Engagement Portrait Guest Book!

Some of you long time readers know that one of my FAVORITE products is the Engagement Portrait Guest Book that we create.  I LOVE this book.

The Guest Book is a 10×10 book with a hard canvas portrait cover and uses 15-20 of your favorite engagement images to create a 10 page, 20 sides custom design with area for your guests to sign around your portraits and leave longer messages.  It’s almost like a yearbook for your wedding…. and all about the two of you :).

I just got in the Guest Book for this weekends wedding in Florida, and decided that you guys HAD to see it!

 

Puppies!

“The best way to get a puppy is to beg for a baby brother—and they’ll settle for a puppy every time.” -Winston Pendleton

I love dogs.  If you’ve been watching the blog for a while, you’ve seen a photo or two of my puppy Bentley [a 4 year old Maltese who I would pretty much bring with me everywhere if it was acceptable, and my husband let me].  After hearing that Leslee’s dog was having puppies, I jumped at the chance to photograph them!  In truth, I’ve never photographed more than two dogs at a time [Bentley has a white fluffy dog girlfriend named Buffy that he loves].  So photographing 7 nine week old puppies was CRAZY!  But so SO much fun!

This was their first time to see grass; you can tell the progression throughout the photos.  It went from curious, slow and smelling everything, to playful and excited to be outside with grass and sticks to chew on, and finally to tired, and curled up all together sleeping.  It was great.

Leslee, thanks so much for letting me come out and photograph your beautiful puppies!  Hope you enjoy!

~Maike

ps: if you are interested in maybe acquiring one of these beautiful puppies for yourself, you can contact Leslee here.

pps: May is still a free session month!  If you are interested in having your puppy/dog photographed contact me at ohsnap@mrinaye.com and we’ll get you scheduled!

My favorite:

Our attempt at getting a group shot [yeah, we were only able to get 6 of the 7, but I count it as a win!]:

How beautiful is Leslee with this little girl!

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Sarah!

“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity.” – Albert Einstein

Part three of the Springfield, Missouri photo shoot!

So Sarah [who I mostly refer to as Jenkins], and I have been friends probably since 2006-ish.  Although we went to Drury together, and even had common friends, while we were in school together, we didn’t really hang out much, for some reason.  However, senior year of college, the two of us, and our bff’s went on a cruise together ["cruisin"].  And since then, I have come to adore this girl!  1. She’s hilarious, 2. she’s good at being a friend, 3. she will do crazy funny things with me [like that one time, we learned a Glee dance for a friends wedding; hells ya!].

In any case, Jenkins.Is.Awesome.  She’s now a writer at Drury University, a performer for The Skinny Improv [in Springfield, MO], and a somewhat consistent blogger [shameless plug to get her to blog more?... perhaps].

Jenkins, you photographed BEAUTIFULLY!  Thanks so much for modeling for me!  Some day we will do it again :).

~Maike