The reception was at the Toledo Club in Toledo Ohio – and if you are in search of the MOST intricate, classy place for a venue – this is your spot.  The detail was to die for!  Cocktail hour, dinner, and dancing were in three different gorgeous rooms and each had it’s own stunning decor – with dreamy staircases, chandeliers,  patterened celings, and even bridal suites/overnight rooms.

There are so many more I would love to share, but I’m going to let Shannon & TJ have first dibs on that when their proofs are available =) So you’ll have to wait until later.

HEY FACEBOOK FRIENDS OF SHANNON & TJ! If you are on facebook, and join the Danielle Luc Photography business page on Facebook, you could help the newleyweds get a really cool freebie!  If Shannon & TJ can get 50 of their Facebook friends to join the page, they will receive a Custom Wallet Box with 50 wallet images!  All you need to do is follow the link they were tagged in that got you here or go to http://www.facebook.com/daniellelucphotography and hit the “like” button to join.  Then you MUST comment on the link, on the DLP page that you have joined for Shannon and TJ!

Aren’t these fun?!

Have an awesome day everyone – Thank you to S & T for allowing Jessie & I to be a small part of your big day. Speaking of Jessie, she knocked it out of the ball park in more ways than one this past weekend. Thanks for all of your hard work, JG!

xo

dani

<3

Love. Be Loved. And party your tail off =)

See you in 2010… wedding season will be here before you know it!

To start with…  I suppose, like the ones that were actually supposed to be mailed, I could have shared this with my readers BEFORE the Holiday Season, huh?

Hour Christmas was filled with bits of Toy Story, Hamsters that crow for some reason…

…and a sweet piece of vintage that was GOING to be mine on ebay at all costs (unfortunately!).  I remembered playing with a garage exactly like this as a kid at my Grandmothers house – hours of it, with my cousins. 

When I took it out of the original box it just blew my mind!  This thing is pristine – straight from the seventies – high quality goodness… ahh!  I got E. the 2008 version of this last Christmas and it was a hunk of JUNK like most toys now-a-days.  The bell dings, the elevator works no matter which way you turn the handle ( just like I recalled!) – it’s just a blast.  It’s the first thing the kids go for when we have little ones as visitors.  Doesn’t that take you back a little?

That’s about as far into my personal Holiday photos that I’m going to go But they are all in good fun.

Over my vacation I had the pleasure of photographing the S. family, who were in town from Tennessee staying with family the week before Christmas to visit

This little miss – right before I was winding down got suited up by mom in her cutie pie tu-tu – lollypop in hand, makes me love it so much.

Dad plays the guitar and the kids really dig it

Okay, onto other news!

You can now find two brief PDF guides that are current at my portfolio, or by accessing them below:

www.danielleluc.com/guides/sessionfee

www.danielleluc.com/guides/prints

There are a few minor changes in the way proofing will go this year, and each will give a brief detailing of general investment and expectations.  I’ve never had anyone question it until now – but as far as “delivery” – in terms of my business, this means your boxed items and presentation.  You will be asked to pick up your prints when they are available, however if I will in your neighborhood or if you are absolutely unable to swing by, I understand and will do my best to bring your purchases to your home.

As of this year, I will NO LONGER BE PHOTOGRAPHING SENIORS.  I’m begining to find my niche and where my abilities side best, and Senior Photography just simply isn’t one of them   I need to be able to put my heart and mind 100% into what I do, and I know there are plenty of amazing photographers out there in the area who can photograph seniors very awesomely   Sorry for any inconvenience this causes to anyone.

Fall Mini Sessions will also be available to my 2010 regular clients for the first selection.  Mini’s will proof 5-10 (I have yet to decide on this as of yet) images.  I get a lot of first-time clients for mini’s and they end up being  just as much work and almost the same amount of proofs as a regular standard portrait session (I cant help it!) – so this needs to be adjusted, so that each and every family that books is allocated time and talent fairly according to investment.  There will potentially be a standard mini available throughout the year, but this, too, as of yet is undecided.

A few new guidelines with what happens to your unordered images – at the end of the week long proofing, any UNORDERED images are discarded.  Any digital files on my harddrives that prints were ordered from are cropped to 8×12 format and will be stored on my harddrive at that time.  Should you wish to be able to order other prints  in the future that weren’t ordered from in your initial ordering session, you will need to consider a digital collection so that they are available to you for…ever! For example, should you decide you do not want to order any of image number 4, 16, and 18 – and you decide at a later date you wish to reactivate your gallery to order, those images will not be available – as only the ones you have ordered from will be present.  This cuts down on me adding undesired images to harddrive space.  This isnt typically an issue as Digital Collections are of huge demand at this point – but it is in effect for 2010 and beyond.

In likeness, the same goes for web images. Web images (facebook, myspace) are available for any ordered image.  You will be unable to obtain a web sized image for any unordered portrait.

I thank you all for your understanding in some of these changes!

Full pricing and wedding catalogs are available upon request, should you have any other inqueries for 2010 that are not answered in the above PDF’s.

