I know everyone has been anxiously awaiting to here all about the Out of the Box workshop!  I cannot believe it was almost two weeks ago already.  Leave it to the holiday season to make every day go by at warp speed!  Well as expected the workshop was a total blast!  We had the best group of girls on the planet sign up! It was two exciting days of cameras, computers, models, questions, answers, great food, cool photographers, and lots and lots of chatter!  I mean when you get that many awesome ladies in one room what else would you expect!

Day one started out with a meet and greet over coffee and cinnamon buns, and was directly followed by a dive right into camera setting and shooting style.  With all this camera talk we worked up our appetite and  took a break for more food!  On the lunch menu was curried chicken salad sandwiches and Tomato bisque soup!  As promised here is the recipe for the curried chicken salad:

1/2 cup of mayonnaise

1 tablespoon of honey

1 tsp of curry powder

2 cups cubed cooked chicken

1 cup halved green grapes (also can subsitute craisens, or chopped apple)

1/2 cup slivered almonds

4 green onions chopped

pita bread, cossants, or buns

lettuce leaves!

After lunch we got down to the nitty gritty business side of photography.  We probably could have spent a couple more days here!  So much to talk about, so little time!  We ended the business section by  participating in an eye opening pricing structure exercise!  This may have been the highlight of the day!  Well after the curried chicken salad of course!  Once we got our hearts racing with the pricing section of the day we head out the door for two amazing stylized shoots.  The lighting was absolutely perfect!  Our models totally rocked it out, and it has been so fun seeing everyone’s images going up!

Day two was all about Lightroom and Photoshop and we managed to cut everyones editing time in half!  We showed everyone our entire workflow, and then Laura went through her print appointment, and shared with everyone how to up their sales!  The last hour we spent with Q&A and ended the day with some stellar prize giveaways!  Jessica Walters hit the photography jackpot winning the grand prize of a year long subscription to Showit and a brand new custom design template from Sitehouse Design!!!  Jessica also won her spot to the workshop so I think she totally needs to purchase a lotto ticket!  A HUGE  mahalo goes out to all our sponsors: Showit, Sitehouse, Hawaii Photo Rental, Kiss Wedding Books, Kai Designz, Kubota Image Tools, Totally Rad Actions, Kelly Moore, and Expo Imaging for providing us with great prizes and discounts!  Thanks also to Brenda Van, Debbie Jones, and Wendy Zippwald for helping out during the entire event!  Last but not least I  want to send lots of love to all our attendees!  I hope you all loved the experience as much as Laura and I did!  Can’t wait for the next one!

Now since pictures are worth a thousand words check out our day in pictures:

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There has been such a great response to the workshop every since we made the announcement last week! Laura of Laura Fleming Photography, and myself are joining forces and having a two day intensive photography workshop on November 19-20, 2011 called “Out of the Box.”  This workshop is for photographers who want to learn how to  capture amazing images, and really learn the ins and outs of running a profitable business.  I have been sitting on the fence about doing a work shop like this for such a long time  and finally decided it was time to jump in with both feet and set a date!

I have been in the business for 7 years now and I have learned so much!  I have had highs and I have had lows, but for every mistake I made I grew just a little bit more.  Now that I finally feel like I have made it to the other side I really have a passion to help others get to where I am faster by sharing all that I have learned so they do not have to make all those mistakes on their own.  I could only image how much further ahead I would be if someone had  taken me under their wing years ago.  I think the industry has come such a long way.  Photographers are no longer hoarding all their secrets, but instead sharing with others.  Of course there are still a few who do not want to give away what they know and feel like people starting out should have to pay the price like everyone else.  I, however, believe that when I invest in others I get back ten fold what I give out.  Laura and I both share the desire to invest in others so it only made sense for us to come together and do this workshop! So on a dream and a well planned whim the “Out of the Box” workshop was born!

