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Last weekend I packed up the family and headed down to Tucson to photograph Courtney and Rich’s wedding.  Tucson is such a great city.  It just feels so authentic and not so ‘city’ like Phoenix.  Courtney picked the cutest chapel to get married in.  The San Pedro Chapel is a newly restored quaint mission style chapel in the heart of Tucson.  Let’s just say it inspired me.  Every nook and cranny of the place was beautifully rustic.  I had so much fun shooting there! 

One thing was apparent to me as the day went on, Courtney and Rich are truly meant to be with one another. And everyone at the wedding will attest to that.

The reception was at Courtney’s parents house.

I have never heard so many heartfelt and beautiful speeches as I did at their wedding.

Courtney loves gelato, so why not have it at the reception?

To see more of Courtney & Rich’s wedding, CLICK HERE for a slideshow!

I have worked in Adobe Lightroom for some time now and really love everything about the program.  It allows me to easily and quickly edit RAW files.  But one can always improve upon their skills.  So when I heard Jared Platt was offering a Lightroom Workflow Workshop, I was pumped!

I attended the workshop yesterday and wow…There was SO MUCH information Jared shared with us!  The biggest thing I took away from Jared’s workshop was his super organized workflow.   His workflow system gave me some wonderful ideas to weave into and improve upon mine.  I really like the idea of placing all the unused images in a separate folder and removing the distractions them from Lightroom altogether prior to editing.

I will be implementing his ideas over the next few months and expect to shave off up to 3 hours of editing time!  I am a happy girl :)

Jared is a great story teller. I snapped this shot of Jared during one of his stories and caught him by surprise. Ha!

Yesterday I had lunch with the cutest girl ever, Jamie Delaine and blogger extraordinaire, Melissa Jill.  I met Jamie for the first time at Chevy’s just over a year ago when her family was vacationing in town. My how things have changed for her in one year!  She now has over 400 visitors to her blog a day, and super sweet images to boot!!  It was fun catching up and talking shop.

Things I learned from our conversation:
1. Jamie does not know what a taco is?!!
2. Melissa can’t eat cheese.
3. According to the girls, I HAVE to get a 50mm 1.2 lens.
4. Jasmine Star is really as cool as you think she is.
5. Twittering is the cool thing to do.  Naturally I had to get an account.  Follow me! @jenschleicher

To see how much we aged in a year, here is a picture from last year when we met (courtesy of Jamie Delaine):  Me, Melissa, Rachel Priddy, and Jamie.

And yesterday (We missed you Rachel!):

I was introduced to the Kalinas by a current bride of mine….they are her fiance’s brother and family.  The Kalinas met up with me one afternoon at Freestone Park with their 3 month old son, August. Aren’t they the cutest family?

I absolutely had to take some pictures of just mom and dad :)

More of the three of them. The one on the right is my favorite.

Courtney and Rich have such a great story.  They met at Rich’s work.  Rich was looking to buy a house and had a great chat with Courtney.   When scoping out a potential house with his real estate agent, Rich noticed the street name looked familiar.  The house he had been looking at turned out to be across the street from Courtney’s house!

I met up with Courtney and Rich at the Scottsdale Civic Center to take their engagement portraits.  We especially had fun with an abandoned stage we found!  I am looking forward to their wedding this October at the San Pedro Chapel in Tucson!

I am so excited to announce that Jen & Matt’s wedding was featured in the October 2008 issue of the Wedding Chronicle!  They had a beautiful wedding at the Wright House in Mesa, AZ.  You can find The Wedding Chronicle at many businesses across the valley including Macy’s, Borders, AJ’s, and Whole Foods.