a marriage just started
Planning a wedding is a huge undertaking. Especially if you’re doing it yourself and not hiring a wedding planner. There are so many details to tend to so nothing falls through the cracks. And it’s an even larger undertaking if you’re planning two receptions that are over ninety miles apart in the same day. Arranging…
Read More
We don’t always get do-overs or second chances. Sometimes we don’t find love until later in life. After families have been started. And paths change. Life doesn’t always unfold the way we imagine and dream it will. Sometimes it’s better. And when two people find each other and recognize that love is decidely rare and…
Read More
destiny – [des-tuh-nee] 1. something that is to happen or has happened to a particular person or thing; lot or fortune.2. the predetermined, usually inevitable or irresistible, course of events.3. the power or agency that determines the course of events. When two high school sweethearts sit down with me at a local craft brewery and tell me they know all the lines from Rhinestone and the Princess Bride, it feels a little like destiny to me. It was further solidified when these first few lines were spoken during their wedding ceremony in Mountain Park. While torrential rains poured…
Read More
It’s always a little nerve wracking watching the forecast in the days leading up to a wedding. Especially when storms are on the horizon. Even on the morning of Rosie + Brandon’s wedding, the skies were filled with storm clouds. Ponchos and umbrellas were packed in my car. My second shooter Tammy had brought along…
Read More
Liz and Jason might appear to be the perfect American couple. And they just might be. They are charismatic, easy-going, and engaging people who draw you in with their kindness, wit, and warmth. I loved working with them at Piedmont Park during their engagement session. They danced on a dock without missing a beat while ducks…
Read More
Love is a hard thing to describe sometimes. How it makes you feel. How it changes you. How it ignites a fire inside your soul that no one else has ever come close to sparking. How it doesn’t necessarily make any sense. But ever since I met David + Amanda, the love that they share…
Read More
So many wedding days begin with a nervous excitement. But this beautiful day in April had a quiet calmness to it. In the middle of putting on a wedding dress. Fastening cufflinks. And even throughout toddler antics. There was a peaceful anticipation. There was a notebook filled with a myriad of reasons to walk down…
Read More
This was a day slated for rain. Unending downpours are what had been projected for the previous two weeks. But by the time Penny and Dylan were ready to walk down the aisle of their church and exchange vows, the clouds cleared out and the sun shone brightly over their intimate wedding at Faith Lutheran…
Read More
After weeks of rain and drizzle, the skies cleared up and the sun shone over Ashley + Garrett’s wedding day at Primrose Cottage. Ashley was the first to arrive from the hotel with her ladies. While Ashley was getting dressed upstairs, Garrett and his guys were cutting up in the cellar of Primrose Cottage. Ashley…
Read More