After a lot of hard work we have finally finished our first promotional video. We love providing beautiful images for our clients and wanted the video to express this passion. After all, it’s hard to get to know about the people behind a photography studio just by looking at their website. We hope you enjoy watching it half as much as we enjoyed making it!
At first Chenda and Joel seem to be an unusual pairing. Chenda is a recent immigrant from Cambodia, to hear her story is to hear an example of amazing courage and heart. Joel is a former offensive lineman from rural northeast Missouri he’s one of those people you know has never had a trouble making a friend the instant you talk with him. She’s tiny. He’s a big guy.
But what was instantly clear was their strong sense of faith.
Boy, are these two a pair! We were lucky that Joel and Chenda wanted so much of what my studio does. This meant we were going to do a couple of different photography sessions in the year leading up to the wedding. That also meant I was going to be getting to know this couple and Joel’s parents doing all this beautiful photography. What a treat!
It’s been said that we often seek a partner in life that is like our parent… sometimes we recognize that choice, other time it is done unconsciously. What became clearer and clearer to me is how alike Chenda is with Joel’s mom Judith. The two women are both task masters, strong willed and leaders. The love and acceptance Joel’s family has lauded on Chenda is inspiring because nearly all of Chenda’s family is in Cambodia where emigration rules are very strict. They took her in with such complete love, that Chenda was calling Judith “mom.”
The thing about faith and love that I hope I never stop being amazed by is its ability to inspire us to see the world in a new way and to make us humble enough to forget our boundaries and see all of life’s incredible possibilities. Enjoy!
What a great couple. Some couples you just know you have to work with them very early in the phone conversation. It isn’t about if they can work with us, it is how. This is a huge compliment considering how many really wonderful photographers there are for couples to choose from in this day and age!
The part of this wedding I will always remember is the complete beauty of it. Meadowview Gardens is one of the few locations I know of in Kansas City that is completely and solely designed to help couples enjoy the most romantic and beautiful weddings. It serves no other purpose.
I often tell people that I approach wedding photography not as creating “wedding photographs” but creating family photographs on your wedding day.” That was ESPECIALLY fun with this wedding! The pride, joy and love everyone showed for the couple was everywhere and we love how the photography celebrates these relationships.
Meadowview even does a fireworks display at the end of the evening. The groom was especially excited about this. We boys never grow up, do we? If it blows up and makes a big boom, we love it, young and old alike.
This was so much fun. What a beautiful day that will always make me smile!
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What a couple! I love it when people aren’t afraid to get a little silly and inject their personality into things. This is exactly what Fletcher and Christina did throughout the whole day.
As all of us know, this summer has been a roaster. I thought last summer’s weddings were hot but this summer’s weather just would not give any couple a break! Even though Christina and Fletcher tied the knot the second weekend in June, it felt like mid July. But this couple and their families would not be fazed. Everyone rallied to the cause and made an extraordinary celebration of this couple’s union!
Be it heat, rain, snow or perfect weather, Glow Imagery is passionate about being prepared. We love it when the unexpected happens because more often than not we have seen it before. One of the unique things which separates us from all the other photographers in the area is our experience. Photography has been Glow Imagery’s consuming passion for twenty years. The typical wedding photographer these days does not have but a couple of years of professional experience… often even less. Just suppose you trusted your images to someone who is prepared, patient, professional and unfazed whatever surprised your wedding holds. How much would that be worth to you?
Remember, no matter how well planned the wedding… there’s always unexpected things that happen. The professionals you surround yourself with on your wedding day make all the difference between the unexpected being a crisis or being a glitch.
It always makes me a little nervous when I first talk with a potential client and I learn that they are a photographer themselves. My experience is it often means either we create the very best of connections and the photography becomes effortless or on other occasions we just don’t connect. In those I have to tip my hat and gently explain how I may not be the best photographer for them. In Laura and Ryan’s case (Laura is the “lens” in the relationship) it was beautiful music.
By the way, Laura’s a very good photographer.
This couple has a very strong love for Frank Sinatra. By the end of the night I was looking for Dean and Sammy. It’s not hard to understand why, at one point after watching the groom’s father singing along with all of the DJ’s Sinatra tracks.
“I’m guessing you’re a Sinatra fan?” I asked.
“I love Frank.” Ryan’s dad said and then he gave me a huge grin.
How about that heat? My advice to anyone planning a mid-summer wedding in this neck of the woods is just two words: be flexible. The weather is a wedding guest you have to contend with whether you invite it or not. It was another scorcher outside, we had wonderful plans to work in a nearby park and photograph the couple next to a door that had the digits from their wedding date on the door. The heat was unbearable, too much for the park work and a big ugly gate blocked the couple’s digits. No worries. We found our way through a cupcake store on Massachusetts Avenue into the narrowest alleyway. That tiny three foot space is where we made the couple’s absolute favorites from the whole day.
It was not comfortable to be in the oppressive heat for this couple so we worked quickly. The bride and groom were total champs. No one said being awesome was easy, but these two made it look like it was. Just like Frank would have done it.
I want to provide a quick note of thanks to wedding coordinator Jayme Lawlor of Behind the Scenes KC for all of her help throughout the wedding day. She’s a star folks. So give her a ring.