Like I said, the workshop will be two awesome days!  The first day will be going over capturing great images in camera using manual settings, a comprehensive look into running a successful business, and will end was two amazing stylized shoots!  Which brings me to the reason for this post!  I am overjoyed to reveal the theme for our two shoots!  We will be doing one senior shoot, and one engagement shoot.

Laura will be heading up the senior shoot and she has some amazing things in store!  Here is a look at the story board that she is using for inspiration:

You can check the full board on Pinterest HERE

Since my passion is in weddings and engagements I will be heading up the stylized engagement shoot.  The theme for the engagement shoot will be “Deserted Island”  Check out my inspiration board below!

You can check the full board on Pinterest HERE

If these inspiration boards haven’t already knocked your socks off then the list of giveaways is certain to!  I want to personally thank all the sponsors who have donated their amazing products!  Check out this list!

*Showit has generously given 2 one year subscriptions to their website hosting and web design platform, specifically designed and developed for photographers.  It is the only site I would ever use!

*Promise Tangeman of Sitehouse designs has donated a custome style group which is going to make your new Showit site look A-MAZING!

*Hawaii Photo Rental is giving away a $50 gift certificate towards your next rental.  If you were wondering this is THE place to rent everything photography you need in Hawaii!

*Kevin Kubota Of Kubota image tools has given us a $50 gift certificate towards his amazing actions.

*Kiss Wedding Books will be giving away a $150 gift certificate to be used towards their Kiss flush mount sample albums.

*Ben Turner of Kai Designz will be giving away free website analysis and a custom Iframe for your Facebook business page

*Also just so everyone goes home a winner Kubota image tools will be giving a 15% discount card to every attendee, and to any attendee who signs up with Showit site will receive PASS, which is an online digital image delivery system, eliminating the need for those soon to be obsolete DVD’s!  To see more about Pass check out the video here: http://passpremier.com/ …and more to come!!

If you have not yet purchased your ticket there are still a few more left, however now that we have given out all the exciting 411 I can’t promise they will last long!  Click on the registration tab below to sign up now!!!

This has been a great week! It started with a trip to Maui with two of my favorite photographers on the island, Laura Flemming and Brenda Van Valkenburg. I don’t know if Maui was ready for what hit them when we took over Paia with our cameras. What a fun little town to shoot pictures in. We just had to take the opportunity to get a few head shots! I think my favorite stop was an old vintage looking laundry mat! A photogs dream come true. Speaking of a photographers dream come true the whole reason we took this trip was to attend a Maui Smug Mug meeting hosted by the sweetest girl ever Anna Kim, and meet internationally known photographers Karen and Isaac Stott, as well as the amazing Duce 2 Duce videography duo Heather and Eugene Brown. I have been following these two talented duos for a few years and although I have always heard how open, kind, and helpful they are I never thought they would give little ‘ol me the time of day. Boy was I wrong. I try not to let it show, but if I were to be totally honest I lack a little, ok allot, in the self esteem department. I am always worried about what people are going to think of me, and when I compare myself to others I always feel I fall short. When I compare myself to industry greats like the Stott’s and the Brown’s I am not even in the same playing field. These guys are doing things with their businesses that I only dream of. They travel all over the United States and beyond to shoot weddings and do speaking engagements, and they have as much talent in their little pinky as I do in my entire body. Do I know that this is a total unhealthy way to view myself, and that I should never compare my selves to others, yes! I do know this! I am very well aware! That is why I am happier then ever that I bit the bullet and took this trip on a whim. You see, not only did Karen write me back with so much excitement and enthusiasm to be meeting me in person, but she set up a lunch date so we could hang out before the Smug meeting. Little ‘Ol me was moving up in the world and eating lunch with people I only ever dreamed of maybe being in the same room as one day! You see these people do not live up on this pedestal that I created for them. They live with both feet firmly planted on the ground! The same ground that I walk on! They are real people, and they really care! After being with these guys for, umm lets see, like 2 minutes, I felt like I had known them for years! In fact we had so much fun over lunch that we continued the fun at the beach, and then made plans to hang out for dinner as well. We even crashed their condo to shower and get ready for the meeting. At this time we started to worry that we had over stayed our welcome and were feeling a little guilty for taking up their whole day. Yep there I was trying to rebuild that pedestal. However they were quick to show me it was not like that at all, and they seriously were happy to call us friends! Did you hear that folks? Karen, Isaac, Heather, and Eugene are my friends! Add the fabulous friends I brought along on this trip and it was a total love fest. I just want to say thank you to each and every one of you for making me realize that we all put our pants on one leg at a time, and that we all serve the same awesome God who loves each and every one of us, even little ‘ol me! I am so honored to call you all friends! Here are some shots of the fun we had around Maui!

