An Engagement in the Fam!

My sister (stepsister, technically, but she's been around for so long that it actually feels like we are related by blood!) just recently got engaged, and I can't help but to be the biggest buttinski when it comes to making suggestion after suggestion after suggestion for her wedding!!  Hmm, the feeling the word "buttinski" evokes is not exactly what I am going for here, but you get my point.  Valuable resource, maybe?  Anyway, I am completely living vicariously through her as she embarks on the  most daunting of tasks -- wedding planning!  It's one of those things that you love to do, but you also feel like it becomes a part time (or sometimes full time!) job in the process.  Appointments for florists and venues and music and, wait for it, wait for it......photographers!  Ok, so as much as I love love love shooting weddings, especially for people I know, I love love love being a guest at weddings too!!!  And let's just say it is a rare occasion for me to be a guest, so when the opportunity arises, I jump on it!  So instead of being the photographer for her wedding, I am going to be that annoying guest with the camera!  Haha.  Don't worry though.  I know my boundaries.  I wouldn't want to become that person that I mumble about under my breath when I am shooting weddings!  Besides, this leaves me with the ability to take the images I love to take without all the added pressure of making sure I "got the shot."  This way, I get to take the shot I want with a more relaxed approach, and it's just an added bonus for her to have some extra images for her wedding proof collection!  Win, win as I see it.

Here are three sisters trying to be as cool as their teenage counterparts (neices or daughers, depending who you are).  Not quite cutting it.......

Anyway, I am so excited for Briana and John and the amazing journey they are about to embark upon, beginning with the oh so important planning stage.  I can't wait to be the ever present annoying guest with a camera at your wedding!!  ;)