This past weekend I had the pleasure of shooting for Beth Helmstetter at a baby shower here in town.
I first met Beth on the Big Island of Hawaii.
She was the wedding coordinator/decorator extraordinaire, while Ryan and I filmed every detail of the couple’s day. I helped her carry white chairs out onto the black sand beach and we chatted amongst the bus loads of Japanese tourists that nearly took over the wedding photography for the day. We had a blast working together and kept in touch through the wonderful world of email and Facebook.
When she flew into Kansas City last year to do a baby shower, Jenae and I both went and shot pictures for her. It was the most amazing party I think I’ve been to in terms of personality and decorations. I seriously felt like I was at one of Oprah’s gigs.
She’s one of my favorite people, even though she called me a “girl” for noticing all of her decoration details and just loving the awesomeness that is her ability to take a baby shower + barbecue and yet, make it so much fun and personal. From the “howdy” tags she had hanging off of each straw to the wooden invitations and mason jars full of white daisies, I was in photo-heaven. I think I shot like 50 pictures of the little individual pies and 10 different angles of the pillow-topped hay bails lining the forever-long table covered in an awesome cowboy print cloth.
She’s got such an amazing website and blog and the pictures are just a glimpse of how talented she is. She’s based in L.A. but does destination weddings all over the world.
I can tell you that when the day comes that I get married, she will no doubt be in charge of the whole day!
Here’s a few of my shots from the day, but swing on over to her blog to check out the rest!
(If you attended the party, please visit here and you can see more of the images – they should be up shortly)
