This is my best friend Jace and she is quite the florist. I love the beautiful arrangements she comes up with. Take a look at it yourself!



Flowers with Jace from Elsa Jensen on Vimeo.

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Would you like to see the lovely Landon & Caroline? They are pure perfection and love in one stunning couple. Truly! Take a look!



Landon & Caroline from Elsa Jensen on Vimeo.

https://vimeo.com/128213199

https://vimeo.com/user18685950

Where did I go?

In case you couldn't tell, I don't blog much around here anymore. I hate to say it, but blogging on two different blogs is a hassle - and since I am a now fully devoted, working for myself, business woman, blogging on my website's blog has taken priority. But not to worry - I have a link to this blog with a regularly updated blog! So if you like to look at pretty pictures and watch cutesy wedding videos from this Utah wedding photographer and videographer, take a look! I'm over here at http://www.elsacreates.com/blog/

Until then, here's a video of Talia & Brady - maybe their adorable-ness will help herd you over to my blog :)



  Talia & Brady from Elsa Jensen on Vimeo.

When I talk about traveling, I don't think you quite get it. Sure, everyone hopes to travel.  To walk around London, maybe go surfing in Australia or see the Great Wall and have some authentic and real Chinese food. And most probably do travel and enjoy every minute. But still, some don't quite get it. Traveling isn't just something I'd like to do for fun. Traveling IS what I do. Its like the yearning desire I have that can't be filled completely unless I step out the front door. It's not just something I would like to do or something to check off on my list of things I should do. It's something I must do. I travel to breathe. I travel to become. Because ironically, there is no single thing that makes me more of myself than traveling. And I feel like each time I travel, I feel just that much more comfortable in my skin. I find a part of myself that I didn't know yet - a part of myself that realized she would like to be a daredevil and try the cow intestines from Africa please, or a part of myself that has learned just how completely content I could be walking the roadways of old Copenhagen and completely get lost. But more than those big things that make me discover myself, there's just something about traveling that makes me feel like I'm, well, home. It's this beautiful connection that I feel to the ground I walk across- that wherever my feet go, I have roots. To feel a piece of my own soul be so connected to a place that I'm just discovering and feel so comfortable at a place that I've never really been....well, to me there's really only one way I can hope to explain it, and I think its love and me. A love for travel. And me, at the most true and honest form of myself. And thats why, when I talk about traveling, I don't think you quite got it. But now I think you might. 

july looks like...

june looks like...

may looks like...

things my brothers tell me, part 4:

L: I weigh 68 pounds.

G: How much do you think I weigh? Leo’s been eating a lot of snack lately.

G: (Upon seeing me pull out my second season to watch) Oh are we already on season two of Gilmore Girls?

L: (Eating a piece of magherita pizza) Wait, is this mold?

G: (To Noah’s large and gruff friend) Can I have your beard?

L: I might need a bigger helmet. I’m older than him.

G: (during the Olympics) I’m rooting for Norway. If anyone asks, I don’t know why.

L: He wants to watch Parks and Re-creation.

L: (after being served a nice big Belgian waffle) Hello – you have a one-way ticket to tummy town

Me: Your hair is a lot darker now dude

L: Yeah. Call me dirty blonde now. 

monday

Ok, I’m serious about blogging again this time.

I'm also serious about my new bed time, so hence, there is no picture. It was a busy day. 

I’ve decided having too many shades of chambray is never a bad thing.  A girl needs every wash possible, right?

Every morning I drive to work drinking my smoothie out of a red solo cup and I wonder if the people staring at me think I’m drinking akky.

I have decided that weddings are much more work than I thought they would be. Not in a bad way, but they are a lot of work. I eat, sleep, breathe weddings.

Yesterday I watched High School Musical 2 with the twins and I admit to getting a little too into the whole Troy and Gabriella love story. As L said, “They just kissed twice. That’s a lot of kissing.”

Optimism is my friend of late, and I like having it with me.

Also, I can’t stop reading Where’d You Go Bernadette?.  Like really, I’m in this battle with myself over reading it – I can’t stop reading because it’s so dang good and then I also don’t want to keep reading because I’m dreading finishing it and not having something this fabulous to read anymore.

I’ve found that wasting my energy on some things just isn’t worth it. 

I feel like being crafty. The computer screen hogs my life lately and I’m in need of a craft.

monday

I'm in need of a bang trim and hair cut. 

Getting back into writing is almost like getting back into the dating field. It’s awkward to get back into. But here I am – back again.

My last few weeks of school were busy in every sense of the way. But I’ve learned that that’s when I find out what isn’t necessary to my life and move on with what is.

I thought a lot about this last year at school.  And I learned a lot about myself.  More on that later.

I’m back to work.  Having an excuse to dress up every day = my kind of summer.

This summer calls for an onslaught of new routines, traditions, and experiences. 

I’m in a little summer book club and we read the most delightful books.

I just ate an entire sandwich sized Ziploc baggie of green snap peas for lunch. Hoorah for healty food.

Have you ever been embarrassed at your ability to speed through a TV series and at the same time not be embarrassed enough to stop? That’s me.

It rained today. Don’t you think the Earth looks its lovliest when it has just rained?

Allergy season is always the silent plague.  Trying not to itch my eyes until my make-up comes off leaving me to look like a druggie or a kid with pink eye, is harder than it sounds.

april looks like...

last night....

