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We had an absolute blast shooting Cindy and Raul’s wedding yesterday. I wanted to share a couple of images with this gorgeous husband and wife! Thank you for choosing us and may you both be filled with joy and happiness! It was a pleasure to be a part of such a wonderful day.

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Yesterday I had the pleasure to work along side some amazing wedding professionals in Dallas for the Photog Shootout at The Ryan Manor in Dallas. Rob “Ninja” Nicholson was such a blast to work with and travels the US having these shoot-outs in major cities. It was a fun project to collaborate with some great wedding people!

Catie Ronquillo, Natasha Brown, Anna Routh, and I were the tentacles in Dallas to make the workshop happen. A lot of planning went into this event and it was a huge success! Emily Hudspeth was one of the 3 make-up artists that worked her magic and transformed this shoot to a vintage 1940’s theme. Catie and I visited the very fun store, Dallas Vintage Shop to find these fabulous outfits for the models to wear. Jason Huang, Heather Essian, and I were the teachers for the 30 plus photographers eager to soak up the fun.

Here is just a sneak peak of some of the fun we had…more to come!

Guess who is turning FIVE? Its Bryant…you may recognize this handsome young guy because he has graced the pages of www.amykarp.com a few times. The first time was back in 2007 and then again in 2008 and again in 2008. Is it possible to for someone to get cuter and cuter each time you see them? Seriously! We spent the afternoon in Downtown Dallas for our family portrait session together.

one day I am going to be able to say, “I remember him when…”

Happy Birthday, Bryant and thank you for choosing me to document another milestone

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I am having a bit of writers block with post, but the pictures will certainly speak for themselves. This couple is fun and they made their wedding fun for everyone that was there! Sarah and Chase, part2…stay tuned for part3 :: the wedding reception is cooking for your viewing pleasure!

By the time we got set up for the ceremony, they were pronounced husband and wife. They told me the ceremony would be short and sweet and they were serious! I was given the heads-up there was going to be a spectacular recessional to Chris Brown’s song, Forever and there was! I am so glad I watched that episode of The Office when Jim and Pam had their wedding, I did my homework and I was ready You know your Grandparent’s are cool when they do it too!

Chase and Sarah’s wedding took place in a beautiful historic Church in Downtown Garland. Sarah booked me for her wedding a year and a half away and leading up to their wedding day, I was able to get to know the couple and we had a blast! I learned that if you say cuss words in front of Sarah, she blushed first then laughed and Chase laughed first then laughed some more. I learned that Sarah’s mom was the teacher who occupied my Aunt’s classroom before my Aunt. I learned that Sarah’s niece is cute as a button and her family is one of those families that genuinely cares about everyone around them. Thank you Sarah and Chase for choosing us to document your day and tell your story! It was a blast…stay tuned for the ceremony….HINT there are sunglasses and dancin’ Grandparents!!! Thanks to Anna and Jason for helping me rock the last wedding of 2009!

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Kacie and John are two folks that could get me in trouble as a photographer. Their willingness to go ANYWHERE in Dallas I (or they) suggested made our engagement session an absolute blast! The Meyerson was a treat. We arrived and were a little under the gun to shoot and get out due to another event scheduled for the evening. We worked around all of the decorations and managed to find some fun places! Enjoy the show and thanks for stopping by.

Kacie and John had to stretch and get warmed up for the rest of our session together

The Stoneleigh Hotel in Dallas has such a rich color palette and all the history of this hotel is so fascinating. We had to take advantage of the big red couch, because its Kacie’s favorite color!

Thank you so much for the crazy fun day with you engagement session….it was a blast!

Kacie didn’t want the fun to end…her expression when I said our session was over:

and Johns….(:D)

that’s a wrap!

Who doesn’t LOVE  a good party with friends? And if that isn’t enough, top it off with some fabulous wine! Chris Ryan and John Kacinski hosted ‘A Renaissance Wine Tasting with Friends’ at The Ryan Manor in Dallas.

The evening featured select wines from the estates of Moët Hennessy, paired with the amazing food from CN Catering.   Grailey’s Sommelier D’Lynn Proctor walked through the history and stories of the vineyards. Toward the end of the evening we sat in a very intimate setting and awed over the musical talent of Gary Levinson with the Dallas Symphony. It was a truly magical evening. Be sure to go all the way to end. I shoot with a Canon 5dmkii and used my camera to capture some video of their performance. Enjoy and Salud!

