We had so much fun yesterday at our first ever maternity photo shoot. It’s kinda like an e-session, only better, esp, when you have a pg person who is as cute at Adrienne was:-)
Here is a teaser and there will be more on their way soon!
Sneak peek: Adrienne + Nate + baby
FOR SALE! Canon 24-70MM 2.8L Lens
For Sale: Canon 24-70mm 2.8L lens. Used but in very good condition. Will work with any Canon SLR camera, digital or film. Made in Japan. Includes all original packaging with lens shield, lens case, and a skylight A lens filter (glass protection).
Asking price $1100. Open to offers as well. If you have any questions, please contact us. Email: darylmusserphotography@dejazzd.com
Kyle and Lynae
Hi Everyone!
Feels like forever that I’ve been to this little bloggy of ours! So sorry about that, I hope to do better in the next few weeks. Alot has happened this spring, including much rain and a trip to a workshop in NYC. Now I am all juiced up and ready for this wedding season, our crazy times start tomorrow! Don’t know if you remember our Christmas giveaway, where we gave wedding coverage to a deserving couple? Well, the time for their big day has arrived! Tonight we are headed to Bradford to celebrate with Kyle and Lynae tomorrow! We are excited to finally meet them IRL:-)
I decided to re-post their story and hope to also post a few images next week of their wedding.
Congrats to these guys, I wish them only the best!!
Lynae & Kyle
Well I’m not sure where to begin. I don’t want to brag about myself, but i would like to enter my fiance and I in the contest. My name is Lynae, I am 20 years old. I am engaged to be married May 21, 2011. My parents and their 6 children lived in Lancaster county. My dad had a good job and i held a job from the time i was 13. My mother would tirelessly run me to and from work all while homeschooling and sewing quilts for a side income. When i was 15, (2005) My parents felt God calling them to Voluntary service in Bradford, PA. We moved that summer and became houseparents to the single VSers and my dad ran the maintenance program where the elderly and widows could get their snow shoveled, which is huge in Bradford, and yards mowed and odd jobs done for any size donation to the church. We served our two year term and decided we would stay another year. That turned into another year and until everything was said and done we had been in VS 4 years.
I graduated high school the year after we moved and worked 2-4 jobs at any given time the year after that. I felt God calling me to nursing and was able to get into a technical school not too far away. I worked my whole way through school and with some financial aide from the local career link was able to put myself through school and graduate with no debt. In my second year of school I began dating Kyle Thiel. He was a young man who lived next to our deacon and his family. He had a very sad family history including physical and emotional abuse from an alcoholic father and from his mothers boyfriends and eventually his stepfather. He spent a lot of time at our deacons house and was attracted to the life they had. He was a straight A student in high school, and worked hard. He began coming to our church when he was 16 and soon after he accepted the Lord and was baptized with my brother and sister. He Graduated from our public high school with honors. His dream in life has always been to help drug and alcohol addicts because of the life he had with his father. He got into Penn State and chose the Behrend campus near Erie. He has and is currently working on a degree in Psychology and a masters in counseling. He has worked at the dining hall on campus and has been promoted several times due to his hard work. He works crazy hours and studies the rest of the time. He is on several committees and throws himself into everything he does. He works so hard and is keeping his GPA higher than 3.75. He got several scholarships throughout the years. His mom and step-dad were paying for his college, unfortunately this summer his step-dad lost his high paying job and they have been having financial problems ever since.
My parents decided to leave VS in 2009, but they couldn’t leave the people my dad did work for. The mission dropped the program and the elderly clients were stranded. My parents moved into the pastors house and the pastors family moved into the mission. We lived there for a year and my dad continued the mission program as a business to the elderly in Bradford. My mom began cleaning around 20 places every two weeks and working at Subway to help provide food for our family. My dad was able to get a job with the school district driving school bus to supplement the business income. My parents tried to purchase a home and it fell through and became a very low time. Finally in august of 2010 God blessed us with a home of our own for the first time in 5 years.
