Wedding Pictures...I just had to share these!

I just had to share these wedding pictures with all of you that we took last month! I'm not sure how many people check out our website to see the updated pictures, but these were some I am VERY proud of! Joe and I both shot this wedding, and I don't think we could have asked for a more beautiful bride, groom, wedding party, family and scenery! The couple was married at a park in Orange, the nature backdrop was perfect!

This wedding party was so much FUN! Not only was everyone beyond friendly, but they were pretty much willing to do/try whatever we threw at them. We all had so much fun and you can tell in the pictures that EVERYONE enjoyed it!

We took well over 1000 pictures and I narrowed them to around 800 of our favorites. We couldn't wait to show the couple their pictures, and they LOVED them all! I'm pretty sure we will be working with them again as well as their friends! It is such a great feeling to make people SO HAPPY!

I almost forgot the best part of the night! Right before the ceremony, Joe was helping me with my lens and we were talking about where we would each stand to get the pictures we needed. As Joe bent down to pick up a lens on the ground I heard a very strange tearing sound...YEP, that's right people, Joe ripped the butt out of his black dress pants. I didn't even know what it was at first, until Joe's look of utter fear came over his face, that's when I laughed the hardest laugh ever! The best part was when Joe turned around to ask me if I could tell and his white underwear was peeking out...I simply said "No, not really" Clearly, you could see it, but we didn't have time to think about it. 5 minutes later the bridal party was walking down the aisle and Joe was dead center taking pictures. After the ceremony was over I couldn't find Joe ANYWHERE! I continued to take pictures of everyone without him, until he walked up to me and asked if I could see his underwear now?? I thought "Oh GOD, he took them off" But, no...Joe found a roll of duct tape and taped his crotch back together. It actually looked really good, just a little like he had a wedgie. I am SO PROUD!

I tried to post some of the pictures that are not on our website so you can see some different ones. If you haven't visited our website please do!! www.JosephWilliamPhotography.com

I love the street pictures.

No, these are NOT their dogs! HAHA! A nice man walking by let us borrow them for pictures. We thought they would make for some fun pictures, and they DID! You know us and how much we love dogs...did you expect anything else?!?!

This looks like it should be on the cover of a dog or bride magazine, SOMETHING! Too funny!

I don't think she could have looked more stunning!

Heehee, I love it!

This is for sure one of our all time favorites, it will be hard to top this one!

Nice Ring!!

Romeo oh Romeo....

Such a happy couple!

I love their faces!

Yes, we did some normal pictures too...they didn't like them as much though :)

Handsome groomsmen

I sure did like laying on the ground with all these people staring at me while I tried to make them laugh...just imagine it, pretty funny! It consisted of me begging them to not step on my head!

Love it!

Look at those proud parents!

The Kiss...

Prayer...

Flower girls always have a hard time listening...too much excitement!

The rings...

Daddy giving her away....

Getting ready to walk her down the aisle...

The groomsmen...

Fun picture I took of the girls getting the bride ready, heehee!

Stunning!

Thanksgiving in Ohio!

As most of you know, we were very blessed to be able to spend Thanksgiving with my family in Ohio this year! We were able to spend 10 days....which was not long enough for me, but I'm sure too long for Joe :)

Being able to spend the holidays with family means so much more to me now that I live so far from home. I find that relaxing around the kitchen table and chatting means the world to me. I was able to have lunch with old co-workers, dinner with my life long high school friends, family bonding time with little Kaitlyn...and we also made it to the OSU vs MICHIGAN game and time with Detroit friends! What could be better?! GO BUCKS!

We didn't take many pictures for some reason, but we did get the camera out to take some pictures of our Thanksgiving feast! Everything was wonderful, thanks mom! :)

We love you all and miss you tons! Now get your little butts out here!

Me and Gipper...the cutest little guy ever. My first baby. I miss him, but he is so happy in Ohio.

Dad with Patton and Gip, it was a bit chilly out on Thanksgiving Day!

