Married: Bri and Erik

Bri is a wonderful and beautiful person who I met in middle school! We have known each other for years and she is just that type of girl that you can spend time with, and not see for a long time, but when you see each other again, it's like you just spent time together the day before!! She hasn't changed a bit, and neither has our friendship.

In high school, she attended a different school and we kept in contact. But in college she moved away. Our only contact was through the internet. But it wasn't until she finally got engaged to her long time boyfriend, that we really started talking again. Had time really gone by that fast and we are moving on with our lives and getting married, finishing college, settling down? Uh... YEAH IT HAS!! I couldn't believe it. I offered to be her photographer for her North Carolina wedding. Not only because I wanted to just photograph her wedding, but it would be the most joyous thing for me to be there and be a part of this special day. I love her like a sister and I am so happy for her. Her husband is so wonderful and kind (and so is his family who I got to know really well!), and I expect nothing but happiness and good in her marriage. Congratulations Bri!!

In this post, I will put the photographs from her wedding. But being that is is my *FIRST* Destination wedding, I will do a separate post for all the photographs I got along the way! I hope you all enjoy!!




























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My Journey to North Carolina

Here are some of my photos from my trip for my very first destination wedding in North Carolina. To read the full original blog, please click HERE! Enjoy!!!

The Appalachian Mountains, in the plane!


The gorgeous mountains! There were like NO evergreens so in the fall, everything changes color!


View of the Charlotte buildings from the first night there. We stayed in the suite at the Omni Hotel!


We ate at a delicious restaurant called The Vida, located in the heart of Charlotte. I definitely recommend it! The food we all had was delicious and they have an amazing skinny margarita for only 100 cals. Beyond that, it was a lot of fun exploring what is around there, especially The Noda.


The next day was the wedding. We drove all the way from Charlotte to Beech Mountain.


Look at these colors!!


View from inside Dorothy's house at the Wizard of Oz Resort at Emerald Mountain, where the Ceremony took place.


We did a tour of the house, and there was a mimic of what the house would look like if a tornado had caught it! It was cute.


Cool artifacts throughout the home.




More gorgeous views:


More color!




And THE BEST PART!!!!!! There was a REAL yellow brick road!! And if you followed it, it went through almost every important scene in the movie. They even had trees with faces on them!


Photo of the faces from my phone:


And the most important part of being there, the newlyweds..



It was definitely amazing! I hope to do many destination weddings in the future!!

Maternity: Rob and Jill

Rob and Jill are some very dear lifelong friends that I have made through my wonderful Young Life College group, The Life. I have known them for a good couple years now and they contacted me several months ago with their interest in me doing their maternity photos... well.. that's when I found out they were having a baby and I was SO excited for them! A bun in the oven. All we had to do was wait for the right time. And well... the time came. Jill is just beautiful and Rob is such a wonderful person. They will be amazing parents!!

Family: Matt and Tess

Oh Matt and Tess!! I actually did this session a long time ago but just now realized I never got to posting a blog! So dumb of me because this is seriously my most favorite family session up to date of "new" clients that I just met! Jett was one of the cutest little boys I have ever met! At first he was shy, but throughout the session he loved giving me hugs... and I will never forget his cute face rub he did with his pet kitty! It was so darling. On top of that, his parents are some of the most laid back, fun people I've encountered. Another funny addition, where I live, if you live there long enough, you begin to notice the weird connections between EVERYONE--as long as you've been here for more than 5 years! I've actually been getting to know Matt and Tess, since we have several mutual friends. It's just so nice to run into them and I hope to one day do some family photographs for them again as Jett grows. :)