I’m sorry i get wrapped up in the story and get long winded, but to wrap it up I am enrolled in school to get my RN and am currently working as an LPN. I’m working with a young girl in her home. My fiance and I are living 1.5 hours apart and we are both working very hard to pay for our small budget wedding. Since his step-dad lost his job and my parents have been in VS and have just purchased a home we are paying for most of the wedding ourselves. My dear mother is working like crazy to help give us a good start. We have college loans to pay and I don’t know if my car will last the winter. We have cut corners I didn’t know could be cut in planning a wedding. Winning this contest would mean everything to us. We could pay off some of our loans and get financially a little more stable. Thank you for reading. Lynae Oberholtzer, Bradford, PA
And the winner is…
So after a lot of talk about the weather, we have found a winner. Priscilla Caliz has won the $50 gift card to www.Photojojo.com Thanks to everyone for participating in this contest. We really enjoyed reading about all the weather experiences!
Random.org was used to determine the winner.
Giveaway! Win a $50 gift card to Photojojo.com
OK, since spring has sprung and left again recently we would like you to remember your wedding day and tell us what the temperature was that day. And for those of you who are not married yet, what do you hope the temperature will be? You can comment here or on our facebook page. There will be a drawing to win a $50.00 gift card to www.photojojo.com. The contest deadline is Monday March 28th at 7pm EST.
P.S. You can enter more than once if you link us on your facebook page or “like” us. Just comment and let us know.
The temperatures are falling so get your in soon!!
A March Special!!
One of Daryl and I’s favorite Hotels is the Hampton Inn. Not that we stay in one very often, but when we reeeeally wanna splurge, the Hampton is our first choice! The beds are always super duper comfy, soft and huge and just yuuuuummmy, and the rooms chic and trendy.
We decided to pass along our Hampton love this month in the form of a special.
If you are a young couple. engaged. in love. thinking of becoming wed. thinking of maaaaaybe Daryl Musser Photography for your wedding, we hope this will push you over the edge with that decision:-) If you take the plunge and book your wedding with us during the month of March, you will receive a complimentary night at the cushy Ephrata Hampton Inn. You don’t have to use the night on your honeymoon. You are certainly welcome to, but there is no time limit on the Gift card, so it can be used whenever. Hey, your first anniversary works for me:-)
Okay, so if you do not fit the above criteria of being young. in love. and engaged, please pass the word on to those you know who are, who may still be trying find their wedding photographer.
Thanks!! Have a great spring!
Ryan + Liz 2.13.11
Hi everyone! Wow, it has been a long long time since I’ve been on this blog. It makes me wonder if anyone else ever stops by! 
It has been a nice break this winter from weddings and photos and now we are feeling rejuvenated and ready to go again for another season! This past Saturday was our very first wedding of 2011. We of course, were a little nervous about the weather…a wedding in Feb? Who knows what we are in for! Thankfully the temps warmed just a little, and the day dawned bright and sunny. Unfortunately with the cheery sun came a wind, and wind in the winter is cold, no matter how warm the sun shines:-) Ryan and Liz were perfect sports in the cold air. They must have been just freezing, cuz our fingers were numb till we were done and we were the ones wearing the coats!
We are super pleased with the images we got of these guys. Sometimes in the winter it’s hard to get great shots when the vegetation is less then stunning, thankfully we were able to find some fun spots that didn’t need green vegetation to make them lovely.
Historic Chestertown Maryland at it’s finest.
Liz made a regal photogenic bride–always love that!
Loved this vintage bench!
Liz’s little white boots where the perfect thing for a winter bride!
Love this series and the light that was shining down in our favour at that moment:-)
Cold and windy??? Does that even look possible. She makes it look like it’s 70 degrees.
A montage of just a few of many beautiful decorations.
And The Winner Is………………
Kyle and Lynae!!!
Wow!! What a hard decision, and oh so very close there at the end. Each of the judges’ vote made the contest swing a different way-the margin was that slim, but at the end, Kyle and Lynae came out on top! Congratulations, you guys! Hope this makes your Christmas even merrier. If you are still interested in being the winner, send us an email sometime soon here. Darylmusserphotography@dejazzd.com.
And to the other two couples. Best of wishes!! We really wish we could have done all three, but can’t quite see that happening this year:-) I hope your weddings are totally a wonderful day and your new lives together-Amazing! Thanks for participating!
Merry Christmas everyone!!
Wedding Giveaway: the 3 finalists
And now, ladies and gentleman, it’s story time. What a pleasure it has been to recieve emails with entries for the 2011 wedding giveaway. I want to thank everyone who entered for taking the time to write their story and send it to me. I know it prly took a little courage on your part and I just want to say I appreciate that you did it! Can I just say what a hard hard decision it was to come up with these three finalists?? Each entry we received was a deserving couple, and of course, I ended up feeling really bad that we couldn’t feature them all! Just because you may not have been picked does not say that you are any less deserving then these three who were picked.
