hi i am laura and this is the laura kay blog! i will post recent shoots, upcoming events and anything else that goes on in the laura kay world! i love to blog so check back often. thanks for stopping by. leave me a comment to say hi and let me know you were here. i love comments!!! have a great day and come back soon!
althea over at pearls events contacted me a little while back. she is an awesome event planner in west Michigan. i follow her twitter and she is such a happy person! (by the way if you want to follow me on twitter click here)i am so honored to be her photo blog of the week! thanks so much althea!!! be sure to check out pearls events for more fun wedding ideas.
so i just was reading elizabeth ann designs blog and look at what i found. montage-a-google is an application that generates montages from google searches. so you enter in a name or key words and it creates a montage for you. for fun i entered in my name and this is what popped up! pretty funny! i am not sure how it works or why some pictures are there and some are not. pretty fun though! the girls at EA entered in colors or phrases to get inspirations for wedding ideas. anyhow go check it out.
so i did not book weddings this summer to do the move and get all settled in while josh was in that school the last two months. i love that i have the time to fix up my office and get all organized. at first it was cool having all this time off but now i am missing shooting so much. i don’t have a wedding until october and i actually really hope a few last minute weddings come my way. if not i may just see if any of my new photographer friends here need a second shooter. yes, i miss it that bad, i am volunteering to second shoot. anyhow, enough of me whining about wedding withdraws. on to the transformation of my office. so lets see. we (as in josh) took down the “god bless america” wall border, hung the cool green curtain to separate the office from the dining room. we also put up some picture rails and added a little furniture. i just love the way it turned out. in the morning imagine jason mraz and a big cup of coffee. in the evenings a glass of wine and adele (thanks veronica!) and there you go! come on over! 
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Love it! You did a great job!
Looks great! I’ll have to come over for coffee sometime and check it out in person! 
Great job! I love the blue and green color combination.
LOVE this room!!! It made such a HUGE difference to add that green curtain… WOW! I love the colors you chose too!! Where did you find those ledges that the pictures are sitting on? I am a HUGE fan of single images mounted on artboard being displayed (without frames) and these ledges look PERFECT for that!!
i should have added in where everything came from. the green curtain, the sofa, the ledges and the coffee tables came from ikea. josh built my desk for me. the ledges are new at ikea and only come in black so i painted them to match. =) - sally you are welcome for coffee any time!!!
Love your style! Have been checking out your blog for a while. I am an event planner in Houston. We’ll have to get together soon!
looks fab!
very nice! definitely makes me jealous! i can’t wait to find a new place in houston and get the home office set back up! - we like the new profile pic too - so sophisticated!
Love it! Welcome to the neighborhood 
Gorgeous! I’m VERY jealous of your large and beautiful space! I may have to come over and “work” at your house!
Nice space! I need to get one built up when we get our new house next year. It’ll be nice to start with a clean slate =)
very cool laura! now just to keep kate and willy out of there! haha
wow, Laura - you did a great job!
ATTENTION ALL BRIDES!!!! those of you regular readers out there know that i love elizabeth ann designs for all of their wedding insperation. they are launching a new site called the EAD library. it will launch tomorrow july 22 at 9am et. i can’t wait to check it out and i highly encourage all of you to do so as well. bookmark it and enjoy all of the hard work they are doing to help make weddings more stylish! here is what they had to say about their new site:
“We are incredibly excited to announce our new project, The EAD Library. After months of development and research, we are launching a new resource for brides tomorrow, Tuesday July 22nd. The Library is filled with hundreds of useful links, from photographers to shops to stationers. Our goal is a simple, comprehensive list of vendors. The Library will help every bride, no matter her location, find the vendors and inspiration she needs for a beautiful event. ”
look what i got in the mail today! the modern luxury brides houston magazine. yes, i know it came out last month but i am in DC and i just got it! anyhow i love seeing my pictures in magazines. that is really exciting to me. AND i love being able to get my brides and grooms published! it is so fun to be able to give my couples super awesome images but also to be able to give them a magazine that published their pictures is amazing! so jen and will and allison and chad made this issue! congrats guys!!! also the two be wed ad with the super fun picture i took last year. i love seeing that picture! happy monday everyone!