Once again, thank you ALL for such an awesome 2009 and I’m just squealing inside with delight over starting my 3rd year, and the BEATUFIUL BRIDES that are awaiting this season!  Which brings me to one more thing:  THERE ARE NO MORE AVAILABLE BOOKINGS FOR WEDDINGS IN 2010 and JUNE AND JULY 2011 are currently booked.  If you are looking for 2011 – now’s about that time.

Okay, goodnight and glad to be back!

xo

dani

This post is special to my heart and so are these girls.  Take a deep breath – in… out…. good.  Okay – remember from here on out how good it feels.  Every breath we take is so special, it gives us life – and sometimes a moment of clairity and refresh.  K.  is the BEAUTIFUL mother so precious J.  She is one of the most positive, amazing, faithful go-getters you will find on this planet.  Her rage of love for J. and the hope she represents is mind blowing.  A few weeks ago K. became the recipient of a new set of puffers – thats right – they do lung transplants and they work and they are unbelieveable.  Please consider supporting Organ Donation causes and becoming one yourself if you are able - these beautiful smiles, these moments – they will keep happening now because of such a precious gift.

K. – I am ever grateful for your friendship, your inspiration, and for just knowing little J. – she makes me smile every time I see her and will certainly grow up to be the fabulous woman that you are.

Aren’t they just… lovely? I didn’t want to share more until I knew what she picked for her holiday cards, so I will wait for that!

I also wanted to share a bit more of G. and his perfect family – so sweet!

Another of precious Norah, too – how hard it is to wait when I post sneak peeks to pick and choose what I post before mom and dad get to view them all! I just adore this image.

Now meet Mr. & Mr.s D. and their brood – I love strong  bonds and the awesomeness of a coming together of families!

Hello, beautiful children.

I hope this finds everyone well, warm, and healthy.  Keep your eyes out for one more post before Christmas, I’ve been waiting since before Halloween to share my family photo because I only have one (thanks Jessie!) and it’s for my holiday cards!

Take care everyone, and thanks for reading.

If you are a fan of DLP and enjoy my blog or services, please join my fan page on facebook by going  here!  I would love to see who’s behind me (if you are on facebook, of course!) and make special offers available to my FB members.  HOWEVER, if DLP’s page reaches 100 here soon, theres a treat involved! *wink*

Come join the fun, your sneak peeks will be tagged on facebook for you to share with your friends and family!

**END EDIT**

Oh where to begin.  I think my blogging has lacked very decent word content lately, but let’s face it – no one probably comes here to read very often:)

I’ll admit I am burried right now.  The being sick when I came back from the wedding, then my kids being sick – has really thrown my workflow into chaos and I am utterly behind.  However, I will keep trucking until I am caught up!  I haven’t missed a deadline yet, but it’s getting aweful close at times.

With that – Mister C. and his beautiful mother – M.  M. is a close friend of mine and… how I love them!

He is so very handsome and she is just radiant:)

Just a few from last weeks FINAL mini sessions – D. family and G. family.  I just love Miss A.’s dress – so vibrant!

Mommy and Her MJ   Mom C is an aspiring photographer herself  (and as soon as shes confident and ready I plan on doing a huge load shift her way when my schedule is full… she just doesnt know it yet!)

And my dear Trischa, who is patiently (so very patiently) awaiting her gallery.  These moments just cant be recreated – they are so special, and so full of emotion.

She met with her soon to be husband before hand – these shots were on the way there.  It was intimate and lovely and after witnessing it, I will forever be an advocate for having your moment together before your ceremony.  How awesome – let me tell you!

Okay, breaks over. Back to work!

xo

dani

This wedding was very special to me.  Trisch and I were very close friends in highschool – and while distance may change the depth of a friendship and the frequency in which friendships are communicable, it doesn’t change the fact t hat old friendships are part of what made you who you are today; part of what held you together on nights in highschool that you were sure the world was ending, parts of things you celebrated, and parts of things you cried over losing.  There was a group of 5 girls that I became close friends with (6 altogether) in highschool, and one of them tragicly passed away one month to the day we were to graduate.  This wedding of Mike and Trischa was was one of the very few times we’ve all been in the same place together since we’ve graduated and it was very emotional.  I remember when Trischa’s little brothers were sleeping at four o’clock in the morning the day she was to leave for school at OU.  I crawled into her bed to sleep after a tearful goodbye so that I could care for them while G&K took her to college.  I cried a lot on her pillows that day, whether or not I ever told her.  I even remember joking about how she’d hoped college admissions didn’t do drug testing because she was taking a container of poppyseed muffins to eat on the way down:)  I’d heard the names of her new roomates, listened to her plan her journey.  She sure made an awesome journey out of it and will soon become a light of hope and change to the ever so multi-facted carreer as a Lawyer (Attorney? Whichever the kinder, nicer one is, thats her!).  She’s smart and beautiful and I am so thankful that not only did I get YEARS to have her in my life as a close friend and even more years of staying in touch, but that the others that joined in her day that mean the world to her – those she’s known all her life, and those she’s met along the way, were able to share in her joy of marrying her best friend Mike this past weekend.  For those of you who do not know them, Mike & Trisch are two of the most goal oriented, hard working, down-to-earth people you will ever meet.  Straight up – no fuss/no mess – fabulous people, who are there for eachother in every aspect of life. It’s so awesome

This affair was beyond elegant and I must say, if you ever need an event planner, T. is your girl.  She is SO YOUR GIRL!

