This past weekend I had the awesome opportunity to shoot my very last wedding of the year! What a wedding to go out on! Here are a few to hold you over until I post the full set! Oh yea, before I forget! Merry Christmas!!
Alright here it is! After spending the last week overhauling EVERY SINGLE PHOTO on my main website its time to put it up online for the world to see! The layout is pretty much the same BUT that's where it stops; There are 200+ new images on the site. Oh and those photos are almost double the size of the last images! That's right, super extra HD sized! 95% of the photos are from this year as well. See, I'm not just relying on my old award winning photos to make my site look great. Alright if your still reading its time to head over and check it out for yourself!
While I'm almost always excited to get to shoot a wedding, there are those few weddings where I'm really excited! I think a lot of it has to due with how excited the couple is to have me do it. Then I feed off that excitement and really enjoy it! Its an awesome cycle. Just like an amoeba. I think.
Anyways I could tell ever since I shot Melissa and Dru's engagement session that it was going to be a lot of fun to work with them. They were super excited to have me and naturally I was even more excited to photograph them!
Melissa and Dru got married at City View First Baptist Church here in Greenville, SC with their reception just a few steps away in the City View reception hall. Filled with lots of hand made details, excellent food, and awesome weather (seriously mid 60's in December!?) it was definitely a beautiful day. Thank you both for having me and for putting up with my lack of functioning vocal chords. Here are some of my favorites!
Here is a quick sneak peak from Dan and Amanda's Extended Engagement Session this past weekend.
Whats an EXTENDED engagement session you ask? Well its new for 2012! Before you correct me, yes I know its not 2012 yet. Dan and Amanda got the first trial run of it though! Basically an extended engagement session is like a regular engagement session but kicked up a few notches, or more like many notches, or like on STEROIDS, whichever you prefer. With the ability to capture a couple locations and a couple different times of day we can create some truly unique images. Can't decide whether you want to do your photos downtown or at furman? We can do both! Want photos during sunset and on main street at night? Now you don't have to choose!
We spent several hours this past weekend traveling to some of the most kickin' locations in Greenville to capture some really awesome stuff, here's an extended sneak peek:
I love doing weddings at places that aren't typically known for being wedding locations. As Staci and Brock told me about their wedding at the Warehouse Theater here in Greenville SC, I got more and more excited. Rockin' Band. Check. Beautiful Theater lighting. Check. Fun loving people. Double check!
I'm pretty sure the Warehouse Theater has never hosted a wedding before, and I really hope its not the last. It was one of the coolest setups I've ever seen with the main theater room serving as the dance floor and seating area, the foyer for all the food and the bar, and an awesome patio out front. Totally fitting for an actor like Brock. Of course he didn't have to be an actor to totally fall head over heals for Staci in her awesome wedding dress. They were both totally in the moment and totally in love to the core. From their ceremony at Fourth Presbyterian Church in downtown Greenville, SC to their reception at the Warehouse Theater this was an absolutely perfect day. Thank you both for having me capture such an incredible milestone in your lives!
You know those people in your life that always TALK about doing something? Those people that never actually DO much at all but love just talking about it? Someday I'll get a job, someday I'll start back in school, someday we will have a big party with all our friends. Ari and Charity are NOT those people. You wouldn't believe how many people say, "oh yea we will just have a quick wedding ceremony and then have a full wedding when we have time" and they never do! Charity and Ari actually DO.
Yea, Charity and Ari got married last year but they threw an awesome celebration of their re-commitment at Grace Hall in Greer, SC. The beautiful decorations, fantastic drinks, and loving friends and family were all there and they definitely took advantage of having an awesome reason to celebrate. Check it out!