Summertime is for... {dallas, tx engagement & wedding photographer}

. . .Color.

And lots of it, please.

You don't really have to pick a favorite color during Summer.  At least not according to my "Rules of Summer."

(Yes, there really are such rules, maybe it's just in my head, but they are definitely there ;)

Love them all, wear them all, and if you can't pick just one color to paint your nails, then pick 5, or 10! ;)

Any of you gals have fun "summer nail" ideas??  I'm looking for creativity here. . .send me a picture or post a link to one in the comments! ;)

Much Love.

Jessica Shae

Joel & Jessica: married {niagara falls, ontario wedding photographer}

"Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down;
perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose,
until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music;
perhaps . . . perhaps . . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship,
as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath." 

|| anne of green gables

Jessica was caught off guard when Joel first expressed interest in her.  They were friends, good friends, but she didn't realize he was interested in something more.  And as they walked around the lake up in northern Michigan that day, she told him she'd pray about it, because she just wasn't sure.  Joel could wait, he was ready to do whatever it took to win the tiny blonde girl with the big green eyes.
And there definitely was alot of waiting involved, their relationship spanning hundreds of miles and several years, from just friends, to more than friends, to courting, to engagement.  They took time to pray and seek God's guidance in the relationship, to work through fears and dreams + goals for the future, and somewhere along the way, they fell completely in love with each other.
So after months of flying back and forth between Minnesota and Canada, countless long late-night phone calls, and daily texts, Joel and Jessica got married on a rainy Monday afternoon in Niagara Falls, Canada.  With their circle of closest friends around them they said their "I do's" and officially became one of the cutest couples I've ever had the privilege of shooting.  They braved the pouring rain (and I'm not exaggerating when I say pouring. All. Day. Long.) with me all day to get what have turned out to be some of my faaaavorite pictures ever.
Joel and Jessica, I love you two, and it really was an honor to shoot your classy + beautiful and Christ honoring day.  Thank you for including me!















































Much Love.

Jessica Shae

Land-a-Goshen:traveling {dallas, tx engagement & wedding photographer}

2,000 miles, 35 hours of driving, 5 states, a never ending playlist of music, and 3 best friends.

We're the sisterhood of the traveling poodleheads :)

Tuesday morning at 6:02 AM Whitney, Amanda, and I started our roadtrip towards Goshen, Indee-yana :)  And by 11AM we had officially sung ourselves hoarse.  By 12 PM we had stopped 5 times (5 TIMES) because of Whit's eency teency bladder.  Good times my friends, gooood times.

We are coming up here for some dear friends wedding and I've been looking forward to it for months.  This is by far the longest road trip I've ever taken with just friends, and it has not been without its share of adventures.  Really it's crazy the things that have happened the last few days, we've made enough memories over the last 48 hours to last a lifetime...and we're just getting started ;)

I've been taking photo's religiously with my iPhone, I'm really so in love with the camera on that thing, and all the polaroid apps I have on there, it's just so much handier than lugging around my big camera.  So enjoy a little bit of my iPhone documentation ;)

They won't be able to handle our southern cool.

Texas bugs are... large.  I thought for a sec maybe we'd killed two birds.


We may or may not have all bought matching aviators.  Prob not...because that would be a totally dorky thing to do.

"Congratulations!  You did it!  Worlds BEST cup of coffee!"(high five to whoever can name that movie quote;)

Ooook.  So I was preeEEtTy excited about getting to drive a big truck all the way to Indiana.  You can imagine my dismay when I got in and found out I am to short to see over the steering wheel.  I fixed it though ;)

No idea what we were thinking when we decided to let the barely has her permit driver behind the steering wheel for an hour.  My praying life was instantly strengthened ;)

FiiIIinally made it to my Evy friends house at about 10:00 and stayed up forever telling hilarious stories and laughing our guts out.

Seriously some of the funniest stories everrr....

Cutest hostess on the block ;)

Tim (Evy's husband) (*gasp* Evy has a HUSBAND?!) (weird weird;) (I mean...it's a happy weird, but it's still weird) made us all carmel macchiatos that were better than anything I've had at Starbucks :)
Evy is THE most adorable little hostess...and made the most scrumptious breakfast for us yesterday morning. C'mon America...
Beach day with my ladiiieeess!


Starbucks happy hour with friends...winwinwin.

Front porch sittin....

We finally rolled into Goshen last night about 12PM and instead of just going straight to bed like normal people we decided to go meet up with our peeps at Steak and Shake.  No one wanted anything to eat though...so we decided we'd better move the party outside.  It was pouring rain, so we all just crammed under the awning and chilled for a while :)



I'm terrible at blogging on trips...but I'm gonna tryyyyy to do better.  We're really having the time of our lives and it's impossible not to share at least some of the happiness :)

Much Love.

Jessica Shae

p.s. apparently blogger had a glitch yesterday and all blog posts that were posted yesterday were lost.  So  I reposted it again today! :)