Utah Wedding Photographer | Jordan & Meredith Couples Shoot

Meredith contacted me last year about getting some pictures taken of her and her husband.
They have been married a few years, but Meredith wanted some pictures that really showed who they are before they started expanding their family.
They were both so sweet and genuine. Lee and I had a wonderful evening with them!

new hairdo!

well hello!  guess who has a new 'do'!

my wonderful cousin tara did my hair on saturday, and i must say, i absolutely love it!

i've been wanting a bit of an edgier 'do' for a while now, but i've been trying to grow my hair out for about 2 years, so i was scared to do anything risky! remember when it was all chopped off?  see below.

(tara and i, a little over 2 years ago)

well, edgier we went and i'm ecstatic with the way it turned out! (despite my make-up-less, un-enthused face in the picture, i had just woken up from a nap) 
it's like i'm channeling my inner joan jett.  

first, we did a whole bunch of bleaching (for highlights and such), then we dyed the entire thing red (which i know is kind of hard to see in the pictures because they came out a little bit on the warm side).
after that, we layered it.  at first, it started out as a trim, cleaning up the layers, trimming the bangs, etc., but then i was like "let's keep layering!".  so keep layering she did!  and then i told her i wanted more.  and more.
and after it was over, i ended up with what i've been calling the "rockstar-70's-shag" :)

(taken with my new itouch!)

that's all i've got for tonight!

xoxo

maddie

Wednesday.

Hello lovely readers!
Is anyone else ready for Spring besides me? Of course you are :)
I'm really done with this cold weather!

Well, I haven't been up to too much lately . . . still settling into my apartment, getting my Spring/Summer weddings and shoots all planned, writing lots of emails, working on a website, restructuring my pricing, contracts, etc., and just trying to get my life all figured out!

Also, this week, I've been trying something different. I'm not spending ANY money (started Monday) until this Friday evening. Now that I'm in an apartment, I need to get some budgeting all figured out, see what I can live without. And that INCLUDES Starbucks! I know, you all can't believe I've been living without my morning latte, eh? Me neither. I've been living off of home-brewed coffee and Starbucks VIA (instant coffee). The French Roast VIA is actually amazing! It is definitely getting me through. Other than that, I've been brown-baggin my lunch, getting into cooking, and salivating at EVERY.RESTAURANT.AND.FASTFOOD.COMMERCIAL.I.SEE. I've had a few moments where I have felt weak, but mostly, it's been a good experience.

Well, I'm getting back to work on some things. Maybe a photo shoot will appear tonight or tomorrow morning :)  Tonight will be work work work, dinner, listening to Broken Bells, and probably some more work.  I will probably also watch Bones.  Have you seen Bones??  My parents watch it all of the time, and I've just started watching re-runs the past week or so, and it's so good!  I'm going to start from the first season tonight since it's on Netflix.  Yippee!

Well, goodnight!
XOXO
Maddie

Love.

Found this in the dusty ol' archives ;) Found it fitting for today <3

Sagan | Bridals

There is so much I can say about Sagan!  I will start by satying that she is STUNNING and oh so sweet!  She is honestly one of the nicest girls I have ever met.  She loves to laugh and and be silly, then in the blink of an eye, she turns on the DRAMA and produces amazing amazing pictures!  I love me some dramatic pictures :)

I've been excited to share these for a while!  I have a whole bunch of shoots still Summer and Fall I need to share, so stay tuned this week! :)

XOXO

Maddie