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Thursday, May 17, 2012

Megan & Brett | An Alabama Farm Engagement Session

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Finally! Here are some photos of the lovely duo of Megan and Brett. I think Megan is probably one of my most photographed subjects. We met her freshman (my sophomore) year at Mississippi State University and we’ve been fabulous friends ever since. Along with many other interesting things, we share a love of olives, Dr. Pepper, photography, art, Jesus, boots, and boys named Brett. Not in that order of course. Megan was one of my own dear bridesmaids and has been responsible for me booking a number of weddings… as in, I’ve lost count of the number of people that have told me, “Megan sent me!.” I dearly love this fabulous friend and blog stalker and I’m so thankful for people like Megan that have been beside me since the beginning, cheering me on through my business. My life isn’t possible without God-sent people like that.

So! Here we are. Megan is finally making her own official appearance on the blog! My Brett and Megan’s Brett actually knew each other from playing soccer around the same time in middle school. Somehow they got reconnected in college when Brett R. came to MSU for grad school, and I’m glad they did! Brett Long and I were there for the very beginning of Brett R. and Megan’s relationship. It was back in the day at an MSU basketball game when BR asked BL, “Is she single?” A few years later, here we are my friends! These two kiddos will be tying the knot next month and I couldn’t be more excited to be photographing such a special day.

Their engagement session took place at Brett R.’s family farm. I posted a few photos of our time at the farm a few weeks back and I’m so excited to share these lovely engagements! The weather could not have been more wonderful – how I love sunny spring afternoons! Y’all enjoy!

^ Meet Skeet. Or as I prefer to call him, Skeetster.

^ This is the tree where they got engaged.

Posted in Engagements Tags: Alabama Wedding Photographer, engagements in a field, farm engagements, farm photoshoot, flower fields, hammock, hammock engagements, Spring, the farm

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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Nikki & Michael | Sturgis, Mississippi Wedding

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Nikki and Michael met at their church in Nashville not too long ago. As you can see, things worked out pretty well for their relationship! Nikki and I know each other through mutual friends for the most part. She actually attended the 3rd wedding that we photographed as an official photo biz several years ago! On a cool and cloudy day, Nikki and Michael exchanged vows in the quaint little town of Sturgis, Mississippi in a sweet country church. Her great, great…..(not sure how many great’s go in there) grandfather’s house was actually still next door to the church and you can see we took a little trip to the front porch for a few porch swing photos. You have to love a good porch swing! Here are a few photos from to give you a preview of the day Nikki and Michael became man and wife!

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Thursday, May 3, 2012

Wedding Season | A Florida Wedding

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This last weekend, Brett and I were able to enjoy being part of Lauren and Josh’s wedding in Florida. We decided to drive since I’m super paranoid about my gear before a wedding and we’re not too opposed to road trips. We spent a day driving down and a day driving back with two days between – one day for the wedding and one day for us to attempt to relax for a bit.

The wedding was lovely and relaxed. Lauren and Josh were just so sweet throughout the day…and even willing to climb trees in their wedding attire : ) Thank y’all again for asking us to be a part of your wedding! I’m looking forward to your blog post in a week or two!

Our day off was great. We slept in, went to the Apple store to replace my laptop battery and charger (perfect time to die – when we’re 11 hours from home) and wandered around IKEA for a few hours. In case you were wondering, IKEA was actually Brett’s idea and he did enjoy it! We did a few other random things here and there but we mainly just wanted to have a day without an agenda – those rarely happen for us.

We ended our day with trying to find a public access spot to the beach close to where we were staying. Going to the beach was a little higher ranked on our to-do list but of course, the day flew by and we ended up racing a thunderstorm in an attempt to make it to the beach by 5:00. Needless to say my legs are still as white as they were a week ago. After about the 8th attempt at a public access area with parking, we finally made it to the beach!! About the time we were halfway down the walk to get to the sand, the skies opened up. We got our umbrellas and decided to just stand on the beach in the rain… with umbrellas. We started to see lightning after about 2 minutes and headed back to the car. So much for the beach…

Long story short and a double scoop ice cream cone later, we were back on the beach for the sunset after the rain had passed. Thankfully, the clouds made for a pretty end to our day. I would have loved a little more beach time, but alas, life happens and I’m just thankful to have Brett with me – rain or shine.

So, wedding season is well upon us! We’re in the full swing of things amidst wrapping up the school year at Samford University (for those of you that don’t know I photograph for them as well). I’m looking forward to all that the summer has in store and trying to keep up with getting everything out to my sweet clients as soon as I can. Wish me luck! ; )

Here is a little stop motion video that Brett made on the way to Florida. It was a fun idea and we have a few ways we should probably perfect it for next time. Feel free to judge my amount of time sleeping in the car and my awesome granny pillow. No Shame.

song credit: REO Speedwagon “Roll With the Changes”

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