My best friend Traci asked me when Michael and I got engaged what I wanted to do for my ‘bachelorette’ party. Since I’m not too big into parties I told her that I wanted to spend a weekend hanging out with her in New Orleans. I’ve been dying to go for years and finally we did it. 
Mmmmm - I miss the beignets already.
Bourbon Street
Street Performers
Musicians - Steamboat Willie
The Royal Street Jug Band
Cool Old Cemeteries
And of course our one splurge… brunch at Commander’s Palace. Not only did the food look fantastic but it tasted amazing!
Traci bought this funky pair of ’sunglasses’ made from forks from a shop on Royal Street. She’s going to use it has a head band instead but was kind enough to model them for me as sunglasses first. LOL
Amy & JP of AJs Studio in Vancouver Washington have given us yet another tease of images from our wedding - this time in the form of a slide show. Check it out on their blog - www.theshuttermonkey.com. It’s an amazing look at our big day.
Amy & JP hard at work getting those fab pics of us in the Elvis Tribute Cadillac
Being a photographer it’s such an odd thing to be on the other end of the camera but our friends Amy & JP Prutch of AJs Studio in Vancouver Washington came out to take on ‘tog’ duty for our big day and made it oh so easy for us. Having trust in your photographer on the most important day of your life is SO important and believe me, Amy & JP had ours.
Although we planned the location of the ceremony as well as a couple of photo opportunity locations, we left the rest of the details to them. We also gave them plenty of time with just us. As a result we have some seriously kick butt photos. I’m going to post a few photos (with their permission of course) but if you’d like to see more, please check out their blog for more.
A little horse time with my boy Shadow…
Lunch at Dale’s Diner…
Fashion style shoot at Boyd Coddington’s showroom and shop…
The Elvis tribute car as seen on American Hotrod
Ceremony time…
Did I mention that JP of AJs Studio is an ordained minister? He had double duty of officiating AND photographing the wedding. In a very personal ceremony JP was happy to take a close up photo of our first kiss as husband and wife while Amy covered the other angle. Very cool!!!
Special Thanks to Boyd, Jo & Chris of Boyd’s for making it possible for us to have some kick butt cars to ‘play’ with! We appreciate it more than you know. MUAH!!!