Chapman-Snyder families:  thank you for the warmest heartfelt weekend.  Thank you for taking good care of Jessie (see her awesome shots above! Thanks JG!) and I and making sure we were well quenched and fed.  You were all so stunning and handsome and I am honored to have shared the weekend with you.

With love and heartfelt congratulations – and the best wishes I could wish,

xo

dani

Please come with me,
See what I see.
Touch the stars for time will not flee.
Time will not flee.
Can’t you see…”

My goal with my images has always been to envoke emotion; so that little words are needed.  I’m going to try to do that with this post – just a few words.   There really aren’t many needed here.

She’s beautiful. He’s going to make THEE best husband.  Her friends and family are super fantastic.  Her father-daughter dance actually made me cry.  And the chicken was phenominal (smile).

First up, her grandmother’s pearls.  Complete with a clasp 90% of present day folk have never seen before.

The following 3 images are compliments of my dear assitant, Jessie.  She is the reason that for the 2011 season the price of a 2nd photographer will be included in my booking fee.  She’s amazing and is capturing moments that I simply cannot get when waiting inside the church for the ceremony.  Please, if you have (heck, if you havent!) met her or seen her in action, please do not hesistate to give her an at-a-girl! 

These two Jessie-captures have inspired my song choice for the blog slideshow.  If these do not tug your heart strings, nothing will.  Can you just imagine and feel what she was thinking, ready to be walked down the aisle with her Dad? And he, as her father, was he seeing his little girl, around a younger age, playing dress up?  Was he reflecting back to a time when she really was this tiny thing, with big hopes and dreams?  I love it when an image can make you question the thoughts, the “what was…” of the moment. Powerful, Jessie, way to go!

Mr. & Mrs. Jessica & Craig Homan

Amazing weather.

Great people.

Happy Ending.

xo

dani

(PS: I am now BOOKED IN FULL for 2010 weddings!  I am now booking 2011 and can hardly believe it!  Base wedding pricing for 2011 begins at $1,450.  Please inquire for details.  All dates are first come- first served by retainer paid.  DLP weddings typically are booking 1 to 1.5 years in advance)

Congrats again you guys!

(I have to include that some of these images were shot by my lovely and amazing assistant, Jessie! She’s an awesome assistant and I thank her for the hard work she puts in at weddings. This past wedding she second-shot for me and did an AMAZING job, shes learning to shoot in AV/TV and is rocking at it. If you want, you can leave her some love here – I’m sure she’d appreciate it! If you have any questions shes available with info at jessie@danielleluc.com – about any bridal inqueries you might have about our splendid weddings!)

ps: its a low res video, viewing at full screen is not reccomended.
xo

d

So, beyond proofing this BEAUTIFUL wedding -

… I have also been working on these:

Vintage processed senior, A.

Cutie-pie lil’ A.  wasn’t the happiest about having her photos taken, but I’m one sneeky lady:)

I wish I could do more here – blogging.  But it’s just been so, so crazy here. 

Little sweet Alexa Brown has finally gone home to be in precious peace.  While the thoughts of that are so bittersweet; while she is finally free, there are so many people left here on earth to miss her.  The fight must rage on, and we must find a cure for this awefully underfunded – in – reasearch childhood cancer!  I felt comfort in seeing their family tonight and if you ever have the chance to meet them, please – don’t pass it up. They are a handful of the most inspirational, wholesome, amazing people on this planet.  We have a lot to learn from them about patience and acceptance – and how to be a little more wide eyed about life.

*Sigh* I want the suffering to stop

Enjoy the sneak peeks, it might be a while before I’m back – I’m just zonked!  My kids’ birthday party is this weekend, my little guy is TWO on saturday!  Miss K will be 6 on the 29th, but one party is the way its got to be. Cant throw two in two weeks and expect a turnout!  I love them, so dearly. Each year that they aren’t babies anymore just tugs a little harder at my heart.

xo everyone,

dani

ps: thanks for making the mini-sessions a big hit! it’s going to be so much fun! I am so happy to offer these…

Awesome bride and groom. Wonderful families.  Amazing friends. 

I know some people dread doing weddings, however, I just LOVE them!  So rewarding!

I promise to post again with more – but I had to slip these on the blog – how could I not?

I will announce the winner of the photo box very soon! BE EXCITED!

Congrats to the bride and groom and the families involved.  You all are just so fabulous and I enjoyed being around you all  the entire day!

OKAY – must run.

xo

dani