Bridal Show and 2008 Wedding Highlights

Enjoy the highlights from our 2008 weddings. Please feel free to share this with your family and friends. 

Also, this weekend, January 10th and 11th, is the annual Wedding Planner & Guide bridal show at the Alliant Energy Center. Stop by our booth, #1606- by the fashion show, to see our new albums and say “hi”!

Did you get our newsletter?

Did you know that our images are being showcased at the March of Dimes event on Friday? Did you know that we have new albums and cool new images boxes? Did you know that we even have jewelry and totes? Did you know that you will get a bonus $25 gift card when you buy $150 in gift cards at the Madison Women’s Expo? Did you know that newsletter readers get special offers and incentives? 


Well, if you got our newsletter, you already knew all that!

If you haven’t gotten our newsletter yet, please let us know! We want to keep all of our faithful readers up to date!

We want to hear from You! – Testimonials

Did you love your experience with Appleby Photography? Love your photographs? We want to hear from you! We love to get feedback from our clients. And if you are willing to let us share your comments, let us know!

Here’s a note from a recent wedding couple:
Hello Chris and Becky,

Adam and I wanted to thank you both so much for your professional, organized and discreet way of capturing our day. You were both so relaxed that the whole picture taking portion of the day (which I was not very excited about) was perfect and easy. Everyone was very comfortable and you made the experience fun.
Adam and I also really appreciated never feeling like a camera was in our faces; you captured the day without us even noticing it….THANK YOU.
We will definitely be recommending Appleby to anyone we can and please let us know if we could ever be of assistance as a reference.
Cant wait to see the pictures!
Melanie and Adam

Checking In


I can’t believe summer is over. It was bitter-sweet today as we sent our oldest off to school. It’s amazing how fast the summer flew by! Here is a peek at what we have been doing- lots of weddings! By the way, Madalyn is feeling better, though she is still healing. Also, we got our own family portraits taken this summer- check out our About Us page to see the new images, which now include Henry. Thanks Merrilee!

First Trip to E.R.

We had to do it. We had to make our first trip to the Emergency Room last night. Actually, with three kids, it wasn’t a question of “if”, but “when”. Madalyn had the honor of being our first child to do so. She had the misfortune of riding her bike into a parked car (which, I hear, is not all that uncommon). Luckily, she was wearing her bike helmet and her head was fine. Unluckily, it was her knee that took the brunt of the crash. With a wound deemed “too big for stitches”, she is now happily resting at home. All in all, the trip wasn’t too bad and Madalyn was very brave- though she still hasn’t actually looked at her wound, and I can’t say that I blame her!

New Contemporary Album Options

We are happy to announce our new expanded options with the Contemporary Album line! We now have 12 beautiful colors to choose from for your cover, which allows you to pick the perfect shade to show off your photographs. Also joining the Contemporary line-up: matching parent albums! The parent albums have been such a hit with the Storybook Album line, that we are excited to be able to offer them with the Contemporary Albums, too! As with the Storybook Albums, exact matches will be at a special price, but will also be available to order separately.

What’s New

We had the summer bridal show on Wednesday and it went well! This year was busier than it’s been since the Wedding Planner & Guide started the summer show, so it’s neat that word is getting out about what a great show it is. Plus, it’s a bit easier to manage than the huge winter show! This is the first time in all the years that we have done bridal shows that we forgot to take a photograph of our booth, so you’ll just have to take our word that it looked great.

We posted some May sessions & weddings (a couple of these were seen at the bridal show) to enjoy, and will be updating our display windows very soon. Also, our Contemporary Albums have gotten better! We now offer more color selections and matching parent albums! And because we love to add new things to our line-up, be watching for a new album line in the next few weeks. The options with this new line are a lot of fun!

On the home-front, Henry has started to crawl! Actually, last weekend was busy for him with milestones: he clapped, crawled, and sat up by himself. He doesn’t understand that his mother needs him to spread out the milestones so she can enjoy them more.

What The Duck!



I just received an e-mail from Aaron Johnson, a Wisconsin man responsible for creating the on-line comic “What The Duck”. The comic is about a duck who is a struggling professional photographer, and the e-mail is his simple way of advertising his strip. A few newspapers have picked it up, but it’s popularity has grown mainly by word-of-mouth. Some of the strips are only funny to us photographers, but others hold universal appeal. The thing that makes these comic strips so interesting is that Aaron takes suggestions from his readers, not only for the content, but for the title of the strip, which is named the day after it appears by the best reader post to his site. You can check it out here.