Kelly Lee Photography

Last weekend I went to Sandy Bottom Nature Park in Hampton with Trent and Stacy. When we were discussing on what they were looking for I knew EXACTLY where we needed to go! I did a family shoot here last year and while all of us were from the beach, Sandy Bottom was the perfect location. I met with Stacy and Trent as well as a friend of theirs who came to watch the dogs. Karma and Buddha are 2 beautiful German Shepherds, but they are still large dogs so a friend was nice enough to come hang out with us to help watch them. I am so excited for their wedding… and it’s coming up soon! They called me a few weeks ago to discuss some changes and oh… I wish I could tell you the details of the wedding! I guess you’re all just going to have to wait and see!

Yesterday was so much fun! I shot the wedding of Andy and Lindsay at St. Andrew’s in Norfolk which followed with a reception at the Half Moone in Norfolk as well. I knew the day was calling for rain so I got to the church a little early to make sure that I could get shots of it. It’s a good thing I did because when Lindsay arrived it was pouring! Rain didn’t dampen much other than the ground because Lindsay was still just glowing with the excitement of the day.

Flowers were done by one of the brides friends who did an absolutely fantastic job! She needs to go into business soon!

They were so much fun to be with all day!

I LOVE shooting at Half Moone!

Think of all the beautiful babies and children you’ve ever seen. I bet they were at this wedding….

Another cool thing at the wedding was that the groom’s old college band made a reunion! They took the stage and performed a few songs to the joy of the crowd. It’s a shame these guys broke up….
Here’s the groom!

And the whole band

The hotcakes were the official band of the night and did a FANTASTIC job keeping the party going all night long!

And now… time for the beautiful couple!!!!

I had an absolute blast being a part of your wedding. Spending time with the both of you… as well as your wonderful families was such an honor. May your marriage be blessed.

I’m currently sitting at IAH in Houston on a warm, rainy, typical Houston day awaiting my delayed flight. No worries however, it’s giving me time to try and catch up on a lot and get at least part of the wedding frenzy blog up.

2 days before the wedding I was able to go out with Ryan and Abbey to take some photos of them. I had a blast and I’ll share some of those with you. I’m editing on my new Macbook so these still may need some work I’m looking forward to getting back to my actual Mac to edit properly….

One of my 2009 couples got engaged when his fire truck stopped during a parade so he could propose. I’m going to be doing their engagement portraits soon and from what I hear, they have some very fun plans in store! I do hope however they don’t do anything quite as crazy as my brother did during his own wedding this weekend down here in The Woodlands, Tx. (That’s a suburb of Houston BTW).

Things to consider when doing a sparkler exit….
1) Either keep any ribbons far enough away from flames, have guests remove them, or do not use
2) Use a long burning sparkler… not one that burns out in a blaze of fire (ribbon) after 10 seconds.
3) Make sure any fire cannot reach the brides gown (my new sister in law drug her dress right over a good lil fire of a fallen sparkler.)

These are really roughly edited but here you can see what can happen if these 3 things are overlooked. But, let’s be honest… my brother and his fellow firefighters thought it was just plain awesome!

The following photos all occurred within about a 10 second window.
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