Once In A Lifetime :: {Tulsa Wedding Photographer}

When you make the final decision to choose one photographer over another you ultimatly have your reasons.  You like their style.  You like their price.  You like the emotion they are able to pull out of their clients.  You ultimatly see yourself in their images and can't imagine any other person photographing your big day.  It's true. 

Now, if you know me or have met with me, you know I'm a bit of a talker.  My husband loves this about me.  But all other conversations aside, let me be serious for a minute.  Yes, price will play an important roll in determing your wedding photographer for some of you, but don't let that be the final straw.  Ten.  Fifteen years from now you won't remember what color the table linens were.  You won't have flower still laying around from your big day.  You will have pictures of the table linens.  You will have pictures of the flowers.  See where I'm going?

There are three main things you will take away with you from your wedding day.

Your memories.

Your wedding video.

Your wedding images.

Oh, and your groom, but hopefully that's a given :)

You only get married once.  You don't get wedding photography do-overs.  You get one shot at capturing your wedding day as it unfolds.

So choose wisely.  Choose them because you can't imagine anyone else photographing your wedding.

Taking Applications :: Senior Representative Program :: {Tulsa Senior Photographer}

Schools are letting out.

The stores are filled with shorts and tanktops.

And most important?  Snow Cone Shacks are open for business!

What does all of this mean?  It means SUMMER is almost here and we've got a new class of SENIORS about to relish in all that it means to be Seniors!

So what does this mean for you all?

I'm looking for unique 2012 seniors who want to be part of my Senior Representative Program!!!

In exchange for your help promoting Allison Lee Photo to your friends, you'll receive a free senior photography session!

One male and one female student will be chosen from each of the local high schools in Tulsa and its surrounding areas:

(Bartlesville, Owasso, Jenks, Broken Arrow, Bixy, etc.)

Now for the deets...

In order to be a senior rep for ALP, you must:

Be a senior graduating in 2012

Be camera friendly (if you hate having your picture taken this probably isn't the position for you ;)

Have a fun sense of personal style, be unique... funky even!

Live in Tulsa or it's surrounding cities/suburbs

Agree to promote Allison Lee Photo to your friends and classmates

Represent ONLY ALP & use the images from your session as your senior photos

Return a photo release signed by you and your parent/guardian

If you are a part of ALP's Senior Representative Program, you'll receive the following:

A free senior photography session

Unlimited shoot time

Two sessions (a fall/winter AND spring/summer)

A proofing gallery to select your favorite images

A CD of low-res, watermarked images to be used on your social networking page (Facebook, Myspace, blog, etc.)

50 senior rep. cards.  Each card will be personalized with your name, your photos and our business information to hand to your friends and classmates.

3 mini albums of your images to be used to show your friends and classmates (and so you can give one to mom and grandma!)

An opportunity to earn print credits and print discounts for each person you refer to Allison Lee Photo

A $50 prepaid Visa gift card will be awarded to the senior rep with the highest number of rep cards returned by January 1st, 2012 (**must be at least over 10 returned cards to qualify)

Card can be spent however you like

You'll earn referral discounts for each referral you send to Allison Lee Photo:

1-3 Referrals - 10% off print order and $20 print credit

4-6 Referrals - 10% off print order and $40 print credit

7-10 Referrals - 15% off print order and $60 print credit

11+ Referrals - High-Resolution DVD of all images from your session

All senior reps must agree with the following terms and conditions:

Senior representative sessions must be scheduled and take place before August 14, 2011.  You may schedule an initial session before August 14th and a follow-up session to take place before January 1st, 2012.  This might allow you to have the fall landscape as well as the summery Oklahoma weather in your portfolio.  Rep cards will be given to the reps before September 1st, 2011.  All students will be entered into the drawing for the $50 Visa card, but only rep cards before January 1, 2012 will count towards the drawing.  Any rep cards after January 1st, 2012 will still contribute towards your print credits and discounts, but will not count towards the Visa gift card drawing.  When your referrals book a session and pay in full, you will receive credit for that referral.

Any referral that presents your card when booking their session will receive 10% off of their senior photography session.

Be sure and tell your friends about the perks of the senior rep session.... they can sign up for the 2013 season!  Your participation in the program will not only introduce you to fun & funky, personalized photography, but wlso a way to help your parents out and earn incentives towards your session for senior portraits at little or no cost!  All students must return the aplication, including the model release, before June 30, 2011.  This program is first come, first serve so be sure to act fast if you're interested.  All reps will be contacted and announced on my blog July 13, 2011.

TO ENTER:

Please send me an email to allison@allisonleephoto.com with a photo of yourself & the school you will be graduating from (for my records)!

I will send you the full application & model release.

I can't wait to work with you!!

The Best Is Yet To Come :: Tulsa Photographer

Alright, as promised I have something very exciting to share with you all.  Will this change your lives?  Probably not.  Will you get as excited as I did?  Umm... yeah, again, probably not.  BUT, because we're friends I'm sharing it with you anyway.

Yesterday, that fabulous employee sporting the solid brown ensemble with the three little letters U. P. S. arrived on my doorstep.  Little did he know that package he was holding was going to make me jump for joy and almost want to hug him!  I said almost. come on peeps.

I scribbled my signature as fast as I could and snatched up that beautiful brown box as quickly as my little hands knew how.

And what was inside?  Well.... only this!!!

Like I said, you probably aren't as excited as I was when I saw that beautiful brown truck pull up, but let's just pretend you are.  (and yes, sorry the pictures are small.  I took my own but don't have them with me at the moment.)