When you get invited on a Friday night to play Russian Roulette with eggs, you have to go.  And this is what always happens.....

monday

busy is an understatement. is it the end of the semester yet?
i'm trying to eat healthier now. weaning myself off treats is even harder than weaning myself off soda.
on the same page, i loooooove cooking lately. its heaven to me.
this is exactly how i feel about this movie. except i like richard gere.
i have another wedding to shoot this weekend and i can't believe its actually here!
i want to update my laptop to the maverick operating system very badly, but i'm also worried that it might erase things on my computer on accident....
so webmd last night was not a good idea. again. especially because i've added so much language to my repertoire of medical maladies and reading those listed only sent me into a panic. bad choice elsa.
if you can't tell, there's not much to say today that's worth mentioning. maybe next week.

travel coping

thats me, taking a picture in austria. i looked through some pictures from my trip last summer and had that aching feeling come back immediately. i wanted to re-shoot every single thing i had shot before and shoot even more pictures because i was baffled at little i had taken and how much i was already starting to forget.  so it makes me want to go back again. 

did i tell you about hallstatt? the most wonderful little town in austria? i felt like i entered a completely untouched piece of the country where tourists hadn't maimed it yet, and i was just discovering it. there were salt mine tours that were ridiculously boring while completely hysterical at the same time. and the town itself, with its architecture and little shops made me want to stay there for a few more days and eat brautwursts. so i think i'll start telling you more about this trip too, because i want to remember them too. 

do you ever look back? i think it's human nature to. we all look back, seeing the things that we remember. but the things that get me the most are the things that changed.  who i thought i would be. who i thought i was.  what i thought i would be doing.  where i thought i would be going. when i would be there. isn't it funny?  it was all so different that it makes us laugh at the idea of its difference and baffle at it too. the things that didn't happen and the things that we didn't expect, but came they to life. the old-timey grandma inside of me sits and shakes her head at life, thinking how am i ever going to make sure i've done it all.  is that bad? that i always remember things that have happened? or is it worse that i look forward to the things i imagine? regardless of the now, is not a way that i should live. so i'm coming back to that slowly, painstakingly just thinking about right now. because next time i look back, i want to remember being so engulfed in that time that its memory is distinct and its clarity in tact.

monday

this is as good as it gets today.

writing is therapeutic. that's why when i'm unbelievably busy i still write. i'm a creative.
oh happy st. patrick's day. i wore this green scarf. because i still remember when i was in kindergarten and my mom forgot it was st. patrick's day and i was about to get on the bus, so she took a safety pin and took a green leaf off the tree and pinned it to my shirt. that's a nice mommy.
i have only a few weeks left in school, and i just want to know, how is that going to work out?
target is all i need sometimes. and a good craft store.
the photos keep rolling in. i'm currently learning how to balance all of that.
can i please have the attractive man that skeeter dates in the help? he resembles john krasinski and zac efron at the same time and that is a blessed combination.
i've decided that i watch grey's anatomy like a drug user. its in spurts of way too much at a time and generally when i want to avoid doing anything productive. so, is that a bad thing...?
i get to go to girls camp again (which wasn't completely clear before), but i don't have to be in charge, and that is the funnest thing i could ask for.

lately.....

things i love lately.........

neutral colors 

its all i wear

sunny temple days for weddings

darling magazine

thanks for the suggestion jace

peanut clusters

addicted

flat wearing weather

when something is right

i think when something is right, it's different. its exhilarating. its not nervousness. its anxious and anticipation mixed with determination.

i was thinking about the last wedding i shot, which as i mentioned, was completely by myself. the temple was packed that day with 57 weddings, and navigating spots, keeping groups together, all of that stuff, was not an easy task. yet, the entire day i had this odd confidence about me. like i had done it before and i already knew what i was doing. it wasn't a 'fake it til you make it' kind of thing. it was real and odd and completely unbelievable. i don't know how i did it, but all i do know is that it was right. it feels like its not only what i want to do now, but what i am supposed to be doing now. and those little moments i have when i remember this and realize this make me feel so wonderfully blessed. that reassurance from a divine being is one of the more powerful experiences in life and i could not respect it more.

monday

this is how i feel. except i'm not dressed like this. 

so, somehow i got on this stint of wanting to listen to the dixie chicks on repeat.
also, long car drives back to school are really just my excuse to have glee club rehearsals. because that's what keeps me awake.
the bachelor finale is on tonight and half of my apartment already knows who wins. why we're still all watching it is a riddle to me (insert sarcasm here).
doterra oils are literally magic. like sometimes, i think that they're potions from hogwarts.
every night before i go to bed, i sneak out to the living room and turn on the AC because it gets so hot during the night. and in the morning everyone asks why its so cold hehehe
i have decided that being the back up is not in my best interest. done.
i also have decided that i love doing what i do. i shot my first wedding all by myself. it was a rush.
also, what was with the one photographer that wore jeans to shoot her wedding? JEANS! unprofessional.
this monday is one of those mondays that i literally couldn't care about anything else.
falling asleep last night was no easy task. waking up was even harder. #daylightsavingsprobs #insomniacprobs
i've purposely made myself not watch grey's anatomy since last thursday. ask me how its gone.
all i know is, i can't complain, because i got pizza from my dad and chik-fil-a this weekend. i'm set.

For your Sunday

 This was given last week at my school and it has an incredible power.  Listen if you get a minute.

https://byui-media.ldscdn.org/byui_ft/devo_audio/04_03_2014_Devo.mp3