Check out this sunset!!

So that was the great start I had to my week and then it was followed by the amazing Equip & Inspire conference at Hope Chapel West Oahu this weekend. There were so many amazing speakers, sharing so many amazing things that my fingers could not take down notes fast enough:

Here are some of the things that really hit home for me!

It is funny when God is trying to teach me something He makes sure he drives it home a few times. Yes I am that stubborn! Well apparently I needed to hear this a few times, because here we go again. The first speaker I heard was Pastour Lisa Kai. She spoke about not listening to the lies we tell ourselves. Lies like I am not good enough, if only I was as good as ________! Ok God I get the message! She spoke about the importance of being a God pleaser and not a people pleaser. That comparing yourselves to others will always slow you down. To focus on what you can do rather then what you can’t do! Hmmm seems like I heard Karen say the same thing during the Smug meeting Thursday night. God is so good! I love when he drives things home! Ben Houston said it well when he said “quit saying I can’t and start saying I can!” I love how true this is both in life and in my business. In fact the whole sermon really paralleled both and was so great to hear.

Pastour Normand Nakanishe spoke about dreaming big! He said “We have no idea what God is about to do!” How exciting is that? God has so much good in store for us that we cannot even wrap our heads around it. We think our ideas and dreams are big but God has dreams and ideas for us that are so much bigger! Now that is exciting!

Pastour Ben Houston spoke on going deeper =  doing. That learning more about God is great,  however  we are not told to be hearers of the word,  we are called to be doers of the word!   That we can share the good new about Jesus even if we do not feel like we know enough to do so. That we can take the little that we know well and tell it with enthusiasm!

Mike Kai brought it home with a sermon on “Being in the Zone” He told us to be the best you can be right where you are! Third times I charm God! Got it! Not to be discontent with what you have. Always want to grow more and dream big but not to be dissatisfied with where you are now. To be content but not complacent! Wow what a whole lot of encouragement. I feel truly blessed to have a God who loves little ‘ol me.  Who cares for me, and who answers prayers, even the little ones I whisper in the back of my mind.  That thinks as highly of me as those people I placed way up top on those pedestals. I am blessed.

Last night we all had a blast at the first official P31 Hawaii shoot out!  P31 Hawaii is a a group of gals that have branched out from the nationwide P31 Photographer’s group started by Karen Stott!  We are a group of ladies that are crazy about photography and crazy about Jesus!  I created the Hawaii group so that all us local photogs can get together, encourage each other, and grow together as we grow our business.  We just had our first dinner meeting last week and this group is quickly growing into so much more then a group of photographers who love photography and love Jesus, we are becoming family!  I am so excited about the friendships that have been made because of this group.  You are all just totally awesome in my book!

So last night was our first official shootout.  A shootout is when a bunch of photographers get together, come up with a theme, and then shoot until our hearts content!  Last night we had two different set ups!  The first was an engagement shoot that was themed around the Disney Pixar movie “UP”.  Congratulations to our gorgeous and absolutely adorable couple Colin and Ines who were engaged in May.  Can I just say that they got into character and played the part to a T!  We recruited my son Corben to play the part of the boy scout and a fellow photog Laura Flemming, lent her dog Duke to play the part of Doug!  We shot the whole thing in the most stunning location, and everything came together even bigger and better then any of us imagined.  Big mahalo goes out to Brenda for bringing out her lighting and giving everyone a tutorial on light meters and off camera light!  It was fun to play around with some different looks, and although it was fast and maybe a bit crazy at times, I know everyone had fun and took something away from the night that they did not know before!

Our second couple was a bride and her military man!  The bride was one of our own P31 gals and she was stunning!  Her and her husband were never able to get the wedding pictures they always wanted because of deployments, and all the other hurdles they had to jump just to be together.  The dress I wore last year for Ben and I’s wedding vow renewal happened to fit Ann perfectly, and her man in his dress blues was a sight to be seen.  It was more then an honor to capture these pictures for Ann and her husband, and the tears of joy that stream down her face every time she looks at them says it all.  As a fellow photographer she knows how important pictures are, and it feels amazing to give her a gift that I know she holds so dear to her heart!

Last but not least hear in a shot of the whole gang at the end of the night!  Thanks to everyone for coming together and pulling off this epic shootout!  You have all been such a blessing to my life!  Stay tuned for a behind the scenes video of the whole extravaganza!

From left to right Ann Lee, Brenda Van Valkenburg, Kim Rossi, Debbie Jones, Lauren Martinez, Jessica Walters, Crystal Fukata, Alyssa Turner, Corben Turner, Ines Bressner, Colin Hunt.

Yesterday we celebrated Aven’s 2nd birthday and you know what that means…….time for a photo shoot! This year we decided to do a cooking themed shoot and can I just say, she is one cook I cannot help but kiss! I often say that it is a good thing she is so cute because there are days when I want to her post her in an ad up on Craigslist. However just when she pushes me to the very edge with her ear piercing screams or toss on the floor temper tantrums she does something so stinken cute that it just makes everything else melt away. It is almost freaky how she has mastered this art! She has the perfect combination of sassy and cute and knows when to play each one to her advantage. She may be the youngest of five, but this little princess can hold her own both in and out of the kitchen! Happy birthday sweet girl!

This past Saturday we threw a party to celebrate my birthday and the launch of my new AlyssaPix website!  Thanks to all who came out and supported the launch!  I wish I would have taken more pictures but we were all too busy having a blast to pick up the camera.  I did manage to snap a few off at the end but I am kicking myseld for not getting a big group shot, and a shot of all the guys drinking girly blue cocktails!  It was a super fun night that went by too fast!  I just wish I could do it all over again in slow motion.  So with all the excitement of the new site and because July is my birthday and I love both receiving and giving presents (mostly receiving but still)  I thought this is the perfect time for a new contest.  This contest starts today and is going to be the biggest best contest I have ever had.  As you can see the new website is geared more towards weddings then families.  After 7 years of photography I have discovered that my favorite thing to shoot is weddings.  There is just something about capturing those moments in time when two people in love become one that just gets my heart pumping!  So this contest is going out to all you local bride and grooms!  I want to offer more then just great wedding pictures to my clients, I want to offer a whole experience.  From the day you first inquire all the way to the celebration of your first anniversary I want to invest in your marriage and not just your wedding day.  I am so excited to begin this new path and thought that this contest would be the perfect way for one lucky couple to win that whole AlyssaPix experience.  So I will be giving away 8 hours of coverage by AlyssaPix and the red carpet experience FOR FREE (a $2500 value)!  To win this contest you need to email me a paragraph on why you want to be an AlyssaPix bride or groom along with a photo of you and your fiance.  The deadline for this contest is September 15th, so if you are engaged, know someone who just got engaged, or plan on getting engaged then jump on this opportunity!  Please click here to enter and see all the details and fine print!

I want to send out a huge thank you to Josh and Amber Meeks for filming and editing my new promo video, Michael Hardie for coming up with the design elements of the new site, Chantelle Drumeller of Simply Blissful Photography for shooting the pictures for my stop motion video in her studio, my children for being part of my video and putting up with their parents working endless hours to get ready for the launch, and last but not least my incredibly handsom and talented husband Ben of Kai designz for implementing all his web master talents on my site!  Also have to shout out to all my friends for letting me get advise and feedback from you, Debbie Jones and Maya Terhune for helping me with food for the party, and my clients for being so amazing and giving me all sorts of compliments in my rave section!  Huge Huge Mahalo to you all!  I could not have done all this without all of you.

So without further ado here are some pics from the big AlyssaPix launch birthday bash party!

Let’s get silly!

My most recent AlyssaPix bride and groom!

These two act like newlyweds even though they have been married for years!

I LOVE it!

Thanks Brenda for this awesome gift!  Branding is everything

Thanks Laura for knowing I would love your necklace so much you bought me one also!

I am so lucky to be married to the cutest web designer on the planet!

Editing these pictures brought me back to that perfect Georgia spring evening sitting on the back porch with one of  my favorite families.  Yes,  I can almost feel the wind on my face, taste the delicious BBQ on my lips, and here the crowd cheering as I kick some corn hole butt!  Yep thats right!  Folks you heard it here first!  I, Alyssa Turner, am the corn hole tournament champion.  I am just waiting for my official “Corn Hole Champ” shirt to come in the mail.  I don’t know that it is the most flattering title in the world to hold but I am going to wear it proud!  To this day I can’t say the words without smirking.  I don’t know if it is just my lack of southern charm, or my short stint in prison, but I can not say “yes I just got it in the corn hole!”   with a straight face.   I was in total shock that I was the only one who had this problem!  How did everyone not giggle like a school girl every time they heard it.  Not only that but I am pretty sure I said “that’s what she said!” about 50 times that night!  Then I proceeded to laugh at my witty sense of humor…..to myself!  I know real mature, but I have not quite adapted to life on the outside yet.  Ok fine, so I did not really have a short stint in prison but if I ever do remind me not to wear my t-shirt!

Corn hole, for all of you that are unaware is a super fun game that I just happen to be awesome at!  I know, I know, add it to the list!  Ok it may have been beginners luck,  or my awesome partner, or maybe the great tasting BBQ that brought me to my victory that night, but Alyssa is my name and Corn Hole is my game!  Winning the tournament was not the very best part of my night though.  No the best part was hanging out with the Alexander’s and the Griffin’s!  Vanessa has been one of my best friends for the past 8 year, and her family has become my family.  In fact we have had adoption papers drawn up and signed to make it official!   Grandmuv gave it the seal of approval and I am in like flint!  Not only to I have the best new extended family ever, but my new dad from another lad happens to make the best BBQ in the whole wide world!  Of course he does not make it very often because it requires a whole 24 hour cooking ordeal!  No he only saves it for very special occasions, like when I come to town!  My new sister from another mister made some amazing grits!  Coming from the great white North, this was my first grits experience, and although I have nothing to compare it to I am pretty sure Jenna’s grits is up there with dad’s BBQ!  Vanessa topped it off with some amazing rosted potatoe salad and we had a meal fit for a queen, or a corn hole champ!  Thanks for an awesome visit and your amazing southern hospitality.  I am missing you all like an inmate misses freedom!  I know what your thinking Vanessa so you don’t even have to say it.  Two words…..censor button!

THE COOK

THE FOOD

THE DRINKS

THE GAME

THE TEAMS (well most of them)

THE TOSS

THE CHAMPS!!!!!!!

Corben I cannot believe you are eight years old!  How did that happen?  It seems like yesterday when you were all snuggled up on the couch with you bald little head, your favorite blankie, and your toothless grin.  Now you are eight and you are almost as tall as me!  At least you still have your favorite blankie, and now that your two front teeth are missing you still have a toothless grin!  You are my sweet little momma’s boy and if anyone tries to tell you that being a mama’s boy is not cool you just don’t believe it ok?  Being a mama’s boy is way cool, especially with a groovy rad mom like me! I love you so much and am so proud of the young gentlemen you are becoming.  I love that you are still not too old for snuggles and goodnight tucks!  It is perfectly fine with me if you want to keep doing it into your thirties.  I know your wife may not agree but I am just saying I would be ok with it.  Happy Birthday Corby!  I love you!

Corben is my only son amongst 4 sisters and he is right smack dab in the middle of them all.  As you can imagine living in a house full of girls the football gets replaced with good hair tips and baseball gloves for dress up clothes.  Corben has awesome Justin Beiber hair so I am ok with the  first one but when you see the girls dress Corben up in a cinderella costume and tell him he must not be late for the ball well I have to put my foot down.  In Corben’s defense that has not happened in several years!  I will be the first to admit that the estrogen runs the Turner household so on Corben’s birthday we always make sure the party is all boy!  This year we decided to hit the tracks!  The race tracks that is!  Check out Corben and all his racing buddies!

Move over Martha!  You may think that you know how to throw the best parties, make all those cute little crafts like no one else’s business,  and knit oven mitts out of recycled yarn, but I say what else you got?  I think my best friend Vanessa (glue gun) Alexander just blew you out of the water.  Let’s just say if I had know that Vanessa had such mad craft skills I would have made her plan all my kids birthday parties.  The birthday party she created for her sweet Grayson’s first birthday made my silk flower arrangement I tried to pass off as the real thing at my wedding coward in the corner like a nerd at prom.  This was hands down the best, most fun, fabulously decorated 1st birthday party I have ever been to.  Grayson your mommy rocks!

Seriously when Vanessa asked me to fly out and take pictures for Grayson’s 1st birthday I was so excited!  When she text me a photo of the first pin wheel she hand made I nearly fell off my chair!  Then she told me she had made a special playlist to go along with his theme and everyone was going home with a CD!  My though was “wow this is going to be one special party for one special guy.”  But when  she called me and said she may have gone a little over board I started seeing everything in pictures and I could not wait to see it all in person.  Allot of blood, sweat, and tears went into planning the best party this side of the muddy Mississippi!  I can say this first hand because I strung pennets for 8 hours staright and witnessed 10 pounds of lemons being squeezed by hand.  It may have been allot of work but it was worth every last lemon drop.  Why don’t I just stop jabbering and let the pictures speak for themselves!

Grayson thank you so much for letting me capture this great celebration!  The theme was “You Are My Sunshine” and it could not have been more perfect because this little guy lives to make other people smile! He is the happiest baby on the planet and you just want to squeeze his little cheeks off his cute little smiling face.  I tried to sneak him in my suit case on the way home but I totally got caught on my way out the door.  Probably because the bag would not close all the way when I tried to squeeze his mommy in there also.  Miss you all so much and cannot wait to see your smiling faces again!  Happy Birthday Grayson!

Every kids dreams of having a lemon-ade stand this awesome!  Grandpa and Uncle Wes are pretty talented!

Now this is a dessert bar done right.  For the record everything tasted as good as it looks!  My waist band can vouch for me!

Check out these hand made pin wheels!  HAND MADE PIN WHEELS!

Have I told you how much I love this family?

There is something to be said about a love affair that begins at camp! Little did Maya know bathing herself in off mosquito repellant, and packing up her 6th grade class for an overnight trip to Camp Timberline, would result in meeting the man of her dreams! Maya tells me the story goes that he spotted her first. Greg might tell it a little different, but Maya swears that Greg was the one who could not keep his eyes off of her the whole time. He may have checked her out first but when Greg scolded one of the children and said “we do not say shut up at Camp Timberline……we say shut up please!” well Maya just knew he was the one, and As they say the rest is history!

