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Last Saturday, Clint and I spent the day in Lubbock photographing Liz and David’s wonderful wedding! It was so nice to finally meet them and their family and friends. Everyone was so sweet and nice it is was such a thrill to be a part of their very special day and we loved every minute of it! Here are some of my favorite images!

***Friends and Family: CLICK HERE to sign Liz and David’s guest book to view the photos when they go online and receive a print credit.***

1. {FEATURE ON SOUTHERN WEDDINGS} The highlight of my week was getting my first feature on the Southern Weddings Blog! Franki + Max’s awesome Las Vegas wedding was featured because of all their awesome details! It was a super fun wedding to photograph and I am so happy it was featured! Go check out the post!

2. {STEPHANIE’S WEDDING INVITATIONS} Congratulations to my client, Stephanie who was just recently married! I had the pleasure of designing her wedding collateral starting with her save the dates to wedding monogram to invitations to programs! They worked perfectly with her totally classy wedding. She was so easy to work with and was super detailed which made my life easy. Stephanie is starting her own wedding planning business, so if you need a planner in the Dallas area, just let me know and I’ll hook you up! If you or you know of a bride that is needing some fabulous wedding invitations, please send them my way! I love designing custom wedding invitations!

3. {DESIGN STORE} I have been pondering the idea of revamping my design website and making it into a design store where you could buy logo packages, custom wedding invitations or pick from a selection of pre-designed wedding invitations, graduation announcements, calling cards, baby announcements, etc. Is this something that would interest you? Help me out with the poll below:

4. {FUZZ LOGO} I finished up a logo for Fuzz Studios this week. This was a really fun one and it is for my good friend, Nathan. If you need a video or other creative media, let me know and I’ll send you his way.

5. {WEDDING} I am heading up to Lubbock tomorrow to shoot David and Liz’s wedding! I am anxiously waiting for the UPS guy to show up with my new telephoto lens which I am excited to use! Be watching the blog for their sneak peek.

For all aspiring woman photographers that like to browse my blog, I wanted to make sure you know about the fabulous Love Affair Workshop! Super talented West Texas photographer, Lauren Clark as well as Millie Holloman, Davina Fear and Kelly Moore Clark will be hosting their third Love Affair Workshop this July in Atlanta. Because of all the things I love to do, I would love to learn how to be an efficient and successful photographer. If you want to build your business and become a fabulous photographer like these four, head on over the the Love Affair website and check it out!

Thank you to those who left a question on my Ask Kayla post below. I will be answering those questions soon.

I am so excited! Franki and Max’s fabulous Las Vegas wedding that I photographed in February was featured today on the Southern Weddings Blog! If you haven’t seen the Southern Weddings Blog before, this is a bookmark must…especially for brides! They post daily wedding inspiration from the top photographers and wedding planners in the country and I am so excited to be one of them. Head on over the the Southern Weddings Blog to see the full post, or click the image below! Thank you Franki and Max for letting me photograph your beautiful wedding!

Meet Hannah…up and coming photographer and one of my brides that I will be photographing later this month! I can not wait for her wedding! Hannah was the first photographer to do my Clone Kayla Workshop. She split her workshop into two days. The first day we talked about lighting, shooting manual, focus points, how to work with your subject, setting up your pricing, editing and workflow and we went out for a mini-shoot to practice. On her second day, she wanted to play with her studio lights, so we set them up in this working factory and had my good friend, Sarah come and model for us. We practiced with flash, indoor lighting, took some headshots for her and talked more about marketing her business. I also designed Hannah’s logo and collateral, which I posted here.

Here are some of my favorite shots from our factory shoot. If you are a photographer or designer that would like to stretch yourself and become better at marketing your business, check out my Clone Kayla Workshop! I’d love to spend the day with you!

So, it has been awhile since my last Ask Kayla Q&A. I have been super busy lately, and haven’t had much to post, so I thought it would be fun to do another round! Leave me a comment on this post and ask me any question you want related to anything about me, design, photography or anything that I do and I will answer all the questions within a couple days. I’ll try to include pictures too so this will be a visual question and answer section! Or, if you don’t have a question, feel free to just leave a comment! I look forward to reading your questions! Thanks for stopping by!

April was crazy! So very busy! Out of the four weekends last month, three of them I was driving all over Texas and the weekend that we were home, we had my birthday, my brother-in-law’s birthday and Easter to celebrate. Add that to tax season, Clint’s finals and making an offer on a house, it was just insane! But it was very fun and we were so blessed to be able to go so many places and see some of our great friends.

I spent a total of 2,453 miles (or near 40 hours) riding in the car which is shown below in pink. For those of you that aren’t from Texas, this state is HUGE! It takes hours and hours to get anywhere. But there is some gorgeous countryside and I always love going somewhere new!

Weekend One: Headed to Fredericksburg with all the ladies on Clint’s side of the family. So fun to shop, eat amazing food and have fun with other women.

Weekend Two: Celebrated Matt’s birthday, then my birthday, witnessed a crazy hail storm that gave almost the whole town new roofs and enjoyed a wonderful Easter service that I helped conceptualize and design.

Weekend Three: Headed to the Dallas area for Clint and his band to play at UNT. They were rained out due to another crazy West Texas hail storm that came through. Got to see our great friends Kayla and Sean and Meghan. Went to the Fort Worth Art Festival and saw Jimmy Vaughn (Stevie Ray Vaughn’s brother) perform. Shopped at South Lake and went to church with Meghan.

Weekend Four: Headed to Austin and Kileen for Clint and his band to play at his cousin, David King’s Harvest Tour. Shopped at an awesome outlet mall and spent some time in Ikea. Enjoyed a beautiful, rainy drive back.

That pretty much sums up April. Next month, we will be traveling for two beautiful weddings which are shown in purple! Can’t wait.