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Iowa Children & Family Photographer | Best of 2011

Amanda — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:05:10 +0000

OK ok, so this post is quite a bit late. I’m typing this at 11:53pm on Jan 31st, so at least it still counts as January, right?! This post was seriously tough to make. How do I choose favorites from pretty much all my sessions over the year that were not couples? It wasn’t easy and there are so many more wonderful photos I want to share, but I have to limit it somewhere. Thank you SO much to all of my AMAZING clients of 2011. I had such a stellar year, it was beyond anything I could have ever imagined and I couldn’t have had that year without you all. <3

Iowa & Destination Wedding Photographer | Bride’s Choice Award 2012

Amanda — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:23:40 +0000

I wanted to take a moment and announce that for the third year in a row I have won the Bride’s Choice Award from Weddingwire.com. This is only thanks to all of my wonderful couples! I couldn’t have done it without you all. Thank you all SO much!

{Des Moines,IA} – January 30, 2012 – WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding Marketplace, is excited to announce Amanda Basteen Photography has been selected to receive the prestigious WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ 2012 for Photography!

The esteemed annual awards program recognizes the top local wedding vendors from the WeddingWire Network who demonstrate excellence in quality, service, responsiveness and professionalism within the wedding industry. While many industry awards are selected by the organization,Amanda Basteen Photography was selected based on its stellar reviews from past newlywed clients.

Amanda Basteen Photography is recognized as part of the top five percent of wedding professionals in the WeddingWire local vendor community, comprised of over 200,000 wedding professionals throughout the United States and Canada. The Bride’s Choice Award recognizes the best local wedding vendors across 20 service categories, from wedding venues to wedding photographers, based on their overall professional achievements throughout the past year.

“WeddingWire is thrilled to honor the success of the top-rated wedding professionals within the WeddingWire Community,” said Timothy Chi, CEO, WeddingWire. “Since the launch of the Bride’s Choice Awards™ program four years ago, thousands of outstanding wedding professionals have been recognized by the bridal community for their supreme service and dedication to the wedding industry. It is with great pleasure that we congratulate Amanda Basteen Photography for their continued professionalism and commitment to enriching the wedding planning experience for engaged couples.”

We are happy to announce that Amanda Basteen Photography is one of the very best Photographers within the WeddingWire Network, which includes leading wedding planning sites WeddingWire, Project Wedding, Brides.com, Martha Stewart Weddings, and Weddingbee. We would like to thank our past clients for taking the time to review our business on WeddingWire. Thanks to their positive feedback we were able to receive the WeddingWire Bride’s Choice Awards™ for 2012.

For more information, please visit our WeddingWire Storefront today at http://www.weddingwire.com/biz/amanda-basteen-photography-des-moines/76ac665622f1afd6.html.

To learn more about the Bride’s Choice Awards™, please visit www.WeddingWire.com.

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Iowa & Destination Wedding Photographer | Margeaux + Denver

Amanda — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:42:12 +0000

Last weekend I had the honor of photographing Margeaux & Denver’s wedding. Although he is not in uniform for the wedding, Denver serves in the navy as a pilot. He just got back from deployment about a month ago. What is even more amazing is that 2 of his 3 brothers (all the groomsmen are his brothers) also do the same for the navy. They all have wives and families and yet they feel the need to serve and protect our country. So firstly, I want to thank them for EVERYTHING they do. Also a big thank you to Margeaux and all other military wives/families for sharing their families for our freedom.

Their wedding was at St. Ambrose cathedral downtown and reception was located in the AMAZINGLY beautiful Embassy Club in the Ruan Center. It was a cold winter day, but they braved the weather for photos and I think it paid off! Margeaux and Denver, thank you again for letting me share in your special day. It truly was beautiful!

A look back at 2011 Weddings

Amanda — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:43:51 +0000

Creating this post was one of the hardest things I’ve had to do in a long time. I shot so many weddings in 2011 and I am so thankful for all of them. At each wedding I shoot 100′s and sometimes 1000′s of photos. How do I possibly narrow all of them down into one blog post? Well I tried. It’s still pretty long and there are so many more photos I WANT to post. To see a better re-cap of every wedding you’d need to go back through each blog post of the year.

Thanks again everyone! I had such a wonderful 2011!

These are in no particular order.

A look back at 2011 Engagements

Amanda — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:41:50 +0000

Every year I have made it customary to do more than one “Best of” post. I photograph so many people and so many types of events that I don’t feel like it’s right to lump it all in together. 2010 was an amazing year and I thought it couldn’t be beat, but I was wrong. 2011 somehow got even better and the people I met and experiences I had were some that I never dreamed I would have, especially living in Iowa. I want to thank each and every one of you who have touched my life in some way over the last year. May 2012 exceed my expectations once again!

With that, here are the best of 2011 engagement sessions. As usual, it was very hard to pick favorites. I’m learning by looking at these that I tend to love the up close and tender moments between couples the most.