lisa and i had so much fun going to canada last month to shoot marcie and miguel’s wedding. marcie is a cousin of mine. i got to meet her and her sister erin for the first time! i love my canadian relatives! it was fun because my mom and dad in law were there too. my uncle steven and aunt linda are amazing and we always have the best time with them. so it was so good to meet the rest of that side of the family. sorry for all the family who’s who rambling…on to the wedding. it was in the quaint little town of london. we had a little spa day on friday, then the rehearsal and backyard dinner to follow. saturday was all day wedding. starting at the salon then back for makeup and to get dressed. it rained a little but it all turned out pretty well. probably the only thing that did not happen were some more outdoor pictures at the beautiful golf course. anyhow, we were amazed by how beautiful the cathedral was. it was truly breathtaking! after mass we went back to the house for a few family pictures before the reception. now this was fun because lisa and i were guests too so after a certain point we stopped taking pictures and headed out to the dance floor. so fun! thank you linda, steven, marcie, miguel, heather, brian, erin and paul and everyone else for being so wonderful to us.
here are some things we learned in canada…
every one says “eh” all the time. i mean almost after every sentence. pretty funny, eh? ha! you can only imagine how much fun i had with that!
they eat KD (kraft dinner they call it) with ketchup (only heinz brand too). that is maccaroni and cheese with ketchup all mixed in. (sorry paul i have still not brought myself to try that!)
canadians recycle a lot! almost everything, 70% of their trash to be exact! they inspired me to do even better with my recycling.
enough of all of that enjoy the pictures!
this was marcie and miguel’s signature pose for the weekend! so as cheesy as it may be i just had to add a sparkle.
this is my wonderful uncle steven.
the cathedral had amazing details.
is’t this little man so handsome? he is a sweetheart!
all of the kids were so fun to hang out with over the weekend. they even came up with this cool jump for me to shoot.
it was so fun getting to spend the whole weekend with everyone!
so here is the really fun thing we did while we visited josh in alabama. his old instructor pilot from flight school has this little helicopter and he took the kids and i up for a ride. we have never been in a helicopter. i know that is weird because my husband is a black hawk pilot. but the army has strict rules and won’t let us. SO josh set this up for us and it was amazing! it is so different than being in even a small plane. you can fly just above the ground really fast and pull up and dive down. WOW!!! it was so fun!
**again more pics taken with our little g9. except the last one josh took with his camera**
we drove to the beach on thursday just for the day. this makes 6 states we were in last week. =) anyhow grayton beach state park is just west of panama city and a lot less crowded. it was fun playing in the water with the kids. although i only go to my knees. i watched jaws way to much as a kid and i am scared of sharks! i don’t tell the kids that of course. anyhow we had fun jumping waves, playing with dinosaurs in the sand and just being together. i only took out the camera for about 5 minutes so there aren’t too many pics here. sometimes it is just more fun not having to worry about getting sand in the camera. will did get a tiny jelly fish sting but he is so tough he didn’t even cry. he told josh his ankle was hurting and when josh wiped a spot off him his fingers started burning. that is it that was our beach day.
next is a nice self portrait…see the reflection in josh’s sunglasses?? haha!!
well we spent the past 10 days down at fort rucker alabama with josh. it took us 14 hours to drive. yes we drove. just the kids and i. we went thru virginia, north carolina, south carolina, georgia and alabama. it was actually really nice. i realized how much i missed alabama. we lived there for a year while josh was in flight school. kate was 2 and i was pregnant with will when we left. life is so small town there. everything is easy going and simple. alabama is a very nice life. we went on a few nature walks thru the many trails there on post. i will post on a few other things we did this past week soon.
**oh ya all of these images are shot with our little canon g9**
our little family. josh set our little camera on a post and when he went back to get it he was attacked by a wasp. if you know josh you can imagine the moves he made. he lost that fight and was stung on his stomach. =(
josh bought another bug. i actually love this one. we had so much fun driving all around in it.
I love these pictures. I want the one of kate and will in the middle of the road! scary!!
It’s beautiful there! see ya thursday! yea! that feels good to say that!
Well, I meant to get some of those pictures before you left so I could blog about it. Now I’m at your mercy. What’s new? Good job
Your family is so cute Laura. Were Kate and Will trying to push each other off the yellow line? And I love Kate’s crazy cute braids! So, if I get a Canon g9 will I be able to take pictures like yours?
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh I love small southern towns too. Long drive by your self but at least you got to stay a while. Let us know if you guys are near by.
i am so happy to announce that brooke (brooke schwab photography) and i were featured on the sws blog today. lara with sws contacted me a few weeks back and asked about featuring this wedding. it is so fun to be featured on other blogs! over the weekend while i was in canada i was featured on the fairmont bride blog and the creative odds n ends blog as well! so be sure to check out the sws blog and magazine for some southern wedding style inspiration.
I love having a famous sister!
congrats… that is so awesome… this is why you are my inspiration
Congrats! That is so awesome!
we are so fun laura! lets make a package featuring the two of us more often!
Nice! Congrats..
Way to go girl. Your so inspiring to others.
Awe, thanks for the blog love, Laura!!
very cool sis.