5/26 E-Session

Here's a few from yesterdays engagement session!

5/20 Wedding

This was my last wedding until after my "maternity leave". Scott and Kate are a beautiful, fun couple, the rain held off just for them today!














This one makes me laugh












I've never had such an excited bouquet catcher!

May 18th Prom

I finally had my prom session today, it was a little crazy but so fun. There were at least 20 people. The girls were so into it, but the guys played like they didn't want their pictures taken- I had my way of making them do it anyway!

The sun poked out and the photos turned out gorgeous! I would have loved something like this when I went to prom. I won't go into how terrible my [disposable camera] prom pictures are, but they were nothing like this.

Here's a few that caught my eye while sifting...

The beautiful host
















This couple wins Best Dressed for me! They had a tie and pocket handkerchief made from the extra fabric of her dress. I shot beautiful Anne's senior portraits last fall :)

TRASH IT!

If you are or have been a bride you've probably heard of "trashing the dress" before, if you've never heard of it go here - www.trashthedress.com. TTD is gaining MUCH popularity, basically when the wedding's over, you put on the dress and give it one last hoorah! A mild version would be taking it out in the streets and getting down in the dirt, but if you really want to go all out you get WET!

Now here's a spin off- Trash The PROM Dress! This is a completely new concept and I think its awesome...although you might have a hard time convincing mom just how awesome it is. :) I have a big pre-prom session next weekend so maybe I can throw it out there and get some girls to be my firsts- or if you're reading this and you want to trash your prom dress I will gladly help!

Visit www.letsgettrashed.com for some a little more info. If you trash your prom dress with me you can even be featured on the letsgettrashed.com website!

NEW Site!

I now have a brand new shiny wesbite. Didn't we just go through this?- Yes about 4 months ago I did launch a new website but I wasn't satisfied, I needed an UPGRADE. So here she is- www.shelbyleigh.com.

I even added a wedding side. I wasn't planning on doing this until much later this summer, but I thought I might as well throw it out there. Even though I'm not booking for 2007, I will be meeting with 2008 couples!

Throughout the site there is a few new images here and there, lots of info and even music, but my favorite new option is my CALENDER! Even though my personally booked days aren't shown- I don't have too many of those so what you see is whats available. I'm pretty much booked to my max for the rest of May but June is wide open right now. June will be basically be my last working month till my "maternity leave", so book now before June is full- then you will have to wait till September!

I had a canceled session yesterday so theres nothing to look at this week! But Sunday is Mother's day- make sure to buy her something "big, bad and expensive", which is what my mom tells me every time I ask her what she wants.

Get it right the first time!

I've seen this new commerical a few times and it always makes me giggle. It also reminds me how important my job (and photo/videography in general) is!