Two Couples Tying the Knot!

Another jam-packed weekend ahead of us!

SATURDAY
We are really excited because tomorrow is the wedding of Tyler & Sarah!!! Talk about a very sincere and kind couple. We are so pumped to attend their rehearsal tonight and then their Big Day tomorrow. Sarah is going to look so gorgeous!

Here are a few of their engagement shots from their Lifestyle session a few months back...









SUNDAY

This day brings together the lovely Michelle & Joel at the great venue - CJ's off The Square right in downtown Franklin. Joel is actually a photographer himself so it's awesome that they entrust us with their day.

Stay tuned for photos and have a great weekend everyone!

Congratulations Sabrina & Patrick!

We had the awesome privilege of shooting Sabrina & Patrick’s wedding on Saturday at the Belle Meade Plantation! It was most definitely warm the earlier parts of the day, but the weather was absolutely beautiful come the evening. This wedding was coordinated by the lovely Alice Hendry. Talk about a woman who is great at making sure all the special details of your day are in place!

Enjoy the pictures!

I want to take a moment here and show you one of the many cool advantages of having a 2-photographer husband and wife team. Because Zach and I have our different styles we love to shoot in (Zach with the stylized big lighting, and myself with the natural lit, candid photos) a bride and groom get a great variety of awesome shots from candid moments to close up detail shots, while Zach is shooting far and big!

Here is a Zach shot:

Here is what I took at the same time focusing on some details and her candid moments inbetween:

Zach shot:

Jody shot:

And onto more photos...

One last image before I end this post, which most definitely calls for commentary... Something about Zach, which I can't fully explain, is he is a kid magnet when it comes to weddings. He has such a great way with kids, and they seem to sense it, and they love him... ESPECIALLY the girls.. including one of the adorable flower girls of this wedding.

The first dance between the bride and groom has begun and I hear laughter to my right... I turn my head... and this is what I see...

As Zach was down shooting the flower girl came right up to him, put her arm around him and began stroking his head! It was the CUTEST thing in the world! So glad I got a shot of that... Zach the ladies man! lol...

This really was a great wedding. It was very evident everyone was enjoying the fellowship of each other celebrating the marriage of these two great people. Thanks again Patrick & Sabrina for allowing us to be a part of this!!

Date Night!

Besides photography, something else Zach and I are really passionate about is marriage! We realize that nothing else can be more important than the relationship you have with your spouse. Not a job, career, hobbies, sports or EVEN kids or a ministry! Your partner is numero UNO (that would be "one" for those who aren't sure what that is :) and out of that relationship will flow everything else. Marriage isn't just about fun and games but is also about making lots of little efforts along the way...

We decided before we got married that we would set aside a night each week to be our Date Night. This would be a time to just hang out and have fun and invest in each other. We have been married for almost 3 years and we still do it! Sometimes we get crazy and do extravagant things, or go to Chuck E Cheese (yay Skee-ball), or rent a movie and popcorn. It's fun and so important!

So quite a few months ago instead of investing the money we had coming in, we decided to "stimulate the economy" with part of the stimulus checks we received and buy some bikes!!



His and Hers Schwinn bikes... awww...


Please notice my awesome memory foam seat cover!! Woo hooo!


And of course, one needs a backpack to carry one of our spiffy cameras to take pictures!


All that to say - we enjoy incorporating our bikes into our date nights! We biked to one of our favorite drink places...



...and had a nice time just getting away from work and chilling with each other. Of course we had to stop and take some shots....



I tried to get Zach take a shot of me lying on the ground next to my bike like I hit a tree or something, but he wouldn't go for it... *sighs* I guess that's not very "romantic" or "date like."

Anyway, it's definitely nice to put the rest of life on the back burner for a few hours an evening a week and just chill and have fun! I love being married, but it definitely takes work and making lots of little efforts all along the way.

Interns: Decided!

So the applications have flowed in for our internship (which we think we will technically call "apprenticeship"), and we have made our final choices! We have decided on two great people and will introduce them in a further blog. There were some great applicants, and no worries if you didn't make it this time - we will be doing this again in the early Spring! Thanks to all who have applied!

And once again, I have to post this picture in honor of our eager to learn apprentices... :)

Stay tuned for a few pictures from our Saturday wedding! Might have them up later this afternoon/evening!!

Weddings, Flies, and Daniel & Jaclyn!

Whew! What a whirlwind of a weekend!



First we had Patrick and Sabrina's wedding at Belle Meade Plantation which was SO great and a lot of fun! What great family & friends that they have....

Then it was off to KY early Sunday morning for Amando & Laura's wedding at the Talon Winery...



While you wait for us to get together some more photos from those two events, we thought we would share a little bit more of our fun Lifestyle shoot with Daniel & Jaclyn! It is appropriate that we bring the attention to this awesome couple today because it is Daniel's Birthday!!!! HAPPY HAPPY DAY TO YOU!!!!!

Ok, onto the photos now - a special birthday present just from us :) Amid the heat and flies, we had fun and got some GREAT shots of them while shooting in downtown Franklin and in Pinkerton Park!





Zach testing the lights on me... What a great, natural smile :) ha ha...


This is a prop Daniel used when he proposed to Jaclyn... naw, not really.










Zach is really most comfortable shooting on the ground... I swear.... You have no idea how many shots of him I have of him lying on the ground. He's has shots of me mostly crouching down... I'm not so big on the possibility of people stepping on my face thank-you-very-much. That's the great thing about being a team - he takes care of the lying on the ground shots and I'll shoot from above!





And lastly, one of my favorite shots of them!


After the hard work of modeling and rolling on the ground we all hit up one of our favorite places to go - MOE'S!!!





aww.. special... We can't wait for your wedding, Daniel & Jaclyn, so hurry up and make December come faster!!