So photo jewelry has been around for a while. I have signed up with several vendors but never really loved any of it or found it “sellable”…. Until now. I know there are different strokes for different folks, but it is hard for me to sell someone that I don’t like. This is the first affordable jewelry line that I have found that I would wear myself (in all fairness, I don’t wear alot of jewelry).

There is a sterling line, and a fashion line. The Kotori products are made in Dallas Texas by some of the sweetest people you could meet. I am working on the prices and will post those in a week or so and  will have samples for you to view in the next month.

Here are a few of my favorite products

Here are the catalogs if you want to browse more.

Wedding/Reception Venue: The Carneros Inn

Flowers:  Julie Stevens

As promised here is part two of Charlie and Brooke’s Napa wedding.

This picture cracks me up!

Remember the guy you just saw photographing the empty chairs? Well this is his precious wife! I have some competition!

Fact: If you have your wedding day on the day of an LSU game, there will be people checking the scores. Even if the wedding is 2,000 miles away.

Brooke has some really funny men in her life!

EVERYONE was dancing, including the waiters.

They hired a digital caricaturist for the reception, everyone had a great time!

Brooke originally contacted me to shoot her wedding at The Houmas House. A week or so later she emailed me to let me know that she and Charlie had decided to have a destination wedding to Napa Valley. I quickly let her know that I was born with a suitcase in my hand and would be willing to travel there for her wedding. It was truly amazing and I cannot even imagine their wedding taking place anywhere else. I have lots of photos to share so I will keep this text short.
Here is part one which will show the rehearsal dinner and the getting ready images.

The rehearsal Dinner was hosted at Brix

It goes without saying that Brooke has impeccable taste!

They had the dinner orchestrated perfectly with toasts in between courses. The picture to the left depicts Charlie humbly soaking in the kind words his dad shared during his toast. The picture to the right depicts their personalities perfectly, Charlie cutting up and Brooke dying with laughter. I don’t know that I have ever met someone who likes to say crazy things to make people feel awkward more than I do. I must say he is the best at it, I will have to sign up for lessons.

I am not exaggerating one bit when I say that this was the best steak  (maybe best anything) I have ever eaten!

Here Charlie is in all of his hand talking glory, and Brooke just soaking it in. His toast was so good that it made my husband cry.

Brooke got alot of inspiration for her wedding from Pinterest . For the rehearsal dinner they had envelopes for each guest that included a hand written note especially for the recipient. The guests had to wait until the end to open them. I think 90% of the room shed a few tears. It was such an intimate night, I could shoot stuff like this all day.

Now on to the big day. I can not even put into words how beautiful this place was and such a beautiful day. The day before it was gloomy and rained all day, Someone up there must really love them.

Venue : The Carneros Inn

Hair: Mary Belieu

Florist: Julie Stevens

To me these pictures of the facilities don’t look real! I promise that this is no photoshop magic or voodoo, this is what it was!

I could waste some serious time sitting by this pool!

The famous blue Manolo Blahniks and a gorgeous diamond bracelet wedding day  present from the groom.

Here are a few from the photos we took after the wedding of the couple. I already had these edited to post to my Facebook page, which if you don’t already “like”, you should!

This first one is one of my favorites and is also in January’s issue of City Social. They interviewed me for their wedding issue and featured a few photos including this one.

Loaded up with the boat in the back of my Yukon, I led this couple in from Colorado down a levee to the Spillway. They fell in love with images from the first Love on The river, I believe we achieved the same look while making it our own.

LOVE LOVE LOVE this image

Happy Halloween from a little monster

I met up with this sweet family on a saturday afternoon. They will soon be headed to California but wanted a family portrait to remember their time in Louisiana. We had a great time.

I LOVE this image!!

and I LOVE this picture