After SO many hours creating inspirations boards, talking color palettes/style/fonts, playing with web design, and examining paper, the new website and blog are FINALLY live.  Whew!  Have you peeked at my new WEDDING AND PORTRAIT PORTFOLIO?  What do you think?

I have been so excited for this day.  I finally have pieces that reflect both myself and my business, and boy does that feel good.  And I’d love to share some of my new print pieces with you- aren’t they pretty??  There are lots more to come, and I can’t wait to start packing these up and shipping them out.

Mae Mae Paperie designed my logo and some of the other print pieces, and I built my website myself using Showit/SiteHouse.  (LOVE having the ability to customize away, and Showit’s customer service has been so great!!)

And I still need to give away a canvas, now don’t I?!

The 16×20 Canvas goes to….

Comment #20: Kevin Carberry -”The People, Even the few… making the dream come true. Yes I’m talking about you. Old and new… Those people…that eat the food. Yes, them too… Not just the people within the church and steapel… but rather a specific one standing across from me Crying, trust me…I’m not lying.”

Oh, Kevin.  SO excited for your wedding. 

Thank you SO much to everyone who entered.  I love hearing from you!  It has been so much fun reading your comments, and I really appreciate all the facebook love.  You make my day!

So here’s to a fresh start and a new milestone.

-CHEERS!-

There are long lists of sessions/weddings sitting beside my monitor, all waiting for their turn on the blog.  So I hear you asking, “what’s your excuse for leaving us hanging, Kristen”.  Well, I have a good one.  A really good one.  Actually, a few.  Let me explain.

1. It is definitely wedding booking season.  My 2011 wedding calendar is quickly approaching FULL.  I have had SO many meetings the last few weeks, so I’ve been spending a large amount of time away from my desk and out meeting everyone.  (I know, my job rocks.)  I am OVER THE MOON excited about my 2011 engaged couples.  Seriously- I am in love.  They have some of the sweetest love stories, adorable chemistry, and they are an all-around rad bunch of people.

2.  I am working on some VERY exciting changes for Kristen Honeycutt Photographer.  New products, new branding (more about that coming soon!), new equipment, new work flow, and the list goes ON AND ON.  I am really pushing myself and my business to another level this year and I am dying in anticipation of what’s to come.

3.  This one’s completely selfish- I am soaking up the ‘off season’.  Six months of the year are a blur for me, and when you have a 1 year old, it’s pretty shocking how things change over a summer.  I am loving a little extra time with my two favorite men, and I’m making good use of our play time (more on this coming soon too!).

So let’s kick this off with a peek at one of my new products- Custom Letter Storyboards.

They are 10×20″ and available as a photo standout or gallery wrapped canvas.  Colors/text are customizable, and you can choose your favorite images.  There are so many fun options, including a wedding-date version (so he’ll always remember your anniversary!).

This one features a few of Jessica and Jeff- one of my super rad 2011 wedding couples- which also creates the perfect opportunity to share their engagement session with you!

Jessica and Jeff are all kinds of awesome.  We hit it off right away, and after all the fun we had at their engagement session, I have to fight the urge to call them for happy hour every week. 

Remember those “old” guestbooks with the lined pages?  (The ones you’d probably never look at after your wedding day.)  Well here’s a modern and fresh twist on a tired tradition- The Engagement Guest Book.  It’s a stylish coffee table book that does double duty;  It not only shows off all of your stunning engagement images, but also leaves ample room for your guest to sign with little notes of love and best wishes.  You’ll want to flip through this thing over and over, and it’s slick design makes it the perfect piece to display out on your coffee table.  Totally customizable, it’s a breeze to match to your wedding colors or personalize with your name and wedding date.

Why? Because they are the end result of one of the most meaningful days of your lives. Think about it- you’ve been planning every little last detail for years (c’mon ladies, you know we’ve all been planning our weddings since we were five).  You might think you’ll do your own album after things calm down, but the truth is- life happens. You get back from a fabulous honeymoon and have a blast settling in with your new spouse. You’re having so much fun being newlyweds, and the scrap booking project keeps getting put off. At best, you end up with hundreds of proofs thrown into an everyday album. Worst case scenario, you invested thousands of dollars on gorgeous images of your wedding day that end up stuffed in a shoe box on the top shelf of your closet. You invest a good chunk of your wedding budget on your photography- why wouldn’t you want to display all those gorgeous images in a way that does them justice? Let your photographer finish the job. Your wedding story deserves a timeless album that will be treasured for generations to come.

Want the details? This gorgeous storybook is a quality, hand-made, archival album with thick (2mm) pages and leather soft enough to cuddle. Each album comes with a chic canvas slipcover to keep it looking beautiful on your coffee table. Trust me, you’ll want this baby out on display. Each is custom designed by yours truly, so you can incorporate lyrics to your first dance, your vows, and the poem your cousin wrote for her speech. Did I mention they come in a variety of gorgeous colors? I drool over the lime green every time.

Check it out: