New Slidehow Teaser!!

Since we will be shooting all weekend we thought we would give you avid blog readers something to look at while we are working our tiny booties off. A little something special for Britt and Allison who got married at Carnton Plantation in Franklin, TN.

We love you guys!

T.G.I.F. - The Fun Weekend Begins!

Wow. This is weird. It’s Friday night and we have no where to be. We are Nashville wedding photographers with no wedding to shoot, no rehearsal to go to, no client friends to hang out with, no coordinator to chat with… what to do? HANG OUT WITH JUST EACH OTHER!!!

Zach and I are going to venture out this evening on our spiffy bikes seeing what adventures we can have and then relaxing to prepare ourselves for the rest of the weekend…

The Agenda
Saturday, Nashville, TN (Bellmeade Plantation): Patrick and Sabrina are getting hitched!

Sunday, Richmond, KY (Talon Winery): Amando & Laura are getting hitched!

Keep your eyes peeled for some weekend wedding pictures and pray for safe travels!

And They Lived Happily Ever After...

A few weekends ago we had the honor of shooting Colin & Katie Brooks' wedding in good 'ol Nashville!! It was fabulous in so many ways. First of all, it was coordinated by non other then the awesome Angela Proffitt. Listen brides - you will never, ever regret the decision to have a coordinator for your wedding - even if it is a coordinator for just the day of. Angela and her team are AMAZING, and we highly recommend them. They know what they are doing!

So back to the wedding - Colin & Katie are finally hitched and we wanted to share the day! First, they invited us to the rehearsal dinner and here is myself, Angela, Katie and Zach - photo compliments of the lovely Katie. I guess the color of choice that evening was black :)

Here are just a few shots from the day to entice you to watch COLIN & KATIE'S SLIDESHOW at the end of this blog!!

Doesn't she look gorgeous?







This is something that we are going to start doing more, so let us know if you like it!

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CONGRATULATIONS Jamie & Louisa!

We are super excited to present to you the newly married Jamie & Louisa! They had an AMAZING wedding and you could tell they spent a lot of time putting all these personal touches into their day!

Congrats you two!!





Always have to have the cool guy shots...








We loved how Jamie & Louisa took advantage of the customizable M&M's for their wedding!



Jamie & Louisa's wedding reception took place at the Embassy Suites in Franklin, TN.

We are so glad that we were able to be a part of your day!! Congrats to you guys!!

Destination: Tennessee State Capitol

So we were thinking about it the other day, and realized that we had yet to blog on one of our amazing couples! Meet Lee & Elisabeth!

These two are such a great pair, and something we really like about them is they are so kind and very sincere. They are having a fall wedding and they are putting so much time and thought into their day - it’s going to be amazing!

We had the privilege (thanks to Lee’s mom) of shooting their Lifestyle session in the State Capitol of Tennessee!

Lee and Elisabeth looked amazing, and it was really cool to be shooting in such a historic place.

Check this out – bullet markings from the civil war!

Thanks Lee & Elisabeth for making us feel so welcome and a part of your lives! See you again soon!

Engagement Shoot - Franklin, TN

This evening we had dinner and a Lifestyle engagement shoot with our great new friends Jaclyn and Daniel at Pinkerton Park in Franklin, TN. Their wedding is in December at The Factory (also in Franklin, TN), and we can't wait! We had a blast hanging out with them tonight and now we are ready for bed! But, we just had to post one shot (our favorite thus far!) from the session to hold you over until we post a few more later on :)

You guys are the best and we are down for Italian and a movie soon!!

Thoughts of Compassion

When we originally began this blog, we wrote that it would look into who we are not just as photographers, but as people! So below I want to introduce you to a little special person we have known for the past few years, and a story that touched me as I (Jody) was reading tonight after our time with the oh-so-fun Daniel & Jaclyn.

Ever since Zach and I have been married we have sponsored a child through Compassion International. Meet Ocni from Indonesia! Coming up on October 11^th, she will turn 9 years old. We write to Ocni and receive letters in return, and it’s fun to get her updated picture every year.

We received a book (Too Small To Ignore) written by the President & CEO of C.I., Dr Wess Stafford, who was raised in a village in West Africa. Last night I picked up the book again to continue reading, and this story really struck me last night so I thought I would share, especially with the Olympics still so fresh on our minds.

To catch you up - Compassion International’s mission is “releasing Children from poverty in Jesus’ name.” One chapter shares, “at its very core, poverty is a mind-set that goes far beyond the tragic circumstances. It is the cruel, destructive message that gets whispered into the ear of millions by the enemy Satan himself: ‘Give up! You don’t matter. Nobody cares about you. Look around you: Things are terrible. Always have been, always will be. Think back. Your grandfather was a failure. You’re parents couldn’t protect or take care of you. Now it’s your turn. You, too, will fail. So just give up!’” (p 184).

Dr. Stafford contines to write, “One of my favorite stories of the power of child sponsorship didn’t happen in the realm of my organization; it was some other effort whose name I have lost. But to me, it epitomizes the wonder power of a concerned adult to change a child’s life. In this case, it was a British schoolmarm who sometime around 1970 began to sponsor a little boy in Kenya. Every month she sent her modest check. But she did more than that. This teacher understood child development, and she could tell right away by his early letters that he was trapped in hopelessness.

“Dear Sponsor,” He wrote in the beginning. “Here is a picture of me. You can see that I am not very handsome.”

His British sponsor smiled warmly and wrote back, “I think you are wrong about that. I have your picture on my desk. I look at you every day, and I think you are very handsome.”

The next letter from Kenya said, “Well, thank you, but you can see from my report card they sent you that I’m not very smart. I’m so sorry.”

Again she smiles. “Well, I promise that you are as smart as God wants you to be to do whatever he wants you to do,” she wrote back. “Just do your very best!”

In time this little boy began to sense that his sponsor actually believed in him and was committed to him. He was eight years old when he sat down and wrote, “Guess what I just learned? I discovered that I can run faster than anyone else in my classroom. There are five of us and I am the fastest!”

Knowing how important the taste of success is to any child, but especially to a child living in poverty, the woman wrote back, “Well, it is good to be good at something. I’m proud of you. Be the best runner you can be!”

The little boy listened to her and began to run. A few years later a letter came that said, “Guess what? I now run faster than anyone in my whole school!”

Her reply came a few weeks later, “Wow! That is really something. I am so proud of you. Keep on running and be the best you can be!”

The years of their friendship rolled by […] The lad remembered her words of encouragement and ran everywhere he went: to the store, to church, to school, and back home again. Soon he was winning community-wide races. In time as a young man he sat down and penned this letter to his now-aging sponsor: “Guess what now! I run faster that almost anyone in, not only my community, but all of Kenya. In fact, I have made the Olympic team!”

With tears glistening in her bespectacled eyes, she bowed her head and breathed a prayer for her young Kenyan friend. The year was 1988, and the Olympics would soon be held in Seoul, South Korea. She watched the news reports eagerly.

The day came for his long-distance race. She sat glued to her television set back in Britain, watching for her young man. And when the exhausted racers crossed the finish line, she wept as he captured the silver medal. Her sponsored child, who originally had felt he could do nothing, had grown up to impress the entire world.

Soon news came that the young man’s route back home after the Olympic Games would include a plane change in London. He couldn’t go home, he said, without first seeing this dear lady. When the day came, this lanky Olympian had to stoop to get through her cottage doorway. There before him, in a wheelchair, sat his champion.

He stood for a moment with tears filling his eyes. Then the handsome young man held out his Olympic medal by its ribbon. “This is for you,” he finally managed to whisper.

“Oh, no, no, no,” she exclaimed. “I got to watch you run this time on television. You were right all along. You were so fast! I am so proud of you. I am so very proud of you!”

“No, stop,” he gently interrupted her. “If you hadn’t believed in me when I was eight years old, if you hadn’t told that little boy to run, I never would have accomplished this. This is your medal. This is your victory.”

[…] I am absolutely convinced that each and every child is lovingly knit in the mother’s womb with the gifts, talents, and potential to accomplish great things – if only given a chance. Every child matters to God. Once that child, through our intervention, comes to understand and believe the awesome truth, the cold fingers of poverty are pried loose once and for all (p. 193-195).

I don’t know why I exactly felt compelled to share this, but what an awesome story!! It’s such a great reminder how important it is to believe and support one another, especially children, and change can begin - one person at a time.

Douglas Wakiihuri

For those who made it through this post – I commend you :)

Big Day Tomorrow

Meet Jamie & Loiusa-

Tomorrow is the big day for this awesome couple who we have had the privilege of getting to know over the past 9 months. These two are super fun and a blast to be around and really love each other a ton! Their excitement is infectious. Here are some of their engagement photos that we did a few months back.

Enjoy the engagement photos and look for some of the wedding shots soon!! Congratulations you guys!!







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Late Night Lifestyle Session. Meet Jeremy & Autumn!

Last night Zach and I headed downtown Nashville for a lifestyle engagement session with Autumn & Jeremy! They really wanted a downtown night shoot and whenever a couple has a strong idea of what they want their images to look like, we are all about it! The shoot was a blast and we have a bunch of great photos, but here are a few to hold you over.





We may have gone into areas that we shouldn't have necessarily been in... but look at the cool photos we got of the two of them!! There are so many photos of couples on the walking bridge - we thought we might take a different approach and shoot kind-of under the bridge. At least we all weren't hurting anything and no one fell into the water!



Autumn and Jeremy You two are the best and we can't wait for your wedding next year!!

Introducing: Jerry & Meagan

Hope you all had a great weekend and an awesome Labor Day! On Friday we had the privilege of hanging out with and shooting some engagement photos of Jerry & Meagan in Nashville, TN! We had fun watching them interact with each other and capturing their moments. They compliment each other so well and we are pumped for their wedding which will take place at Cheekwood Botanical Gardens! Enjoy!