Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at 11:53am Posted in MKD Details
So…it is embarrassing how long it has been since we blogged…but a busy photographer is not always the best blogger. That’s what I keep telling myself at least!
So…the blog is next on my list of things to start tackling. I just finished culling the last wedding of the season, and I’m working on a couple save-the-dates right now! BUT, while working on one I fell in love with the bride’s color palette and thought I would share it here!
Lately before designing anything we have a few questions that we ask..
We want, of course, the details…the date, the key players (bride and groom and how they want to see their name in print…are you an Anthony, a Tony, a Toni?) The place…do you want people to know that the wedding is in Newport? Or just Rhode Island? And, of course, the date will be on there…but we know that since we’re the ones shooting the wedding.
And last, and maybe more important…the feel of the wedding (traditional, modern, fun, quirky), any fonts that you love, and the colors! Are you loving cherry blossoms? Cityscape? And color. COLOR! For the colors we’ve been sending brides over to Benjamin Moore and asking for specific color names! It works like a charm every time! I normally don’t share Save-the-Dates or Guestbooks because I feel like that might ruin the surprise for those getting them in the mail and/or seeing the guest book at the wedding…so I’m going to leave you hanging., but I can show you this most awesome color pallette that I’m currently working on for a fun summer beachy wedding Save-the-Date on the Cape! The names on each color are from the Benjamin Moore site and I use this palette while designing so that everything is copacetic!
I just typed out everything that I need to blog…there are at least 25 blog posts that I need to start hacking away at. This season we have 5 more weddings on the books…and then we’re into November! Sometimes life seems to be moving so fast…and other times I look around and we’re in slow motion. This is one of those slow motion moments. It seems like just yesterday that we shot this wedding…in fact it was a year ago. So much happens in a year. All year we had plans to come up with a business name for the merging of MKD and Team Yu for films…we did that…Shoot2Tell is the new name for when we combine efforts and make a film!! We’re going to come up with a web page and a face for the business and all that…but for now…another film! There is another one in the works, too, from just yesterday…I mean last October!
I’d Marry you Everyday from Michael Duval on Vimeo.
Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 8:33am Posted in MKD Weddings
Justen and Aubrie are hilarious and fun and beautiful…and it was so so fun to get to spend their wedding day with them and we knew it would be from their engagement shoot! Justen is into photography and his interest and camera questions always get us to step it up a notch and we all had a ton of fun hopping out of the rotunda leaving everyone dancing while we grabbed some of the fun night shots with the carnival behind them. They had an amazing ceremony right on the sand of the beach and pretty perfect weather for the whole day! I love the beachy details and colors…so often in Newport you have fun nautical navy so to see the splashes of color was a breath of fresh air (don’t get me wrong, nautical navy is awesome…just fun to see something different, too!)
(BTW…can you believe it has been two months since I blogged?? Sorry about that! I had someone call to inquire about her date and didn’t know if we shot weddings since there were “so many babies on the site.” Ummm…yes we do shoot weddings…and babies!!!)
Easton’s Beach Rotunda in Newport, RI
Park Square Florists in Woonsocket, RI
B&M Catering Co. aka the Clambake Company in Pawtucket, RI
Music Mixers DJ Entertainment from Narragensett, RI
Wrights Dairy Cake Design in N. Smithfield, RI
More pictures, as promised!! Click on them to make them bigger/access the flickr folder!
I don’t know how you all do it…narrow it down and pick pictures. I want to plaster my walls with pictures of the kids! So instead of posting each image I’m just going to post this whole collection as a link to flickr because I was bad at narrowing it down. And…there’s still more that I want to do with this little guy, it’s just finding the time to do it before we’re out of the newborn window which closes around 2 weeks!
Baby Sawyer Raymond
Born July 11, 2011 at 4:22pm
8lbs. 7.5oz. 21 inches
I’m still a bit in shock that this little guy is ours to keep. What an adventure in getting here…such a long year losing three babies, and feeling like I was just going to be pregnant either forever or for nothing if we lost him as well…and then the longest labor ever ending in a perfectly beautiful baby boy. From water breaking to when he was born it was about 39 hours…but I did it! No c-section, no stitches…just a perfectly happy little baby boy. Mike and I are so in love, Emmie and Chase are in love…and judging by Mr. Sawyer’s attitude towards life he’s happy to be here too! So excited to start this new chapter of life…Mike and I keep looking at each other saying things like…”I can’t believe he’s ours,” and, “I can’t believe how cute he is,” or, “We have three of these little people to take care of? Crazy!” We took this picture last night at just 5 days old!
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