These two were married on Oct. 8th in the Nauvoo Illinois Temple. Here’s a few for them! Maybe tomorrow I will get around to posting some from Jamie and Millers Esession.
Amanda and Josh Ivie:
One of her bridesmaids flew in from Utah for her wedding…..BONUS…..she’s a hairdresser!
They opted for a “first look” so we could get these great couple shots before their marriage ceremony.
It was super exciting to go back up there for Josh and Amanda’s sealing since that is also where TW and I were sealed! What a gorgeous building right?
Although it was rainy the entire day (which so they say is good luck) these two were troopers. I just loved this sign and couldn’t leave Nauvoo without that shot!!!
First off I’d like to start off with saying what a gorgeous day today was, fall is so amazing isn’t it?
I had the pleasure of being a second shooter for Senior Portraits with Erika. I learned a great deal of new tips and tricks.
Meet Chase our Senior from Huntsville. He wants to major in Psychology and he’s almost narrowed his choices down to UCA, UAFS and UofA. Good luck Chase we all know how hard it is to decide. We know you’ll choose whats best for you though. As once famous psychologist Carl Jung once said :
” Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
Thanks for being so much fun and easy to shoot and extra thanks for the patience. Looooved the hat!
Here’s a sneak peak at what Erika has taught me so far ….
Erika WOULD find this cool place you can see my yard from here and I would have never thought of this. Once again lesson learned.
Erika being awesome and finding this cool chair for starters and then Chase being silly and showing us the hole in his shoe.
Hey guys I’ve had some concerns about the contest raised here recently. I’m going to address a few of them real quickly before I get to photos! :) For everyone wondering about the difference in voting and the results, I heavily stressed that the voting had nothing to do with my final decision as to who would win. The voting moved these girls forward through the entire contest while the final meeting I had with the two of them was where I finalized my decision. They both put great effort and creativity into this contest and are such awesome girls!!! Before each round began the girls were all emailed very specific rules and expectations so they knew all the rules ahead of time before they chose to continue. With that said I had a super duper hard time choosing who I wanted to win this contest but after meeting with both of them I learned some things that made me choose one over the other, I did however offer Meredith a discounted package for being a trooper and working so hard and getting so much involvement going with her fan base. So in my opinion they are both winners!
Now back to pictures!!! I shot three engagement sessions this weekend of which I am going to post one from each session tonight, but then I will give each guy and gal a personal post over the next three days so no one feels gipped out of a blog post! :) These are just eye candy for now! More to come so keep looking!
It was really really hard for me to pick a winner between these two awesome ladies! But with every contest there has to be a winner right? I am very impressed with all the effort these two put into this contest and if I could I would have let them both win, but I am announcing Alyssa Kilgore as the winner of our free wedding photography package! She will be getting married in June 2010 so be watching for updates!
Hey everyone thank you so much for taking the time to vote and support your friends here on our blog! I know there has been a lot of hard work going on behind the scenes for this contest so thank you! I want to give you some results, but remember the final say so will be announced on Friday so stay tuned…..
Total votes cast 854
226 of them came in for Alyssa
while 627 of them for Meredith
Once again the final winner will be announced on Friday. I want to meet with each contestant and get a personal feel for them before I start handing out offers to come shoot weddings for free! :) I hope you understand….
Great job girls. Both of you had very creative submissions. Thank you for putting so much effort and talent into this contest to make it fun for everyone who participated! I enjoyed reading all the comments that were sent my way and learned so much about you girls through all your friends!
I know there have been way too many posts without photos so I’ve got some for you! These girls are the last of the contestants left and I had them incorporate their images with Erika Dotson Photography somehow and this is what they came up with. I love them and think they are both super cute! Please vote on the one you think is the most original. Voting will end on Tuesday at 8pm.
Thanks for your participation!
Erika
This submission is from Alyssa A. Kilgore:
This submission is from Meredith Ehrhard:
“I hope this is sufficient! Thanks for working with our circumstances and making this fun! Since we started dating a year ago, we have typically been apart about 3 months at time, (a total of about 8 months now) as Sean travels to college campuses across the US speaking to college students for his job. This is the reason we are getting married in December even though we only got engaged a month ago: we can’t stand to be apart any longer and we are ready to hit the road and travel together! We really didn’t want to back out of round 2 even though I am in Arkansas and he is in Georgia right now. So, because we are always up for a challenge, we decided to get real creative and take two separate photos and place them together as one! Hope you enjoy!!”
Alright guys! Here’s the story…… in offering four couples the opportunity to progress in our contest I have had someone drop out. Here’s what she had to say…..
“Erika,
Thank you so much for puttinng me through to the second round. After reading the stories from the other girls I would love it if your filled my place with one of the other girls. I know I have parents that can afford my pictures ( although they may act like they can’t) haha. I am so blessed and would love it if someone who needs it, wins it. Thank you so much!”
So I extended an idea to fill her spot with someone else……..
She has nominated Britten Gray!
“Sure! I like that idea! Let’s go with Britten…. she had the lowest votes You never know the circumstances!”
First off I want to congratulate everyone on their engagement as well as your chance to win this contest. I really enjoyed reading everyone’s stories and while it was very hard to choose it must be done (otherwise I would be known as the “free wedding photographer”!!!!) – doubt my husband would like that!
Originally I was going to choose 5 to progress to the next round but considering we only had 7 people submit stories I am going to only pick 4 to advance….
So congrats to………
Jinny Pattison (in honor of Meredith Ehrhard)
Alyssa Kilgore
Kellie Kirby
Erica Bailey
You are moving on to round two!!!!
You will be emailed with your next directions.
Thank you everyone who voted! I appreciate the publics tremendous response to this contest! Be posted for more to come!
I had the true pleasure of being in Natalie and Brad’s company tonight! They are both pretty busy so as luck would have it today was one of the very few days we could get them in before they got hitched on Oct. 24th! They drove up all the way from Poteau today! Go you guys, oh and that got me thinking congrats to Brad for recently quitting smoking! I’ve heard that’s pretty tough so I thought everyone should know and congratulate you! Also Natalie is working on kicking a nail biting habit to the curb! Go you guys, way to better yourselves!! ha ha Anyways just a bit of random info I learned about you two tonight! On to the the real reason we got together today…. I had such a blast with you guys and I can’t wait for you to get married! Here’s some images to enjoy!
Oh and real quick I think Brad is super lucky…….just look how gorgeous this gal is! I love her curls!
Hey guys I just finished up with this super awesome fun family session today! I had so much fun! I even climbed a tree barefoot for these guys! They wanted a few family portraits of everyone together before they all left their seperate ways again! I hope you guys enjoy what little family time you have left together! Here’s a few from today’s session!
As once famous psychologist Carl Jung once said :
