Wedding Season!!

Love is in the air!!

Wedding season for Jamie Carlson Photography is approaching fast and furious...

... and I am LOVING it!! 

In just two weeks is the first wedding of the season for me... then they come one after another.  Yea! 

Today the sun is brilliantly shining and the hope of spring is on the breeze...

I am jazzed about each and every wedding and look forward to the ones to I will yet book, as well.  I do have some openings in July and August, but be sure to contact me via my website asap to inquire about dates. 

Happy Day to you all today... it feels like Love is in the air!!

Valentines Special!! February ONLY!

This special is not for Young love only!

Open to Lovers of all seasons!

I would love to see some of you "lifetime" lovers come out for this bit of time and have so much fun together!

What a super wonderful Valentines gift to one another!

Flirt a little, laugh a lot...

Snuggle up...

Cuddle up...

&

Pucker up! :)

This is the lowest price I have ever offered for a shoot like this, but I want all of you lovers to have the opportunity for a fabulous shoot!

This is MY Valentines gift to YOU!

(Limited spaces so contact me soon)

LOVE LOVE to you all!

Happy Valentines MONTH!

Jamie



Wedding Day!! So much JOY!!!!

Wedding Day.... wedding day!!!! 

This day was such an amazing CELEBRATION!

Jesse and Kristin seriously ADORE one another! 

 They are BOTH an ANSWER to prayer... a GIFT to each other.

It was my complete honor and JOY to document this wedding. 

They agreed to a first look and gave me plenty of time to get some super fun photographs!

I am so excited for you both and for little Ethan! 

I still smile when I think of your day!

I wanted to start with one of my FAV photos of the day... You are HOLLYWOOD!!

Beautiful dress!

lovely... lovely... lovely...

So much emotion in your eyes...

The handsome groom!

sigh...

The real deal...

You are so cute!!

HOT!!

Sisters!  So fun... two are expecting and one getting married!! 

                                                                                            

FAB wedding party!

She sang!!  Beautiful!

Little Ethan joins them!  One of the best parts of the day!

Reception = Total blast!  So much fun!  You two lit it up!

I am sooo very excited for you! 

May God bless you BIG!

Jamie

Jesse + Kristin Engaged... In review...

I am trying to get caught up from such a wonderfully busy year!  Jesse and Kristin are now happily married, but I didn't want you to miss their engagment photographs!! 

It was an unusually warm fall day... we were able to shoot at the beach and the skies were blue and sun was shining. 

Jesse and Kristin were all smiles... so much joy!! 

I soooo love engagement shoots! 

Here are some of my favs... ENJOY!

(Wedding photographs soon to follow)

wow!  Hot!

seriously... like out of a movie...

sigh...

You are both so fun!

joy!

 I can't wait to post your married photographs! 

You make me smile!

Jamie



Beach and a fallish Wedding!

Fall + The Beach = FABULOUS!

It was a beautiful October day.  The wind was blowing, but not too hard, the sky opened up at one point for some beautiful photographs of Alan and Calli... it was a photographers dream day!

Alan and Calli decided to do a first look!  This is so very wonderful for the photographs and the bride and groom. :)  They get some moments together to soak in the emotion of the day before the ceremony.  Then the emotion is no less as he sees her walk down the aisle a bit later.  swoon!! 

After the first look, we headed to the beach for photographs.  All of the excitement and depth of the their wedding day shone through!  It was cool out, being October in Michigan, but I truly think they hardly noticed. :)  It was a wonderful, initmate wedding from start to finish!  It was such an honor and treat to get to document their day!

Here are some of my favs!!

I heart this photo!  I am not sure what it is about it... maybe the retro feel.. one of my very favs!

Anticipation... wedding soon!

Love the expressions on the guests faces!

ok, seriously, Calli... this could be the cover of a mag!  You are gorgeous!

swoon!

Love "in between" photographs!  Capture true emotion... :

sigh...

The sky opened up for them!  Its true!

Classic!

I had to include this of Calli and her siblings!  Love it!  Hollywood style!  You guys are hot!

I can't wait to see all that is ahead of you, Alan and Calli!

Love you both!

Jamie

Booking Weddings and smilin'!

Sitting here at the computer... editing... blogging... and snifflin' away as I fight a cold.  But even as the clock ticks and it gets later and later, it is so hard to close up shop and head to bed...

Why?  Because I am so thankful for the year past and the year to come!  I am booking weddings for 2011 and each call I get just completely DELIGHTS me! 

I just KNOW that I have the best couples EVER!!  We walk through that amazing day together and there is so much joy, laughter... and often a bit of craziness (I love a good bit of crazy at a wedding)!  Then I get to come home and go through the raw images and smile all over again! 

Several years ago, I said I would never do weddings... then I did my first one... and then there was no turning back!  I love every aspect of shooting a wedding.  I love capturing the story to tell later and then adding that boutique style creativity to my images. 

So, I better finally turn off my computer and head to sleep... it has been a FULL year of shooting weddings and I look to 2011 to be the same!  I would LOVE to book a few more Chicago and Michigan weddings.  and... YES, I DO TRAVEL.  I love me a destination wedding!  Contact me through my website to set up a consult! 

Much love to the world out there and to all of those couples dreaming and planning...

 It WILL be amazing!!

Jamie

Engaged!!

Ok, Calli and Alan got married so fast, I didn't have a chance to post engagement photos!! :)

I LOVE engagement sessions!  We get such a great feel of working together!  As your wedding photographer, I am with you all day, so it is great to have this "practice" before the wedding!  Plus, it is just so much fun!! 

Calli and Alan were so great.  It was a cool day, and Alan was a bit under the weather, but you would never have known!  You will see the emotion that comes through in the photographs.  They are truly an amazing match. 

Love you guys!  Can't wait to post wedding photographs... since you were only engaged

FIVE WEEKS!!!

coming soon... but for now here are some of my favs from the engage shoot... :)

FAV FAV FAV!!!!

sigh...

You guys are so cute!

...and HOT!!

Lovin' the look on his face as he looks at Calli!

I had so much fun! 

The camera LOVED you, too!  So jazzed about your life together!

much much love,

Jamie