So…my name is Stephanie, not Eden ;)

Eden Grey is just the name for my company. It was inspired by my first trip to Australia. It never occurred to me that people would think that was my name. Plus, I'm just not that cool!

I'm a major animal lover. We have two boxers. We had a full wolf pack up until two years ago when our older two boxers, Hans and Bear passed away. Now it's just Eva & Brixxton. I'm hoping to rescue another couple of babies soon, just trying to give the two younger babies their time together.

I *LOVE* traveling. I'm a foodie, but also love the way I feel when I'm carrying on a healthy lifestyle, but at the moment food is winning. I love beer. Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. (I didn't come up with that).

Favorite places & things: Anthropologie (duh), coffee, anything sparkly, making people smile, laughing and making myself laugh (only child thing).

I'm not as interested in how he/she proposed as I am what your favorite things to do together are. I want to dig a little deeper and be able to really pull out your personalities in your pictures. I want you to see the images and say 'Wow-she totally gets us'.

So let's do this.

Steph

Dec 29 2010

{{Dear John}} ~League City, Tx Engagement Photographer

It is a very rare occasion when I am just as excited to tell the story of my clients as I am to share the pictures. How appropriate that it be the last blog of the year. Chelsea is yet another LSA alumni who saw prior work of mine and asked me at literally the last minute to capture some pictures for her. She also asked to shoot at a location that I really don’t choose to shoot at, but for her and her brand spanking new husband, I was willing to do anything, especially since he is fighting for our country overseas. Nick and Chelsea began as friends. She currently resides here, and he is stationed in the UK with the USAF. They would talk, and write, corresponding as much as they could. Letters back and forth for some time. Slowly, the friendship became stronger, and the like turned to love.

“Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can’t-live-without-each-other love.” ~Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City.

So strong, that finally, they both realized they didn’t want to live without each other any longer. They were married, LITERALLY the day before we got together to take pictures. You can see it. In the pictures, you can see that love, the way they look at each other, the way they laugh, the hopes and dreams they can see in one another. But the story took a turn. Chelsea was going to move over to the UK right after they were married, but Nick recently got word that he would be deployed to Afghanistan for six months….so again, they will wait. But this time, they will be married. Chelsea accompanied Nick to London where they are currently having a honeymoon before he leaves for duty. She will come back and wait. We all will. And we will pray for Nick’s safety.

In this business, I meet a lot of people. Some good, some great, some become friends, some go their ways, but they all stay in my heart. Nick and Chelsea will absolutely be one of those couples. I had a good time that day, shooting pictures, capturing memories so fresh and new, but afterward is when something inside me realized that I will hold these two in my heart closely. I will think of them, I will pray for them, and I hope one day, to take more pictures for them. God brings people into your life for a reason, and I truly believe in this couple. Marriage is hard, I never realized how hard, until I got married, but I wish the best of the BEST for these two, because they deserve it. They fought for it, and now, they get to live it. Pray for them friends. Pray for their marriage, pray for his safety, and pray for her loneliness while he’s gone.

Nick & Chelsea {Just Married}