Engagement ~ Annie & Nick

And so it begins... the beginning of the 2009 wedding season. Annie & Nick are getting married in June. We headed down to the Botanical Gardens to do their engagement shoot. We had the challenge of rain today which eventually turned into snow later that evening and as most of you Coloradans know blanketed the entire state for two days. Luckily, the rain stopped just long enough for us to get some amazing outdoor shots and then we took some in the atrium. Nick works at the Botanical Gardens; so taking photos in the atrium where he works was important to him. I even got the full tour of the orchid room, which just happens to be my favorite flower!! I was pretty excited to see that!
I was saddened to hear from Nick that the Botanical Gardens will no longer be allowing professional photographers to do professional photo-shoots there unless it is a wedding that is booked there due to some bad apples! Apparently, one photographer had their model jump into a pond there (I'm guessing it was a trash the dress session) and another one dug up plants they didn't want in their shoot... come on guys! This a botanical conservatory. You'd think they'd have more sense than that, but apparently not.... and now they have ruined this opportunity for the rest of us! I'm all about pond jumping for a "trash the dress" session just not where there are expensive and maybe even endangered plants!!! I would still love the opportunity to do photos at this lovely location, maybe the gardens can start charging a fee that would cover the expense of a "tour guide" that would go with you during the shoot to make sure you are behaving... amazing that it has to come to that, but another alternative they should consider! I'm very excited about covering this couple's wedding... you guys were a lot of fun to work with on this engagement session and I only look for it to be a great wedding!

Since we're working on short time to get their guest book back I just posted that as well:
Annie & Nick's Guest Book