{"id":374,"date":"2010-03-01T22:52:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T04:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inspiredimagesbywendi.com\/blog\/?p=374"},"modified":"2010-03-01T22:52:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T04:52:48","slug":"kristen-nathan-engaged-wendi-riggens-photography-burlington-iowa-wedding-photographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/kristen-nathan-engaged-wendi-riggens-photography-burlington-iowa-wedding-photographer","title":{"rendered":"Kristen &#038; Nathan &#8211; Engaged! &#8211; Wendi Riggens Photography, Burlington Iowa Wedding Photographer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a kick-off for 2010, I am starting a new special.\u00a0 When a post gets 25 unique comments, the client featured earns a free 8&#215;10 from their session.\u00a0 If the post gets 50 unique comments, they get a beautiful piece of wall art!\u00a0 So comment away, help Kristen &amp; Nathan earn free prints from their session, and call today to book your session for your opportunity to earn free prints, too!<\/p>\n<p>A couple years ago, when I was in Mexico, my roommate and I were sharing our portfolios.  Erin flipped through mine and commented &#8220;you like to put your subjects in really interesting places.&#8221;  She wasn&#8217;t lying.  I&#8217;ve shot in old warehouses and pretty parks, been kicked out of malls, explored dirty alley ways, and hung off ledges precariously to get the right angle.  I&#8217;ve asked brides to lay in creeks of freezing cold water and climb trees, and asked couples to climb on John Deere tractors, dance under the St. Louis Gateway Arch, play on the ice at the Nashville Predator&#8217;s stadium, make out in elevators, romp through Principal Park (home of the Iowa Cubs in Des Moines), and splash around in fountains.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I get an idea for a shoot, and I have to wait for the perfect subject to come along to make it happen.  Last weekend when Kristen and Nathan came down for their engagement session, and we started talking, I knew that one of my ideas was going to come to life that very day.  We ventured out and about and played in the snow, and then headed downtown to warm up.  Guess where we went?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4004\/4399784097_527923037b.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2737\/4400550858_a025ffa756.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2684\/4399784269_e245337f58.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When I ask a couple to go make out in the stacks at the library and they get excited about it, it makes me smile!  Some people are too shy for that kind of stuff, but not my awesome clients!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4006\/4400551020_748791c3fa.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We also played in the snow.  I was apparently in a very B&amp;W mood when I picked favs for the blog tonight!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4067\/4399784405_342bafb6c9.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4037\/4400551198_3c79ba39d4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These two are so beautiful together!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2698\/4399783877_1a6f1b772f.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4069\/4399783803_56aa3cfbf0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4068\/4400551332_7ddff30301.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I think this is just about my favorite image.  I can&#8217;t really say why, but I think it is the body language.  It just screams &#8220;love!&#8221; to me!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4063\/4400551412_8b8a64ddc3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kristen &amp; Nathan, thank you for being such great sports!<a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"\/index.php?c=mestinon-order\">.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pp-fb-like-btn-wrap\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/kristen-nathan-engaged-wendi-riggens-photography-burlington-iowa-wedding-photographer\" data-share=\"true\" data-layout=\"standard\" data-width=\"450\" data-show-faces=\"\" data-action=\"like\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a kick-off for 2010, I am starting a new special.\u00a0 When a post gets 25 unique comments, the client featured earns a free 8&#215;10 from their session.\u00a0 If the post gets 50 unique comments, they get a beautiful piece of wall art!\u00a0 So comment away, help Kristen &amp; Nathan earn free prints from their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engagements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendiriggens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}