Ms. Wheelchair Utah 2013

A stressful week, it's been. We had a lot of unexpected obstacles come up with the calendar project. All of the queens from the Miss America and Miss USA system had to withdraw from the project because of reasons that they could not control. I'm thankful that they had the intent to help my cause though. We also had another queen withdraw for personal reasons. So we became short one person. Luckily, fate brought me to Ms. Wheelchair Utah and she agreed to be the 12th model for our calendar!

She is truly an inspiration and just from getting to know her, she really shows that no matter your abilities and disabilities are, you most definitely can still be a queen. Additionally, she adds a great diverse element to our calendar. I'm so excited to have her!

Miss Utah Teen USA 2012

We managed to get Miss Utah Teen USA 2012 to join our group of queens for the calendar! She was so elegant and classy in her photo shoot today. So fun to work with her!

Behind-The-Scenes @ Calendar Shoot

After weeks in the planning and searching for titleholders, we finally were able to select a day where all of the beauty queens could get together and do the photo shoot for the calendar! Big thanks to Trinity and the students at Aveda salon for doing makeup and hair for some of the girls. Also, big thanks to Lyman Wynn at L1quid Studios for allowing us to use his studio to do the photo shoot. Lastly, big thanks to Austin Lindsay Photography for helping me set up everything and for doing the pictures. It was so much fun being able to meet everyone!

The local Miss America titleholders with Miss Utah Latina 2012.

Jawahir and I...we're sash sisters! (Meaning that our sash has the same font and all. Haha)

The two Native American titleholders! They drove the farthest to be there! One drove 3 hours and the other drove 5 hours!

Love her crown! So unique.

I call us the "Southeast Asian" titleholders.

Miss Africa Utah with Miss Utah County and her adorable little miss.

Miss Asia Utah 2012 and Miss Draper 2013.

I decided to hop in for a picture as well.

Miss Utah Latina and Miss Lehi testing out our chairs for the group shoot.

A fun little group photo we got while everyone was getting ready :)

These awesome ladies helped the queens get their hair and makeup ready!

Miss Asia Utah with her teen titleholder.

Had to get a picture with this lovely pair.

We managed to nab National American Miss Utah for the project. She'll be going to nationals very soon.

Overall, it went really well despite the stressful moments when we were crunching time and helping girls find the location of the studio. A sincere and heartfelt THANK YOU to all of the queens who came out for this project. Can't wait to see the final result! :)