Month: November 2008

  • Thanksgiving day – how relaxing!




    Thanksgiving day…

    We’ve had some relaxing days here after working hard and getting all the slideshow posted.

    Thanksgiving day we spent over at Dave & Kelly’s .The next day we invited everyone over to our house for a full evening of fun, games and food!

    These are just a small sampling. Believe it or not we spent these days relaxing and didnt take as many photos as we usually do!

     

    Edit: Day One was relaxing…Day Two was relaxing for Mark cuz he wasnt sitting in front of the computer all day but man did we COOK tons of food! We each took a station so it spread the work around which was sooo cool! I manned the turkey and the marinade and the stuffing while Brian and Lindsay manned the sweet potatoes. Mark got the house ready and did the last minute shopping cuz you never remember the butter!


     

  • Capitol Rose Garden Wedding & Firehouse Resturant Reception

    Ben and Amanda are text book gorgeous and fun and laid back and super nice. I feel like I say this about all of our bride and grooms. Probably because I always do! We keep saying how amazingly fortunate and blessed we are to attract these great couples. We just connect.

    Ben and Amanda put together a beautiful wedding and we just tagged along for the ride! Haha… It just went so smoothly and we so enjoyed ourselves. The wedding was touching with the most beautiful light shining down on them. When we arrived at the reception the air was filled with the sounds of a live jazz band from SF called Hale Baskin. It was a beautiful night at The Firehouse Restaurant. The courtyard with all the lights strung around the trees and the gorgeous fountain that graced the background for the beautiful cake was just stunning….okay enough of my words we’ll let the images speak now!

    Enjoy!

    We made our deadlines so tis a very thankful Thanksgiving! We have 2 albums coming up on our next posts as well as a family shoot. So, come back when you are munching on your left overs! 

    H A P P Y  T H A N K S G I V I N G ! 
     

  • A Double Senior Shoot at The Flower Farm, in Loomis!

    We spent a few hours recently our at The Flower Farm in Loomis with Sierra and Sarah for their Senior Portraits. They were so much fun, and of course the Flower Farm is such a great place to shoot at with all sorts of nooks and crannies to explore.

    www.lydellphoto.com/slideshows/sierrasarah

    We’re working hard to get the slideshow for Ben and Amanda up before Thanksgiving, so stay tuned!

  • Wedding Album for Jim and Marni (David Girard Vineyards)

    Jim & Marni just approved their album and it is on its way to Italy to be turned into their
    Wedding Book!

    www.lydellphoto.com/albums/vanderpostalbum

  • Laughing Horse

    OK, by popular request, here is the “laughing horse” from our recent engagement session with Mike & Rachel.














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    Okay now that we have your attention go check out mike + rachel’s e session below!

     


  • Mike and Rachel’s fall engagement session on the ranch!


     
       
    When we met Mike and Rachel we knew their e session was going to be fun! Horses, dogs, a ranch, fall leaves and well a handsome guy and a natural beauty all rolled into one day!
     
    We also had some great blue skies and white puffy clouds. It did get a bit cold as the sun began to fade but Rachel’s Dad had some hot coffee waiting for us when we got in. Big big points with Mark for someone to make him coffee! I make him drink tea now…mwhahaha…oh sorry back to the story. The funnest part of the day (for us) was towards the end when we went out into the horse pasture for pics – I think those horses saw us and thought our cameras were food! I wish we had a video of that day…but if you ask real nicely maybe Mark will post up the horse laughing picture he got. It is so hilarious!

    Thanks for the great treat you guys and we can’t wait to shoot your wedding!

  • JUST IN TIME FOR THANKSGIVING!

    We’re working hard to get as many weddings, engagement sessions and a couple other shoots up before Thanksgiving. That means that our posts have been coming fast and hard!

    We don’t want you to miss any of them, so here is your Thanksgiving menu.

    (Click on the name to visit their post…)


    TODAY’S BLUE PLATE SPECIAL!

    Rachel & Mike’s Engagement Session

    Cheeck out our recent specials

    Sarah & Sierra:
    Senior Portraits @ The Flower Farm!

    Emily & T.J.
    Wedding Slideshow from Avio Vineyards!



    Chef Special

    Dane & Stephanie / Jenae & Paco featured in Sacramento Real Weddings!


     
    On deck in the kitchen

    Ben & Amanda
    Wedding Slideshow from Capitol Rose Garden & The Firehouse Restaurant



    Desserts

    We will also have The Gregory and The Vanderpost wedding albums in our display case very soon!

  • Sneak Peek of Sierra and Shasta’s Senior Pictures

     

    Sierra and Sarah

     


    We had the best weather and beautiful girls yesterday!

    It is a nice break from weddings to slow down and relax with some fun girls for a few hours…we traipsed all over The Flower Farm where these girls hang out alot because their families live/work there. These are just a few quick ones. More later…we just have so much coming up its going to be crazeee, I tell ya! 

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  • We have 2 weddings featured in Real Wedddings magazine!

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    We have been keeping a little secret!

    Earlier this year Judy from David Girard Vineyards contacted us and told we needed to submit some of our weddings from last year to this magazine that they advertise in. We soon found ourselves meeting with Wendy and Aimee at Real Weddings. They chose 2  of our weddings! The magazine just came out. Dane and Stephanie are in the printed version magazine and Janae and Paco are in the on-line version. Real Weddings picked the photos from our galleries so it was interesting to see their choices. It was also really sweet reading the interviews they did with our bride and grooms. I really enjoyed reading them. They did a great job wouldn’t you say?
     
    Here is:

    Dane & Stephanie: Link to their wedding story


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    Jenae & Paco: Link to their wedding story


    We have to say we work with some really great peo ple in this business. Thank you to David Girard and his whole crew especially Judy!
    This just blows our mind to see our work again in a magazine. I could get used to this! LOL.
     
    Wendy and Aimee thanks for the great layouts!!! It was great meeting you and working with you.
     
    Hmmmm…I hope we can get some more of our bride and grooms into the next one? We have all of this years weddings to think about.
     
    If you are local go get a copy!!!
     
     

  • Our niece Lauren chasing the white ball..

    We went out to the park today to watch our niece, Lauren in her final soccer game of the year. They won!!

    As always, we had our cameras in tow, so here are a few from today. It seemed that no matter where I moved to Lauren was on the other side of the field!! I have no idea how they run around that much, but it sure was fun to watch.

    Donna, thanks for inviting us out!

     
    Kyla getting some air in the last photo!