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This is my best friend JP

I’ve known her since the 2nd grade, and basically she’s my sanity most of the time. We have done a lot of weird things together, had a lot of fun, got ourselves in and out of trouble and done a hundred thousand other hilarious and wonderful little things together that have cemented our friendship. Is it any wonder I named my daughter after her? I think not.

The only thing JP and I had never done together was go wedding dress shopping. JP got married 10 years ago and borrowed her sisters wedding dress. I got married a year and a half ago and I borrowed my good friends wedding dress. We never got to do the dress shopping thing. And while I had a HUGE party for my wedding, JP didn’t get a big shin-dig. She also didn’t get totally awesome wedding pictures. So, in honor of her being married for 10 years, my anniversary gift to her was awesome wedding anniversary pictures, because I’m not sure if you know, but I’m a photographer who happens to specialize in artistic wedding photography. HOW CONVENIENT!

So when I noticed David’s Bridal was having their $99 wedding dress sale JP and I hot tailed it over there and checked “Try on wedding dresses” off our things to do together list.

I’m going to be honest when I say that place was HOPPING! Seriously, there had to be 20 or 30 women trying on wedding dresses (and some trying on prom dresses. Hi Cameron! Call me!) and the $99 selection was slim to be sure. But since our plan is to do this shoot at the State Fair later this summer (can’t you just picture it? Cotton candy, carousels, corn dogs, other things that don’t start with a C). We are also going to go to the American River the next day and so some more fun stuff in the water. Basically, we’re going to MESS THIS DRESS UP! So, I really wanted to only pay $99 for it.

We tried on a few dresses. Some cute… some not so much. Of course I had my camera out the whole time to document our adventure. This picture is officially my new favorite picture of me and JP.

In the end JP picked out a BEAUTIFUL dress that is going to look AMAZING in pictures. It was pretty hilarious to have us two old married ladies running around a wedding dress store, but there is no one else I’d do something so silly with. I am SOOOO excited for August now and the totally cool pictures we’ll be taking. I promise to share!

I had so much fun on Friday (March 2nd) at Krista and Jeremy’s wedding. They were married at the Sacramento LDS Temple and then had a very fun reception at the Vintage Park LDS Church in Sacramento. I adore Krista and Jeremy! They were so much fun at their engagement session, and didn’t dissapoint at their wedding. We had a great time taking pictures around the temple grounds. They were great! The reception was a lot of fun with a packed dance floor, great food and A LOT of people helping the happy couple celebrate their marriage.

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A big thank you to Krista and Jeremy for being such an awesome couple and for letting me be a part of their day! Happy forever you two!

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I’ll have a new slideshow up tomorrow from Krista and Jeremy’s wedding.

Until then… Night, night!