I was honored to photograph Marie and Donnie’s welcome dinner at the Gun Club and Trail Creek!  Their guests arrived to Sun Valley for a fabulous start to what will be a beautiful wedding celebration!  The guests first gathered at the Sun Valley Gun Club to shoot some rounds as well as compete in a friendly competition   They then headed to Trail Creek to enjoy cocktails, horseshoes, bocce ball and dinner while listening to the tunes of Old Death Whisper.  I am off to get a good nights sleep before joining the ever-fabulous Hillary Maybery to capture Marie and Donnie’s wedding.  A HUGE shout-out to Heather Minor and Sun Valley’s Nicole Ackerman on putting together a fabulous event.  Here are a few of my favorite photos!

Hi Folks!

I am soo happy to be concentrating on my photography business FULL TIME!  I have no idea how I was able to do this while holding down a 40-hour week job!  This is my 4th week into working full time for myself and it sure has been a busy 4 weeks!! I’m all moved into the studio, and in between moving I photographed 2 weddings, 1 boudoir session, and 3 family reunions!  Needless to say, I’m editing away!!!  Please be sure to check back as I will be posting quite often starting this week.  Thanks, and enjoy summer!!!

Here’s a sneak peek from few family portraits that I recently photographed:

Jackson and Victoria’s wedding was one for the record books this past weekend!!  Also, a huge shout out to Wedding Planner Amanda Seaward for putting together such an amazing experience!  I am currently moving into a new apartment this week, but wanted to post a quick look at some of my favorite images before I continue packing and moving boxes

Stay tuned for more images from this fabulous wedding!!!

Love love love the Tory Burch shoes and clutch, and how about these Badgley Mischka party shoes?!?

Victoria was absolutely stunning…

LOVE these two!!!

I am currently enjoying a morning breakfast at the Redfish Lake Lodge in Stanley, ID overlooking the serene lake and larger than life sawtooth mountains.  I arrove here yesterday to begin the journey of photographing Victoria and Jackson’s wedding.  Yesterday after a few hours of scouting the area, I met up with Victoria and Jackson and 30 lucky guests at the Bridge St. Grill in lower Stanley for their rehearsal dinner.  The food was amazing and laughter was abundant on the deck of the beautiful restaurant overlooking the river.  Here are a few of my favorite images:

I am soo very excited to announce that I am moving into a new space!  I am TRIPLING my shooting space and have a lot of new/fresh/fun things coming soon!  After I photographed my first wedding three years ago, I never imagined Cheatwood Photography would become what it is today.  I have a lot of exciting news to share in the upcoming weeks, so I’ll sign off here.  Walls are getting painted and new flooring is getting installed as I write this, and as soon as I can get “moved in” I will be sure to let you know when the grand opening is

Not a bad view

This will be a changing area for http://www.5bboudoir.com

I had the privilege of photographing Maria and Victor’s maternity session to celebrate the impending arrival of their first born: Yair!  Maria and Victor: you are truly great people and I know you will be fabulous parents.  I can’t wait to meet little Yair when he arrives!

Eeva is a super savvy high-end real estate agent located here in Sun Valley.  She contacted me to take some fresh portraits of her to use for her website and business cards.  Check out Miss Eeva below:

Jessie and Chase’s wedding was definitely one-of-a-kind!  There were soo many great moments and images from their wedding, I had a hard time narrowing down the images to post on this blog!  I met Chase a few years ago when when he was “modeling” for a snowmobile photoshoot I did for Scott Sports.  When Chase called me to announce that he had proposed to his long-time girlfriend, Jessie, I was soo happy for him!  Then he asked if I would be interested in photographing their wedding and of course I said YES!  There were soo may incredible details incorporated into their perfect wedding day, that you MUST read/view on!  To view their slideshow, click here (please allow 15-30 seconds to load).

Kudos to the vendors who helped make this wedding wonderful!

Flowers: Tara Bella Flowers

Hair/Makeup: Shellie Lard

Party Rental: Barbara’s Party Rental

Food: Fresshies

As a wedding gift, Chase’s sister, Amy bought the two a custom Schwinn tandem bicycle…too cute!!

Jessie and Chase also wanted to incorporate their love of skiing into the wedding and used a chair lift as their guest sign-in…

Fresshies provided INCREDIBLE food!

There was also a custom plate displayed where guests could express their congratulations!

The speeches made by their family and friends were very funny and sparked a lot of emotion!

Their DJ really got the crowd on their feet!

Congratulations Jessie and Chase!  I know you two will enjoy a lifetime of happiness!

I’m soo excited to see that Emmaline Bride has featured Erin and Chris’ engagement photoshoot on their blog!  Click the photo below to see the entire post:

I had a great time getting to know Victoria and Jackson last month while I photographed their engagement session!  These two were a blast to hang out with…just carefree and easy-going!  I look forward to photographing their wedding this summer at Redfish lake!

Jackson spent many years living in Ketchum and working at Smokey Mountain Pizza.  It was soo fun to go back there to have a little fun!

We then went to the Casino Bar to grab a beer, what a coincidence that BOTH of their beer caps had the two of hearts underneath!