the laura kay blog »

I am so excited for all of the new things I am doing this year. The first thing is already complete  and arrived yesterday! New marketing stuff. I have been working on this for a while now and it is so exciting for all of it to be here and to see in person. I love meeting with new bride and grooms and now it will be even more fun with all of this. So yay for Kara and Ernie coming over tonight!

Vane at Brooklyn Bride has amazed me again! I love the look of her new site! She is such a wealth of information and ideas.I am so happy to be on her new site. For all of you brides, this is an amazing blog to follow! 

i had a fun weekend in houston shooting jeanie and chris’s wedding! it was fun being home and eating so much mexican food! kate and will went camping with my parents for a night and josh went on a manly hunting trip with all of the boys from his side of the family. poor bambi. anyhow i have some pictures to share. here are two recent albums that came in. i realized i have not blogged about albums ever. here is a 10X10 dark brown and an 8X10 black. carley picked white lettering and laura chose blind emboss. the white photographs better but i typically like the blind the best. these are the two most popular color albums. i love getting a little funky and upgrading the covers like one of my albums that is solar yellow with black lizard spine and photo on the cover. albums are so fun! 

so this is a little test. I am blogging from my iPhone with the cool new wordpress app.I think I will be able to take and upload pictures with this too. that should be fun. maybe this will get me blogging more! anyhow have a goodnight everyone!

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 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! before  after 

 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!

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. 

maria of the ritzy bee blog contacted me to do this feature. she is an event planner here in the DC/VA area. I decided to pull some of my most colorful pics together for this. i have gotten to really love lots of color paired with a few black and whites. anyhow be sure to check out the ritzy bee!