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The Loire Valley is one of the must see areas when you visit France. It’s amazing how much France has to offer, and to see how the areas vary is intriguing. It doesn’t hurt that great wine follows you from region to region. 😉 We recently took a few days to explore the Loire Valley....
A white Christmas in New Orleans?! If only for a few minutes before it melted! I am offering signed/numbered prints of this image. Signed/numbered editions will be sized as either 16×20 or 24×30. Please send me a message if you’re interested. artedevie2@gmail.com We’re offering framed portraits or canvas gallery wraps. And this year we’ll offer...
Right after we got engaged, one of our photography friends, Jacqueline Dallimore, told us about an incredible idea that she had learned about from a friend. She advised us to select a special perfume and cologne for our wedding. Okay, that’s not too outside the box, right? Well, from there — once the scents were...
It is with great pride that I’d like to introduce you to each member of our Arte De Vie family. Figuratively, and quite literally, we have become a family. Doug and I each used to have our own businesses. When we were in the middle of our own wedding journey, we decided to marry our...
I love this post! You are of course top notch photographers. On top of that your love and passion and down to earth personalities make you an amazing addition to anyone’s special day. My day was perfect and my best advice to all brides.is find a photographer you love. I am so blessed to have you both as part of my day!ReplyCancel
For the most part, booking our vendors was a relatively easy selection process for us. Of course, being in the industry, we were already familiar with the work of those that we wanted to work with which helped immensely. We do recommend meeting with 2-3 vendors in the bigger categories of importance to you. You’ll...
By CheyAnne On to the discussion of the “dreaded” budget. Surprisingly, even though we are in the wedding industry, we really did not have any idea how much the other vendors would cost us. We of course had a good idea of photography rates, but most of the time we just know who we work...
By Doug Wow, where do I begin telling the story that truly began the best chapter of my life!? Well, I suppose like any good story I should start at the beginning with a little bit of history, as that will take us to the end of the story. I met CheyAnne while attending Western...
Doug and I had previously been ring shopping one or two other times and about three years before he finally decided the timing was right! We were together for eight years before he asked me to marry him. I am a very patient lady! 🙂 We realized after several years of being together, that to...
With summertime in full swing (which means life slows down a bit for us) and the wedding blues beginning to creep in, Doug and I decided we wanted to begin a new blog series. As many of you know, we were just married two months ago. Because we’ve been wedding photographers for about ten years...
Hi Chey Anne & Doug, we are photographers getting married as well this November! I sent our photographer the link to your wedding photo’s (via Stacey Reeves) and said ‘THIS is the kind of coverage i want’. Looks like you guys had such a fun wedding, i would love to know – What advise would you give yourselves if you could go back and do it all again? Thanks so much and i’ll be very patiently waiting for the rest of the series!ReplyCancel
Thanks so much Bianca! And congratulations on it being your turn to get married!! It’s so exciting to know that people are paying attention to our Love Beyond the Lens series. I’ll have to get back on it. I have two posts drafted already, just need finishing touches — so should be more info coming soon. I’ve been pondering my answer to your question though since reading it. We had such a fabulous time for our entire wedding — and we didn’t really have any regrets or things we wanted to change. I’ve been racking my brain, but haven’t been able to come up with anything. I suppose that’s a good thing! haha! I do know that half way through the honeymoon we were ready to do it all over again!! Some advice we did give ourselves beforehand though was to pretend the date was a month before it really was. This was in an effort to get all of the last minute things finished before the week of the wedding. We did pretty well adhering to this advice, but even still, we had some last minute preparations the week of the wedding.ReplyCancel
Arte by Doug Sometime last year while visiting with my grandmother, I noticed a stack of photo albums piled up in the corner. I enjoyed flipping through them and seeing the various places they lived as they were moved around while my grandfather was in the military, as well as seeing what New Orleans looked...
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