Here are a few from last weekend...


Gorgeous bride




Reactions when they see the bride...


...before she walks down the aisle.


During the service




How cute is this - him holding her train :)


The newlyweds


The groom and his guys


It was raining on and off all day, and then gorgeous and sunny in-between. Somehow the bride and groom managed to get in front of us on the ride from the church to the reception site. It was raining then and I pulled up so Marie could jump out and follow them in. This is one of my favorite shots of the day that Marie English shot:


First dance


The kids were so cute...they all crowded around the table during the cake cutting in anticipation of grabing a piece as soon as possible. This one is of a few of the darling triplets that were there.


I was reunited again with one of my all-time favorite wedding vendor buddies. Greg Tish is probably the best DJ I've ever worked with...and we've worked a lot of weddings together from back in the days I lived in Tally and assisted with wedding planning. He's got the best music, and really plays and orchestrates whatever the couple wants. Such a blast!!


The guests had so much character



The light in the reception hall was magical that afternoon and was constantly changing with the weather. Here, the mother of the bride stopped to chat as she was on her way to go take more of the yummy cake to family.

Living in Atlanta, it's easy to forget you're in the South. It's like any other major US city - a melting pot of cultures and people who are mostly from other areas originally. Except everyone's just a little sweeter, like the tea (okay, maybe a LOT sweeter).

Last night was a great reminder that we ARE in the South as we finally got most of our sm group together for some Bluegrass fun. I'd never been to hear Bluegrass before and it was a blast... I kept wanting to get up and start a big dance party when they got all crazy on the violin. Hehe.





And some swirly pics from the MiniCam in night-mode.

Check out Catherine and Will's wedding from this past Saturday in Florida. PRESS PLAY below to start the slideshow...




It was such a gorgeous wedding and what made it even more special is how excited Catherine and Will were to finally tie the knot. I don't know how many times I heard "at last" and "I'm soooo excited"!!!

Marie English came down with me to shoot and got some AWESOME shots (I'll post some of hers and more of mine later).

Thank you having us be a part of this amazing experience!

This summer, I will be photographing a wedding for one lucky Atlanta couple for "Going to the Chapel" which is aired in conjunction with NBC's Atlanta & Company.

The VIEWERS get to decide on all the details (which dress, type of reception, menu, bridesmaids dresses, ring, honeymoon, which engagment photos, music, etc) by voting online... kind of American-Idol-ish I guess. We'll be shooting their engagement pics sometime next month and then going live on the show in June to chat about the shoot and let the audience see which photos they get to pick from to have shown at the reception. Each week the audience votes on a new thing until the wedding (in August) then they have a big finale show.

Yesterday was the premier where they introduced the two couples in the running:

Stephanie & Matthew's INTERVIEW VIDEO

Terri and Chris' INTERVIEW VIDEO

Then you can register real quick to vote for your favorite couple...

*** VOTE HERE ***

This is gonna be sooooo much fun :) I can't wait to see who wins!

I am finally up and about after an INSANE 48 hours.

This weekend, I returned to Tallahassee, FL for the first time since I moved from there (over 2 years ago) to photography Catherine and Will's wedding on Saturday. (More on this soon...)

Everything that could go wrong seemed to on the way out of town and I was in the car from around Noon until Midnight on Friday, between traffic in ATL and the long drive.



Needless to say, it was a mostly-enjoyable trip because I had Marie (from South GA) with me second-shooting and it was a blast getting to know her better on the trip. We decided to leave last night rather than staying an extra day and made it to her place around 12:30am.

By 1:45am I was nearing Atlanta but my eyelids were growing heavier by the minute. I knew I would need a quick cat-nap and pulled off the exit. I could tell I wasn't the only one with this idea as the car next to me seemed to be occupied with slumbering road-warriors as well. I locked the doors and zonked out, waking an hour later ready to hit the road again. I decided to use the ladies room first and reached for the door...

As soon as I hit the unlock button, a screaming siren let loose accompanied by a series of honks and beeps and screeches. My car was in panic mode and I had NO idea why or how to turn it off. Lights started going on in the cars around me, people peering out the windows groggy and not so happy with the noise. After 5 minutes of scrambling to try to turn it off, it went off on it's own. I was completely embarrassed and pulled out as fast as I could, squirming in my seat. I would go to a gas station down the road and use their restroom. No such luck. Again, I was greeted with the asinine scream of the panic as soon as I tried to unlock my doors to get out. A large man with grease on his face pawed at my window instructing me with broken english to press my keys. I fumbled around pressing every button then finally I was locked in again, but in silence. I give up!

I speed off, only 50 miles from home, praying I could stay awake and get to a bathroom (and out of my car without setting off alarms) on time. Luckily, I had a can of VERY HOT and SPICY jalapeno pringles to wake me up.


