[jillian and neil]

[jillian and neil]

Another day at Knox Farms, another super fun shoot. Jillian and Neil wanted to play it up a bit, giving their engagement shoot a vintage "love in the time of war" feel. When Jillian initially emailed me her idea I was literally jumping up and down in my classroom....she bought a couple of vintage dresses through Etsy to wear, and Neil, being a WWII buff was perfectly outfitted down to his grandfather's pocket watch.

I really had a hard time choosing.....it turned out to be a beautiful sunny day and the light was too good.




























Neil is such a ham....this is one of a whole "Neil" series...

[WOW. or, A pretty inspired wedding link]

i love when I come across a totally random blog that contains a link to another random site of beautiful wedding styling that is in another part of the country altogether. I can spend hours doing this.
ok, actually it is a problem of mine. a large problem. I suppose it could be worse, I could quit my job and wait outside the casino every morning until it opens, but seeing as how i am not the gambling type, I'll stick to blog stalking. By the way, those of you who keep telling me in person that you are in fact stalking my blog, please leave me some comments! I feel like I am talking to myself over here, and that can be down right embarrassing.

so here are a couple of things for you to drool over, and incorporate into your own wedding if I am photographing it!
Joy Thigpen's Nashville Lifestyle Wedding:

[kelly and mike]

[kelly and mike]

I am a bit out of order with my posting, so please if you are looking for a particular (erin and jeff) event, hold tight! I'll be posting like mad this week now that Halloween is over and I am not having to construct robot light panels or making mummy cupcakes.

I met Kelly and Mike out at Knox Farms State Park....if you have not been there I URGE you to go quick before all of the leaves are gone. I actually shot two engagements there last weekend, and there are so many places to wander, peacefully. I could definitely move right in to the old estate house at a moments notice (in fact I contemplated just moving into the ultra cool modern pool house.)

But I digress......Kelly is the daughter of one of the directors at my daughter's preschool and is wonderful, and Kelly is the spitting image of her mom, down to her voice. Mike is great too....and they were really fun to work with. Here are a couple of favorites from the day. Luckily the rain began only after we got into the car to go home!

[belinda and matt]

a couple weeks back i ventured down to chautauqua with my best photography bud, Kristen Davide to photograph Belinda and Matt's wedding. It was a stunning sunny day, although FREEZING, and all of the leaves were in full color....the perfect fall wedding. Kristen met Matt and his boys at the Anthenaeum Hotel in the Institute, while I met up with Belinda and the girls at the Plumbush Inn. I was in beautiful old home heaven!

Kristen had some amazing light with which to work....


















Then it was off to the Hall of Philosophy for the ceremony. What a perfect place for a ceremony, aside from all of the obvious beauty, it was awesome to be able to be behind the scenes to get some pretty great close up shots. Kristen was able to cover the "audience view" so overall we had really nice variety of images.






This could be my favorite of the day (thanks, Kristen!!) I love the familial LOVE that is happening here.



There are so many images where Matt is completely lost in Belinda (who wouldn't be, she is one of the most geniune people I have ever met!).....I love these moments.


"Stay Back!!"

I couldn't resist doing the ring shot on the shards of glass...





Back at the Plum Bush for the outdoor reception....Dinosaur BBQ provided the dinner and happy hour featured Pimm's Cup drinks- had I not been the photographer, I definitely would have partaken in a few of those....delicious! Oh, and there was a restroom trailer that had, I kid you not, a fireplace inside!














Apple Pie cake cutting.....


When we left the reception, we saw millions of stars (it was that cold) but the perfect ending to such a wonderful experience.....