasn’t.

Nope.  We just had to turn on the camera.  They came in ready to rock AND roll.  You heard me right, both.  Which is a good thing for us, because we’re going to have the wondrous pleasure of working with them in the not all that distant future at their wedding!  Wahoooo!  Because, like, it kind of stinks when you have to work for it all day long.  Not that this has ever happened to us, but I’ve heard that some photographers have actually spontaneously combusted in this case.

So, without any further delay – well, we gotta give a huge MuchLove & ManyThanks to Jenna & Brent for giving us some of their sweet & precious time, and to all my good children of blog waiting for further instructions – Enjoy!

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If I were to be a teacher, and I were to give you an assignment, and the assignment was to give me the definition of the word ‘goodness’, and you would have to do it with visual imagery only, and you could only choose four images, and these four images had to capture all that is good and wonderful with the world, and show love, and joy, and happiness, and you had only twenty seconds to do this, and all you had in front of you was your laptop, and you were freaking out because you hate pressure, and there’s just so much out there on the Internet to choose from, and how on Earth do you define a word via pictures, and what is up with having this twenty second deadline, and your mind is about to explode…relax.

All you would have to do is look at the pics below, and present them to the class.  You would get an A.  Because Heidi & Matthew are all of those things, and a little bit more.  Alright class…assignment over.  Time now to give MuchLove to this wonderful couple for stopping by studio and allowing us to pictograph them, and to all my happy little readers of blog sitting in front of your digital reader box on a day so fine – Enjoy!

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Let me tell you a little secret.  Over here, in Land of Blog, it’s always sunny, 74º, light humidity, there’s no crime, no war, no sorrow, none of that junk.  Nope.  We keep all of that away.  Instead, we have an abundance of smiles, laughs, good times, and pure wonderful beauty!

For example, let’s take a look at an absolutely wonderful couple that I will call Mikaila & Tucker…well…you can call them that too!  I dare you, I just dare you to look at their awesome samplesnaps and not feel a little bit of joy inside of your heart, a smile creep across your face, and for a moment – everything else will just melt away and you’ll be caught up in the goodness that is this dynamic duo!  Really.  I dare you.

This is why it’s good to take a small portion of your day and take a vacation in Blogville.  And you know what, you should start with Mikaila & Tucker.  In fact, I could think of no better place to start.  Because they were absolutely wonderful to work with!  Our time together was all too fleeting, but…we’ll always have these wonderful sample snaps to remind us of the good times we had together.  We shouldn’t get too sad that this time is over, because we are also going to have the pleasure of being at their wedding!  But that’s a ways off.  We’re just going to look at these pics for now.

Well, I’m rambling.  Now it is time for us to give MuchLove & ManyThanks to this supercouple for stopping down and giving us some of their sweet & precious time, and to all of my good people out there in Land of Blog – Enjoy!

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Holy cow.  It seems like the blog came to a screeching halt a couple of days ago on the o&j Micro Election, and suddenly this blog became yet another one of those crazy political blogs that are all the rage these days.  Well, my dear goodly good peeps of blog, I’m here to assure you on this wintry Sunday (btw, ‘wintry’ is a fun word) that no such thing has happened…so we’re going to put all of that behind us and get back to the goods, get back to the real deal, get back to the basics.  We’re gonna get back to where it all came from.  Get Back.  Get Bac…whoa…sorry about that.  Some sort of a Beatles flashback going on there.  But what we’re going to get back to is what you all really have come here for, and that’s to see some lovely samplesnaps!

This edition of o&j supersweetlysamplesnaps is of none other than the totally awesome and beautiful, the gorgeous couple that we like to call Alyssa & Jason!  My good people of Blogland, I’m here to tell you that people all over the world call this couple Alyssa & Jason, but we have another name for them as well.  And now I’m thinking that you want me to inform you of what this name is.  And to you out there that may be wondering this, I will tell you.  Because that’s the kind of dude that I am.  A dude that will not hold anything back from my faithful citizens of Blogville.  So, what we like to call this wondrous couple…is totally and completely awesome.

You heard me.  Totally and completely awesome.  So, the next time that you are walking down the street and you see Alyssa & Jason, you could either be all, ‘Hey…what’s up Alyssa & Jason?!’, or you could be supercool and be all, ‘Yo!  What is up there totally and completely totally awesome couple?!’ – either will work.  Give it a try next time that you see them.

So, with these words of wisdom circling around your brain, I think it shall be the time that we give a big ol’ MuchLove & ManyThanks to this awesome couple for giving us a little bit of their sweet & precious time, and to all my good people out there in Land of Blog making snow angels – Enjoy!

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