Collaborative Shoot with Makeup Artist Alissa Clark-Crews

I've wanted to do a styled shoot for a while now, something out of the box that would push my creative abilities and boxes. A few months ago I found out that a fellow mom friend did professional makeup artistry. Perfect! After a long conversation (and a lot of ideas!), we decided to collaborate on our first styled shoot together, and also offer a few of our mom friends complimentary maternity styling & photos. 

Alissa's vision of styling and painting her cousin as a lioness is just breathtaking! Then Alissa highlighted our mom friends' facial features and we make the second half of the shoot into a beauty shoot. So stunning. 

Photos: KB Photos & Design. Makeup Artistry: Makeup by Liss Marie. 

Curtis and Ashley | Destination Wedding to Dreams Resort in Tulum Mexico | KB Photos & Design

What an honor to capture the wedding day and festivities for Ashley and Curtis. They are truly some of the best humans you will ever meet! Both were good friends of mine in high school, but one from my school and one from my church. My worlds collided when I found out my friends were dating - and going to get married! 

It's a real treat for me to photograph a wedding where I know the bride and groom so well. And what they really wanted was to get married in paradise, surrounded by their closest friends and family. I was ever so happy to pack up my exhaustive camera bags and every charger I could find, and get on an early flight out of the country to Dreams Resort in Tulum, Mexico.

I spent five days in all in the beautiful sub-tropical sunshine of Tulum, Mexico. There were plenty of notable experiences during this trip, but my favorite part was photographing this lovely couple on their big day. They are so comfortable with each other and with others, their laughter is contagious, and their love is authentic and uplifting. I hope that these photos tell you the story of their wedding day and help you experience just a bit of their flair and fun personalities. So, without further adieu, here are my favorite 55 photos from Curtis and Ashley's destination wedding day: 

 

Toni + Patti | Kansas City Missouri Wedding at Oakwood Country Club | KB Photos & Design

I was so excited when my sweet friend Patti and her boyfriend Toni got engaged! Patti is one of my adventurous friends and had been taking a class to learn the Swahili language when she met Toni - cause who doesn’t just take up a new language when they want to learn something new? Toni had been living in Kansas for a while but most of his family was from Nyeri, Kenya, so the language came naturally to him. I was ecstatic to be asked to photograph their wedding day as they tied the knot!

And let me tell you, these two…they are the absolute best. They are some of the most warm, generous and genuine people that I know. It was an absolute honor to photograph the joining of their two families in marriage and in culture. What a FUN wedding this was!