It's 9:00 Thursday night and as of right now I *think* I have all of my Christmas shopping done!... but nothing wrapped. Not a bad deal at all! I'm soooo excited for Christmas since it's Wyatt's first and our first as parents. Nothing could be more special and this year we have sooo much to be thankful for. 2011 was a whirlwind full of blessings! We truly have the best clients in the world, thank you for a wonderful year, we wish you so much love this holiday season!
As we do every year, we will be closing up shop next week but still answering emails... so definitely let us know if you just got ENGAGED! (Congrats!!) and need to check our calendar! ;) We hope you all have a wonderful week and Happy New Year!
Although this isn't the last wedding we have to post from 2011, (far from actually), it is definitely a great one to end the year on! We absolutely loved this backyard southern soirée and we know you will too! :). Rachel and Cody originally booked a venue in town but a few months before the wedding Rachel's creative, wonderful mother pitched the idea of having it at their house... she showed up to dinner with Rachel and Cody with sketches and drawing of what it could be... and it was great!! I'm sooooo in love with this kind of super personal wedding. As a photographer it just makes it that much more special, plus they just had sooo much pretty stuff for us to photograph --- and y'all know we love that! Following the pictures I will include a little blurb I had Rachel write about her wedding in her own words.
I don't think I need to go on and on... I think this is just one of those weddings where the pictures really do speak 10000 words... or at least that's always our hope!
Here are some of our favorite shots of the day! xx
Well I said I wan't going to say a lot but just a note about chairs. Chairs end up in sooo many pics and Rachel found some great, rustic brown chairs at Rentals Rentals in downtown Knoxville... Good chairs are always hard to find I just want to tell everyone in need of something rustic about these, they looked great!
Aren't these just amazing!? That might possibly be my favorite bride bouquet this year.
Below, our (amazing, former) intern Cassie took the photo on the right! Love it! Atta girl! ;)
SO many details.
I really couldn't get enough of that bouquet it was wrapped in her grandmother's handkerchief and burlap.
This is all of course before the ceremony. They didn't see eachother. Cody is SO cute! :)
This is just moments before the ceremony. Rachel + her dad.
This is my favorite, favorite, favorite! And that reminds me I need to make sure it makes it into her album before I send it off!
love
love even more
the ceremony
YAY!! Married!
:)
Their dog Opie = such a great little prop ;)
This is my other favorite!
first dance
We love a rowdy reception :)
another night shot
The END!! Congrats Rachel and Cody, y'all are the bomb! Everyone else, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!
From Rachel: After getting engaged on black friday, we felt the pressure to get a venue booked immediately. We found a place in Lenoir City that seemed to fit our idea for an outdoor wedding and put a deposit down in January for out upcoming wedding in October! A close friend of my Moms was enlisted to help with all the flowers (she used to own her own shop) and the planning began!! Four months out from the wedding my Mom came to me with an idea to have our wedding at my parent's house. She and her friends had drawn all these sketches and cut pictures out of magazines to present this "presentation" to my fiance and I about why the wedding would be perfect there. I was nervous about the time line, but work started immediately and I couldn't believe how much work my Mom and all her friends put in to making our backyard the perfect spot. We have an old barn and dairy barn that were both transformed completely by two contractors!! Two bathrooms were put in the dairy barn and what used to be the milking parlor was redone to serve all the food. The area where the cows used to walk out became our dance floor with a little bit of pressure washing and four posts draped in Christmas lights! My old soccer coach built our arbor that we were married under and also the window boxes that hung on the barn. It was so amazing how everyone in my small town wanted to help and contribute to make this such a special day. One of my childhood friend's Grandfather handled all the parking, ladies from church made these amazing drapes out of linen and burlap for the barn. My Mom and I have the same taste, so we had a blast planning, collecting, and decorating for this big day.We wanted each table to be different with buckets, pots, pewter pieces, and various textures of plants. The whole theme for this day actually came when we were shopping for my dress. I found a belt that was handmade and we both fell in love with the colors and bead work. So we bought the belt, and then found a dress to fit the belt:) I love all earth tones and mustard yellow so the color palette was easy and it was really important to me that everything have meaning behind it. I carried my Grandmother's handkerchief in my bouquet and Cody and I wrote our own vows. A close friend in my church married us and my cousin provided the music with a guitar and banjo. All in all it was a gorgeous day to be surrounded by so many family and friends...and even more special that it could be at the house I grew up in!
http://www.cateringconnection-sweetwater.com/ - provided all the amazing food: fried chicken, shrimp and grits, country ham biscuits, friend green tomatoes, cupcakes and fried apple pies
http://www.rentalsrentals.net/ - the rustic brown chairs for seating and mustard napkins
http://www.alloccasionspartyrentals.com/ - tent and tables
http://www.soundforce.net - amazing dj! :)
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In honor of my friend Ashley of Ashley Hoskins Photography having her baby Jackson over the weekend --- and man oh man I cannot wait to get my hands on that little sweetheart!! -- I'm posting a few photos from her maternity shoot! We got to know Ashley and Justin a few years ago when we did their engagement shoot & wedding. Since then we've become great friends. Love you guys can't wait to meet Wyatt's new baby BFF!
Ashleigh Birtsch says:
Just a beautiful shoot, really captured a memory! Love these two!
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We have got some GORGEOUS portrait sessions from this fall to share. We are working on so many exciting things right now I need a clone of myself and two of Dan to actually get it all up on the blog! This is gosh, just a sweetheart of a couple...meet Crystal and Justin. As Crystal and her mom and Dad were were sitting in our little office I fell in love with them immediately and was crossing my fingers under the table the whole time they would want us for their wedding this spring. We met Justin later, on the day of this shoot, and what a great guy. And, what an amazing couple!
Hooray for the weekend!!
And as always, here are some of our favorites!
Could they be any cuter in the one on the left? or the right for that matter.
Crystal you're gorgeous!
Cute little legs, boots, quilt... and perfectly placed ring :)
And now you know their date :)
So sweet!
I could pretty much photograph these two every day of the week and be happy.
Looouuvvee the laying down one!
I think this one might be my favorite! The end! :)
Anonymous says:
Love these! Beautiful work as always.
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This is beautiful! The details are insane!!! You did such an amazing job capturing them! May I ask where this is? The venue is beautiful!!! Just what I've been looking for!