What a Year!

Posted on December 29, 2011 by

Finishing strong and wishing you well!

Hi everyone!
What a beautiful year, meeting so many wonderful people and making friends. Starting out I want to THANK ALL YOU WONDERFUL FOLKS. Its just been so fun and very exciting!

So now It’s that time of the year when we get to wave goodbye to a familiar friend, or a familiar foe, the year that we are so familiar with. We have written the numbers 2011 countless times. In a few days, we get to welcome in a new year and with it, new hopes and new opportunities. I encourage you to press the internal reset button and really make 2012 your year! This is the year to get fit, get in touch with a long lost friend, start a new hobby, or take your wedding to the next level. Whatever you choose to do, our best wishes are with you, and we here at the PBD Studios are always here to help you with your wedding goals and aspirations.

We aren’t leaving you empty handed either. We have a ton of goodies jammed right up to the end of the year. So for starters check out the Bridal show at Carahills II January 1st 2012.
Www.carahills.com

We also will be announcing dates for the WEAM workshops so stay tunned.

Enjoy the New Year stay safe

-Dorothy McCuskey PBD = photography by Dorothy

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Jennifer and Daniel 11-11-11

Posted on December 27, 2011 by

Jennifer and Daniel celebrated at the beautiful Carahills 1 in Eads TN 11-11-11 at 11AM! Jennifer was absolutley stunning the day was perfect. It was so much fun working with them, made it easy for Elizabeth and I to shoot a lot of GOODIES. You could really feel the excitement with these guy. There are so many reasons we love photographing weddings, but the one that trumps them all is that couples allow and trust us to witness and document some of the most beautiful and intimate moments in their lives. Doing a first look is not only great for stress relief, it’s often a wonderfully intimate, emotion-filled moment for couples who choose to go this route. That is exactly what Jennifer and Daniel decided to do and it LEFT us so many options and fun time for photographs AND for them enjoy the reception more with Family and Friends other than them and immediate family had no idea that when she walked down the aisle had they already done all their photos.
Its really something to think about.

As you can see here Jennifer is just radiant.






The sun was a little bright as you can see we just had fun with it, incorporating the sunshades









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CHRISTMAS 2011 FAMILY

Posted on December 27, 2011 by

A New Year is upon us…. Goodbye to 2011 – a year of happiness and joy for my family! Welcome 2012 – new roads to travel – I shall embrace this year, family and friends with all of it’s hope, faith and confidence and most of all LOVE.
Just recently loosing a very very close and good friend Byron Moore, we really realize how fragile we are.
And I Thank God every day for the wonderful people in my life.


This year has been great in businiess with alot of Thanks to Elizabeth. I really appreciate her dedication, sweet loving personality.
We were smart this year got out at the end of OCT 2011 and traded services to each other and took our photos for Christmas BAM we are are good!! Got it done and cards out on time!
I am a photographer and I am the last one that gets a photo of us and cards out.




ok so MOVING on to Christmas with family and friends.
We went to Louisiana celebrated the birth of our Saviour a day early. My poor dad was in the hospital with pnemonia but in good spirits we were back and forth from the house to the hosiptal.. and good news he is out now.

Christmas Eve morning started off with us exchanging our gifts – me a gift certificate to one of my favorite stores TJ Max, beautiful candel holder from the kids, and this rockin necklace from my parents that says “I shoot people” with a lil camera on it.. love it, I really got some wonderful stuff, Robert got some nice fluffy jammer bottoms with some underware lol. We had already gotten our main Christmas presents a set of nice nice pots and pans and we were both very happy. Around 2pm everybody set down to eat. Then in a couple hours we went to the hospital to sneak dad some turkey and fun food from dinner.


David (my son) and his wife Ashley made it by that was a awesome treat


Then when they are leaving we had to take photos of our babies Buster and Riggs heehehehe love fur babies

Brian Linton my brother in law was nice to enough to go out side and be our photographer :-)





My man doing his thing



Mom getting some den den together





Cutie pie Ashley





Then we left the next day and headed home to TN to the SARRATTS MORE GOOD FOOD— ps can we say gym gym gym gym i need alot of it to stay in these jeans



aaaaaah now BRUCIE AND HIS SELF PORTRAIT lol



After that long eventful day, we went to bed exhausted and feeling blessed. What a great time! Even with Dad in the hospital things really worked out.
Love you all!

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Kelly and Jonathan

Posted on December 17, 2011 by

Wedding date November 5th 2011 at the Beautiful Le Pavion Memphis TN. Cake by Sweet Tooth Creations, Music by Ty Hawkins, and Catering by Me and My Tea Room, Coordinationg by Dianne Trammel from BrideSavers and my fantastic second shooter Elizabeth Schaulk.
This was not our first time working with the beautifully vibrant Kelly Burcl, she is BFF’s with Angela Snyder another one of my fav brides. Kelly was in Angela’s wedding and Angela was in Kelly’s wedding.
We really had a great time, the girls are wonderful I so enjoyed being around the friends and family again. Now in March Emma gets married which is Angela’s sister LOL and Groomsman from their wedding Jay Armstrong and Michelle are getting married in 2012 so we get see everyone again! Love these folks.








This is really COOL! Steve Madden actually signed her shoes.

The special moment that was set up to see each other for the first time. Kinda just gives ya goosebumps



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Nicole and Steven Engagment session

Posted on December 15, 2011 by

Ok guys as I may have mentioned in a early post I am running alittle behind. So this is Nicole and Steven we did this in the fall beautiful beautiful weather, with the leaves still with all those amazing warm colors. Steven and Nicole are an exact fit. He is a police officer and she is a nurse hehehe that just sounds so romantic. I am so excited for the wedding date which is not to far way and to get some more goodness with these two.








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We lost a Dear Dear Friend

Posted on December 14, 2011 by

Byron (BJ) Moore passed away this past Sunday 12/11/11 of natural causes. This is just a quick note in his Memory. My intentions are to ask for eveyones thoughts and prayers to go out to his entire family and friends! Robert and I are very blessed that we had the chance to know BJ. He was a great friend, that was adventurous and fun.
On Thanksgiving Day I had taken their family photos. I have joy in my heart reliving that day thinking of him and the photos to remind us of him with part of his family.
Stefanie we love you to girl so glad we could and can be there for you.










Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.

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Kyle High School Senior 2012

Posted on December 5, 2011 by

Also while in Louisiana we had the opportunity to shoot Kyle Ganat in Amite La Just a couple sneak peaks PS as you can see the weather was much better there than here..






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