This past weekend we had the pleasure of photographing Cape Cod’s newest sensation…wedding planner Desiree Spinner of Desiree Spinner Events. We first met up with Desiree and the fabulous team she assembled for dinner on Saturday night at Five Bays Bistro in Osterville. Joining us were Desiree’s super sweet hubby, Craig, and fabulous assistants, Sara & Kaleigh and Kaleigh’s adorable hubby-to-be, Josh. Also joining us for dinner was with the uber stylish Jillian Clark of 100 Layer Cake, who’d come up from NY with her husband & photographer, Scott, to help bring Desiree’s vision for her shoot to life.

After a wonderful night of yummy food, good wine and excellent conversation, we met up with the team the following afternoon for the shoot. It was an all day affair and Andy & I had a blast. The first part of the shoot involved setting up a deliciously sweet lemonade stand.

Some details….you know how we looove the details!

I just loved all the vintage touches Jillian brought with her, namely the super cute mutli-colored tin and these adorable yellow glasses. And, can we talk about the hot pink striped straws?

Lemonade never looked so good.

Love the blue Ball jars!

And these super cute straw tags Jillian made…

Wearing a foxy white dress and too-cute-for-words apron from Anthropologie, with make up by the talented Katrina Hess, Desiree was delightful. We all kept joking about how if hers was a real lemonade stand she would have sold out instantly looking as good as she did. Check her out…

Seriously adorable…

If life hands you lemons, make lemonade!

A cheeky little look…

Gorgeous…

The light in this next one makes me giddy! I just love the natural hair light being provided by the sun poking through the trees. And, that expression…..momma mia!

Jillian brought along some clippings from the super sweet banner she made for the table and Desiree had a little fun with them. I love this series.

Is that a lemonade stand you’d want to visit, or what?

Some more details, including lemon cupcakes by Delicious Desserts…

Stay tuned as we’ll be posting the next two parts of our session with Desiree tomorrow. Till then, big BIG thanks to Desiree for trusting us to capture portraits for your new website. Stay tuned people, it’s due to launch very soon and should be amazing! We have loved working with you, Des, and can’t wait to do it again very soon! Thank you too Jillian & Scott for making our job not only a cinch, but a total pleasure! Jillian, we love your style and hope we get to work with you again on another project! Sara & Kaleigh…we wish we could clone you and bring you to Team Bello! Love and hugs all around! Chris & Andy xo