mandy & brandon are of the finalists in our wedding coverage giveaway contest. While their wedding is taking place in Sarasota they still reside in Atlanta but they didn’t hesitate to make the drive for their e-shoot. Obviously with that said, I had a lot of pressure to perform at my best. 64oz of coffee and some steroids did the trick I guess:)…ok ok just go look at the pictures already.

couldn’t resist the pretty shoes.

Nothing like showing up to a location you never shot at and coming out with images like these. Well I couldn’t have done it without the help of these two. First they are gorgeous together and second they are just naturals. I had such a great time with tracy & aaron that I can’t wait to shoot their wedding in may. Guys, let’s keep the iphone incident between us :).

Photos are a great thing, we love sitting down and going through the million pictures we took of our boys and see their personality come to life right in front of us. We took these just recently and realized that how much they grew up. Couple funny things happened during these, the first one was”Your bringing the camera again?” and the other was a celebration when I told them my battery died, well it was a short celebration since I was very quick at replacing it. We just love love looooove these two guys.

Wow, we feel so honored that another one of our weddings has been selected to be featured on the Southern Wedding magazine’s blog. It features photos and a great interview with Ama & Charles. Please be sure to check it out.

To celebrate our re-branding we are giving away wedding coverage for one wedding in 2009.

Here are the details on how you can win yourself a free wedding coverage up to 5 hours with us : mandy & me

The contest: 4 Finalist couples will be chosen from the entries, then the 4 couples will all get their engagement pictures taken at a location picked by the photographer. From that point the people will vote based on: The couples story and their engagement pictures.

The rules: Wedding needs to take place in 2009 (if we are already booked on your date you won’t be able participate)
You must not have already booked another photographer

How to enter: Please submit the following information
Names
Wedding date and time
Venue

Then tell us your love story, tell us about you personalities, your likes your dislikes and why you should be the winner of this contest.

The deadline: Feb 28th 2009

We usually meet couples in person, however because of the potential big amount of entries we wont be able to, therefore please attach a recent photograph with your entry to lifeoncamera@mandyandmestudio.com This is to help along with the information picking e-session location.

The winning couple receives up to 5 hours of coverage by us as well as the edited wedding proofs on a dvd.

Portrait package giveaway details to be announced soon.

As we tackle the many projects that 2009 is bringing us, we feel the need to get caught up with the ones we did back in 2008. We had the honor to be a part of Barbara and Neal’s wedding back on November 1st 2008 at the Colony on Longboat key Florida. The love these two have for each other is the kind that takes your breath away and you just feel so happy to be there to witness it. We had a great day, from great weather, great details, loving family and friends all the way down to our very first butterfly release wedding. We finished off the day with a sweet backstage which is a whole post by itself. We have so many pictures we could post, these are some of our favorites. Enjoy.

Meet the Wheelers. They are doing our baby’s first year plan and it’s been amazing to see how much Lilly has changed each session. They are such a fun family to photograph and Lilly is so cute. What lucky parents they are to get her all the time and capture all that sweetness whenever they want!

When we emailed this sweet couple about some options for their E-session and told them that we can catch some sweet lighting around 7am we didn’t expect a lightning “Yes” response to the crazy request. So we met and trooped it out to the deserted construction site at our own risk. You could see that there was a strong connection between these two the whole time. Not to mention that they know how to work it in front of the camera which is always a welcome plus. Enjoy these few favorites.

Au revoir