Emily and Jay's wedding took place in Fancy Gap, Virginia - just off the Blue Ridge Parkway. It was a whole weekend filled with music, friends, family, and fireworks! Emily and Jay live in Charlotte, NC and Emily is one of my best friends from college, so it was especially fun for me to photograph her wedding. Friends always assume that we if we shoot their wedding we won't have a good time or that we won't get to hang out if we are taking pictures, but that is just not the case. We're all around everywhere and we absolutely LOVE what we do! I mean think about it, the photographer is with the bride all day long and you HAVE TO like them. I think it is a really intimate thing to photograph someone's wedding and it always makes me feel closer to the person no matter how much I may know them before the wedding. So, if we aren't friends before we shoot your wedding, we certainly will be after :)
Anyway, I always tear up at some point during the wedding (usually at the most random things), but this one was especially meaningful for me. Thanks Emily and Jay - you guys are a great couple and I know you will have an awesome life together!
Emily's wedding was fantastic. It was on a farm - a friend of her parents and it was beautiful. Everything was perfect - the venue, flowers, music, food and PEOPLE, except it did rain just before the ceremony.....everyone had umbrellas though. How does that always happen? Do people always bring umbrellas to weddings? Because there always seems to be enough.
Here are some of our favorites, don't forget to check out the rest!
Beautiful Emily...
Here we are in the car on the way to the ceremony. We were all singing at the top of our lungs! It was fun, too. Every bride should do it on the way to their ceremony - sing out LOUD with girlfriends on the way to the wedding. It is what I did and it's a part I'll always remember about my wedding. I think we had just pulled up into the place and Emily was just looking at everything - so exciting!
For the next three pics: Here is Jay whistling to everyone up at the house that it is time to go, because the rain had just stopped. Before the ceremony it got a little tense trying to decide what to do, but my favorite parts of that hurried preparation around the rain was all captured on film.... Jay and Emily's dads talking... Jay whistling to signal everyone to come in out of the rain... the girls waiting in the dark room... the guys saying a prayer with the minister... and then putting their hands in the middle like - yes, lets do this!
Yay! Married!
I love this candid pic! I bet they had no clue we were taking this picture. this was right after the ceremony, which I think is the most special few moments for the couple. You can see the wedding party still coming in through the door.
This is a wedding party picture that I love. Not stiff, just totally fun and happy.
One of my favorites
Love, love, love this - might be my favorite
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