I got to shoot another great wedding with Nate from Nathaniel Edmunds Photography. We photographed Brent & Brea, who were so nice and even more cute! Everything was beautiful! The reception was held at the Grand Hall in Union Station. I had never photographed there but I've always wanted to so I was psyched! :) The pictures of the massive stained glass windows below are from Union Station. So fun! :) Anyway, here are my favorites from the day!
I better start brushing up on my foreign language skills! I'm headed to Germany for 3 weeks in September with my Grandma and my mom! :D My Grandma was born there and we have family in both Germany and Italy who we're going to stay with. I can't even begin to tell you how excited I am! I'm sure it's going to be an amaaazing time! We also just got the news that my mom's cousin and his wife just had a baby girl so I'll have plenty of photos to take of her! :D
All the pictures I'm posting are my mom's. She took them when her and my Grandma went back in 2002. She's got an artistic eye .. must be where I get my photo skills from! ;) She took almost 400 so it was hard to pick what ones to post. :) I don't even want to think about how many I'm going to take when I'm there. :)
My Grandma (back) & her sister, my Great Aunt Mickey
Venice, Italy .. where we'll hopefully be for a week or so!
My Great Uncle Erich & Great Aunt Gerte .. who we'll be staying with. :)
Sunday Dan and I spent the afternoon with our friends, Jalaina & Adam. They were married back in December (I was a bridesmaid!). I've wanted to do pictures of them for a while but unfortunately the weather hasn't been the best. We are finally starting to get nice spring weather and Sunday was the perfect day for pictures. :) Dan and I live right across the street from a HUGE park so we didn't even need to go far. :) (Just a warning .. this is going to be the longest post in history because I liked so many of their pictures. We also hung out after the pics for Jalaina's birthday! So you know I had to document the fun.) ;)
So to celebrate Jalaina's birthday, we went to Chipotle to stuff our faces. We somehow made room for even MORE food and went to Cold Stone Creamery. I am obsessed with their cake batter ice cream with a brownie mixed in. It's seriously like Christmas every time I eat it! ;)
Back on Easter, we went to Ohio to visit with Dan's family. I didn't even want to count how many people and kids were there .. his family is massive! One grandma has 30 grandkids and 7 great grandkids! Isn't that insane!? :)
One of his cousins had the most cuuuuute kidlet I have ever seen. :) Her name is Bailey. She absolutely loved getting her picture taken so you know I was all over that! :D
I had the opportunity to assist one of my favorite photographers (who happens to be a great friend) Peter Mueller a few weeks on a shoot with the Cincinnati Ballet. Peter and I met in photography school and have been close friends ever since! In school, I always called him my hero and he always referred to me as his inspiration. :)
I can't say enough good things about Peter and his photography. You have got to check out his website. His work is amazing!! He did the portraits of Dan and I on my site and on the blog. They are pretty much the only pictures I've ever liked of myself. :) I'm not a big fan of getting my picture taken. ;)
Peter is the official photographer for the Cincinnati Ballet. He was hired to do an all day shoot for a new brochure they are working on and he was nice enough to ask me to help him out. It was nothing but a great experience! I walked into it not knowing anything about ballet but left being completely amazed and wanting to know more. The entire day I stood there basically speechless as I watched them perform. Everyone was SO nice too! I cannot wait until I get to see an entire show .. hopefully in May! :D
It was an insanely busy day so I didn't get to take many pictures but I did manage to snap a few during a break. :)
