Recent Albums

As 2006 is winding down, we have been busy churning out album designs for our couples who got married recently. Take a look and enjoy the recapping of these terrific celebrations. Every wedding is special and as you will see each album is different than the last because our albums are designed with the personalities of the couple in mind. Please feel free to share your feedback.
Deanna and Shane were married in April at Perkins and had their reception at the Women's Museum (click the couples names to be linked to their album).














Erin and John were married in June at Christ the King Catholic Church and toasted their nuptials at the Northwood Club.














Brighid and Christopher are currently living in Boston but married in Texas to give their out of town family and friends a true taste of Brighid's background. They married at St. Francis in Grapevine and watched the sunset at Robson Ranch.

Tim and Kelcey

Have you seen our profile in the latest issue of D Weddings? This photo of Tim and Kelcey's last dance at their wedding reception shows the fairytale they created and made a reality for all invited to enjoy it with them. The Yellow Rose Ballroom of the Gaylord Texan was the ideal setting for this celebration that brought family and friends from Houston, Ohio and Montana (including some real cowboys too). Randal Stout was the couple's master of ceremonies, DJ and lighting director. For a sneak peak at a draft of Tim and Kelcey's wedding album, click here.

Keller Chamber Awards Gala 2006 & 2007

The Keller Chamber of Commerce is preparing for their 2007 Awards Gala. We had the honor of photographing their 2006 Gala held in January at the Speedway Club at The Texas Motor Speedway. Click here to see a slideshow of photos from that event on the Keller Chamber website.

D Magazine's Best of Big D Platinum Party

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Checkout this link to a slideshow from Thursday night's D Magazine's Best of Big D 2006 Platinum Party held at Gilleys Dallas. The bands included in these photos are The Wonders, A Hard Night's Day and Top - all represented by our friends at Absolute Entertainment. The amazing entertainment - from the guys on stilts to the incredible acrobats and other living art - were courtesy of Bravo! Entertainment . Cory, from Cocktails and Caviar, outdid himself transforming Gilleys and of course the food from all the sponsors was delectable.

The proceeds from the night's event benefitted Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children . Some of the faces you'll see include Rebecca Hackl of Event Studio Dallas/Ft. Worth visting with wedding proposal guru Mike Bloomberg of An Exclusive Engagement, Dallas Morning New's Michelle Jackson (expecting a special delivery soon) with her husband and marketing master Doug Jackson. There is some of the Southwest Airlines Spirit magazine staff showing support of past publisher Susan Hicks and Steve and Kim Cooley of Carpe Vita Photography.

On A Wild Ride

Thursday, June 15th 2006 was a day Kristin won't soon forget. Bill woke her with a surprise call and the notes began. Leading her from one fun activity to another, taking into account places and things she loves to do, Bill planned everything down the moment. At this point they are en route from dinner out at Del Frisco's in Dallas to a destination unknown to Kristin. They ended up at The Gaylord Texan Resort in Grapevine where Bill whisked her around to the many sites and took her breath away by proposing to her on bended knee.

Kim Cooley of Carpe Vita Photography was there to document the entire day and all of the emotions involved. Bill definitely deserves the Carpe Vita Award for the day! Congratulations to Kristin and Bill. We look forward to documenting your wedding preparations, celebration and becoming your photographers for life!

Cindi's Modelling Portfolio

What a lovely lady with great diversity! We did Cindi's portfolio session for modelling early Memorial Day to avoid the heat but she was keeping things sizzling hot! She definitely has a future in front of her and we enjoyed getting to watch her work.

As luck would have it, while we were photographing in the Deep Ellum area, we encountered a news team from WB News at Nine. They taped Kim photographing Cindi so she had her first little TV spot.

Knock them dead Cindi and we'll tell them, we remember you when...

LeAnn and Morgan

Key West? Nope - Deep in the heart of Texas! We've been very busy with our high school seniors - creating one of a kind images that say more about the individual, their style and how they want to be perceived.

This session was to photograph images for the girl's senior pages that will be seen this fall in their high school football programs. The boys will love the photos we took - definitely not your everyday school photography!

Scott and Kristen Album

We just finished the first draft of Scott and Kristen's wedding album and wanted to share. To see a slideshow of their album design, click on this great photo that Steve took of the guys.

As you will see - they were a lot of fun. Please let us know what you think. We went over by 4 sides - we were supposed to fit it all in in 50 sides.

Day In The Life Coverage

Click on Cora's photo above to see a slideshow of the album showcasing the preparation and celebration of her 2nd birthday last Spring.

Behind the Scenes
Cora's celebration was supposed to be on the Saturday before Easter but the weather people warned that rain showers would start on that Saturday. After a few tense moments, Cora's mom decided to move the party to Friday (being the holiday Good Friday, many of the guests were easily able to make the change). We were already booked that Friday morning for an engagement session so you might see a little break in the coverage where Kim ran from north of 635 to the Dallas Arboretum for that session. By the end of the party, I was ready to lay down and take a nap with Cora!

High School Seniors Carpe Vita Style

We love photographing high school seniors! Working with them to really show off who they are and how they want to be seen by the world is always an inspirational challenge. This photo of Melissa links to an album slideshow to see some of the seniors we have had the pleasure to work with lately.

NACE Leadership Conference 2006

Back in January, we had the great pleasure to photograph the National Associations Catering Executive Leadership Conference held in Dallas at the Adolphus Hotel. We learned first hand that catering execs do it better and boy, do they know how to party.

The above photo is of the Dallas NACE Chapter, who were responsible for producing and coordinating an incredible event. They showed just a taste of the style Dallas NACE members are capable of.

NACE Photo Album

To see a photo album of some of the highlights from the event, just click on the group photo above. And if you are interested in seeing more photos from the event click www.Pictage.com and search for the NACE events.

The Manning Album 1st Draft

This was a sweet, very intimate wedding Steve photographed last August. Everyone got busy and the couple just let us know which photos they would like to use in a 5x7 album. To see the album in a slideshow, click on the photo. Any comments are appreciated.

A New Day

Happy Valentine's Day 2006!
This is the first entry for our blog. As photographers, many clients and people we have met have said "I can't imagine all the things you have seen" and we have responded, "we could write a book". But if you don't start, it will never get done and even our memory begins to fade. So this is for ourselves as well as clients (who always seem to turn into friends) and our loved ones.

Day One, Where to start?

Marc and Rhonda
I'm thinking of Marc Leediker and Rhonda Andrus who will be getting married this coming Saturday. Marc proposed to Rhonda a year ago today in San Francisco - what a great place to spend Valentines! As Marc and Rhonda shared with us when we first met them, "the Forces of the Universe were involved because Rhonda was not coming back to Dallas until she got a verbal"...

Marc followed thru and Saturday February the 18th, Marc and Rhonda will be married at Perkins Chapel on the SMU campus. Check back Sunday for a few photos showing their celebration.

Friends and family of Marc and Rhonda, if you would like to pre-register to see their wedding photos, go to www.Pictage.com, register your email address and assign yourself a password. You'll need to search for the Leediker-Andrus Wedding and indicate that you want to be contacted with the photos are made available. Then when Marc and Rhonda return from their honeymoon (in romantic San Francisco) and release the photos, a email will be sent to you for you to return and enjoy their event all over again.

We tried to get them to consider an engagement session including both bass fishing and a jaunt on the motorcycle but their schedules were too packed in the last few weeks to fit it in. But maybe one day soon, when things are a little prettier again.