Me, acting like I'm helping :)

Our 14 lbs turkey, without the Gladieux clan we had no need for the 25 lbs turkey!

I guess it was dad's turn to act like he was helping!!

Brittany and "Baby BOY Gurtzweiler" helped too! :)

Mom cutting the turkey.

Our table, I took the picture of the eggs and olives for you Britt!! It's our favorite!

Kaitlyn playing peek-a-boo with Uncle Joe! She LOVES him!

Joe's hands making a heart...He loves her too!

Kaitlyn and Joe

Here are a series of really cute pictures of Kaitlyn........

If we could clone her we would! She has the tiniest voice and she talks and sings all day long! SO cute!

Skyping with Britt, Ryan, Mason, Ben, Tessa and Stein!

Grandma reading a book to Kaitlyn!

Books have so many uses!

Now THAT is talent!

Grimmy, the last of our 20 something farm cats!

Joe and Kaitlyn watching Dora.

I sure am missing this little girl!

*~Our newest Family Photos!! ~*

We did a really fun Photoshoot with a family in Laguna a couple weeks ago! It was so much fun, they have an 8 month old and they brought their doggie with them too! I SO loved taking pictures of little Ella (I nanny for her 2 days a week) She is an absolute doll and is so much fun! Joe really prefers photographing adults because children can be so difficult, but that is where I can step up! At one point when I was sweating on the beach from jumping up and down, making weird high pitch noises and yelling, I actually stopped and looked at the couple to apologize for my weirdness...is that wrong?? But, I made the baby smile and the dogs ears perk, so all was good into he end. We were so happy with the pictures and the family is over the moon with how they turned out! I really do love this job! Oh, and I actually helped take pictures this time too....AND I got some of our favorite pictures! I told Joe he better step up his game because I might just be better at this than he is :) Okay, probably not, but I am for sure better at the editing part.

We have a wedding this weekend here in Southern CA. We are both looking forward to the beautiful location, it is in Orange in one of the last remaining Orange Tree reserves in CA.

WE WILL BE COMING BACK TO OHIO NOVEMBER 18TH-28TH! SO EXCITED TO SEE EVERYONE AND EXCITED THAT WE WILL BE HOME LONGER THAN 4 DAYS!

Love to you all,

The Jankord Family

Here are some picture of the Dominguez Family!

HaLLowEEN FuN!

Hope everyone had a wonderful Halloween! Joe and I LOVE this time of year and I'm pretty sure Halloween has become our favorite holiday!

Growing up in the country we didn't ever get trick or treaters at our house, so we would go to my grandma's house in Stony Ridge and hand out candy or go trick or treating with our cousins. I swear I can remember every single year like it was yesterday. I LOVED handing out the candy to all of the children when I got "too cool" to trick or treat. It was always something to look forward to! As I moved into my own house I held some Halloween parties and I now have several fun decorations...including a strobe light, a rock that makes creepy noises when you walk up to it and a few other light up things.

I'm not sure Joe really ever went to this extreme with the decorations as a child, but I can tell you all he is living out all of his childhood dreams now! He is SO funny, watching him get the strobe light just right so everyone knows to come to our house. He attempts to jump out of the bushes to scare the children and even yells at the people driving too fast down the street! The whole time we are passing out candy he says "I LOVE HALLOWEEN! IT'S MY FAVORITE HOLIDAY EVER!" It really is cute to see him so excited...he is my grown up 5 year old!

We also attended a few Halloween parties. Our neighbor's held a party at their house which was lots of fun! Joe and I both went as Robin Hood...sadly everyone called Joe Peter Pan, which I thought was hilarious, Joe not so much! My dad now refers to him as "The Pan"

Here are a few pictures from the party! :)

Robin Hood and Peter Pan :)

Big Booty Judy, Peter Pan and a Witch...Joe clearly needs a water!

Big Booty Judy, White Trash QB, Crazy Guy ?, Mario and a Witch

The Crew, what a great looking bunch