Grab a cup of hot chocolate or coffee, and a cozy blanket, and relax and enjoy these entries. I think you are in for a special treat!
Caela & Jonathan
I heard about your website (beautiful!) and your wedding coverage giveaway from Maria Mullet, a good friend of mine from college. She told me I needed to enter our story for the giveaway. I feel a bit awkward about writing it myself, but your website said not to be shy, so here’s our story anyway.
My name is Caela McCarthy, and I’m going to become Mrs. Jonathan Haney on August 21, 2011! Jonathan is the hero of our story in so many ways . . . I think after reading it you’ll understand why I’m so blessed by his love and so excited to become his wife.
Jonathan met me in 2004 through our homeschool group in Toccoa, Georgia, and he’s had a crush on me ever since eighth grade. Really! We were good friends through highschool (though I did wish he’d get over liking me). We saw each other in many different settings, and our friendship gradually grew into something we both valued. Jonathan and I and a few other friends started helping at a Bible club in a government housing project in Toccoa, and I got to see his love for children and his heart for God early on as he played with the kids and taught them faithfully every week.
In 2007, while Jonathan and I were seniors in highschool and had also started taking classes at Toccoa Falls College (the Bible college where my dad works), I decided that we needed to talk about our relationship. Everyone knew he liked me, but he’d never said anything since neither of us wanted to date in highschool. At that point, I didn’t think I could marry him, and I didn’t want to lead him on and risk damaging our friendship later. So I told him flat out that it would never work. Then neither of us ate for four days (I lost ten pounds that week)! After a lot of prayer and soul-searching (and some late night talks with my mother), both of us knew that our friendship was much more important to us than we’d thought. We carried on as good friends until a year later, when Jonathan officially asked my dad for permission to date me, but we knew then that our relationship had a future.
Jonathan spent the summer of 2008 in the Netherlands, volunteering at a Christian youth hostel in Amsterdam as he worked through what a “calling” to missions would mean for him. While he was gone, life at my house got more complicated than it had ever been. A single mother Jonathan and I had met through our Bible club called me and asked if my family would keep her 18-month old daughter for a few weeks while the Department of Family and Children’s Services did an investigation. Months later, with baby Emily securely installed as my college roommate, I wrestled with the pain of the lies her mother had told me, so much broken trust. There had been drugs involved. Emily couldn’t go back.
That same summer, my younger brother started spinning out of control, trying desperately to control his life without the Lord and taking out his deep anger on the rest of my family. I have two older brothers who were out of the house by this time, and two younger sisters (adopted from Guatemala) who watched in disbelief as the big brother they loved changed into someone they barely knew. Jonathan came home from Amsterdam and found my family hurting. He listened to me, trying to understand things I didn’t know how to put into words. He cared about me. He cared about Emily and Nathaniel, and he did his best to show me that.
In the fall of the same year, the pastor of the tiny Christian & Missionary Alliance church I grew up in left. He’d been a good shepherd and teacher for many years, but in the end his pride overtook him, and he became a bitter person and left a confused congregation in his wake. I struggled with his leaving, wondering how someone who had taught me the truth all my life could suddenly be so wrong. Jonathan started coming to my church a few months before my pastor left, and he threw in his lot with us and stayed, taking on the responsibility of the youth group while we started what would be a year-long search for a new pastor. Jonathan and I have learned so much about ministry from my church, both from the good times (starting a new ministry in a housing project near the church, leading worship on Sunday mornings) and from the bad times (admitting our failures in youth ministry and committing to carrying on when it’s not fun!).
The ongoing struggles my family has had have impacted our relationship greatly. Emily, now four, still lives with us. She has been a JOY to us, but she’s also been what my mother calls our “trust and obey baby” as we’ve watched Emily’s mother hit rock bottom and begin the long journey back (we hope to adopt Emily soon, if the Lord wills). My brother Nathaniel, after staying at home for a tumultuous period of time, spent seven weeks in jail and is now halfway through a court-ordered eighteen months Christian youth home in south Georgia. Jonathan has listened to me and prayed with me and been patient with me. He’s had to put his own problems on the shelf over and over again because there was yet another crisis at my house.
