Wisconsin Engagement Photography | Reed + Jen at Ledge Park

Hey Everyone!

As you may know, I'm originally from Wisconsin.  Whenever I go home, I try to fit in a session whenever I can because I LOVE shooting in Wisconsin.  It has such a beautiful landscape and it's drastically different from Vegas, so it's always nice to change it up!

While I was in Wisconsin a couple of weeks ago for my Bridal Shower, I met up with Reed and Jen for an engagement session.  I went to High School with Reed so we've known each other for many years!  He's been with Jen for a few years now and the are getting married in Mexico in October.  Eric and I are going to their wedding which should be like a 2nd honeymoon for us!  ::yay::  I'm extremely happy for them.  Reed is definitely marrying an awesome girl.

Me, Reed, Jen, and their dog Darwin went to Ledge Park in Horicon, WI for their engagement session.  It's an amazing park with a ledge (for which it's aptly named) looking out on the famed Horicon marsh.  Definitely a cool place for photos with lots of trails and beautiful scenery.  Here are some of my favorites from their session!

    
That's all!  Since this was my 2nd blog of the day, I'm all blogged out!  Off to enjoy my Saturday night:)

If you'd like to see their entire album, you can check it out here.

Thanks for reading!

Mary

Vintage Wedding Photography | Victoria & Kelly | Calgary, Alberta

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I'm really excited about this wedding blog post because I've known the bride for over 12 years!  Victoria and I went to Middle School and High School together in Wisconsin.  After college, she moved to Canada with her dual citizenship.

Victoria, or as I've always known her, "Vikky", met Kelly at church camp years ago.  They've had an on-again, off-again relationship and eventually realized they just couldn't live without each other!  Vikky is one of the most genuine, caring, and fun-loving people I've ever met.  I can't remember a day where she didn't have a smile on her face:)  I only just met Kelly on their wedding day, but from what I've seen, I can tell that he is very much the same as Vikky.  They seem to compliment each other well and are definitely head over heels for each other!

Not only was this my first Canadian wedding, but it was also my first time in Canada ever.  Even though it snowed half the time... in the middle of April... I really liked Calgary!  Ha.

Here are some of my favorite shots of details, the girls getting ready, and from the ceremony.

  
After the ceremony, we headed to an amazing park on the edge of downtown Calgary for some more photos.  I'll be blogging about them soon so stay tuned!

Thanks for reading!

Mary

Wisconsin Family Photography | Megan & Mackenzie Finn {Beaver Dam, WI}

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I was just back home in Wisconsin for Thanksgiving last month.  One of my best friends from High School was going to be home with her 3 year old daughter as well and asked me to take some photos of her!  We decided to just do a quick little mini-session at a park near the house Megan grew up in.  Megan and Mackenzie came to the park with Megan's dad as well (who just happens to be my childhood doctor!).  It was great to see Megan and her dad and to finally meet Mackenzie!!  When we got to the park, we soon realized that the playground equipment was, for the most part, the same exact equipment that Megan played on growing up!  Kind of a cool experience for a family I think.  Here are some of my favorites from the day:

Beautiful Mackenzie!  I'm pretty sure Megan should get her into modeling...

 Mackenzie loved the slide!  She also loved Mr. Bear :)

She was all over the place!  After swinging herself, she put Mr. Bear in the swing and pushed him!

Mackenzie seemed to really be drawn to this spaceship (on the left).  She went back to it about 3 times that day!

Sliding again!

Megan and Mackenzie on what used to be a real tire swing, now just a "big plastic disc" swing.

Beautiful Mother and Daughter!

I really love this one of Mackenzie in the tire climb!  What a cutie!

It was so much fun to meet Mackenzie and get to know her a little.  And of course, always good to see Megan!  Hopefully I'll see them again at Christmas!

Thanks for reading,

Mary

Las Vegas Family Photographer | Barrette Kids

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This blog is near and dear to my heart as the subjects are all my (soon-to-officially-be) Nephews and Niece!  Eric and I were recently in Wisconsin for a few days and while we were there, we made a day trip down to Illinois to see his Sister, Brother-in-law, and their 4 kids.  All between the ages of 3 months and 6 years old!  Three month old Geneva is our only Niece out of the bunch, I guess the 4th time was the charm ;) Needless to say, they have their hands full and I was seriously exhausted after spending one day with this crew.

We arrived at their house around Noon, just in time for the two older boys to get home from school.  We all had lunch and soon after the boys needed to burn off some energy so we went to the park which is literally in their back yard!  I basically followed them all around with my camera and mostly got shots of the kids playing.  We were able to get just a couple of "posed" photos and I use the term "posed" loosely for reasons, well... you'll see!  Here are a few of my favorites from the bunch!

John climbing on the equipment.  This won't be the last time you see him climbing in this blog!

Leo speeding down the slide.

 Adam just smiling :)

Here are all three of the boys in the best pose we had all day!

Baby Geneva asleep on her Mom :)

Leo did NOT like his photo taken and he made it pretty clear to me... but he can't help but show his excitement while on a swing!

Here's what I mean about trying to pose these guys!  "Leo being Leo" is what I like to call this one.

John seriously has some climbing skills.  He's so good at it and his concentration while doing it is actually really impressive for a 6 year old!

Adam's chunky swinging legs!

I had to start sneaking up on Leo to get photos of him.  Here's one of my favorite sneaky ones :)

And for the finale, we've got the whole crew together!  Although not really concerned about smiling for the photo... I still like this one a lot.

These guys are a lot of fun and I love them but I think we'll be holding off on having kids for a while...  Or maybe just hope for girls ;)

Thanks for reading!

Mary