So here is another one of those photo shoots I am so sad I had to miss, don’t get me wrong, I adore staying home with my sweet Emma Eisley, but I also love getting to hang out and have fun with our couples.  Alyssa and Blake and their adorable little Pierce hung out with Jonathan downtown McKinney (which might I add, this little town has stolen our hearts, so cute!) along with Alyssa’s parents snagging some incredibly adorable engagement photos.  Seriously, I wish I could have posted every single photo from this shoot, this little family is just too cute for words but since Jonathan said I couldn’t, here are a few of my favorites.

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So this is one of those photo shoots I was so sad that I was not able to go to.  Jonathan said he had such a great time with these two!  And as you will see in these photos, they are such an adorable couple!  Their photo shoot was compiled of things they both love to do together.

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Meet Carol & Dan…they are your average fun loving couple who are madly in love with one another.  Every time we have seen the two of them they have smiles on their faces.  They are just that perfect couple!  We had so much fun with them on their engagements as we ran around the Dallas Arboretum & White Rock Lake areas.  We seriously could have kept going and going.  So much fun!

 While playing on the tracks taking pictures we actually had a train come by.  Love when things fall into place so we can have fun!

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Location: White Rock Lake area & Dallas Arboretum

We love when our worlds collide.  Mandy, who currently works for the Dallas Cowboys, found us through a mutual friend whose wedding we did not too long ago, Chris & Lindsey Behm, as Jonathan use to work with Chris in the TV Department at the Dallas Cowboys.  So we were very honored when she and Robert asked us to photograph their upcoming 2012 event.  Both Mandy and Robert currently work the daily grind in a business atmosphere so they thought what better than to incorporate this into their engagement shoot and they did a fabulous job in doing so.  Check out just a few of their awesome engagement photos.

 Isn’t this location amazing!  The view is unbelievable!

The building in the background is where Robert works, pretty cool huh?

Isn’t this water globe super cool?  We had some fun with it!

Isn’t this book so appropriate it!  Not only does Mandy work for the Cowboys, Robert comes from a family of football players.

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Can I tell you how much I ADORE this photo shoot and this couple!  Doug was so interactive throughout the entire photo shoot which doesn’t happen often with grooms.  He was tossing out ideas and loving on his girl the entire time.  When we arrived we found out that Shelley drove a yellow Mini Cooper….LOVE!!!  I mean seriously, she stole my heart with her car.  So, being the Mini Cooper loving people that we are we had them start things with a photo in front of the adorable car.

About a week after we did this photo shoot together we got an e-mail from Shelley, someone hit her driving down the road and totaled her Mini.  Can you believe it?  We are so glad now that we did a few shots in front of her beautiful car.  Once again bringing back to a point I feel like I’m trying to make over and over.  There can’t be a price placed on a photo.  A photographer is one of the most important parts of your event/wedding.  Your photos and videos are the only thing outside your significant other that last to show off your beautiful day or in this case, a fun 2 hours.

While out on this photo shoot I found some old wood in the trash that the house next door had ripped out from their floors and walls.  Mind you these houses are in the historical district of Dallas so all the wood is original to the home.  I was so excited!  We gathered it up and brought it home.  You can see some of it here as the background for Emma’s photo shoot.  I want to use it in the house somewhere, probably on our stares.  Ok, I digress…back to this awesome shoot…

Aren’t they adorable?!  I think these two could have fun anywhere at anytime!

I swear I have never seen Whiterock Lake look so good!

Isn’t this an awesome camera?  Jonathan is super jealous of Shelley’s Rolleiflex.  It even works, as can be seen above.  So cool!  Shelley is a photographer for Fossil (how cool is that?) so she has a fun collection of camera and of course purses, watches, belts, wallets, cuffs and more.  I’m jealous of her really!

We went out for a bit while Doug serenaded  Shelley during a beautiful sunset.  Isn’t life beautiful!

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I love when we have the chance to photograph friends as is the case here.  Kelsi and I worked together a couple years ago at a crazy little company in Irving.  We had some good times with a quite interesting crew during that time.  Since we have stayed in touch via Facebook.  When we saw that she and Zach were engaged we were so excited for them but when Kelsi contacted us about photographing her wedding we were so honored!  We went out to Fort Worth and took their engagement photos and had a blast getting to know Zach.  We are looking forward to their beautiful wedding in 2012.

Above is Zach’s dog Duke who has quite lovingly accepted Kelsi into his life as well. Duke is full of spunk and he had us laughing throughout the photo shoot!

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Oh man these two are so adorable!  We had a blast with Melissa & Hunter in West End downtown Dallas taking their engagement pictures.  They are getting married at the Starlight Room so doing their engagement just outside seemed perfect.  Here are a few of their adorable engagement photos.

Isn’t their puppy Oliver so cute!  He did a good job hanging out and modeling for us!

This is yet another fabulous Rachel Events couple!

We had to include their mutual love for the game of soccer.

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We had such a wonderful time shooting these fall engagements with Staci & Kevin out at Oakland Farm & Ranch for their engagement photos.  This is also the place where they will be getting married.  We are so looking forward to this adorable Houston couple’s gorgeous wedding.  Here are just a few of their many beautiful engagement photos.

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We give you the adorable Jacqueline “Jackie” and Daniel soon to be Raetzsch in downtown Plano working it for the camera! Daniel & Jackie kept saying they don’t do good behind the camera or that they aren’t photogenic but we beg to differ and we have proof!  Here are just a few photos of their engagement session from our time hanging out together.

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We figured we would spice things up and share a cute engagement photo shoot with you all.  We give you, Alayna & John out at the Grapevine Botanical Gardens & Downtown Train Station.  Luckily this was one of those not so hot with a slight breeze kind of days giving us a great setting to take pictures and have some fun.  They even brought along their adorable fur-baby to bask in the sun with us. Here are just a few of their many adorable photos!

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Cutest game of Scrabble I have ever seen!

Love when we reach the ‘golden hour’ during photo shoots cause we are able to easily achieve shots like the one above!

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Dallas Wedding Photographer Jonathan Ivy Photography is a International photographer based out of Dallas, TX who enjoys working locally and world-wide. Thank you for visiting us and for viewing this DFW Wedding.