Heart's Desire Bridal Show | evansville wedding photographer

On Sunday, we participated in the Heart's Desire Bridal Show at Casino Aztar. This was the first year for the show and it was a great success! We had over 100 brides come through, many of which I had the pleasure of talking to and discussing their upcoming wedding plans. I still have some dates open for 2009, but hurry because they are filling up fast. My booth design had a complete makeover this year to match my new logo and the lime green was a hit. I received many compliments on the new booth which made it worth the days of sewing that my mom and I did. Thanks Mom! My "partner in crime" was Jeannie, one of my brides from this summer. She was wonderful to work with and she was able to talk to quite a few brides at the show also. Thanks Jeannie!

IU Roadtrip

This weekend, the Forche family went to Nashville and Bloomington, Indiana for our fall getaway. This was the first time I was able to go because I usually have weddings every weekend in October and this happened to be my first weekend off in 7 weeks. We spent the day Friday in Nashville (Brown County) shopping. It started off a bit wet, but turned out to be a pretty nice day despite the cold. Andrew was a trouper since we shopped for about 5 hours. All day I heard "Mom let's go to the toystore" which we had passed in the beginning when we parked. Finally we gave in and walked out of the way back to the toystore. Then all we heard was "When are we going to the hotel?" I just couldn't win! On Saturday, we tailgated in the morning before the game. Fixing breakfast on a grill turned out to be quite interesting. The exciting part of the entire trip was when Andrew poked himself in his eye with a glove right as we were entering the game, so I spent the entire first half of the game in IU's Opthamology School having his eye checked. It turned out that he did scratch his eye so we returned to the game during the 3rd quarter and Andrew sacked out for the entire 4th quarter. I would say that I didn't really get my $65 worth out of our tickets. Oh! And this cold weather we are having now? It was in Bloomington Saturday morning where we started out at a whopping 38 degrees! Talk about cold!






I almost forgot...IU beat Northwestern 21-19 which is their first win in 7 weeks, I believe.

Jessica + Craig

Jessica and Craig were married last Saturday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. This is the 3rd wedding I have done for the Elliott family so I am on a "first name" basis with this family. Jessica wanted their wedding day to be simple and care-free and she definitely succeeded. We had such a relaxed afternoon doing formals in her friend's backyard and even had a few minutes after the ceremony to take the happy couple over for some private time. Then 5 of us piled into Craig's friend's very small car and went up to the Barker overpass to catch the sunset. It was a perfect day that ended with dinner and dancing at the Executive Inn. Congrats Jessica and Craig!

Grace and Henry

OK..these guys aren't getting married anytime soon. Besides, they are brother and sister. It was such a pleasure photographing them in downtown Evansville. Their mom, Tina, called me back in the summer and wanted some "urban" portraits of her kids. We have rescheduled several time throughout the summer and finally got to do the session last weekend. I think we got some keepers!

Natalie + Kyle

Natalie and Kyle were married this past weekend in The Walnut Room at Casino Aztar. Their colors were lime green, black and white which happen to match my logo pretty well. :) They had a beautiful wedding and reception with an amazing chocolate fountain. Kyle even designed Nike tennies for the entire bridal party in the wedding colors. They were such a hit!





Check out the height on the bridesmaid next to Kyle!



Cool shoes!



Natalie and her girls doing a scene from Ugly Betty.

Her Marilyn Monroe impression.


The chocolate fountain was to DIE for!

This is one of my favorite cakes of the year.

Amanda + Brock

Amanda and Brock were married Saturday at Centenary United Methodist Church. April and I got tickled at them during the ceremony when the priest said "I state name, take you...". They got tickled and Amanda started laughing and the rest of the ceremony was a hoot. You can tell these two are very much in love by how expressive they are in their photos. Before the ceremony we took some photos of the girls in front of a beautiful cornfield only to see that after the ceremony, it had been cut down. The reception was at the lovely Holiday Inn (they have scrumptious food, by the way) and Brock even found time to do his Stayin' Alive dance at the end of the reception. Congratulations guys!












And here is what is left of our beautiful cornfield: