We love our job, we love weddings and we are proud of what we do, but we don’t brag very often. However, we are feeling very grateful for the amazing couples, families and companies we have worked with in 2011 and wanted to share a year in review with our blog readers!
Since most of our wedding and portrait inquiries are referral based (which was are so thankful for!) we wanted to try and expand our client base a bit. So our 2011 goal was to be seen more often. We participated in the Independent Wedding Association Fair in October and the Wedding Guys’ Unveiled show in November. Katrina has been staying active with the Fearless Photographers group and through those connections she was able to travel to Queretaro, Mexico, to learn and shoot alongside one of her favorite photographers, Fer Juaristi. She also traveled to New Orleans in November for the Fearless Conference to learn from some of the most amazing photographers working today. We have also designed and photographed a couple styled shoots this year, which allows us to go outside the box with design and work with our favorite wedding vendors.
We have also been published quite a few times this year! Rev Tomkin Coleman wrote a very sweet blog entry about working with us, and the following is a list of local, national and international wedding blogs that liked our work.
The Boho Wedding Blog – Kelly also featured one of our favorite weddings on the blog at the beginning of this year. We love Boho Weddings!
Studio Laguna has been published in print with both Minnesota Bride Magazine and MSP Weddings, it is such a rush to open a magazine and see your images! We were also featured on the Minnesota Bride Blog and another entry here, here, and here.
On top of the blog love, we have been very honored to have our work featured in the advertising and websites of fellow wedding vendors. Katrina photographed the base images used for Jessica’s Cakes awesome website and continues to work with her as often as possible (and eating her delicious desserts!) . Ashley Fox Designs also redesigned her website this year and chose many of our images in her portfolio. It is always a pleasure to photograph Ashely’s lovely arrangements. For the icing on the cake, Instant Request chose us as one of their preferred photographers! It is always a nice boost to the ego to have wedding vendors you admire think highly of your work, and we are so blessed to be in this community!
Ok, enough of the bragging. Time to put the humility hat back on =) We would be no where without our fabulous clients, all the thanks goes to you! Because we put much importance on our reputation, we would love if you would help us make it even better! Please take a few minutes to leave reviews of our work on Yelp, Wedding Wire, The Knot and especially Google. The more reviews we have help establish our credibility and gets our name higher up in google searches, so they are much appreciated.
Happy Holidays, and have a Festive Festivious!
I’m so glad you finally took my advice and bragged a bit! Choosing you as our photographer was the best choice we made for our wedding, and I think it is great that the blog world is taking notice.
You forgot about your ISES Award nomination!
You both deserve a BIG pat on the back! You work so hard! Shows that you get out what you put in – you both are fantastic at what you do. Keep it up!
Gretchen, you’re right! Hopefully we’ll get another one this year =)