I’ve been dying to share the images from this session with everyone. This bride just had her wedding (yesterday to be exact) and I was sworn to secrecy with these images until after the wedding. For those of you who know, these bridal sessions we do are usually a part of our Parents Pride gift books that are such an amazing surprise gift for your parents. Of course surprises require secrecy. I have to tell you, being in on the big secret surprise is a total blast! Especially when the surprise will touch your parents heart in a way they could never expect.
It’s so wonderful to produce amazing images by itself. But to use these emotional and heart touching images in a way that honors and celebrates the people we love is something sublime.
The bride, Chenda, originally hails from Cambodia. She’s marrying Joel, a northwest Missouri country boy. It’s an unusual pairing but after spending the past year with them I can truthfully say the pair are amazing! We’ll feature more about them in a future wedding post. But now I just have to share with you these beautiful images we made a Kauffman Memorial Gardens.
For those of you who have seen our Parents Pride. We took these images and made a Parents Pride for Chenda’s mother who lives in Cambodia. The personal message from Chenda for her mom was written in Cambodian. Isn’t that cool? Chenda and Joel will be going to visit Cambodia this Winter. What I would give to be there to see her mother’s face when she sees it next Spring. Wow!
Chicken spiedini is very much a source of Kansas City pride. Those radio ads featuring Kansas City’s Garozzo’s Italian Restaurant which were always running during halftime of Chiefs games were an enormous source of fascination to me and my friends. The husky voice of Michael Garozzo telling his audience about the latest entrees and the more popular menu items felt utterly authentic and unique.
Garozzo’s chicken spiedini is the cornerstone of their menu. I know it is my favorite item! The following recipe is a close approximation of it.
The greatest challenge to this recipe is the preparation, but don’t let that intimidate you. The boneless, skinless chicken breasts will need to be pounded thin. This I find can be a chore. One of the things I do to help ease the noisy, messy, laborious hassle of pounding the breasts thin is to take a very sharp chef’s knife and split the chicken breasts through the middle, parallel to the cutting surface. That means were are slicing the breasts’ thickness into two equal halves. It can be slow because you don’t want to cut yourself but I can’t stand trying to pound a full breast into the thinness required for this recipe.
Ingredients:
4 boneless skinless chicken breast halves
1/3 cup Italian seasoned breadcrumbs
1/3 cup grated parmesan cheese
1 T of chopped fresh parsley
2 t grated lemon zest
2 cloves of minced garlic
2 T olive oil
2 T butter
Preparation:
1. Place chicken breasts between sheets of plastic wrap, pound chicken gently with mallet until very thin (about 1/8 inch thick.) see instructions
2. On waxed paper, combine bread crumbs, cheese, parsley. lemon zest and garlic.
3. In shallow dish, combine olive oil and melted butter
4. Dip chicken into butter mixture, coat with crumb mixture.
5. Tightly roll up and secure with wooden toothpicks, if needed.
6. Cut into 1-inch-thick pieces, thread onto metal skewer
7. Remove wooden picks
8. Repeat with remaining chicken
9. To Grill; place skewers on lightly grilled gird over medium hot coals
10. Cover and grill for five minutes per side or until chicken is cooked through.
These two lovebirds, Kelsey and Ross, held their ceremony at Roeland Park United Methodist Church last month. This is a small church nestled in a neighborhood near Roe Avenue. We really loved the sanctuary and it’s volumes of gorgeous light.
There are a few churches in Kansas City that can get a little carried away with their rules and restrictions they place on the couple and the photographer but this church’s salt of the earth style suited the couple their photographer, perfectly!
A lot of couples that will tell us their photography is very important to them, but in truth it often isn’t. That’s o.k. We don’t begrudge anyone for wanting the nice, long international honeymoon, or have 500 guests attend their reception. It’s all about YOUR priorities. For Kelsey and Ross, the most important thing about their wedding was photography.
I could tell these two and their wedding were going to be fun. I can’t tell you why… there’s just a certain feeling you get when you are working on the preparations with a couple that lets you know if they are a “party couple” or a “celebration couple.” Does that make sense? Sure enough, the couple held their reception at The Knights of Columbus in Shawnee.
I think I may have saw a battle of the bands there about 24 years ago, but that is a different story. Although I didn’t wear any… there was lots of spandex and hair spray there that night. I was a denim guy.
Enjoy the photographs!
Chris
The father of the bride has delivered his daughter to her future husband and steps away. We love this moment at every wedding, every single time.
Unfortunately as complicated as weddings are there is a very good chance there will be an unexpected glitch at your wedding. Our clients can rest easy. We bring this tackle box to each of our weddings and it features a slew of essential items for your wedding day you may forget, misplace or just plain not know you will need.
Glow Imagery is different from the other Kansas City wedding photographers in a great many ways. One of the most important things that separates us from the other photographers in the area is we believe the experience of working with us is as important as the photography itself. Your photographer should add to the enjoyment of your wedding day, not take away from it. For this reason we bring a wedding day emergency kit to each of our weddings.
We’ve been to a lot of weddings over the years and have seen too many times a seam bust, a finger cut, dress stained or a vicious headache and watch bride, bridesmaids and a few grooms stress out over the unexpected event without an easy remedy. The hours before walking down the aisle are stressful enough without such additional burdens.
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