Nikki + Chuck | Topeka Wedding Photographer

Hey look a wedding!! Nikki and Chuck were married last month in Topeka on a really hot but beautiful day. Chuck was in Luke's class at the highway patrol academy, so he went with me and it was a lot of fun to see him having a great time with his classmates. Nikki is the sweetest person you could ever hope to meet. And she has the deepest dimples in the world! She can put M&M's in them!! Anyway, here are my favorites from their special day.









I love this part of the day!






















I couldn't resist including this one in my post. It's too funny!


Nikki and her sisters.


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july 2, 2011 | topeka, ks
ceremony & reception venue | St. Matthew Catholic Church
dresses | David's Bridal
hair | Stylin' Salon, Topeka, KS
florist | Dillon's
dj | Tidalwave Entertainment
cake | Kristine Hiebsch Romine

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Leigh + Tyler | Platte City Portrait Photographer

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wedding | august 27, 2011 | platte city, mo

together | spring 2008

engaged | 4.17.11

leigh | management assistant

tyler | sales representative

their engagement story, as told by leigh | "It was his Cocktail party and it was before it started. We were dressed up and he pulled me into the dance floor. He asked in the exact spot we met!"

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What's New Wednesday

1. I've been meaning to put a picture of this on here for ages, and keep forgetting! This amazingly adorable necklace was a gift to me from my sister a couple months ago...

Cute huh?! I love the little camera on it!She ordered it from a lady on Etsy, her site is www.3doodlefish.etsy.com. You really should go check her out! And as a thank you for ordering, she'll send you a lucky penny!
2. Lately I've been obsessed with this song...


I heart Florence and the Machine!

And this is my new workout song. It's perfect for me!


And I pretty much love anything Mumford & Sons plays, but this is my favorite lately.

3. Last Thursday after work I met my aunt and a group of ladies from my church in Topeka at the New Theatre Restaurant to see their showing of Andrew Lloyd Weber's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. It was my first time to see a show at the New Theatre Restaurant and it was so great! The food was pretty good and the show was amazing! We loved the singing but were really blown away by the dancing. It was so much fun! I had seen Joseph before at TPAC but not since I was probably in the 5th or 6th grade, so it was really nice to see it again, and I still remembered all the songs! I would definitely recommend going to see a show there soon!

4. Last Saturday I had the privilege of shooting the wedding of our friends Nikki and Chuck! Chuck was in the same academy class as Luke and a bunch of other classmates of his were there too. I know Luke really enjoyed getting to see the guys again and we all had a lot of fun dancing the night away!

We had a ton of fun, can't you tell!?

5. This weekend I'll be up in Hiawatha shooting the wedding of my best friend growing up, Teresa's wedding which I'm WAY excited about! And then on Sunday we're having our sort-of-annual-but-really-it's-whenever-we-finally-set-down-a-date Arnesen family reunion! So I'll be a busy girl!

See you next week!

Adventure in Powell Gardens

A few weeks ago Luke and I met my family at the Powell Gardens in Kingsville, MO on the east side of Kansas City. They were having a special Jurassic Garden with huge dinosaurs that my nephew Marcus was SUPER excited about! So this was a special trip all for him! It was a pretty drizzly morning which turned into a kind of chilly overcast afternoon, but we had a lot of fun. Here's Alexander all ready for his trek through the gardens!
And the serious dinosaur hunter! Marcus was funny and asked my sister if he could wear his dinosaur vest from his Halloween costume last year when he was a paleontologist. So he totally looked the part!
He got mad at all of us for walking slowly and not getting to the path fast enough! This is his exasperated face. He was very serious about his map reading duties.
Dinosaur footprints!

Marcus and uncle Luke were buddies that day!
Dinosaur hunters can't be bothered with silly things like taking pictures with their favorite aunts. Geez!
This is when Marcus and Jane saw a dinosaur in the distance for the first time. I think this is my favorite picture ever!

Alexander and grammy.

Marcus and the T-Rex!
Marcus and Luke at the top of the silo in the edible garden. You can climb all the way to the top and see all of the garden, which is huge!
This is just part of the edible garden.

Marcus was very sad to leave the dinosaurs behind.
Very sad.

I highly recommend taking the trip over to check out Powell Gardens. They have special events throughout the year and it's just neat to see everything anyway!