Blue Lily Portraits

A couple of years ago we hired a photographer to take our family pictures while everyone was in town for my brother's wedding. After a gigantic snow/ice storm delayed everyone's flights and brought all the picture taking indoors and into the evening we finally ended up with this:
It's okay, but we were never really in love with the fact that it was indoors, the lighting wasn't great, I didn't like our clothing choice, and the photographer totally overcharged us (call me if you want to know which local photographer to AVOID), so last fall I started getting the itch to get a new family photo taken.

This time I was determined to get it right, which pretty much meant that I wanted everything completely different.

Step one was finding a new photographer! I found Wendy at Blue Lily Photography after seeing the awesome pictures she took of my friend Delmy's family(it's her cute family after the apron). I was a little surprised to see that she is based in California and only comes to DC a couple times a year, but I loved her photos enough to be patient. I subscribed to her blog and started watching like a hawk for when she posted the schedule for her next DC trip.

Finally she announced that she was coming in April! Yay, but now it was time for the hardest part. What to wear?

As most of you know, I'm not much of a fashionista or a shopper, so this was a difficult task for me. I knew that I wasn't such a big fan of the black and white we used last time, so I did a total 180, picking out the most colorful clothes I could find. Of course, this also meant that I had the task of getting all those colors to match (which is decidedly also not my forte). I was shopping up until the mall closed the night before our session, but in the end we got what we were looking for....

A fun, energetic, honest photographer who kept everyone smiling

AND

Gorgeous, vibrant photos in perfect lighting!!!













Now we just need to find the perfect frames...

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PS: Blue Lily also travels to Utah, Arizona, California, NYC, Texas, etc. (just check her blog for dates)

PS2: If you need a good DC based photographer, my friend Denise has recently begun her own photography business and she is AMAZING!!!!

PS3: If you want to see some more of the photos, go to my online Smugmug account to the June album {they should be there sometime today after my internet starts working again})