Meet Me in St. Louis!

One week from today, we will be pho­tograph­ing the beau­ti­ful wed­ding of Julie and DJay. These are two very spe­cial peo­ple who I know the Lord put together for a very spe­cial pur­pose. Julie and her mom were there for Vitaliy and I through a very dif­fi­cult time in our life. They truly held us up and car­ried us along dur­ing times when it was dif­fi­cult to stand or keep our bal­ance. They became fam­ily to us. I was recently think­ing back over the time line of our rela­tion­ship with them and I am utterly amazed how God orches­trates rela­tion­ships and uses peo­ple to accom­plish His will. There were so many phone calls, emails or hugs from these two that I am assured their source was from the Lord. He has used peo­ple in my life time and time again to speak of His love, faith­ful­ness, and pro­vi­sion to me. These were two such peo­ple used by the Lord in mighty ways in our life so I hope I can hold back my tears (yeah, right!) next Sat­ur­day as I wit­ness and doc­u­ment a won­der­ful turn­ing point in their lives.

Think­ing about our trip next week, my heart begins to flut­ter at the thought of see­ing all of my favorite places in St. Louis. There are so many loca­tions that I miss  — For­est Park, Cen­tral West End, Lafayette Square, The Loop. And let me just tell you, there are def­i­nitely not enough hours in the day to fit in a meal at each of my favorite restau­rants while I’m there — Steak-N-Shake, Mom’s Deli, Brio, and Ted Drews. Yes, there is noth­ing wrong with eat­ing a meal at Ted Drews. It’s easy to get rem­i­nisc­ing about mem­o­ries at these places or fun things to do there. And that’s when it hit me…we’ve never pho­tographed in St. Louis! I’m thrilled that our cam­era is bring­ing us to St. Louis and we’ll have an entire day with Julie and DJay intro­duc­ing our love — the cam­era, to my old love affair — St. Louis. I have no doubt the two will meet and you just might see early fire­works across the beau­ti­ful St. Louis skyline.

With that being said, we also want to pho­to­graph you or maybe you know some­one who we should pho­to­graph. Obvi­ously, Sat­ur­day is set aside and com­pletely devoted to Julie and DJay. How­ever, we added on a few days to our trip to fit in a few por­trait ses­sions and of course to fit in a few more meals at my favorite restau­rants. One of which is not even a restau­rant, but my dad’s BBQ! Any­way, here are the dates and times we have avail­able for engage­ment shoots, fam­ily por­traits, or “just because” ses­sions — because you don’t have to have a rea­son to doc­u­ment life and love! If you are inter­ested, send me an email or fill out the form, and I’ll send you the details. Now I’m even more excited to come; hope I’ll be able to sleep this week.

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Fri­day, June 19

• Early morn­ing session

Mon­day, June 22 —

• Sun­rise (yes, at this time the light is GORGEOUS! Who’s in!?! If you are will­ing, it will pay off in your pictures!)
• Morn­ing ses­sion around 9am
• Early after­noon around 1pm

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