Luke and Amber

Luke and Amber's first date took place in a Canoe on the Chattahoochee river. Luke an avid outdoorsman and had paddled and fly fished more than 15 years and was excited to share this with Amber and she was excited as well!

The date took place in 2006. The date was going pretty well, stopping along the way so Luke could fish. Then he decided to tie the boat off at a huge rock, fish and let her sit on the rock and enjoy the sunshine. Well they began approaching the rock and on the right side of the rock the water was about a foot deep but on the left side of the rock there was a steep drop with trees that had fallen into the water and some pretty fast moving water. Luke told her to stand up in the canoe and put her foot on the rock, she did not want any part of this. So she said just take the boat to the right side of the rock and I'll step out and walk over. Luke refused and asked her to do it again. The boat suddenly got caught in a current and swung around and they were headed for the drop off. Amber fell out of the canoe into the 45 degree water and as she came up for air, what did Luke yell at her? Grab the fishing rods! So she grabbed them as they floated by and threw them to him. Luke was safe in the boat but he did lose his ore, she had the other one. So there Luke is going down the river, literally without a paddle, all the while yelling to Amber don't move I’ll come get you. Luckily a kind kayaker had grabbed Luke's paddle and brought it to him.

Luke comes to get Amber out of the waist deep freezing river, and the boat is half full of water. As they floated down the river in complete silence Amber cannot wait to get to her car so she never has to see Luke again, and all Luke can think about is how upset he is that he has never flipped his canoe!

Months went by and they would exchange occasional emails, with time laughing about the date and deciding to at least be friends. In December of 2006 Luke called Amber out of the blue to apologize. They talked that night, but nothing came of it as Amber was leaving to go on Christmas Break. Finally in March of 2007 destiny would take its course. Amber was looking for a new car and it happened to be right down the road from where Luke was working. Amber stopped by his shop hoping he could knew where the car place was. He did, and as she was leaving he asked if she wanted go to dinner. They went to dinner that night and Luke says he knew he would spend the rest of his life with her, and now they are married 3 years after that fateful first date!

The wedding day was filled with emotion and fun! As you can see in these photos! I'll start with the ceremony. I love the Luke is excited about seeing Amber walk down the isle!




And I love the moment Steve caught after the ceremony.

Now on to reception fun!


I love these shots of the fishing dance... not sure what it's called..


Back to more fun!



And I'll end with another one of Steve shots. Love it! It's after the moment after the garter removal.

Shoes glorious shoes!

I love Johnie's shoes and had to show them off.







Some more shoes that totally rocked were Amber's I love the trend putting beads on the bottom of the shoe!



I have been informed that a few of my brides have different colored shoes...so watch for those images!


Oh and thanks for all who responded about my new logo!

Calling of my brides....

Who have blogs or websites. If you would like to help inspire other brides, show or share how fab your wedding is going to be send me an email. I'll link up your site/blog to my blog! I've already posted two brides blogs to the right..... check them out!

Also, Thanks for all the feedback on my new logo and front page! You guys rock!

Happy Easter

I hope everyone had a great Easter weekend! I just had a great engagement session at my new fave place.... the warehouses (location is a secret) hehe.

Just a quick note about the amazing Eileen Carter! We went out to lunch the other day with Ally and Eileen made us the most AMAZINGLY YUMMAY cookies! Here's a few pictures of the few that were left... well until a few minutes ago.

New Logo and Splash page!

Helloooooo
I am happy to say that I have a new logo and new look to my site and to my blog! Jonathan, one of my grooms this year, is a graphic artist and offered to design a logo for me. I totally love Brittany and Jonathan and am so glad I get to photograph their big day!

Please feel free to leave me feedback about the splash page (the first page you see when go to website.) I can't decide if I like it and since I love all my peeps I would love to hear your opinions...

Last night!

Amber and Luke are going to have a perfect wedding today! The weather and location are fab!

I went to the rehearsal dinner last night and these are a few images that stood out...

I am going to start with a strange one but I just love it! I love the way the bow bouquet and her hair are blowing in the wind.

Her and her dad walking down the isle..
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I love how cute they are looking at each other!

Gotta love the cool light!

Erin and Blake

The eversofabulous (Yeah. I combined 3 words...what??) couple Erin and Blake. They got married back in Feb on Valentines day in fact! It was a great way to spend the day!