Greg proposed to Maya on the beach two years later and they have been making wedding plans ever since! Seeing as  we are on the subject of proposals, I should probably go ahead and tell you the story behind this one! Each one tells this story a little different, but I like Greg’s version best. Once you hear it I am sure you will see why Maya left out some minor details when she told me her side. So once upon a time on a beautiful sunny day in Hawaii Maya and Greg cozy up on the sand and chat.  The sun was beginning to set behind them ,and they were slightly out of breath from a long day of surfing.  Greg grabs Maya by the hand and begins the speech that he had been rehearsing in his head for days. As the butterflies stir in his stomach he looks Maya in the eye and repeats what he had practice in the mirror hundreds of times before this moment, “you know Maya our life is almost perfect!” He breathed a sigh of relief as he got out that first sentence and things were going just as planned. But before he could break into his next line Maya retorts with “well it would be perfect if we had a working washing machine!” A bit stunned by Maya’s response and wondering in the back of his mind how the conversation went from wedding proposal to washing machines Greg decides to just start over. I mean after all, this is the speech that he had been rehearsing for weeks!  He could not let a little segway get the best of him. So he takes a deep breath and once again says “You know Maya our life is almost perfect!” A little confused Maya decides to keep her mouth shut this time and just smile, which is a good thing because the next line from Greg’s mouth were words that she would never forget. Greg down on one knee says “and the only thing that would make it totally perfect is if you would marry me!” This is the part in any normal fairytale where you would say “and they lived happily ever after” however Maya thinks traditions were made to be broken and decided to take a different turn on the usual fairytale ending. This was the part of the story that Maya left out when she told me the first time. Greg however was more then happy to fill me in!  So it turns out that the ring Greg picked out was slightly too small for Maya’s ring finger so she placed it on her pinky for the time being. Just like any girl who just said yes to marrying the man of her dreams she was overflowing with excitement and gushing like a school girl! (Being the best 6th grade teacher on the island she knows first hand how school girls gush!”) The sun was setting on the most perfect day of her life and she walked hand in hand with her new fiance on the beach when……oops! It turns out the ring that was a little too small for her ring finger was also a little to big for her pinky and off flies the ring into the sand! She felt it slip off her finger and as she ran through a series of what to do next scenarios she decides to tell Greg what happened. After all now that they were engaged it was for better or for worse right? So as she glanced to the left and tried to decided just how fast she could scale a few tree stumps and get into the get away car should Greg not think she is quite so cute with the ring he could have bought a small car with was buried in the sand, she confesses what happened. Lucky for her Greg was still so excited that she said yes he did not even get upset. Ok so he may have been a little upset but like a true gentlemen he hid his emotions and began to dig in the sand for the ring that he had placed on maya’s finger just moments before. After a few minutes of raking through the sand he found the ring and put it right back where it belonged.  No wait, first she made him propose again!  I can’t blame her, any true perfectionist would want to try again!  So Greg once again asked Maya to be his wife, and then they lived happily ever after! Of course once I heard the “full version” of the story I decided we must reenact it in photos! So check out the last photo to get a good visual!

Maya and Greg will be getting married next month and I cannot wait to see these two love birds tie the knot! leave them some love in the comments below and come back later to check out their wedding pics!

P.S.- for those guys out there that think taking pictures is so boring and lame, just like Greg used to, I will leave you with a quote! “You know that was really fun!” what?   yep you heard it here folks!  FUN!!!!  I am much to professional to ever say “I told you so” so I  just gave him a smile and nod….oh who am I kidding! I totally stopped in my tracks and made him repeat it just so the universe knows that I’ll be a monkey’s uncle if someone left a shoot without thinking it was fun! Just saying!

P.S.S- Sorry there are so many images!  These two are just too darn cute to narrow it down to just a few!

Heaps of love and blessings to you both! Can’t wait to rock it out at your wedding!