A huge thank you to all the couples and families who I have worked with since I began this photography business in 2004. It has been wonderful working with all of you and making so many friends through my work.
- This blog is filled with sneak peeks and slideshows from all of my weddings and photo sessions.
- To get a little glimpse into my family life and see some of my personal pictures and what I'm up to lately, visit bykrista.com.
NOTE: I am no longer booking new weddings at this time. I am still booking family photo sessions on a limited basis.
Contact me for more information.
My wedding scheduled for September 6, 2008 has been cancelled. So …
SEPTEMBER 6, 2008 is AVAILABLE
I have turned a few couples away who inquired about this date and have now booked other photographers. 🙁 If you are getting married on September 6th of this year, please contact me. I would like to fill this date, so I am offering the same pricing the first couple booked at (2007 pricing).
Thanks! Hope to be part of your September 6th wedding! 🙂
Every year, Zach and Chloe help their grandma color eggs and frost cookies. They have so much fun with her. It’s become a tradition ever since Zach was old enough to help. We braved the blizzard on Friday and headed over to keep our annual egg coloring/cookie frosting extravaganza! 😀
We also get together on Easter and the kids get a special basket of goodies from grandma and we have a little egg hunt for the kids. Since it was snowy outside, we hid the eggs around the house. It doesn’t matter to them how they get the candy, just as long as they get it. 😉
Hope you all had a very special Easter!
A couple weeks ago, I had a nice lunch with Aletha Vandermaas of Pearls Events. We met at yummy Panera Bread and chatted about my photography and her wedding coordinator business. I am so impressed with Aletha. She’s such a sweetie and for having just started her business this past year, she is booked pretty solid for this year and is already booking into 2009. This girl does it all. She does day of coordination, where she will show up on your day and make sure every little detail is in place, or she can help you with more of your planning if you need it, such as budgeting, meeting with vendors and more.
As a photographer, the service that she offers is helpful to me as well. A bride who has a well-organized coordinator to handle all the little details will be much more relaxed and simply enjoy her day more than one who is scrambling around trying to handle everything herself.
So, if you are from the Grand Rapids area, please contact Aletha to help you with your wedding. You’ll be so happy that you did!
I was SO blessed last summer to travel to Texas for the wedding of my dear “blog friend” Kelley. We are both very into scrapbooking and that’s how we found each others blogs a few years ago. Kelley just finished up her wedding scrapbook and I thought I’d share a few of the page layouts that she put together and posted on Flickr.
It was so fun seeing my pictures organized this way! Kelley had so many pages, she had to break it up into two books. But now she has a beautiful set of books to display and share and help them remember their special day. 🙂
Kelley really wanted the high resolution disk of wedding images with her wedding package for this purpose. She knew she would be making a lot of prints and could do it herself with the disk. Plus, she now has the disk to store in a safe place so she always has a permanent copy of her pictures.
The high res image DVD we offer includes a signed release giving you permission to make prints at the photo lab of your choice. I also encourage couples who get the disk to burn their own backup copies and store them in safe places just in case. 🙂
If you are a past client of mine, feel free to email me some snapshots of your wedding, family, baby or other pictures displayed in frames, on shelves, or in a scrapbook. I love sharing these here and inspiring others to get their pictures displayed so they can enjoy them! 🙂
Also, if anyone is interested in having Kelley design a wedding scrapbook for you, please feel free to contact her.
show me your walls is a fun feature that I started here last year for my clients to share the way they’ve displayed my work in their homes.
Rachael sent me a few snapshots of their wedding pictures framed around their home. I loved seeing these! 🙂
If you are a client of mine and have some of your pictures framed on your walls, on a shelf, on your fireplace mantle, in a scrapbook, wherever … I’d love to share them here so others can be inspired to get their photos displayed so they can enjoy them.
As I mentioned a few days ago, Jake and I took a trip to Chicago this past weekend to take pictures for Christina and Alex of their new baby girl (see the post a couple down with pictures of baby Eva) and we stayed for the day to explore the city. We took tons of pictures, of course, and instead of posting 20+ pictures and making you scroll down the whole page, I decided to put them in a slideshow. Click the little arrow below the picture to scroll through them.
It was my first time in Chicago and I loved it! I’m definitely looking forward to going back a few more times this year. And let me just put out there that if anyone is getting married in Chicago, please don’t hesitate to contact me. I love to travel and would absolutely love to shoot a wedding in Chicago. 🙂
Saturday morning, my husband Jake and I dropped our kids off at my parents house and took off for Chicago for a baby photo session. It was so great to see Christina and Alex again and meet their new baby girl and this trip was extra special for me since it was my very first time in Chicago (I’ll be sharing some pictures we took in the city in the next day or two.). Here are a few of the pictures of sweet Eva.
She’s so tiny and precious. I like this shot of her all tiny on the loveseat with the rows of pictures from the wedding above. It’s so fun to see my work displayed. 🙂
Eva’s nursery is adorable!
I love baby feet. 🙂
This one is so precious.
I love these next two! Such a sweet little family.
hehe … naked baby. I thought this one was fun because she loved looking at her mommy’s striped robe hanging on the door the whole time so I had to get a shot with the robe in the background. 🙂
I adore this one.
Congratulations again, Alex and Christina. It was so fun seeing you and God has blessed you with a sweet little angel. 🙂
I had the best time today taking pictures of baby Claire and her big sister Ella. These sweeties are the daughters of one of my past wedding couples, Anya and Nick. Since the winter months are the slow time of year for photography and I’ve been itching to take pictures, I asked Anya if I could come take some pictures of the new baby. She was all for it and I was so glad because I haven’t seen her probably since their wedding and she still keeps in touch with me, sending me Christmas cards and emails with pictures of Ella. So I was really excited to meet both the girls and see her again. 🙂 Here are a few from our time together this morning:
Getting Ella to sit still proved to be a challenge, but she’s such a cutie.
Her favorite boots! 🙂
and she LOVES Barney!
Cutie Claire. With diaper …
…and without.
And one last shot after she fell asleep on the floor. So precious.
Thank you so much, Anya! It was so good to see you. And thanks for the little gift. You’re the sweetest.