Melissa & Alan ~ Engagement Sneak Peek {Mid Michigan Wedding Photographer}

I recently met up with Melissa and Alan for their engagement session. They wanted to get in a little fall color for their session and thankfully the color held on and we were able to find lots of leaves to play in :) We started out in Downtown Alma and then hit a few other locations. We had lots of fun just hanging out, they are such a sweet couple and I look forward to photographing their Fall 2011 wedding. They will be getting married in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, which also excites me because Mt. Pleasant is another area I love shooting in :)

These first 2 I absolutely LOVE!! They are definitely my faves ;)

This one is so cute :)

I can't tell you how happy it made me to get to this alleyway after the recent events in our downtown. I am SO thankful this building is still standing!!

Hope you enjoyed your sneak peek :) Thank you for letting me apart of this very special time in your lives!!

Till next time...

"N" & "K" Engagement Sneak Peek (Michigan Wedding Photographer)

Oh...Michigan falls...unpredictable yes, but nothing beats them!! They truly are gorgeous. And I am SO glad we were able to get this session in the day we did because the color was at it's peek and the very next day we had major high winds and there wasn't a leaf left in sight on the trees.
We had a blast hanging out together for this session, thank you so much for letting me be apart of this special time in you life. I truly am honored to be apart of it and I am looking forward to your wedding!! I hope you enjoy your sneak peek, I will upload them to facebook for you very soon :)

I really love this first one, probably one of my very faves, although as you can see from the image overload I love a lot of them ;)

These guys were great, up to anything I threw at them and they rocked this session!!
I really love this location...breaks my heart they are tearing it down!!

See what I mean about the color, gorgeous!!

And 1 more from the Fire Station :)

Hope you enjoyed your sneak peek :) Let me know what you think!!

On a side note about 2010 weddings, if you would like me to be your photographer for your 2010 wedding, you need to book quickly. I take a limited amount of wedding work and I am almost booked for 2010 :)

Till next time...

2010 Wedding Season (Michigan Wedding Photographer)

I have been getting quite a few inquiries for the 2010 wedding season. If you are interested in having me capture your special day, you can contact me via the website or you can email me at hayleyjhamlin@hotmail.com. I take a limited amount of weddings each summer and dates are booking up fast. To see my work, you can visit the TRUE LOVE gallery on my MAIN WEBSITE.

And if you would like to hear first hand what it's like working with me, here is a wonderful letter I received from my most recent bride and groom. Honestly this letter brought tears...thanks again Jessie and Ryan, your letter meant so much!!

Hayley,

The pictures are amazing, they really captured our day and how wonderful it was! We're so happy we chose someone with the talent, heart and passion to create our memories. The wedding may be over but we'll have these photographs for the rest of our lives and for that we are very grateful. You really know how to put our love for each other on film; working with you was really our pleasure. The morning of our wedding was such a disaster with the weather, lack of power among other things, but you, through it all stayed positive and fulfilled my dream of having an outdoor wedding. You created a relationship with us that was so much more than a photographer, but someone who cared about the two of us. We felt so comfortable being ourselves around you, we never felt we had to pose for pictures and those are the best kind. We were having fun and being ourselves..."just being" :) Ryan and I just finished looking at the pictures for the first time and I can't even explain the emotion the two of us felt, we were laughing, I (not Ryan) got a little emotional at some points :) The day went by so quickly for the two of us, there were so many things that we couldn't pay attention to, but looking back at these pictures we were able to see everything else that was going on around us; people laughing, crying, smiling, cheering, all of the things we were hoping to achieve by having all of the people we love at our special day.We can't thank you enough and I can't wait to call you for our first set of baby pictures :)

Much Love, Ryan and Jessie DeHaan

The "just being" is something you will understand once you've worked with me :) I love that you guys included that :)

And it wouldn't be a post without a picture, so here is one of my faves from their wedding.

Till next time. Thanks for stopping by!!

Congrats S&B {Michigan Wedding Photographer}

I can't even call this a sneak peek, it's more like a teaser...
I know this is awful of me to tease you guys with only a couple images, but I thought this was better than none ;) And since we had SO much fun doing this, you had to know I'd show this first. I was only going to show 1 image, but honestly, even though it's the same thing we are doing here, I couldn't pick 1 over the other. I loved both of these for different reasons. Love the bride's jump in the first one, and the groom as well as the rest of the groomsmen are rockin' the second one ;)
Congrats S&B...thank you for letting me be apart of your special day :) And thanks to you and your wedding party for being such good sports for this :)


And yes, there will be more to come...promise :)
till next time...

J&R Engagement Sneak Peek (Michigan Wedding Photographer)

I know there is a couple that is anxiously awaiting this sneak peek :) This engagement session was loads of fun!! J&R were so much fun to hang out with and as you can see from the first set of pictures, up for anything :) They are a beautiful couple filled with love and happiness. J has such an infectious smile and I can still hear her saying, "I am just happy". I loved that :) But I think what I took the most from this session, was 2 people very much in love. You can see it and feel it in these photos. It is my privilege to be apart of their wedding, can't wait till August guys!! Enjoy your pics :)

So yep, this is right downtown. Like I said, we had lots of fun!!

Do you feel the happiness...love this!!

We were almost rained out, but took cover for awhile at this location, which made for some awesome pics :) The rain held out for us and as we were done for the evening as I was driving away it started raining pretty hard, so perfect timing.

Having a little fun with the Polaroids again ;)

Hope you guys enjoyed your sneak peek. Let me know what you think :)

I will load them on facebook for you soon :)

till next time...

S&B Engagement Sneak Peek {Michigan Wedding Photographer}

Get ready for some image overload here ;) I had such a great time hanging out with these 2 the other night. We got rained out of our first scheduled session, but it worked out fine because this was a perfect evening for photos and we were even lucky enough for the sun to come out at the end of the session for some beautiful sunset pics. We laughed a lot, probably mostly they were laughing at me...ha ha :) Anyway, I can't wait for their wedding in a couple months, as you can see from these pics, they are going to be a gorgeous bride and groom :)
Enjoy your sneak peek :) I'll be in touch soon with your gallery

I love these first 2, they have such an emotional connection.

And at the very end of the session, we got lucky to have a beautiful sunset. Perfect ending for a perfect session :)

Hope you enjoyed your sneak peek :)

till next time...