Erin was happy to share her story of how they got engaged.

Blake asked me to marry him on April 11th 2008. I flew up to N.C. one weekend on a Friday and on Saturday we went to a beach party his platoon was having before they deployed to Iraq. He decided that we should take a walk on the beach. Well still being April it was really windy and still kind of cold. We walked a good ways and we found little rocks to write in the sand with and wrote funny, cute messages to each other until i finally told him my ears were freezing and i was ready to go back. Blake got this look and said "no no no no! not yet!" i was like why?? lol.. So he bent down and the rock he was using and wrote "Erin will you marry me?" in the sand. Of course I said yes and the planning of the wedding started! He deployed to Iraq on April 21st 10 days later so the wedding planning was pretty much left up to me. But to this day I still have the rock he wrote with! So that's the story of Blake and I...



They got married at The Atrium in Norcross.


I love that her shoes had hearts on them... how fun is that?


The wedding was late in the evening and the formals were suppose to be outside and it was um dark... to say the least. The venue was awesome though in the way that they had what I call (and most photographers) twinkly lights aka Christmas lights. And they were fab!

And again YAY for twinkly lights!


I love this image that Steve got after the ceremony.


Some of my fav images of a first dance....




Cigars anyone?







The wedding season has officially started. With two this weekend and 29 more. Holy Moly it's going to be a great year!

Eileen's 50!

I had so much fun last weekend at Eileen's (Disco) 50th birthday party.... And I just happen to have my camera with me. Surprised? I think not! Anyway here are some highlights of our fun!

I'll start with Eileen and her cigar... love this!



Clay, Eileen's husband is Doin' a little dance...




I was so glad to see that Reverend Deanna made it... LOVE her! And well ya know how much I Love Eileen and her cakes mmmmm ahem... on to the pics!



I absolutely love how silly, funny and cute Eileen and Clay are.






And a little YMCA anyone?



Please take note of the of the super hotness Steve (my second photographer and main squeeze). Look at that hair .... Oh yeahhhhh! lol



And, sigh... I'm going to post one of me. For those of you who know me personally know I'm a vegetarian well.... not that night....Just kidding. And yes, I am wearing a leopard patterned shirt...WHAT? What? It was a disco party. The reason why I am posting this pic (besides completely embarrassing myself) is April and Geoff in the background they are so cute.



Speaking of April and Geoff... She's an old friend I recently got in touch with and love her! It's so great to have her in my life again and her studly fiance' is fab! Can I call a guy Fab? Hmmmm Anyway they are going to have a powerhouse of a team for her wedding. With Eileen doing the cake, Ally Coordinating, Eric Little doing the video (just added) and well me by her side as her photographer and pal she is SET! I am really looking forward to her wedding!

Brittany and Jonathan

Brittany and Johnathan are one of those awesome couples that puts up with me saying.... it would be so great if you laid in this dirty rusty old print press in an old factory. I was so excited when they said yes to going and shooting at an old factory. We all got dirty and hopefully didn't get any sort of poisoning. haha No seriously it was great... and dirty as you'll see in the some of the photos. I also took another couple there as well! I'll post about them as soon as I get their story ... check back soon it's a super awesome session.

I absolutely love Brittany and Johnathan's story hopefully you will as well!

We met in Food's class in high school. He was a senior and I was a junior. As soon as we met it was obvious that we had crushes on each other. Everyone knew it, but nothing happened at first. We just kinda flirted and became good friends. I was actually dating one of his friends at the time, but I joked with our food's teacher about how I knew one day I was going to end up marrying him. Then when I was a senior we went on a few dates, but nothing serious happened. We stayed friends and kept in touch. During the summer after my first year of college, we ran into each other at a Weezer concert and ended up hanging out afterwards. We've been together ever since.
A week after he proposed, I got a friends request from our food's teacher on facebook and I was able to tell her that I'd been right all those years ago...I was going to marry him!

This first one is just one of the many super cool buildings we had to work with.


And this is the other side.



How cool is this spot?



I absolutely love these next few moments. The love and the silliness is too cute and how gorgeous is Brittany?!





These next shots were pretty much shot in the dark. The first one was so dark I had to use a light to focus and then turned it off to capture the cool color and the neat shadows on the wall.



The next ones were lit. I absolutely love them!