Ok, now this one is REALLY heavy on the photos :)

I want to just brag on the photographers here.
Allie and Levi Monday of The Mondays Photography are responsible for these amazing pictures.

We found them through a friends wedding in June of 2011.

Reed and I were both in that wedding and really enjoyed how the Mondays worked.

What we really appreciated about them was how they captured the moment.
I loved that they didn't put us in too many poses but rather made suggestions and then captured our personality. Now, Allie and Levi had been out of the country for a while when we booked them so we got to know each other through the internet. And when we first met they sure did not disappoint!

Our engagement pictures are TOTALLY RAD!
Check some of them out here.

Basically I feel like we totally meshed! I was able to completly trust Levi and Allie with everything!!

We even gave them keys to my car and let them roam around our empty house to get some of the detail shots!!

So, enough ranting.

They are awesome and if you need any more proof here are about 100 pictures :)

Wedding 101 is a great resource! Check out their website: http://columbia.wedding101.net/

And one of my best friends did my hair and make up :)

While her man maid my halo :)

One of my favorite moments!
Lydia: "touch the dress, touch the dress"

My girls!!

The boys :)

Reed with his girls

Our stunning moms :)

Road to the ceremony!

Might be my favorite picture!

LOVE FEAST!

I lost it! Surprisingly Daddy held it together :)

Just some other important people in my life dancing :)

So unbelievably happy she made it! And even had a dance with Daddy!

Such a precious moment

Bird seed!!

We couldn't have asked for anything better!!

PS> now for those of you that are tired of my wedding posts that should be the last one :)
Now you just have to listen to my marriage rants!

Obviously I am getting better at this whole blogging thing :) I may even need to slow down so I have stuff to talk about next week!

But, I'm so excited I finally scanned in my photos from my film photography class!! I have enjoyed this class so much more than I thought. I originally was taking this class to get it out of the way but it has me hooked. I'm almost positive I'm going to take this all the way through!

I'm using a Nikon F100 (this is a film camera for those of you didn't know) with a 35-135mm zoom lens that was a hand-me-down from my mom. For the class we are required to use the manual setting which, like the class, I also thought this requirement would be horrid. But, I've thoroughly enjoyed actually learning how to really make a photograph art. There are so many different settings and so many things to think about at once!

Because it is a FILM class we are also processing our own film and printing each individual photograph! AND I LOVE IT!!

Being in the dark room blasting music and doing trial and error is so relaxing! It's a process that takes a long time and smells kinda funny but I honestly crave being in the dark room.

I'll give a brief about each of our 4 projects:

Project 1: We learned how to capture motion in different ways: motion illustrated, motion arrested, and pan-action. (The first two photographs are pan-action and the third is motion arrested)

Project 2: We focused more on composition and paid more attention to the lighting for this project. For the first two photos they are focusing on light and shadow while the last three are focusing more on light and shadow.

Project 3: This project was for us to combine everything we have learned. We needed to be able to produce good images and good prints from the dark room. We had to shoot 4 rolls of film two of which had to be self-portraits while the other two had to be portraits of other people. Luckily I have a great boyfriend who not only allowed me to use him as a model but who also came along to help me with my self portraits! Reed would stand in while I focused and fixed all the settings and then we would switch places and he would push the button. I'm pretty sure he enjoyed it because by the end of both his session and my session he was giving me pointers ;)

Sorry this post is unbelievably long, but I hope you enjoyed my pictures because I sure enjoyed producing them!

I still have my final project to finish so that will be a post some time in the next couple of weeks.

Wedding Photos #2

I love being an art student!