Life is still uncertain. Our school has been in deep financial trouble, and one of the jobs that was recently cut was my dad’s. A new job might mean a move for my family, maybe before our wedding. Our plans (and apparently Jonathan made these plans seven years ago!) to get married in May 2011 were thrown for a loop when we found out my brother wouldn’t be able to leave the youth home to come. Jonathan was, once again, understanding of how much it means to me to have my family complete at our wedding, and because of this and a desire to show tangible love to my brother, we’ve pushed our date back to after his graduation from the youth home in August. We know God will continue to teach us during three extra months of waiting.
Jonathan finished his studies at Toccoa Falls this past summer, but will wait to “officially” graduate until May so he can walk with me. He has a degree in Biblical Studies, and I’ve taken longer because I’ve worked on a double major in Cross-Cultural Studies (missions) and English. We’re planning to spend a year in this area after we get married, working with the youth at our church. After that, Jonathan hopes to attend seminary at a yet-to-be-determined school. Our long-term plan is to serve as missionaries in Western Europe, hopefully in a hospitality role. I was able to do my internship this past summer at the same youth hostel where Jonathan worked in Amsterdam, and God confirmed my call to missions and strengthened our desire to start our own hostel (possibly in Germany) or to use hospitality in some other way to reach people with the gospel.
So there’s our story– sorry it’s so long!!
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Lynae & Kyle
Well I’m not sure where to begin. I don’t want to brag about myself, but i would like to enter my fiance and I in the contest. My name is Lynae, I am 20 years old. I am engaged to be married May 21, 2011. My parents and their 6 children lived in Lancaster county. My dad had a good job and i held a job from the time i was 13. My mother would tirelessly run me to and from work all while homeschooling and sewing quilts for a side income. When i was 15, (2005) My parents felt God calling them to Voluntary service in Bradford, PA. We moved that summer and became houseparents to the single VSers and my dad ran the maintenance program where the elderly and widows could get their snow shoveled, which is huge in Bradford, and yards mowed and odd jobs done for any size donation to the church. We served our two year term and decided we would stay another year. That turned into another year and until everything was said and done we had been in VS 4 years.
I graduated high school the year after we moved and worked 2-4 jobs at any given time the year after that. I felt God calling me to nursing and was able to get into a technical school not too far away. I worked my whole way through school and with some financial aide from the local career link was able to put myself through school and graduate with no debt. In my second year of school I began dating Kyle Thiel. He was a young man who lived next to our deacon and his family. He had a very sad family history including physical and emotional abuse from an alcoholic father and from his mothers boyfriends and eventually his stepfather. He spent a lot of time at our deacons house and was attracted to the life they had. He was a straight A student in high school, and worked hard. He began coming to our church when he was 16 and soon after he accepted the Lord and was baptized with my brother and sister. He Graduated from our public high school with honors. His dream in life has always been to help drug and alcohol addicts because of the life he had with his father. He got into Penn State and chose the Behrend campus near Erie. He has and is currently working on a degree in Psychology and a masters in counseling. He has worked at the dining hall on campus and has been promoted several times due to his hard work. He works crazy hours and studies the rest of the time. He is on several committees and throws himself into everything he does. He works so hard and is keeping his GPA higher than 3.75. He got several scholarships throughout the years. His mom and step-dad were paying for his college, unfortunately this summer his step-dad lost his high paying job and they have been having financial problems ever since.
My parents decided to leave VS in 2009, but they couldn’t leave the people my dad did work for. The mission dropped the program and the elderly clients were stranded. My parents moved into the pastors house and the pastors family moved into the mission. We lived there for a year and my dad continued the mission program as a business to the elderly in Bradford. My mom began cleaning around 20 places every two weeks and working at Subway to help provide food for our family. My dad was able to get a job with the school district driving school bus to supplement the business income. My parents tried to purchase a home and it fell through and became a very low time. Finally in august of 2010 God blessed us with a home of our own for the first time in 5 years.
I’m sorry i get wrapped up in the story and get long winded, but to wrap it up I am enrolled in school to get my RN and am currently working as an LPN. I’m working with a young girl in her home. My fiance and I are living 1.5 hours apart and we are both working very hard to pay for our small budget wedding. Since his step-dad lost his job and my parents have been in VS and have just purchased a home we are paying for most of the wedding ourselves. My dear mother is working like crazy to help give us a good start. We have college loans to pay and I don’t know if my car will last the winter. We have cut corners I didn’t know could be cut in planning a wedding. Winning this contest would mean everything to us. We could pay off some of our loans and get financially a little more stable. Thank you for reading. Lynae Oberholtzer, Bradford, PA
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Griselda & Armando
This entry was submitted by Griselda’s mother. She says: “I believe my daughter Griselda should win the contest. She deserves to have her special day photographed.
Here is her story:
Griselda was born in 1989 in Guatemala. She was not born in a hospital, so there was no Doctor to recognize that her hip was dislocated in the birthing process. This often happens during the birth process, and can be easily fixed until the child is one year old by simply popping the hip into the socket. Griselda was not taken to a doctor so as she grew her hip bone jutted out the side and she had no movement in her left hip. She couldn’t swing the leg at all. She taught herself to walk by swinging her body to get around. She was in constant pain. In Guatemala anyone with a physical difficulty is looked down on and considered a burden to their families. Griselda was able to get around some, and she did the best she could, helping out with care of her younger siblings and getting food when their mother left her and her siblings for long periods of time. When Griselda was 7 or 8 years old she was brought to an Orphanage called Fundaniños along with her baby brother and younger sister. The directors of the orphanage found a Doctor who was willing to perform a surgery on Griselda’s hip. She had the painful surgery and was in a body cast for 6 long weeks. She couldn’t move or care for herself. After the six weeks she had the body cast removed to find out the disappointing news that the surgery was unsuccessful. The director began searching for another doctor who was willing to do the surgery. They found a doctor and did another surgery and again Griselda spent a long six weeks in a body cast. This time the surgery was a success and she was able to begin learning to walk using her hip and leg.
In 2004 Griselda was 14 years old we met her for the first time. My husband and I were living in Guatemala working for Orphan Resources International. When we met Griselda she was very quiet and shy, she would often be quietly helping in the kitchen or changing a baby in the baby house. Soon after meeting her and her younger brother and sister we felt God calling us to adopt them. We began the process of adoption in April 2004. In May of 2005 we completed the Guatemalan adoption and we brought Griselda and her sibling home to the United Sates & to our forever family Aug.29 2005 Griselda turned 16 a month after we were home. Adjusting to a new home, a new family, a new school, new friends, new language, a new….EVERYTHING was very hard for Griselda. She struggled with depression and was convinced that if she was bad enough or gave us a good reason we WOULD stop loving her or send her away. She was afraid to trust because she had been hurt so often before. Two very long, very hard, years after she joined our family Griselda accepted Christ. She became a new person. She was willing to try to trust people she began to open up and smile more often. She began dating a young man named Armando Martin. He had been a great friend to Griselda for several years. He had been adopted two years before Griselda. He was also from Guatemala, The same orphanage as Griselda! They knew each other and had lived together in the orphanage for several years. When Griselda came home, Armando was there for her, knowing the struggles he had, he walked beside her through her rough times. He was there for her, when she felt like no one else was. On Griselda’s 20th birthday Armando took her out to a restaurant and proposed to her. She said “YES”. Griselda Graduated in the spring of 2010. She got her license of Cosmetology and is working in a salon in Ephrata. We are sooooo proud of her and how far she has come. All I have to do is look in her eyes and see the sparkle there, and to see the glow in her face that reminds me to Praise God for all he has done in her life! She deserves a VERY special day, as she begins another new chapter in her life story. I am so blessed to be a part of her life and I thank God for bringing her into my life.
Thank you for letting me share about one of the 4 miracles of my family.”
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So there you have it, folks. 3 couples whom we feel are more then deserving of this giveaway. It’s prly a good thing we are not the ones making the final decision because we’d prly end up giving away 3 weddings!!:-) We have passed off the serious decision making to a group of trusted photographer friends of ours, we know they will make wise choices, hard as it may be to decide.
Stop by Christmas Day to see who the winner is:-)
Annnnd, of course, my curiosity is killing me. Who would YOU pick?
Final “Give”away winner!
Thanks so much everyone for leaving comments!! I loved reading all your thoughts and insights, I gleaned some very wise ideas:-) Thanks everyone for your participation. Looks like there will be 6 chickens heading to asia!!! I’m very excited about that!
The winner is Elsa who said, “Very meaningful giveaway! Thanks for doing it!” Elsa, I’m not sure if we’ll need your address, but would you mind emailing it to us just in case? darylmusserphotography@dejazzd.com, oh and also your last name, and any other names you want attached to the gift.
Later today, after I get home from work, I will put up the final 3 wedding stories!! I am beyond excited to share them with you!!!
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