Wedding bells are ringing!

What a wedding season it has been. I am currently 25 wks pregnant and feeling great! I have posted a quick snapshot Isaac took the other day. Once I get bigger I am having professional maternity photos taken! Can't wait. But big news is on the horizon. One of my best friends is getting married March 6th and then the following weekend on March 13th, my sister in law is getting married. I am overjoyed with this news and can't be more excited for both couples.
Things are busy in the Kain household trying to close out the wedding season with 5 more weddings, planning for our baby on Jan. 22nd, and then two weddings 5 & 6 weeks after our baby is born. I can't wait to see how this all plays out.



Check out some of our most recent album designs, just click on each photo to preview the entire album.

Vacation!

What a great summer it has been. We have been blessed to shoot almost 20 weddings so far this year. Isaac and I have met so many great couples, families, and guests! We will be taking a short vacation from August 23-30th and will return to the office on August 31st. Please feel free to call or email us and we will be certain to return your messages as soon as we return.

We still have a few spots available for next year, so call quick before we are all booked. Here are some of my favorites from Donna & Ron's wedding on the shores of Lake Ontario at Mexico Point last night. ENJOY!





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Big News

So whats the big news you ask? Isaac and I will be expecting our first child at the beginning of 2010. I am currently 13 1/2 weeks pregnant and my due date is Jan 22,2010. We are so excited about this addition to our family! We could not be more blessed with the timing of it either. Since I will be due in Jan. this will not affect any 2009 weddings at all! Woohoo!!! I am just now departing from my first trimester and entering my second trimester and wow was the first trimester a trying time. So there is the reason why I have not been blogging lately, I have either been sleeping or being awfully sick if not working. I hope to be back blogging in the next few weeks on a regular basis.

We are very excited to be having a baby within 6 months of both of my sisters. My oldest sister Lauren just had a baby a few weeks ago and my second oldest sister Caitlin is due a short 4-5 weeks after I am. How exciting!

Sono taken at 9 weeks. Looks like a teddy graham or a sour patch kid.


With this big news I must announce another big plan. With the addition to our family we have had to make some big decisions in the last few weeks. Over the past few weeks I have been struggling with what to do next year. I have been debating whether or not I want to work next year. Over the last few days I have come to the conclusion that it would be a disservice to my clients and to my family if I were to continue working next year at the pace I am doing this year. I do not have the capacity to split my time equally between my family and my work. After watching my oldest sisters newborn over the course of a week I realized how important those first few months/years are and I do not want to miss out on any of it. It is hard to make such a drastic decision when I don't even know what it is going to be like to have a baby, but being a wedding photographer I need to be proactive and make these decisions early on. We have 3 weddings booked so far for 2010 and will only be taking 8 more local weddings for the 2010 season. So if you are having a wedding in the Oswego/Syracuse area get on the phone ASAP and call us up. This may be just a one season part-time hiatus and you may very well see us out every weekend in 2011, but we will be taking one season at a time.

Please email us at Jenna@KainsPhotography.com if you have any questions or concerns! I cannot wait to see how the rest of this wedding season progresses and then to see my baby!

Vacation

Hello!
Sorry I have been so bad at blogging lately. I have been busy with work and some good surprises in life and blogging is always the first thing to go when I am busy. I just wanted to let you all know that Isaac and I will be in SC until this Friday 7/10 visiting my sister and her family. She just had a baby 10 days ago and we wanted to come visit before she gets any bigger. I will make all return phone calls and emails when I get back. Have a great week!

Bayshore Album

Late this spring I finally got around to designing a flush-mount album for Bayshore Grove in Oswego. George at Bayshore had the brilliant idea to separate the album into seasons, since Bayshore highly revolves around the outside scenery. I loved the idea of having sections specifically for spring, summer, and fall.

So I already gave George his copy because I was so excited to have him see it, but I ordered 96 mini-copies for me to hand out to prospective clients as well as Bayshore. Here is a photo of what they look like. They're cute 2.5x4" books that are 36 sides



Congrats to Clint & Nicole Pitts (05.31.08), Quame & Molly Patterson (07.04.08), Ryan & Michelle Terpening (08.02.08), and Brandon & Brittany Bean (10.18.08), for being the highlighted weddings in this new album! You guys will be getting a copy in the mail, unfortunately for everyone else the only way to get your hands on this bad boy is to be planning an upcoming wedding!

Chandler's Senior Sesson

Last week Isaac and I photographed our first double senior session. Shane & Chandler are good friends at Oswego High school. They decided they wanted to do their session together, and we happily obliged. It was so fun having two models to work with. The two of them fed off each other as they made faces at each other and tried to "out model" one another. I hope to do more double senior sessions like this in the near future.

Here are my favorites of the beautiful Chandler during her senior session:
























You can view the entire session by going to www.KainsPhotography.com. Click on weddings/portraits and go to the portrait proofing page. Once there look for Shane & Chandler's name. Tomorrow I will have my favorites from Beth & Paul's wedding back in late May.

Tis the season

Wedding season is in full swing, along with family portraits and senior sessions we are keeping ourselves really busy. Isaac's last day of teaching is the 15th and his last day of going into school is the 26th. I am very excited to have him back in the office for the summer months.
In the past 3 weeks we have shot 4 weddings, 2 senior portraits, moved my office back into my house, went to a 2 day conference (where I got to photograph 2 famous musicians up close and personal), celebrated 4 birthdays and our 4th anniversary. Wow I can't believe I did all that since Memorial Day.

For the next few days I will be sharing photos from all of our photo adventures including all of our past 3 weddings, portraits etc. This year we are really starting to focus more on our senior photography. We started off the senior season (May-Oct.) very strong with a double senior session of Shane & Chandler. These two were a blast to work with as we spent about an hour after school last week. This was our first senior session where we had two friends come together. It was fun to see them laugh at each other and I can tell they had a lot of fun. I think we might start trying to do more senior sessions with a friend or two. I cannot wait to see these photos printed out. Next summer we are planning on shooting more portraits and less weddings.

For the 2010 wedding season we are only going to shoot 10-12 weddings with a max of 1 per weekend and 2 per month. With our free weeks when we do not have weddings we are going to be shooting more senior sessions and family portraits. Woo hoo. I absolutely love weddings and If my body could take having a wedding every Friday and Saturday I would, but after 6 months of working every weekend my body hates me. This is good news for all of your Kain's Photography clients, because as my work load goes down, my quality and time available to answer your questions goes up! That is what full service support is all about... being available to YOU!

Now enjoy some of my favorites of Shane's senior session taken by the wonderful Isaac Kain himself:




















You can view the entire session by going to www.KainsPhotography.com. Click on weddings/portraits and go to the portrait proofing page. Once there look for Shane & Chandler's name. Tomorrow I will have my favorites of Chandler.

Erin & Chris's wedding

Erin & Chris Oldani renewed their vows last Friday, May 22nd, during their dream wedding at Bayshore in Oswego. It was a gorgeous May evening as the guests filtered in for our first Bayshore wedding of the year. Everything was perfect during the day. The staff at Bayshore was exceptional, as well as the food. Chris & Erin were so fun to photograph as I can tell their love for eachother is real. I was extra excited to shoot their wedding because I got to know them well during our engagement session a few weeks back. Sadly enough they are moving to the west coast in a few weeks, so our time with them is cut short! Here is the link to my blog post of their engagement session. You can view the rest of the engagement and wedding photos here. Have a wonderful afternoon. Enjoy the photos!














This photo is proof enough to hire a GOOD DJ. There is so much more to playing music, such as MC'ing the event, the light set-up and keeping the crowd going. Isn't this an amazing photo because of the lights! Thanks to Kevin Colangelo and his team, their setup made our photos pop!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEG

Today is the birthday of a very special person to me. One of my best friends and fellow photographers, Meghan Thomas, is turning one year older today! HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you, I couldn't ask for a better friend.
Unfortunately I am not on my main computer right now so the only photo I have of us is when she was helping me out with my makeup when she shot our 3rd anniversary photos last May. Meg is always willing to help out and will go out of her way to make everyone else happy. Little did I know that when Isaac introduced us at a bridal show in Syracuse back in 2006 that I would become friends with this crazy girl. Everyone wish her happy birthday!


A few weeks ago I was driving around at night at decided to stop to watch a lightening storm over the lake. It was very cool! Unfortunately I did not have my tripod on me so these shots are quite blurry, oh well.



This past Friday I had the lovely opportunity to shoot the engagement session of Caroline and Stephen, who are getting married this October at Bayshore. It was great to get to know this fun couple a little bit more before the big day. Enjoy some of my favorites, you two look wonderful!










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