As added measure, I tuned my stereo to the Crazy Frog song. For some reason, this song is unbelievably hilarious to me and has one of those chaotic dance beats that will get your blood racing. The tricks worked.



Finally, at about 4:30am I was home safe and could finally hit the sack :)

The day before Easter, I had the pleasure of joining the wonderful Matt Adcock in shooting Scarlett and Brian's wedding in Rome, GA. It all took place on this horse farm and the reception was actually above the stables ...the place was chaulk-full of character and it was a super fun group!

The bride was gorgeous
















There were tons of handsome lads around


And my FAVORITE animals



(methinks mr. meowser was bored...or maybe just sleepy)

The father of the groom




More stairs


The happy couple

Mom: "So did you get to go to a lot of seminars?"
Liana: "Not really"
Mom: "Well then, what did you do the whole time you were in Vegas?"
Liana: "Ate"
Mom: "And then what?"
Liana: "Ate some more."
Mom: "What else did you do besides that?"
Liana: "Talked, went to parties, helped out, had meetings."
Mom: "I'm glad it was productive."
Liana: "Yeah, I don't think I need to eat for weeks."



Phewww... I am still... almost a week later, mentally and physically exhausted from all the chaos that is called WPPI and DWF in Las Vegas. I'm afraid I'd have to write a book to cover everything that happened, so here's a quick view...

(and thanks Shy and Tobi for all the pics!!)

The trip started with a VERY long and bumpy flight two Fridays ago but I opened the Paris hotel room door to be greeted by three gorgeous friendly faces - Jasmine, Shyla, and Kristen - so it was a great start after all.

Me and my Vegas roomies with Mike


Me and Jazzy in the elevator


Seriously, this trip wouldn't have been half as fun without this crew!
Mike and Julie were CONSTANTLY cracking us up


Sunday was AWESOME. Jazzy and I had a laid-back yummy dinner with Regis and Fletcher which was a nice change of pace...


Then we rushed over to the "Champaign Shootout" to help Mike battle the ugly pea-green projector, studio-lights, and the craziest rainbow background you'd ever seen (sooooooo not Mike).


We ended up taking the models down off the stage and used the audience to simulate a "first dance" look.


Mike ended up with killer shots (here's the one they printed and displayed the next day):


As soon as we were done with the shoot-out, we rushed back to Paris where the OSP-party was well under way. The group from OSPMC had decided about a month ago to surprise DJ with custom-made "It's an Addiction" OSP t-shirts so when he showed up we were already wearing them!



DJ, Jessica, and I got up bright and early on Monday to join Jeff Kent for breakfast. It was great to finally put a face with the name - in person :)


Monday started the non-stop-eating trend. After breakfast, we hit the tradeshow floor for a few minutes before heading over to the Fabulous Female Photographer's French Luncheon. (sorry, no pics of this... top secret! j/k...I'll have to get some pics here eventually...)

After a long lunch, headed over to the Pictage Partner Party, then straight to dinner with the fabulous Leather Craftsmen Crew, Andy and Brian Marcus, John Solano, Jay Goldman, DJ, and Jess.

Andy, Liana, and Brian


Self-portrait with John


Monday night was the only night I made it out dancing... check out the view from the Foundation Room.


Tuesday was rough having to be up bright and early for mentoring sessions that Davina put together last minute with the help of OSPers and Jeff Jochum to benefit Thirst Relief International but it was such an awesome time.

Immediatly following, I rushed over to the tradeshow to do a quick 1-hour stint for Pictage.





When that all wrapped, I realized I haden't eaten yet that day so I joined the gals and Mike for a very late lunch with Gary and Melissa. That was 3pm.

At 4pm, I met up with fellow WeddingELITE friends, Kevin Kramer and David Beckstead for dinner #1.


The Becksteads and Kramers


At 6pm, I met up with Mike and the gang to head BACK over to Nine (where we'd eaten the night before...yummy!) for dinner #2 with the Pictage clan. By then, my stomache was fuller than full but I'm like a fish and don't know when to stop

.... so I kinda sat there with my eyes glossed over feeling full while Mike entertained us with his creative photo-taking.


Trip to the Forums and FAO Schwarz later that night


And to join up with the Regis-birthday crowd (isn't Rege a stud?? you can't even see him in all us girls!)


Ice cream was involved later but I was too full to partake or even take pictures to document.

Wednesday, we headed over to DWF to cheer on Jess and Susan during their seminar, then Jess and I had a lovely afternoon of errand-running and french-dinning for xtreme!


Finally, we headed to Beckers for the big finale Wednesday PM - the 6th Annual [b] Party in Vegas.

(This is actually from Sat PM but [b] has tons on his blog)


Okay, so that was anything but short... and I'm not sure what the moral of the story is except thank you everyone for such an amazing experience and I can't wait to fast for two weeks ahead of time so I can do it all again next year!!! ;)