My New Baby - Finally Upgrading!

I am finally moving up in the world.  This weekend I bought a Nikon D40X with a 18 to 135 mm lens off of my little brother.  I am super excited!  Finally we are moving out of the world of point and shoots.

That being said I haven't learned to use it yet so right now my pictures are turning out better when I do use my point and shoot.  I'll be working on learning it a lot this month.

Wish me luck and share your advice if you know anything about making the switch to digital SLRs.  Hopefully I'll be able to take same great photos soon and it will lead to better scrapbooking.

Wedding Photos...Group Shots!

Here are some of the group shots we took after the ceremony.

 

There was a hot dog stand by our photo location.  Total score!

 

The night before my wedding all the girls had lingerie party for me.  One friend gave me a sexy coupon book with cartoon pictures...the cartoon girl was making this face in everyone. 

 

Brother!

 

My vintage shoe clips I bought on etsy.  Loved this "something old".

 

No summer day is complete without a trip to 7 Eleven for SLUSHEES!

 I know its cheesy but we had to have a train tracks photo...your wedding day photo shoot isn't complete without one.

 We only had our photographer for the beginning of our reception so I don't have pro picture of the party.  Here are a few of our set up and speeches though.

 

My wedding cake was made completely from scratch by my awesome friend Jen!  She slaved over it but it turned out awesome and was so good!

I loved my wedding!  Sorry for the total picture overload!  Believe it on not this is only about a tenth of the great photos I have.

Wedding Photos...The Ceremony!

As determined as I am to keep this blog scrapbook oriented this is something I feel I have to share.  I finally got the pro photos in from my wedding and they are gorgeous...and at least I can justify it on the basis that there will be a wedding album coming...or two considering the number of photos I have.

There is just a small portion of the photos I have from the ceremony.

 The boys waiting in the back for us to arrive.  I was 45 minutes late for my own wedding!

 US preparing to walk down the aisle.  My girls were more nervous than I was.

 My husband cartwheeled into place.  I missed seeing it cause I was in the back but I heard the crowd go wild.

 

Some of his family started a wave. 

 

The church we got married in is a heritage building.  In the back the walls are covered with photos of all the couples who have been married there.  Soon we'll be on the wall too! 

Now to post the group photos!  We have some great ones.