Sarah Mahen Photographers

That’s right! I said it! PART ONE! That means there is even more than this lovefest of awesomeness you are currently gazing on! Seriously! How freaking exciting is that? SO exciting!

So the Rencher’s. I love them. Like L-O-V-E them! Marianne is probably one of the most remarkable women I’ve ever met in my life. She and I have been friends since college, and I absolutely adore her. I could honestly dedicate an entire blog just to the crazy stories of boys we dated and bizarre things we did. She made life in Utah bearable for a California girl, and my experience at school would have been drastically more boring without her.

So, about 8 years ago she married a lovely gentleman named Kevin. I went to their wedding reception, and hugged them and kissed them and then didn’t see them until a very small plane landed my family and me in Helena, Montana earlier this month. And it was the most amazing thing because it was like not a day had passed! Seeing Marianne and meeting her seriously adorable children was an absolute joy! She and Kevin have a beautiful family together and it was so much fun hanging out with them and photographing them. It was lovely to see the landscape of such a beautiful place and such a beautiful family.

This picture of Marianne is seriously one of my most favoritest portraits I’ve ever made and if she doesn’t use it as her author picture for the book she someday writes I will NEVER forgive her.

Check out the slideshow for more images from day one of shooting the wonderful Rencher’s. I can’t wait to share the rest!

Click the image below to start the slideshow