Jessica has been recognized as a preferred vendor to work with by her industry peers, earned TheKnot.com’s Best of Weddings award 9 times, and been inducted into TheKnot.com Hall of Fame. Jessica is a multi-award-winning photographer, a leader in her industry, and an educator to up-and-coming photographers through her Embark Retreat.
Well, 29 is looking pretty good so far and started off with a fabulous birthday party! For some reason, I decided to really celebrate this birthday with a party and go all out (with the hopes that the next will be celebrated in Bora Bora or somewhere exotic…haha!). I am so blessed to have a sweet husband, amazing friends and family, and some rockstar vendor friends who helped me celebrate! The weekend started off with possibly one of the best surprises ever…..one of my best friends from Texas surprised me and came to California to hang out for 3 days and be at my party! Katelyn, you are amazing and I can’t thank you enough for being here and for being such an awesome friend! Thanks to my hubby for all of his help, to my in-laws for coming out to celebrate, to my life-group for letting loose and dressing up and to Colleen, my Fairy God Mother for helping me plan an adult Cinderella themed birthday party that looked gorgeous!
Bakersfield – if you are planning a party, I highly recommend checking out the work of my good friends: Gimme Some Sugar, House of Flowers, Little White Dress, Fairy Godmother Day of Wedding Planning, Kevin Rush Entertainment, Freestyle Entertainment, PM Custom Catering
My handsome husband…and my gorgeous dress from Little White Dress!
Ok, here are some shots of my CAKE. Yes, this is a cake…Stephanie from Gimme Some Sugar took my idea of Cinderella’s mother’s dress she originally intended to wear to the ball and made it into a beautiful birthday cake! I squealed when I saw it and couldn’t be more happy with how beautiful it turned out! It was so awesome, several guests didn’t realize it was a cake!
My Fairy Godmother and good friend Colleen!
Flowers from Amanda, House of Flowers! They’re so sweet and romantic!
My father-in-law being silly…and not realizing at all that his beard is in my cake! We all had a good laugh as he realized that wasn’t just a prop 🙂
He felt my dress needed a face, so that’s a Jessica balloon head…tiara included! Thanks David!
Actually cutting the cake was quite a scene! I didn’t want to do it! Thankfully Katelyn put the cake knife in my hands and Eric took the reigns and made it fun by making it an ‘exorcist’ cake with a backwards body 🙂 Oh, Eric.
We danced and watched the sunset over Bakersfield….and had an awesome time! Thank you everyone who came out to celebrate, I really appreciated it! I truly feel so blessed to be surrounded by some pretty amazing people. You all have made Bakersfield feel like home! And Jennifer Williams….my fabulous female photographer friend, THANK YOU for taking my Nikon and snapping the majority of these photos for me! I’m so glad I have some memories to share and put up on my wall! Oh, and as the evening wound down and the music continued, we got to celebrate the announcement of Osama bin Laden being killed later that night…and as Amanda put it, we’ll always remember that we were doing the Humpty Dance when we found out! Thanks Kevin for rocking some great music that made the party last too long…and a HUGE thank you to Jenny for letting me crash your upstairs patio! Love you all dearly and can’t wait to see what this year holds!!!
Jessica Frey is an award-winning, Texas Hill Country-based international wedding and event photographer committed to delivering a high-quality experience complete with stunning and joyful images.
awww!! You are welcome!! Here is to a fab year at 29!! … It was hard to use the Nikon, but I managed. 🙂 That photo of me and Brad made me laugh… I think I tried twice to get a smile then gave up. 🙂
Looks like you had so much fun! So bummed I missed it 🙁 Next year for sure!
I just love you… That’s about it. Wish I was there to celebrate with you!
Jess you looked like Cinderella! Love and Hugs “Your” Fairy Godmother…….Colleen