Chico, Ca. Portrait Photographer- Regan and Drew have a Tea Party!

My friend Kathy and I had been talking about having a tea party photo session with her two kids since before Christmas of last year. Kathy is an amazing cake decorator so we thought it would be a lot of fun to have some cupcakes and a cake on the table, as well as the tea pot and tea cups, so she would be able to use these photos for her own business website and portfolio. We discussed outfits and props before hand and we decided that the kids would be adorable in classic or formal style clothing. Kathy hit up the thrift stores around Chico and Orland and found a few things to add to her already large collection of costume outfits.

We decided before photographing that we would eat lunch and hang out. This way the kids would be slightly more comfortable with me rather then jumping right into the session. Once we were done eating the kids were excited for their cupcakes, Mom had been working on them all morning. She made a simple two tier white cake with a yellow flower on it, around a dozen assorted sizes of white and red roses and I must not forget to mention the white cake with fluffy white frosting and delicious freeze dried pineapple (Yummy!) Yes, Kathy sent us home with an assortment and they were delicious!

After lunch we were ready to start our tea party, we brewed the tea and loaded the cupcakes up to carry out to the field where we decided to have our tea party. We placed a table and two benches under a bare tree that we placed a Bakery Sign in, something she had in her kitchen. The kids were "at The Bakery, having a tea party" and they couldn't have been more cute and fun to photograph. I felt like a kid again as we were "guzzling the tea", as Drew would say.

Thanks Kathy for getting everything together! I love all the images, but here are a few of my favorites. It was so hard to pick, it went like this, "awwww I like that one, That one is cute, and that one too, and that one....over and over!"