Jennifer & Eric's coffee table book

Eric & Jennifer | Make Your Own Book

Here was Jennifer and Erics backyard wedding.
Their dogs were like family,
and the horses joined in, too.

Expand the book to full screen
and flip through the pages
just like a book.

Jennifer - let me know if we need to delete or change
some photos before we publish it. 

Amy & Shaun in Sun Valley!

Amy's in the Navy, too!! She's going to medical school to follow in the family footsteps. BOTH mom and dad are surgeons and were in the Navy for a total of 47 years!! (27 for dad and 20 for mom.) Wow. Apparently a whole family of slackers.....

during her toast, Amy thanked her parents for all their hard work putting this event on. Mom made all the table cards by hand.

and then, the best father-daughter dance I've ever seen! They got me - the record skipped (gasp!), and then some medly ensued and I laughed and I cried. Outstanding!!!!!!

brought to you by Sun Valley wedding photography by Thia Konig

stay tuned for some of my favorites of Tai Kerbs!

ok, I'm off to Phoenix to shoot another wedding!!

triple digits!! wahooo!!

MB & Dennis's coffee table book

Mary Brent & Dennis by Thia Konig | BOOK INFO

Take a look at the great new preview from Blurb. You can make it full screen and 'flip' the pages just by clicking on the edge of the pages.

Another wedding featured in theKnot!

What a pleasure it was photographing Joe and Michelle's wedding last summer - I've known Joe for over 20 years! and I'm so happy for them... Michelle designed all the paper products for the wedding, too! What a talented, artistic couple! Click on the image below to see the web article live....

New wedding website

Whew... finally! I changed the look of the website, and put some of this summer's wedding favorites in. I kept some classics, but changed out 80% of the images. Click on the pic, have a look, and tell me what you think!

Erin and Michael in Boise

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My other June wedding was in Boise, too. Erin and Michael got married in St. John's Cathedral and it was like a royal wedding. So different from Zeke and AnnMarie, but funny enough, they wanted the same song for their slideshow. Hey, our country roots run deep here in Idaho. This was probably one of the toughest (logistically and lighting wise) but I had Tai Kerbs as the second shooter, so I wasn't worried. Great families on both sides, and the party went LATE NIGHT, as these fun folks were still doing shotskiis in the parking lot at 2am. By the end, I had to be 'superThia' as it was a 15 hour day for me -omg! Erin's sister, a fashion designer, made the wedding dress and all the brides maids dresses!!! Wow! Fabulous job!

Zeke and Annmarie in Boise

Ok, so I think I fell in love with both AnnMarie and Zeke by the end of their wedding day. One of the funnest couples EVER. AnnMarie took the looming rain clouds in stride, and the bridal party ROCKED for putting up with the drizzle for the train track shot and the football field shot. We moved the wedding inside the Train Depot, but it all worked out seemlessly, thanks to the great team at Bliss Events. 

AnnMarie is the event coordinator for Boise State, so the reception was held at the new Stuekle Center overlooking all of Boise (complete with a chocolate fountain, photo booth, and the best band ever). Perfect! So glad not to be in a soggy tent as the rain poured down after we got inside. I brought in Tai Kerbs from Santa Barbara, and Charlie Baser from her new job in Colorado, as second shooters. LOVE working with these girls! They are fantastic photogs (and great people!) and I can't say enough good things about them. We were the dream team, indeed! 

I cried myself when I made the slide show, so check it out.

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Just because I'm a Sun Valley wedding photographer, doesn't mean I can't travel anywhere in the world. With airplanes, anything is possible.

Casey & Megan featured in theKnot Real Weddings

click the above image to view the whole piece

When Rebecca Crumley, the photo editor at theKnot, contacted me for selects from Megan & Casey's wedding shoot to be featured in the 'Real Wedding' section, I was psyched. She came across an old blog post of mine where I showed a slideshow of their Coffee Table Book Style Wedding Album. Thank god I had worked on my meta tags that day, as she was surfing looking for real Idaho weddings. Megan and Casey were such great people, and there was such a lot of love around, they made my job a joy that day. And, it really helps when clever creative people give me lots of beautiful things to shoot, as the folks at Delphine really outdid themselves with the escort cards and all things papery.

Coffee Table Books for wedding albums

Brides are flipping over these!

Casey & Megan by Thia Konig | Make Your Own Book

This is from Casey and Megan's heart-and-soul wedding at his parents' house on the river in Hailey. It was so much fun to photograph and put this book together for them. They loved it!

Those other 'auto-fill' template albums can be pretty cheesy, so I started designing these coffee table books how I would want my own wedding album to look. Clean, contemporary and fun. I lay out each page by hand, and think and work with the emotional flow, and I love playing around with the images - placing pictures that you wouldn't normally think of together (but surprisingly, they work), and bouncing color off black & white.

If you went to Casey and Megan's wedding, you can click below to see the official Blurb release and to buy the book. Brought to you by Sun Valley wedding photography by Thia Konig

Casey & Megan

By Thia Konig

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Casey & Megan by Thia Konig

Elope in Sun Valley!

At the last minute a family vacation turned into a wedding. I was glad to help, and even signed the marriage certificate. When she forgot her flowers (thank god!), I sent the boys on a mission through the field of wildflowers to make her bouquet. It was too precious for words, so here's some pictures.

Classic Sun Valley wedding photography

Tai Kerbs as second camera for Frank & Jill

It was so worth flying in Tai Kerbs as second camera for this Sun Valley wedding. Mike and Julie were great clients, so they deserved the best. A fellow Brooks Institute of Photography Alumni (& working on her masters), Tai runs her own successful wedding photography business called Al Momento, in Santa Barbara. When I first met her last year, it was like meeting a best friend and a sister all in one. Our names are wierdly similar, we have the same P.O. box number?!, and we're both famous for capturing the moment. We rocked it together! We would look at each other and see what the other was using, then knowing that was covered, could try something creative. If one of us was using flash, then the other can capture the natural light. Or one of us tight, one wide. So great to work with a true professional. Great to get two angles of the beautiful moments happening, too! You don't get many chances at a petal toss in a meadow with a red Rolls Royce.

brought to you by Sun Valley wedding photographer Thia Konig