Daryl Musser Photography

Marvin + Cindy 1.23.10

Wednesday, January 27, 2010 Posted in Wedding

Happy New Year everyone! Wow, I haven’t realized how long it’s been that I’ve been on here! Let’s just say it’s been an unofficial winter vacation, I guess:-) We had about 8 weeks off w/ no weddings, and to say it was lovely is an understatement. There’s nothing like a little break to get one rejevenated and ready to go again! I’ve been working on some personal projects these last few weeks, doing something with images I took for ourselves, so it’s been a fun creative outlet.

But now, we are back to weddings for 2010! It looks to be an exciting season, we are ready to go!

This past weekend was Marvin and Cindy’s big day!! All the way in Ohio! We were happy that a former bride referred her to us, we love that type of word-of-mouth advertisement, it certainly is the best!

Marvin and Cindy had a lovely winter day for their winter wedding. We were thankful that the snow belt wasn’t producing that weekend, it could have made for a very interesting roadtrip. But as it was, the weather was lovely, not too cold, and we were able to get some great images for these two!

Here they are, the happy two:

Simple, with emphasis on the memories, that was the feeling of this wedding.

Dad was a corker.

This veil was so fun to play with. I think it was one of the bride’s favorite parts to the day–other then the groom, of course.

After the reception, we were able to steal away outdoors, for a few shots. We were happy the light stuck with us as well as it did!

Dance with me.

I think this shot is one of my personal favorites from the day.

I love the texture and warmth that old house added to the background.

The bridal party. Such good winter colors, I think.

Back to the reception for a few details shots. I love all the handmade touches that Cindy incorporated into her day. It seemed like every detail was carefully thot through.

The cake.

These branches were fabulous with the lowlight and candlelight, they truly added ambience.

Smile:-)

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KISS!!!

Saturday, December 12, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized

As winter settles in, and our workload eases, Daryl and I still find ourselves hunkered over our computers each evening. While we may be done editing, there are a multitude of small housekeeping tasks that we have been putting off, that are now begging our attention. Winter is the time to brush up on things, streamline business procedures and marketing products, update websites, review product lines, organize files, etc. etc. It’s like spring cleaning for photographers, only differant:-)

We are excited about new things we are considering for our 2010 wedding season! We’re bringing in a new fun line of wedding albums, and laying to rest our old. We’re updating the website with a new look, and more current galleries….and offering a new pricing structure for 2010 brides.

For now, here’s a sneak peak at our new albums! We are proud to offer the KISS wedding album line. A simple clean, very very very fun book in two different styles, 4 sizes, and 7 different luscious color options!

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Let’s see there’s red light red, luscious brown, forbidden green, sultry blue, virgin white, voluptuous black and passion pink!

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These images are compliments of the fun helpful folk at KISS. I can hardly wait to lay my hands on the studio samples that I worked so hard designing.

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Like I said, two cover options. The hard, and the soft. The hard features a buttery soft leather cover with thicker hard pages, while it’s less expensive counterpart-the soft- is a crispy linen hardcover with thin flex-y pages.

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A shot of those flex-y pages.

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Big versus small! Sizes range from a generous 12″ square to a teeny weeny 4″ mini! How fun is that?!?

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Think of the possibilities of the itty bitty book–how about a little brag book for grandma’s purse–what a perfect gift!

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Hard vs. soft again showcasing the differance of thick and thin.

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Another fun option for the 8×8 size is a guest sign-in book at a wedding. In place of the traditional guest book, have a book of your engagement images designed with blank pages for your guests to sign–how fun!

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Stay tuned for more on these fab fun albums! I will feature another post on them when I receive our studio sample albums!

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Monday, December 7, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized

Happy Monday!
It is indeed a happy day as I am currently working on the last wedding of our ‘09 season:-) Yes, we are kinda looking forward to a few weeks of no editing, as much as we love weddings:-)

here is a sneak image to complete this post

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Abbi’s big week

Monday, November 30, 2009 Posted in family

Here’s hoping everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I was able to spend the week with family, well, both Abbi and I were. It was a huge week for Abbi. Amongst all the eating, and family time, she accomplished many new things.

One of them being this:

After weeks of practicing, something clicked in her head, and she took off….love the little toddle:-)

She had alot of fun with Aunt Lor’s Christmas decor:

Did I mention this just really blows my mind. It is so weird to see this little person just take off across the room. Where has my tiny little baby gone???

They’re letting babies walk these days!

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A day in the life of Abbi

Saturday, November 21, 2009 Posted in family

Wedding Season 2009 is officially over!!! Which means Saturdays can now be spent doing those things that really should be done on a Saturday like…..

Chilling around the house w/ mommy and daddy….

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chugging tall bottles of milk…..

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Practicing my crawling skills…..

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Ahhh……this is the life:-)

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Abbi

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 Posted in family

Just because:

She is 10 months old (already!!!)

