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06.08.2010 by Jen Stewart | in Main |
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Last night Jen and I had a chance to go out on a date. What is a date?? Can someone please tell me what that is? Give you a hint on how long its been since we have gone on a date. Our good friends Ben and Lauren offered to watch our kids for us and we took them up on the offer. On top of going out, I wanted to get Jen’s wedding ring fixed. It had broke about a year ago and she hasn’t been able to wear it since. I even bought her a replacement ring for the time being but it just wasn’t the same. On Tuesday I went over to Kenny G’s Jewelry store and was referred by another good friend of ours Angela cause her dad, Fred, works there and will give you a honest quote and truly help us out. He did just that. Not only was I able to give him the ring on Tuesday, he had the ring fixed and looking so much better by Thursday!!!! THURSDAY!!! That is crazy service. So before we went to dinner, I wanted to take Jen over to get her ring, but little did she know that I was going to propose to her all over again and ask if she would Re-marry me again and renew our vows for our 15 year wedding anniversary. So we get the ring, it looks amazing but before Jen puts it on, I grab the ring from her and tell her “just hold on a sec I have something for you”
I give my point and shoot camera to Fred and ask if he can take a few pictures of this. Jen still doesnt have a clue whats going to happen. So I have the ring in my hand and I tell her ” so I have something for you and its something I have been wanting to give you. babe you are a awesome wife, a terrific mom to our children, you complete me in every way and I am so blessed to have you in my life. And I know when i proposed to you 12 years ago it was nothing romantic or fancy, but I want to give you that” So i got down on one knee in front of her and I’ll admit i almost started crying cause she was tearing up. I got down on one knee and had the ring in my hand and asked her “babe will you re marry me again and re new our vows on our 15th anniversary?” She said yes!!! I was worried there for a second. NOT!!! One of the ladies in the store that worked there starting crying, Fred gave us a huge hug, and the night was great and Jen’s ring looks fantastic. We went and enjoyed a nice dinner together, and then came back home and had a great night visiting with Ben and Lauren till like 1:30am which we love cause when you have great conversation going on, you don’t want to stop. I am truly a blessed man with a great wife and I cant wait to grow old with her and continue our journey together.
THANK YOU SO MUCH BEN AND LAUREN FOR WATCHING OUT KIDS AND GIVING US A AWESOME DATE NIGHT, AND ANGELA THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR REFERRING YOUR DAD TO HELP US GET JEN’S RING FIXED!! HE IS A AMAZING PERSON!! Here are the pictures from the proposal.
This is where i was telling her how much I loved her and how special she is to me.
The ring placement.
The kiss. I like that!! 
Have a great day everyone!
Chris
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Haven’t we all heard that comment before? I came across a great article today that addressed just this. Not written by a wedding photographer, but by an amateur photographer, who tagged along at a wedding with 2 wedding photographers, and learned just what goes into wedding photography.
Now I know that our wonderful blog readers, and clients understand the importance of hiring a seasoned professional photographer to memorialize the important memories of their wedding day. So if our blog readers, and clients understand the importance of hiring a professional, why post this? Because maybe you know a friend or loved one who is getting married and you’ve heard them say this.
The wedding photos after all, are often times, the only memories a bride and groom has to remember their day through. The day is such a blur of activity and emotion, it’s often hard to remember any of it. At least that’s the way it worked for Chris and I! 
Please take a moment to go and read the article Pros of Hiring a Pro
What are your thoughts on this topic? Would love to start a discussion in the comments below!
Have a great day everyone!
Jen
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On Sunday, some of Sacramento’s raddest wedding vendors gathered at Negative Space Studios to learn from our own local Social Media Ninja Alejandro Reyes of Sacramento Marketing Labs for the Social Media Workshop for Wedding Vendors. Thank you Carmen Salazar Photography for providing the location!!
Alejandro asked Jessica & Rashell of Invitations Ink, and myself, to participate on the panel as vendors who are using social media and the information we’ve learned from Alejandro, to grow our businesses. Us girls were nervous to be on the panel (I certainly don’t consider myself an expert and I know Jessica and Rashell feel the same way about themselves) but we had a lot of fun answering questions and afterward getting to know the different attendees!
Alejandro did a GREAT job, everyone came away so excited to put the information Alejandro shared into action. Heck I saw people taking action THAT DAY!! It’s been fun this week seeing the action steps attendees are taking. He taught everyone about the power of blogging, Twitter, Facebook and other ways to use social media to position our brands as leaders within our market.
