John & Jessica: Mesa, Arizona

On Saturday, we had a super fun portrait shoot with John & Jessica.  The first time we met them was at Elizabeth & Kevin’s wedding back in September.  (John is actually one of Elizabeth’s brothers – do you see the resemblance?)  So when Jessica contacted us about doing some portraits for them, we were, of course, thrilled!  AND we felt especially honored that they asked us because Jessica is a photographer too :-)  They told us at the beginning of the session that they hadn’t had any professional photos taken of them since their wedding and, get this, John had broken his arm a couple days before so he couldn’t even wear his suit jacket!  So sad :-(

John & Jessica have been married for six years, but you’d hardly know that they weren’t newlyweds from this super cute photo session :-)   Here’s a few of our favorites:

We started out at the Mesa Temple . . .

I love the light in these next two :-)

Seriously!  How cute are they?

There’s several things I love about this next shot – the splash of orange and green, the blueish tint of the windows – but my favorite thing?  Jessica is grabbing John’s ear :-)  See mentioned how she hopes all their kids have John’s adorable “dumbo” ears.  (Her words, not mine John!)  So cute!

Then we headed over to nearby Mesa Arts Center.  It’s such a cool place.  So cool in fact that the main section between the buildings was full of other photographers and their subjects.  So we wondered around to the back and still found some awesome places to shoot.

Love, love, LOVE the colored walls!

Probably my favorite of the whole session :-)

Things got a little steamy next to the no parking sign :-) . . .

We had big plans for the Penske truck, but security chased us away after only one shot :-( At least it was a good one!

We don’t typically like to duplicate photos from one session to another, but they really wanted to do a couple of the same street shots we did during Elizabeth & Kevin’s bridal session.  Here’s a little different twist on the “dip in the street” shot.

Thanks so much you guys!  We had such a great time getting to know you both.