It’s here!! It’s finally here…which means 1 year down!!!!!!! It was a great year. I have to thank all of my beautiful brides for making my first year an amazing one. I have met so many kind, driven, and special people last year and honestly I feel blessed to be around this type of clientele. My first blog post last year was about my goals.

1. Shoot a wedding out of the country:

-I truly wish someone would get married in Paris, France or Florence, Italy!

2. Book 40 weddings by the end of 2015.

– This is my long term goal and I hope to achieve this (although, I have been known to try to over achieve). I hope to book 40 weddings, regardless when they take place, by 2015. So my weddings could be in 2017, I don’t care, as long as they are

booked!

3. Merge my business from a part time job to my full time job.

– This one is a hard goal because of the economy. Sometimes I am booked up to my neck in photo sessions and sometimes I

have free moments to myself.

As much as I would like to say they have all been accomplished…they haven’t. AND THAT’ OKAY!!!  because let me show you what I accomplished in 2014.

In 2013 I had shot 1 wedding! It was my small taste of what I wanted to do and I was already addicted to the thought of being a wedding photographer. 2014 came around and I was a vendor at 4 bridal shows…that was 4 very long Sundays of talking to potential clients and really just having a great time meeting other photographers and vendors.

Before any of these weddings took place I signed up to go to a photography conference called CLIC. I met the best of the best and other photographers who had shot a few weddings and it was the best place for me to learn and hear other peoples experience first hand. I met Katelyn James, Amanda Hedgepeth, and Molly Stillman and they blew me aways with their ideas about photography and blogging.

I met with both Katelyn James and Amanda Hedgepeth separately to really see how they ran their business and balanced their day to day life.

I had 4 amazing weddings to take place at. Now, I would have loved to have 15 weddings this year but I am grateful for the 4 I had…”slow growth is healthy growth” – Zach & Jody

and I did some engagements!!

I had the chance to do bridal portraits

and some headshots!!

My goals for 2015 are still the same…

1. Shoot a wedding out of the country:

-I truly wish someone would get married in Paris, France or Florence, Italy!

2. Book 40 weddings by the end of 2015.

– This is my long term goal and I hope to achieve this (although, I have been known to try to over achieve). I hope to book 40 weddings, regardless when they take place, by 2015. So my weddings could be in 2017, I don’t care, as long as they are

booked!

3. Merge my business from a part time job to my full time job.

But I have more….

4. Be published in 10 magazines or blogs

5. Travel

6. Plan 2 styled shoots

Here we go 2015!! Let’s make this year amazing 🙂