I’ve been working with, and learning from Alejandro for over 6 months now, and I have to say, I still learn something new from him, each time I hear him speak! He is such a giver, he truly cares about those he is working with, and his workshop attendees. I always look forward to his workshops!
Look at how focused everyone is… they are soaking all the knowledge in!
If you missed the workshop, don’t worry, there was such an AWESOME response, Alejandro will be doing another workshop next month this time it will be the SEO Wedding Workshop!! make sure to Follow Alejandro on Twitter for more information about the workshop once it’s ready! you WON’T want to miss it!
UPDATE: You can now register for the next workshop!! SEO & Video Marketing Workshop For Wedding Vendors
Did you attend the workshop, what have you put into action since Sunday? Want to come to the next one, what do you need to work on most? Would love to hear from all of you in the comments below! (you bloggers know how a new comment alert makes a bloggers day!!)
Have a great day everyone!
Jen
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04.15.2010 by Jen Stewart Photography | in Main |
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Welcome to the new blog of Sacramento Wedding Photographer, Jen Stewart Photography! Please feel free to grab a cup of coffee, sit down and check everything out. We update our blog regularly with our recent work as well as a personal glimpse into the crazy lives of the Stewart Family, so check back often, bookmark the page, or add it to your RSS feed reader.
We absolutely LOVE hearing from those who stop by, so please feel free to leave us a comment and say hi!
Right above this post you will see Chris & Jen’s “Twitters” Twitter’s website describes itself as a service for friends, family and co-workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?
And frequent they are! We update our twitters several times a day, and have found it a GREAT way to share the fun, interesting, and sometimes crazy things that happen throughout the day that aren’t big enough for a blog post of their own. There are often times links in our twitters that will share a quick photo we snapped on our phone of what’s going on as well. You can scroll through our recent twitters by clicking the “read more” button below each twitter, OR you can follow us directly by heading over to the twitter website and signing up for your own free account! You can read and upate your own twitter from the web, or send and receive updates through text messaging on your phone!
Enjoy the blog, and come back and visit us again soon!
If you are feeling nostalgic and want to visit the old blog you can always go check it out here
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03.17.2010 by Jen Stewart Photography | in Main |
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On Saturday we headed out to photograph Mike & Kelly’s Engagement Session. This couple is awesome!!! They are so laid back, so funny, so fun to be around, and they were up for anything!!! We started out in Old Sacramento, which on Saturday was hosting a ST. Patrick’s Day festival. With all the people and activities going on all around, it was so fun!! One of the cool things they love to do together was getting a drink and just walking around and being with each other, and being goofballs in the process… which of course we love!!! The day was fun and relaxed and I know I said it before, but it was FUN!!! Mike & Kelly we had a amazing day with you two. Enjoy your teaser!!!
There was a Irish band playing and they enjoyed listening and watching the band. Love that!!!
Remember when I said they were goofballs……..yah we love that!!!
They are so genuine!!!!
My view!
Jens View!
So we had to show this. I tend to convince the grooms-to-be to do some crazy things. Here is one!!
Here what we did to get these next few shots!!
Jen’s View!
My view!
My fav shot of the day!!
Ok so we are walking around and i look over and see this old gray van that was converted into a elephant and the owner was “Zippy” the clown. Yah a clown. It was hilarious that Mike looked at me and said ” we need to get a few shots with him and the van” Can I say that we love them!!
LOL I love this
and this.
Mike did a imitation of a elephant which was hilarious. Jen’s View. I love Kelly’s reaction.
My view.
They are such down to earth people!! They love to play cribbage, so of course we had to grab a drink at Fat’s and have them play a bit!
I think Kelly is going to win!!
Ohhhhh so awesome!!
DIG IT!!!!
LIKE I SAID ONCE AGAIN……………………FUN!!!!
So Jen rocked this last shot!!!
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02.03.2010 by Jen Stewart Photography | in Main |
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One of the best things with this job, is the clients we get to meet and work with, and David & Katie were those clients. Last weekend we went out to Old Sac to hang out and photograph their engagement session. Talk about alot of fun and especially when it was supposed to rain possibly and turned out that the sun was out the entire day. YEAH FOR SUNNY WEATHER!!!! We had a blast with them. David & Katie, we hope you guys had alot of fun. Enjoy this teaser from the session!!! Looking forward to showing you the rest very soon!!
Meet David & Katie.
Jen’s view of me setting up a shot. Dont I look amazing?
My view
Love this.
HAWTNESS!!!!
Having some fun and trying something new!! Dig it!!
Ehhhh…..how you doin……
Oh Hawtness………
Love this!!!
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