She has two teeth (just discovered yesterday!!)

She is just a trip to have around.

She is almost walking (go baby!!)(mommy’s life is about to change:-) )

Did I mention she is just plain fun!?!?

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Justin + Audrey 9.19.09

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 Posted in Wedding

Justin Audrey’s wedding. Where do I begin? Well, it was fun. Definately that. Justin and Audrey both, were super-relaxed and this was an all-around fun wedding to shoot. At the risk of sounding redundant, always talking about the weather, their day was perfect, sun-soaked, and so not raining!

Here’s the happy two:

Audrey was preatty much the ultimate photographer’s dream as far as bride’s go–gorgeous, easy going and just incredibly funny and up for anything! She made me laugh on a day that I really needed to laugh:-)

Beautiful beautiful sunshine, how I love thee!

I just had to include this one. Amazingly we didn’t get chucked off the premises for this:-) Audrey loves horses so she just had to get up on this horse statue in the garden. Not every bride would attempt this in their gown:-)

And speaking of fun, how’s this? triplets! That means triple the fun, right?

yep. up for anything.

I Looove this image because it has blue blue sky, not a cloud to be seen:-)

Some fun with the super awesome vintage truck they borrowed for the day.

Reception funness: personalized Jones’ soda:-)

A groom cake for Justin. I think he was pleasently surprised, plus a personalized bat from Audrey to Justin.

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Josiah + Valerie 7.31.09

Monday, November 2, 2009 Posted in Wedding

So we really really love when one happy bride/couple tells another couple about us and we are enlisted to do their wedding. You get to meet some really awesome people that way, that you prly never would have crossed paths w/ otherwise. Such was the case w/ Josiah and Valerie. What a sweet amazing couple, as much so as his cousin who referred them to us! Thanks so much guys, for inviting us to be a part of your day.

This is one of the weddings that happened over the time of our house purchase/moving time, so we didn’t get around to blogging it before now:-) We certainly didn’t want to skip over it, because it truly was a sweet event to be a part of.

As I chose images to blog, I didn’t know where to begin…or end!

To start, of course the weather was rainy rainy rainy over the time allotted for pictures. Now the really tough part was the fact that this was an outside event…an evening wedding on the lawn of a beautiful bed and breakfast, complete w/ a desert reception. Rain just would not do, Not at all! Josiah had a deep faith that it was not going to rain. He prayed hard for beautiful weather, and altho it poured over picture time, it turned into an absolutely beautiful wedding evening. What an amazing wedding gift from God!

Without further explanation, here are the happy two:

I loved this garden shed, so Valerie braved the rain for a few shots w/ it!

Beautiful rainy day wedding images, is all I can say.

Totally loved her esemble! It all went so well together–the pearls, the hair, the dress……the bride! It seemed to reflect her style well.

All I can say is, I could have shot her all day!

Rain, rain go away. This was on the beautiful veranda where tables were then set up for the reception time.

And the weather begin to take a turn for the better!!!

Happy girlies in vibrant colors.

and the wedding ceremony took place on a balmy beautiful Friday evening as the sun set and the breezes whispered in the trees. It truly was amazing!

As evening faded into night, the guest laughed and talked by the twinkling lights of the veranda and the tiki torches tucked everywhere. I think if I would redo my wedding, this would be my reception of choice.

Some fun details:

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Dustin & Shania 9.17.09

Thursday, October 29, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized

Dustin and Shaina. A sparkly beautiful wedding day full of glowy sunshine, no rain to be seen (big huge smiles) Two happy people quite in love. Gorgeous fall tones in the flowers and dresses. Yep, it was pretty fun document this wedding day.

Here’s one of my favorite images of the happy two:

And here’s the bride. Can we say Cute???? I seriously could do a whole post of just her!

Glove and boquet deliciousness:

The last time we shot at this location, it was a cold blustery spring day, so it was kinda weird (in a good way) to be there in lovely weather:

Shaina cuteness:

all the girlies:

Girlie details:

The guys:

And some fun reception details, i loved these apples as a falltime favour/seating assignment:

And the cake, aren’t the leaves just a beautiful touch?

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Dennis + Beka 10.24.09

Tuesday, October 27, 2009 Posted in Wedding

Last Saturday was the wedding of Dennis and Rebekah….and yes, you guessed it, it was rainy. You’d think by now we’d be used to working w/ rainy wedding days, which I guess we have to be, after this wedding season! It pretty much poured all morning, breaking only over the time we were doing bridal party pictures, and then after the reception we were able to head out w/ the two for a few more shots, before it began to pour again.

But no matter, it was a beautiful wedding, and the couple got married all the same! Here they are pre-wedding, happy and gorgeous.

Between the wedding and reception the sun broke through and we had some stunning blue skies that matches the bridesmaid dresses perfectly. I love this shot!