Happy New Year !!!

Happy New Year Everyone !!

We here at Your Day Your Way Photography would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our wonderful couples, great families and seniors that made our first year doing photography professionally a HUGE success. If it weren't for you all our dream of having our own photography business wouldn't of been possible. A HUGE thank you goes out to Sean & Erin Everett as it was they that put the bug in our ear and said hey you guys should start your own business and here we are a year later. Thank you everyone that made 2008 such a successful year and we can't wait for 2009 to see what it brings. Here are a few of our favorite pictures from 2008 and our wonderful couples, families and seniors.

Mr. & Mrs. Bryan Wines

I feel compelled to start off this message with 3 very simple wonderful words....

IT IS SNOWING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just had to say it. If you know me at all you know that I LOVE LOVE LOVE Snow......

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We spent Friday and Saturday in Crystal Lake Illinois with another one of our great couples. Bryan and Sandie Wines. We had so much fun the couples was a blast. The wedding was at the Holiday Inn out in the foyer and then the reception was in one of their huge banquet halls. Good Food, Good Music and a great couple make for an awesome weekend. Here are just a few of the pictures from their day. If you would like to view them all once they are available click here.

Mr. & Mrs. Mathias Cico

Saturday was spent with another one of our great fun couples. It was Julie and Mathias's big day in Chicago. They had their ceremony and service in a small banquet room in a restaurant, very close quarters but that made it all that much more fun. Both families were so happy for the couple and we all had a lot of fun. The flower girls and the ring bearer were some of the cutest kids I have ever seen, the flower girls had the most beatuiful red hair and looked so angelic in their dresses. It was one great party and we are very thankful that Julie and Mathias let us be a part of their big day. Here are a few of the great pictures from that day.

If you would like to view all the pictuers from their big day click here

Jessica & Alex/Purdue University and gas at $2.65

Saturday was spent down on the campus of Purdue University with another one of our great couples, Jessica and Alex who are getting married next July. Neither of us had ever been to Purdue so it was exciting to see a new place as well as do the engagement pictures for Jessica and Alex. They were a lot of fun, they are a very handsome/beautiful couple and a LOT of fun. Again we had another couple that climbed a tree...thankfully this time no broken bones HA HA! I think maybe we need to take out tree climbers insurance :-) On the way back home from West Lafayette I saw a sign on I65 that almost made me cry, we found gas for 2.65!!!!!!! it's pretty sad when 2.65 makes you cry when I can remember 87cents for a gallon of gas..

Here are a few pictures from their shoot on campus there were WAY to many great pictures to choose from.....

Our New Digital Portfolio

Had a slow day today so I thought I would rework our digital portfolio.

Hope you all enjoy!

FALL IS HERE!!!!

I don't know about everyone else but I LOVE when the weather finally starts to make the turn to fall. There is nothing like fall in northern Indiana. I love the cool days and evenings. There is nothing better in my opinion then a nice heavy warm sweater and wool socks. The trees are finally starting to turn after a few cold nights and they are about to explode with color. Here is a picture taken a few years back on the campus of Notre Dame.

This weekend we are heading down to Purdue to do an engagement session and I can't wait to see all of the trees on campus, hopefully they have turned as well. Fall colors make such beautiful backgrounds in pictures, the only thing better in my opinion is possibly a fresh brand new white snow fall.

HAPPY FALL EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!

Happy early Halloween

After our Amish hunting experience I decided it was time to decorate our 2 pumpkins that we bought out on our adventure.

Those of you that know me, know that I LOVE kitties and of course my pumpkins have to be kitties.

Amish Hunting ...

What can I say I am obsessed with the Amish Culture. The thought of living like that fascinates me, until I remember I would have to give up my computer and blackberry not sure that is possible...HA HA

Any ways last Saturday we went what I call Amish Hunting, which basically means driving all of the back roads all over Wakarusa and Nappanee trying to find that perfect picture taking opportunity.

Here are a couple that we took that day...

Centennial Park Plymouth - Legac Family

A couple of weekends ago we visited a new park in Plymouth to take some family portraits of the Legac Family. Centennial Park in Plymouth is a huge park with a lot of fields for playing baseball, basketball and just about every other sport. We meet the Legac family and Karma, their boxer puppy on Sunday to do some family portraits. The 4 boys were a lot of fun as was Karma, poor mom really has her hands full with 4 boys.. HA HA It was great to meet a new family and to be able to capture some moments that will never happen again. The boys had fun playing in the river as we all watched. Here are a few pictures from that day.

Happy Labor Day

Happy Labor Day!!!!!

I hope everyone had a great Labor Day and had fun on this three day weekend. We decided yesterday to take a little road trip to Four Winds Casino and Resort, to check out the casino and then the little town of New Buffalo. The casino was fun as always 80 dollars and 15 minutes later we had spent our limit...lol So we drove on into New Buffalo, and looked at some of the million dollar condo's on the beach and visited a few of the stores on the main road. On the way home we decided to stop at The Hesston Steam Museum, a fun place to visit if you have never been there before. Not a bad way to spend a Sunday afternoon. I have posted a few of the pictures that we took on Sunday hope you enjoy.