So there you have it internet.  A beautiful new Nikon D3s is the newest member of the Allison Lee Photo family and I couldn't be more excited!!!!!

Little B & The Secretary That Could

Little B is about to become a BIG SISTER!  Her momma's due in less than a month and from the convo's I had with little miss B, she's super excited about it.  So excited that throughout our shoot she told me she had to make a few phone calls to insure everything was in line for her newest edition to the fam.  What can I say, she's a bit of a perfectionist!

She managed to fit in a few glam shots for me between phone calls.

Momma & Little B - Thanks so much for our fun session.  B is going to be such a good big sister!

Don't Judge a Book By It's Cover: Tulsa Wedding Photographer

Don't judge a book by it's cover.  Well, friends.  Now, I hope you judge me by my new cover!   Straight outta the box - I give you the new DVD and Case.  I spent the last few weeks designing these bad boys and am oober excited to share them with you! 

So, take a look.  Drool over them a little.  And let me know what you think!  Do you love them as much as I do??... probably not, but a girl can dream, right?!



A Big. Gigantic. Thank You: Tulsa Wedding Photographer

You all made our day.  My photography partner and I could not be more thrilled with the way you all represented yesterday.  You absolutely blew us off our seats with your eagerness for pictures!

So, thank you.  Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for allowing us to enter your lives and capture a small piece of what you love so dearly.

Thank you.  Thank you.  Thank you.

We cannot wait to begin working with all 158 of you!  Ya'll are the b.e.s.t.

Sweet Valentine's Day Gift Idea: Tulsa Wedding Photographer

Do you still need the perfect gift for your sweetheart?  Tired of the standard $60 roses? Don't want to spend an outrageous amount of money to impress the sox of of them? 

Today's deal on Living Social is a one hour photo session with yours truly for only $40 dollars!  With your purchase you will receive a CD of 10 images to print and an online gallery with the remaining images from your session.

I promise.  This deal is too good not to buy into! 

And the best part?  You don't even have to tell your sweetheart how much you did or did not spend on them!  A voucher will be sent to you via email and all you have to do is wrap up something cute saying you purchased a photography session for the two of you to make some memories together.

Talk about the best gift ever.  Your loved one will be extatic over this gift!  And guys, it's the easiest gift you can give!  After all, didn't you get her roses the last 3 years?  Gettin kinda old, don't ya think?

I'm just sayin.  This gift will make her eyes sparkle.  She'll think you went way out of your way and got her something extremely unique.  Dream come true.

So go buy it.  You have 24 hours until this deal expires.

To buy into my living social deal click HERE.  I promise.  You won't be disappointed.

Mothers Know Best: Tulsa Maternity Session

It wasn’t going to happen, she told me a few months back. She had known him for a long time, coming across each other once in awhile. But it never happened. The interest was there; she always thought he was cute. But again, it never happened. He loved the Lord. But, it never happened. She loved the Lord. But, it never happened.

Then while at a Sooner football game, I’m trying to not hold it against her, they ran into one another. This time was different though. Her mother was with her. Again, she said it wasn’t going to happen, but you know that phrase we all hate growing up that comes from out mother’s? You know. “Mothers know best” Yeah. That one. Well, in this particular instance. Her mother did know best. She knew her daughter would end up with that tall, dark headed handsome man she saw at the football game. She knew the two were meant for one another. So, she did what any determined mother would do. She prayed about it.

Shortly after the football game the conversations began. First as simple emails back and forth - friends checking in on one another. Then more on the lines of interest, genuinely wanting to know how each other’s days were and take part in each other’s lives. Seven short months after that football game the two began their walk together. What she once said “would never happen”, happened. They were more in love than either one thought possible. He knew her. Knew the desires of her heart just as she knew his. Neither one could imagine their lives without the other person. And it was just as it should be. It was perfect.

As their relationship began, Mr. Wonderful moved to India for a year. He was following the path God was directing him to take. He left his beautiful new other half and traveled half-way across the world. But, the whole time, all he could think about was the woman that would someday carry their child. He knew he loved her. He knew had to have her in his life. So, he continued to pray about it and upon his return he married that girl he saw at the Sooner football game.

In conversations with this sweet girl, she has reflected back on their relationship as it transformed from acquaintances to full-fledged love-struck puppies. And the best part of it all? They’re still that way. They love one another with such passion – the kind that comes from the bottom of your gut. You know, the kind every girl wants to experience. That’s what their love has grown in to. And honestly, it’s because the Lord brought them together.

At this very moment, she is carrying their first child. A little boy.


Little C is going to be the most awesome little boy this world has seen. He is going to be surrounded with so much love it’s ridiculous. And I just can’t wait for the Hailey family to experience all the new joys that are about to come their way.

They always say, “Mother’s know best”, so momma Hailey, you’re about to embark on a whole new level of wisdom. I guess it just comes to you once little C enters this world… probably like a whirlwind – BAM! You’ve got momma wisdom! It’s going to be intense.

I’m so stinkin’ excited for your new bundle. I can’t wait for the wisdom to hit you so you can say, Mothers know best!

Baby Bump

What a precious time. This family is the sweetest thing you could want to cross paths with. Momma is about 8 1/2 months pregnant and SO ready to see baby Ryann. Throughout the whole shoot mom & dad kept saying... " our family is about to go from 3 to 4!" and I am so excited for them. They are beautiful inside and out.. so here's a sneak peak at what's to come.