Happy Valentines Day!!

......simply LOVE!! gotta Love it! Shea and Lucas flew into Denver from Arizona a couple of weeks ago and we had a great time getting to know each other...It was the first time we had ever met in person! I think the session was awesome and they are just so cool!
Shea and Lucas are tying the knot in June this year in Durango, Colorado! I can't wait!!







Happy Valentines Day!!...I have a lot to post from the last month so stay tuned!! and a couple of BIG surprises on the way :)

My husband and I are off in the morning to the high country for a weekend of skiing, snowboarding and good times with friends and family!! If you need to reach me, please call my cell phone...303.725.8969

THE SWEETEST THING

I received the sweetest note from a father of the bride today, and it almost brought me to tears! I wanted to share the corspondance between father and daughter in regard to the daughters wedding...it was just the best thing to wake up to! I am humbled, grateful and so glad I get to do this for a living. Each and every one of my clients has a special relationship with me and I wouldn't be here with out YOU!




--Lori's Dad to me--

-Melissa,

I just wanted to send you a note and include the email I sent to Lori about the wedding picture album we just received. You are awesome, and I am SO GLAD that Lori and Sander picked you to do their wedding. I just can’t say enough positive things about what you did. As I told you previously, you really have a gift, and thanks for sharing it with us.

Rob Ameln

-----Lori had written this to her dad---

-Merry Christmas in January! We are so glad you both like it! Yes, I had to take a look at it and really loved it. Melissa has a great eye for photos AND design and did a terrific job. I tried to re-wrap it nicely for you. She had a sticker on the back that tore the tissue paper a bit, but otherwise it didn’t look too shabby! J

I just gave Melissa the photo list for our album yesterday. I can’t wait to see how it turns out! We’ll have to get together after it is done so you can see it.

Love you!!
Lori

---and Lori's dad had written this to her---

-Lori,

DA brought the book home from work, and I promptly ripped it open, I was so anxious to see it. She said she wouldn’t dare think of opening it, although I told her it would have been ok. In any event, it was packaged very classily, with the box, and the tissue paper, and then the wheat grass (at least that’s what I thought it was). Did you look at it??? If so, you did a fine job of re-wrapping. All I can say is WOW !!! It is really something special. I mean the pics are terrific, without saying (how could they not be with such a photogenic wedding couple). But the way she put them together, and then grouped them, etc. Really nice. You guys really picked a great photographer !!! I’ve only looked at it a half-dozen time so far…. It was certainly worth the wait. THANK YOU !!!!! (Oh yeah, DA loved it too!!)

Love,

Dad



Thanks for making my day one for the books Lori and Rob!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Thank you to all of my super amazing clients for such a wonderful year!! I can't wait to share what's in store for 2008!!

- our new website has gone live: www.melissarich.com
Be sure to update your records and feel free to check it out!!

-click on New Year 2008 for a bigger version of the slideshow or feel free to watch below!


To all my clients, Thank you so much! You are all wonderful and I wish you such greatness in the new year!

joy of their life!

This family is so cute!! We did a family session in November and I had to share a couple of them!! One of my favorite things about family shoots is that I like to allow the kids and the adults to just cut loose, have fun...that is what is real! That is where I find their true expression for each other and for the moment! It was a real treat and honor to photograph this family!! I can't wait to see them often as the boys grow up!

Fall engagement!

Here's a few images from Kim and Michael's engagement session...we had a lot of fun! It was so beautiful, I just love the way Kim glows in the fall light!! I can't wait for their wedding next year! Kim and Michael are such nice people!! I really look forward to getting to know them over the next year!!!







Have a delightful day!!

WElCOME HOME!!

I met Genevieve in April at another wedding....Gen is the most fabulous hair stylist!! anyway, she was telling me recently of how grateful she is to have her fiance home from Iraq! He has been gone so long...and as you can only imagine, she missed him!!! (to say the least). So, I'll get right to it...here are a few images from their reunion engagement session...as Nate had only been in town for a couple of weeks!

Enjoy!








Happy December!

Family Fun!

I had the great pleasure to photograph one of my second photographers families this fall....Nicole was dying for family portraits! The last ones she did were at.....are you ready....SEARS!! Is she crazy!! It wasn't by choice by any stretch of the imagination...so we figured it was time to do it right!! Here's a few of her adorable family!!





Don't you just LOVE the colors!!! Fall is so great!
Check out the rest of their sessionHERE!
Cheerfully,
Melissa

Erika and Matt | The Wedding!

Fall spectacular!!! seriously! We have had the best fall this year and when Erika and Matt told me they were getting married on October 20th...I kept thinking, ohhh....I hope we still have the beautiful fall leaves then!!.....Well, we did! and Spectacular they were!! The wedding and reception took place at the beautiful Arrowhead Golf Club. They were so fun to work with!! Here's a few images from their great day!!


A sweet moment with her Dad before he gave her away!


such a beautiful ceremony site! Check out that view!


I totally love this moment!! Everyone is SO excited!



Have a great day!!
Melissa

THANKSGIVING!!

OH, I love this one!! it's such a great time to spend with family and to just get clear on what I am grateful for in life! So, here are my top 10!

1. My seriously awesome and supportive husband!! --he rocks! :)

2. My Parents who are such an inspiration after being married for 32 years!!

3. The amazing view from our back deck from our house!--it is truly such a gift to live where we do!

4. Our neighbors who have been so encouraging and a touchstone in my life! Thank you for sharing all things great!

5. oh, yes, I'm finally going to say it.......the first SNOW!!! I think I'm finally ready for it!

6. The warm roof over our head!

7. My health of my family and my friends!

8. My friends who forgive me because I NEVER go out with them anymore...because...I'm married, I live too far away and get up way too early.

9. This great new book I am reading called "Eat Pray Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert. It's so good!!!!

10. My life career, which I am forever grateful for...I cannot even describe the pleasure I get by serving others in this way! I am truly blessed!

11. How great Thanksgiving is--especially when it's on my Birthday!!...and all I'm going to say is that I was born in the 70's and I have not graduated to the thirty-something club quite yet! :) lol!


OK, so that was 11...but I actually could go on and on! So, I would love to here what you are grateful for...Leave some comments about all the goodies you are grateful for!!


oh, by the way... Here's a photograph of part of our view from our house!




Happy Thanksgiving!!

Melissa