Mike and I never had engagement photos taken.
We were married just two months after I graduated college, so I was kind of busy.
Graduating, Planning a wedding, it didn't leave a whole lot of time for anything else.
But I'm a creative person, I love photographs, I love photography (though, it isn't my strength) and I love my husband.
So the year after we were married I had an idea.
I'd done the Color Run with my in laws and it was a blast.
I had heard you could buy your own color powder so I looked into it.
It was a little more expensive than I would have liked but you got quite a bit so....
Then I just had to convince my husband.
He was hesitant at first.
Actual photo evidence of him playing with brightly colored powder wasn't super manly I guess.
In the end he said yes and I was ecstatic!
I knew just the photographer.
Mike's cousin Erin took the pictures for us.
She was such a pro, took those pictures like a champ.
It was raining for most of our photo shoot.
She and her expensive camera just hung out under an umbrella and kept shooting.
Did I mention she is awesome?
The photos turned out better than I would have ever dreamed.
I really think the rain helped. The colors were beautiful.
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At first we took a couple of cute clean pictures.
Erin had the great idea that we could take a few of us getting ready for battle.
My mother-in-law's back yard was the BEST back drop.
I've always loved the little area with the arbor.
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| Chest bump. Yeah, we're silly. |
She shot some behind the scenes. Here we are loading up for another round of color fighting.
You can see the umbrella. We needed it to keep our Color Powder and Photographer dry!
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| I ADORE THIS ONE. Look at the color. <3 |
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| He twirled me and threw red color on my head at the same time. |
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| It sort of turned me into the Little Mermaid. |
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| My mother-in-law Vikki actually took this one. She couldn't resist taking a few of her own. |
By the end it was REALLY raining. So we decided to call it quits. We had used all of our color anyway.
What we didn't anticipate is what the rain did.
The color being wet on our skin and hair for so long had actually started to dye us.
Our skin was pretty colorful. It took A LOT of scrubbing.
Mike turned out ok. He didn't stain like I did.
My skin is very fair.
(You might have noticed, since you have eyes.)
The color liked that very much and had a great time staining me a weird purple. I had to scrub a lot.
Also, remember that picture with all the red color in my hair?
Well that actually ended up staining my hair pink for a few weeks.
After our photo session I realized that I was going to have pink hair for awhile.
I work at a bank with a dress code that says, "No unnatural hair colors."
Pink isn't exactly natural, and while I would have LOVED to keep the pink I knew that my employer wouldn't be very excited.
So I made an emergency trip to my sister-in-law at the Salon she worked at, at the time.
She did her best to remove the pink (and there was a little green too.)
It was no use, my hair was a pastel pink for weeks.
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| I wore it like this to work. It was a lot less noticeable this way. |
I even ended up going to a job interview with my pink hair!!
I guess they didn't notice or care because I ended up getting the job, and I'm still there.
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