Kiera & Adam :: Engagement Party!

Meet the wonderful Kiera and Adam!! A couple weeks ago I photographed their engagement party, and the next day they moved together to Regina where Adam was starting a new job. I felt so honored to be a part of their wonderful night, and it was similar to a reception in that there were speeches by friends and family, lots of laughs, and also a few tears. One thing I love about hearing the speeches is how I feel afterward like I know them well, and also hearing about how wonderful they are both as individuals and as a couple, and I love hearing just how loved the couple is – and Kiera and Adam are very, very loved, and it was so heartwarming and wonderful to see! Kiera’s family is such a close family and I loved seeing that, and they were all so nice and so fun, and Kiera and Adam’s many friends were so close to them and both so happy for them and so sad for them to be leaving. The whole night was really wonderful and left me with warm and happy feelings at all the love I’d witnessed. I know I’m bordering on cheesy here, but that’s how these parties/receptions end up making me feel!

The party was hosted by and held at the house of close friends of Kiera’s family, and it was such an incredibly gorgeous home!! I admit I took a few wide shots just for my husband because I knew he’d love the layout and architecture of the house so much, and I loved the decor and just everything about it. The party was catered by Chef Craig Guenther of Urban Prairie Cuisine Catering, and the chefs were all such incredible professionals, the food was so gorgeous, and everyone at the party was raving about it all night. I didn’t get a photo of it, but Chef Guenther even made Kiera’s favorite for her – macaroni & cheese with white truffle oil, how amazing does that sound!!

I want to thank my wonderful future bride and groom, Aimee and Christopher, for recommending me to Kiera and Adam! I so loved getting to hang out with you both and get to know you that much better, and I can’t wait to be taking lots of sweet and romantic photos of you two!!!

At the end of the night, I had a mini session with Kiera and Adam in the basement, and that’s when I really fell in love with how they are together as a couple and how much fun they have and how affectionate they are with each other. I didn’t even have to tell them to kiss most of the time as they already were!

I did something new for this post!! I have slideshows at the end! I bought the program way back last June, but I only used it once a very long time ago and on my old computer, so I downloaded the Mac version for my new computer and had to teach myself again how to do it. I had to redo a few things and it took me quite awhile, and I’m certainly not at all a pro yet, but I’m so excited to be able to have slideshows sometimes now! I’ll teach myself more about timing the photos to the music soon, and also, I didn’t have any blank CDs with which to burn mp3 versions of any of the songs I love, so I had to go to my old computer and try to find any good mp3 songs, and I didn’t have much to choose from at all so I apologize for the songs not being the best fit. But slideshows, I’m so excited!! Also, I had to break them into two separate shows because I didn’t have any songs that were long enough. If anyone runs into any problems with them not working properly or affecting the blog in a negative way, let me know and I’ll take the embedded versions off and just post links to the two slideshows instead.

Here are many of my favorite photos from the evening, followed by the slideshows! And thank you so much to Kiera and Adam, I had so much fun and you were both so warm and inviting and wonderful in so many ways, and you two together were so so so much fun to photograph!!! I hope we can do an outdoor engagement session sometime when you’re in town and it’s warmer!!!