arizona wedding photography ~ brenda eden photography

{Jen & Mike}

Here are images from an engagement session for Jen and Mike! 

 

Jen and Mike are getting married this Spring in Illinois, but wanted engagement session photos while they were here in Phoenix. Becky and I met up with them right after New Years on what felt like one of the coldest days we have ever had here in the valley. I have done engagement sessions in 112 degree weather, but never in weather as cold as it was that day. 

While we were driving up Central Avenue in Phoenix to go from one location to another, I saw a wall spray painted with the words I Love You. Perfect for photos for the two of them! 

I had read on Jen's facebook that she was using paper cranes for her wedding and so I thought it would be fun to use them in her photographs. My idea was for Jen and Mike to be sitting on a grassy hill and throw the cranes up while we took photos. And what I especially wanted was for the sun to be shining and to use my reflector to reflect light back at them while they were throwing the cranes. I love visualizing ideas for engagement sessions and I was really looking forward to creating this idea. But! But while the day had started out sunny, it had gotten so cloudy and I really didn't think the sun would be coming out at all for the rest of the day. And then suddenly the sun did come out, and we all kind of ran up the grassy hill and I got to work on the idea I had my heart set on. 

Thank you Jen and Mike for having us create engagement photos for you! And best wishes on getting ready for your wedding this April! I really want to see photos from your wedding!

{Locations: Near Lola Coffee in Phoenix, Smeeks in Phoenix, a random wall with the words I Love You, a tiny alley, the Love Statue at the Scottsdale Civic Center.}

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Natasha + Josh

Natasha and Josh are getting married this summer in Iowa. Whoever their lucky photographer is, he is going to have a fabulous time with them! I really wish I could be at the wedding---hey Natasha and Josh, can I get an invite??!! You probably think I'm kidding! But I think it would be awesome to go to a wedding in Iowa in the summer! A long summer day in a place I have always assumed is gorgeous! And I would so love to see Natasha in her wedding dress---she described it and it sounded so beautiful. :)

(I've only been to Iowa once and it was night----my friend and I were driving through on the way to Chicago and we kept on stopping at motels and every one we went to was fully occupied. There was some huge convention going on and there was no where to stay! We were exhausted but we just kept driving and the sun was coming up as we were getting into Illinois.)

Natasha wanted to get engagement photos here in Arizona and searched for a photographer. She came across our blog and website and emailed me about meeting up for photos. I'm so glad she did, because we had such a fun time with them. It was such a gorgeous day with amazing sunshine, since it had rained the day before. Thanks Natasha and Josh! I hope you guys have a wonderful wedding this summer! 

   

I used my last polaroid on these two! And was glad to do it. Someday I'll get more. :)

....Wait for it!

I've posted this one before but I wanted to see how it went along with the others. I really, really, really want to do more night photography like this. Night photography like this takes long exposures, meaning we keep the camera aperture open for a few seconds to even longer, like half a minute, so our subjects have to stay frozen still for a while. In this image, Josh moved the flashlight in a heart shape for about 8 seconds and otherwise stayed perfectly still, as did Natasha. Good job, guys! 

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{LOVE Birds ~Jessica + Stan's Engagement Session}

Spring had popped like a baby chick out of an egg the day that Becky and I met up with Jessica and Stan for their engagement session. The weekend before I had gone scouting for locations for their engagement session and it was a dreary, gray day with clouds and rain, which of course in Arizona you have to be pretty happy to have. Because a couple days later when we met them, the skies were super bright blue and blossoms were starting to appear on the trees. 

Jessica had found our blog when searching for wedding photographers and really like some of our "vintage" photographs that we had created when we were doing a fun photo shoot with some of our photographer friends. She thought that our style would work well for the DIY style of wedding that she was creating. The theme for her wedding was Love Birds and if you scroll down you can see how birds really showed up for her engagement shoot!

Jessica told me that the color for her wedding would be red and so I wanted to find red backgrounds for her images. I love finding out what colors brides are using for their weddings and then I try to incorporate those colors into the engagement shoot. Becky and I found an elevator with red walls when we were scouting around the main campus of Arizona State University. Jessica knew about the LOVE statue at Scottsdale Civic Center Park and wanted to start out the photo session there.

I love how they turned out! Jessica and Stan, your wedding is going to be as bright and beautiful and fun as you two are!

Update! They got married! To see more of Jessica and Stan,  click on these links ->

Jessica and Stan's Wedding 

Jessica getting ready for the Wedding

Jessica and Stan's Engagement Session Sneak Peek

Jessica and Stan's Save the Dates  

Jessica and Stan's Day After Party and Photo Shoot

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{amber and isaac's engagement session}

Amber and Isaac are getting married next month! We had so much fun taking their pictures. We met up with them at Olive and Ivy  in Scottsdale and then walked around there getting pictures and after that we went to Arizona Falls. Amber's cousin Christine, who we've known since we were in high school, came with us. 

It was around 110 degrees that whole weekend, which kinda freaked me out when I saw on the weather station that it was going to be that hot. The weekend before we had had a storm, so it was much more comfortable, in the lower 90s. Even when it's hot, when I start taking pictures, I am having so much fun and I am so focused on the job that I can kinda forget how hot it is. But when you are standing there modeling and just having your picture taken over and over, I can imagine it gets really hot and you feel it a lot more than I would. Amber and Isaac, wow, you guys were amazing! I'm so glad you put up with the heat. I love the pictures we got and I had so much fun! 

       

So glad Isaac was up for jumping, I really like this pic Becky got.   

Amber's eyes are so gorgeous. I think this is definitely one of my favorites.

    

I like how it seems like they are kind of playing hide and seek with each other. ;-)

   

So glad they were up for trying this polaroid idea. I've seen this done on other blogs and thought it was so cute, so of course I was looking forward to trying it and I love how Amber's eye is visible in this one....also it was kinda fun to give them polaroids to take home with them.

 

Sexy girl! 

   

I've seen this done on other photographer's blogs and I thought it was so romantic.  I'm glad Amber and Isaac were willing to try it and then it worked just how I hoped it would!   

 

Thanks, Amber and Isaac, for having us take your engagement pictures. We can't wait for your wedding! :-) 

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amber + isaac

Amber and Isaac, you two are so gorgeous, inside and out, and we had so much fun taking pictures of you. :-) I really want to post more of you guys, but here is one for now; it's my favorite.

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