Enjoy part one of Brandi and Holman’s wedding in Rowlett, Texas and be sure to stay tuned for the ceremony and reception. We had a blast!

Its time to share with all you faithful readers (and commenters!) how well we did with our cans for comments drive. I announced the drive in early December and we received such a huge response from people in our Dallas community and surrounding (all over the World!) We raised 86 cans and The North Texas Food Bank was happy to accept all of these items to help stomp out hunger all over North Texas. We hope to smash that number next year! All we need are comments from you and we donate a can, easy as pie!

My little helper, Sam-man and I first stopped by Tom Thumb with our mission for cans and non-perishable items. First, stop…the bakery, Sammy needed a cookie to make it through this trip to the grocery store. After we picked up all the goods, we went over to Assured Self Storage. They keep boxes at different locations scattered throughout the Dallas Metroplex for you to have easy access during the holidays. Once we had our boxes, we headed down to the North Texas Food Bank (www.twitter.com/ntfb) to donate. Everyone was so nice and helpful and let us stroll around and take some photos before we left. They have some really cool things there. The art on the walls, the entrance to the building and the sign in front :: so neat! Thank you, NTFB for your hard work year round, we loved being able to help this year!

Kyle and Hailey you make 20 degrees in Texas look HOT!

We shot Hailey’s bridals at the Las Colinas Canals and she is stunningly beautiful. I left a surprise in one frame…it was baby day at the Canals! Her wedding dress was made for her :: it must have been. It was the first dress she tried on too! I am so inspired by these girl’s dresses. They seem to blow me away each time I see them! I don’t think that effect will ever wear off. Brides are just fabulous!

Wow, what a wedding! Peyton and Chris (part 3) has finally arrived….check out { part1 } and { part2 } to get caught up and see how beautiful this couple is together.

The reception was also at the Dallas Museum of Art, so it made for a quick turn-over, spilling right into the reception just after the formal portraits. I have had many girls ask me about Peyton’s gown since I posted part1 and part2 of this wedding, it was Claire Pettibone – “Juliet”. It seemed like it was made for her. Speaking of made for you….did I mention that Chris’ suit was custom tailored as well? It was made for him too

It was a pleasure working with Katie Norris, she did the “day of” planning for the wedding. Also, Monique at the DMA was super to work with and very organized.

I will let the pictures do the talking…enjoy the wedding rings, cake, singing, dancing, more singing, more dancing, crowd roars, and sparkler exit. It was an action packed wedding!

Congratulations Peyton and Chris!

I heard about the ChrysQ Winter Workshop for her Album Slipcovers and just had to go. Not only do I LOVE her product, but I think the Q’s are pretty swell! Ben was so generous to share his lighting knowledge. I used all available light but I did see how Ben creates those studio light images. Then we went over to Forbeyon to see some awesome behind the scenes work with their gorgeous albums. Forbeyon is the company I will be exclusively using for my flushmount wedding albums in 2010.

Ben shared some post processing techniques (of which I used to process all of these images!) :: Thanks Ben!! You have saved me tons of post processing time in Photoshop and I can get back to being behind the camera more shooting weddings instead of the computer! He talked to us about neutral density filters and beauty dishes and made my want for equipment list grow (my husband thanks you for that one!)

Enjoy these images I snagged in between talking to all the other awesome photographers in attendance :: It was so great to meet you at Thirdspace, Dallas!

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Each day brides-to-be are searching the Internet for wedding resources and wedding professionals to team up with for their wedding day. The wedding industry is huge in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex and sometimes finding the resources a bride needs can be challenging. Dallas Wedding Planner has spent many weeks searching for those best resources to share with our readers and have reviewed hundreds of Dallas wedding blogs.

After receiving nominations via email, word of mouth, and comments on the blog, we’ve trimmed the list to share with you – some are new blogs and some on our list have been around for years. We’re excited to unveil our list of Nominees for the Best Dallas Wedding Blogs in 2009. Among these finalists, one lucky blogger will receive the honor to be named the Best Dallas Wedding Blog of 2009. And to sweeten things up some more, the editors of Dallas Wedding Planner will also name selected bloggers as winners in the following categories: Most Charming, Best Eye Candy, Best Design, and Most Dedicated.