arizona wedding photography ~ brenda eden photography

{Heather + Joseph's Wedding}

Heather and Joseph's wedding! 

More than any other wedding I have done, I went into this one wanting to tell the story of exactly how this day was. So here are a few photos to tell you exactly how this day was.

Some of the guests at the wedding:

 A red parasol and the brightest blue of mid-morning June skies! Love.

Thank you, little girl, for looking right into my lens. That is what makes me love this photo.

What do you notice about these 2 photos (the one above and the one below)? See how the kids are in the first row and then the kids aren't in the first row? Yeah, the kids got kicked out of the first row. Right as the wedding was starting. Heather saw the kids up there and saw that the girls didn't yet have a place to sit, so she ordered the kids to the back. Which was totally awesome! None of this wedding-perfectness for Heather!

Joseph's dad was the officiant. I liked him immediately. 

Why do I love this photo of Heather signing her marriage license? Let me tell you. It's the little detail of Heather holding her daughter's sippy cup. Bethany Garvey, my second photographer got this little detail that tells exactly how the day was and I love it. Thanks Bethany!

Girls in summer dresses.

Heather, you are the most adorable bride ever. Your giddy, giggly laughing happiness was so infectious and so fun.

Joseph, you look kind of Mad Men-ish in this. Well, maybe. I never get around to watching that show very much, but that is what your suit makes me think of.

She always had that delighted, adorable smile on her face. All day long. That's how this day was.

One of a billion takes on the American Gothic idea that every wedding photographer out there does. Including me.

What you  can't see from this photo of Heather playing the piano, but I will tell you about, is how adorably happy Heather was being. Bouncing off the walls happy. So very Heather.

I have a sneaking suspicion that this one below is Heather's favorite photo.  I have seen it at her house on her walls.

Fast forward about seven hours. Now it's at Heather and Joseph's home for the party they threw for all their friends and family and co-workers and neighbors.

I am always struck by how I never know what I will get going into a wedding. For some weddings I really try to pre-plan it in my head. For others, I just know that I can't know and I just wait to see what I will get.  Of course, you never know what you will get, but this is what we got just as the day was ending. And I love it.

Heather is a chemist. Joseph is a theatre director. 

I think of Heather as my music twin. Not that we like the same songs, although we probably do, but just that we feel the same way when our favorite songs come on. Like this. :)

Thank you Heather and Joseph for having me photograph your wedding and thank you even more for being such wonderful friends!

{Yvette + Peter}

Yvette and Peter!

I met up with Yvette and Peter for engagement session photos in downtown Phoenix on a Sunday afternoon. It felt like we were the only people in the city while we wandered around a coffee shop, through empty alleys and past boarded up houses as the sun started to set. Later on we climbed up to the top of a parking garage to see the city skyscrapers as it got dark. And then after that, Yvette changed into a gorgeous dress and Peter changed into his military uniform. And then, even though it started to get pretty freezing, we went to the Arizona Center and I used my video lights to create the last images for fun.

Gorgeousness!

Thank you Yvette and Peter! You guys are so sweet and I had soooo much fun with you! :)

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{Loraine and Tim's Wedding at Boojum Tree Hidden Gardens}

Boojum Tree Hidden Gardens is a dreamy place to get married.

Loraine and Tim had an enchanting wedding there on an evening when a monsoon storm was threatening to blow in, but never quite did. If you like watching Lost because of the loveliness of the setting or you liked watching reruns of Gilligan's Island as a child, then you would probably be delighted with the Boojum Tree. It's great fun for photography because there were a lot of hidden areas that we kept coming across.

Loraine created this dress from dresses that she got at Forever 21. I just really loved her creation and kept thinking she should go into business designing wedding dresses if this is the type of thing she was able to think up!

Her boys walked with her down the aisle.

Married!

Thanks Loraine and Tim for having us there to photograph your beautiful wedding!

Boojum Tree is located here:

16026 North 36th Street Phoenix, AZ 85032

602-867-8975

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LOVE Birds ~Jessica + Stan's Day After the Wedding Family Brunch and Photography~

The day after their gorgeous DIY wedding at Highlands Church in Scottsdale, Arizona, Jessica and Stan's friends and family met back at Jessica's parents' house in Phoenix for brunch and to hang out and watch Jess and Stan open up their wedding gifts. Jessica had all these awesome details for her wedding and she incorporated the same ideas into her brunch. Her color was red and the theme was Love Birds and those details were all over her parents' house for the brunch. It was cute to see how so many of the gifts that Jessica and Stan's friends and family gave them took into account that Jessica used red as her color for her wedding.

Stan:

Jessica:

 It was fun to catch guest's reactions to the gifts that Jess and Stan were getting. It didn't hurt that Jessica's parents' house has a skylight and I was shooting with the Canon 135 mm 2.0 lens. Filtered sunlight + a super sweet lens = happiness for me. :) 

 

I love DIY details at weddings. Jessica's style and talent was really on display in the details of her wedding.  
 

 I think Stan took these dreamy photos of Jessica. I left the room and I think Stan got one of the cameras and took these. Am I right, you guys? Or was it Becky? Not sure! But anyways, I love the idea of seeing what kind of photos the bride or groom would take of each other, so that might be a little project of mine in the future. These are totally dreamy and I love them. 

Good job, Stan!

After brunch and after they opened their gifts, Jessica and Stan and Becky and I went out in the front yard and back yard for more images of the newlyweds. Becky shot for a while and then I shot for a while and then I disappeared to get some of the leftover red velvet cupcakes and iced tea that was available for everyone. It was such a lovely relaxed atmosphere all over the house and in the backyard. There were babies and kids all over the place and one of the guests had a guitar and was playing music. His siblings were joining in singing and they all had beautiful voices. 

See Stan's Mini Cooper? See how it's red? Yep, Jessica helped him pick out that one. :)

  Jessica and her niece. Emotional-baby photos are the best! :)

 
  
 

The day after this, Jessica and Stan went to Hawaii for their honeymoon. And after that, they moved to Nashville!

 See more:

Jessica and Stan's Wedding 

Jessica getting ready for the Wedding

Jessica and Stan's Engagement Session Photos

Jessica and Stan's Save the Dates  

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{Amber and Isaac's Wedding}

Amber and Isaac were married in October in a beautiful house out in the desert north of Phoenix. It was a perfect October day to get married in Arizona; the day was warm enough and the evening had that wonderful October chill that everyone who lives in Arizona waits all summer long for. It was a joy to create images for Amber and Isaac, they are so in love and their families were so sweet. Thank you Amber and Isaac for having us there to document your beautiful wedding! 

Amber's aunt created her gorgeous dress. 

Oh Amber, you are so gorgeous!

I love this one of her grandfather giving her a hug.

And I love the sparkly-ness of this one. :)

Late night = you always spy sleeping kids at weddings. So cute.

The desert road outside the house: 

I wanted to see how these images looked in a collage, so here they are. I love it!

To see more of Amber and Isaac, click here to see my favorite image from their engagement session.

and here to see their engagement session in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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