Greenville Wedding Photographer : Huguenot Loft Wedding : Matt and Rene

Raise your hand if you love cold and flu season!!!  What?  No one?  Well, gee willickers, that's just plain shocking.  Or not.  What I'm really getting at here is that I have a cold, and it's making me grumpy.  I'm reasonably tough about lots of things, but I feel very strongly about being about to breath through both nostrils.  I admit there are perks...staying in sweatpants all day, not feeling the least bit bad about working from the sofa watching Les Miserables on repeat, and eating copious amounts of strawberries because I just like them.  But then we come back to the aforementioned single nostril breathing, and the light pounding in my head that comes with it, and I'm just not sure it's worth it.  Plus it's been several days since I've gotten any natural vitamin D in my life.  Steven has been instructed to only approach me with chocolate, and perhaps a shiny new tabloid magazine.  

I just needed to get that little bit of whining out of my system...every time I complain to Hallie, she just sort of looks at me, and then farts.  Not quite the expression of sympathy I was looking for, but I guess on the plus side, I can't smell anything.  But I digress...and really into a place I don't particularly care to go, so let's move on.

I love looking back on this wedding...everything from the color palette and amazing venues, to just how cute Matt and Rene are together.  It's all so bright and cheery, and it helps me forget that between the weather and the cold (that I WILL whine about until it goes away),  everything seems to look, feel, smell, and even taste gray today.  I think you'll agree...

Church : Grace Church Downtown

Reception : Huguenot Loft

Dress : Poinsett Bride

Flowers : Dahlia

Coordination : B & R Events

Cake : Couture Cakes of Greenville

True story...Steven and I got into wreck on the way to meet up with Matt and Rene at the Hyatt.  It was totally minor, we were both fine, and we even managed to get to the Hyatt on time.  Always leave early, kids...very, very early. Anyway, all was fine, but I'm not exactly famous for handling things like this in a calm fashion.  My hands were shaking up until I actually got together with Rene and her bridesmaids.  They were so sassy and fun that I honestly forgot until the end of the night that part of my car had gotten smashed earlier in the day.

I still maintain that Matt looks like Brendan Fraser...

I love the this...candy buffett before and after.  :-)

High Point Wedding Photographer : High Point Country Club Wedding : Emily and Mitchell

A few random thoughts on this lovely Thursday:

- My internet and I have come dangerously close to having a throwdown today.  Everytime I move my desk chair, or my phone rings, or I have a deep thought, it just randomly drops.  I've made up new words to express my rage as I've been uploading the photos for this post.  I'd let you in on what they are, but little eyes might see, and I'd hate to be responsible for an onslaught of new wordy dirgaged released into your elementary schools.  

- I had a dream last night that I was biking on a majorly intense trail.  Apparently I was REALLY trying, because according to Steven, I kicked him repeatedly, pretty much all night.  And then stole all the covers just to put a little salt in the wound.

- I've been meeting with some of the sweetest brides the past couple of days.  I'm beyond excited about this coming wedding season!

- I managed to survive my post-Christmas detox.  And let me tell you, there were some days in there that were not pretty.  Not at all.  However, I rewarded myself yesterday with a fancy schmancy Camelbak that has a filter in it.  I feel pretty cool with every slurp, not gonna lie.

- My new favorite word is kerfuffle.  I want to say it as much as possible.  Kerfuffle, kerfuffle, kerfuffle.

- I shiny big red heart Emily and Mitchell, and you should too.  :-)

Ceremony : First United Methodist Church

Reception : High Point Country Club

Don't they all look so warm and happy??  They weren't...it was roughly negative one million degrees that day!

If you look closely at the guys, you'll notice that there's actually 2 of Mitchell.  Yay for twins!

Emily's parents have a photo of themselves in the exact same spot.  :-)

I'm gonna rock a napkin on my head at my next wedding...

 

Greenville Wedding Photographer : Bridals : Megan

Happy 2012, everyone!  I hope your year is getting off to a downright spectacular start.  My year is getting kicked off with a super fun detox...nothing but lean protein and veggies for me for a couple of weeks.  So just be aware that I might not finish this blog post on account of chewing off my own hand.  True story.  

I'm working on getting my goals for this new year and getting a big, beautiful, high accountability blog post up and running, but in the interim, please enjoy these images of the lovely new Mrs. Megan Bennett, who got married on New Years Eve.  When we were planning out her bridal session, Megan said she definitely wanted somewhere with drama.  I think this view covers that concept pretty well, no?

Good grief, Megan...YOU ARE SO GORGEOUS!

Give me angles!  Now smize!

For our last few frames, Megan completely made my life and pulled out this fascinator hat.  And it looked amazing.  And I wanted to be British so that I could see those suckers at every wedding I go to.

This last image is one of my favorites that I've ever shot.  No lie.

Greenville Wedding Photographer : Engagement : Megan and David

Exciting news, friends...this shoot marks the beginning of things I did in the FALL!!!  Which is extra great fun because it's pretty much Winter now.  Le sigh.  Okay, moment over...moving on now...

Before I get into the adorableness on a stick that is Megan and David, I have to talk about a personal struggle I've been facing lately.   I'm afraid that Steven is a much better wife than me.   I know that I've mentioned on numerous occasions that my hubby is an excellent cook.  It was definitely one of his snazzy early dating tricks.  Like, "Don't worry about dinner when you get home from work tonight.  I'll come up with something."  And then that "something" is pesto steak tips and cheddar fondue.  What just out of college guy can do that??  And then there's my girls' night tonight, when he is whipping up an entire meal from scratch.  Because he feels my friends deserve better than under-boiled noodles and jarred sauce.  And all that is great, it really is, but around Christmas every year, I start getting this creepy, weird domestic kick.  And I get really into baking and other dessert-like stuff.  So I look up fun new recipes, try them out, and sit back and bask in the glow of my success.  People rave about how they had no idea I was so skilled in the kitchen.  It's awesome.  

That is until this year, when Steven decided to start making homemade cheese.  That's right...fresh cheesey goodness right in our kitchen.  And he did it right in the middle of my baking bonanza.  So what happens when I take fresh saltine toffee to my parents?  Well, nothing, because they're entirely too distracted by the fact that I also brought some of Steven's fresh mozzarella.  And it's good.  And how can a yummy toffee treat compete when someone took a gallon of milk and brought forth cheese??  I'm sure I'll be talking to a therapist for a few years about that newfound inferiority complex, but in the interim, I've decided to just throw up my domestic white flag and give him this one.  So, he can cook, and churn, and get his Martha on all over the place, and I am going to sit on my keister, watch sports, and scratch something.  That'll show him...

Okay, still reading?  Excellent...onto business!  Megan and David are getting married this coming June at Furman, and I'm pretty sure they win my award for most preciously adorable couple ever.  Seriously, just look at these guys:

I rest my case.  :-)

Fact: I did not retouch/enhance/do anything to Megan's eyes.  They're actually that color.  Love!

This chalkboard sign makes my whole heart happy.

On our way to our last location, we decided to take a road that cuts through a horse farm.  And I promise that I really was planning to just quickly and quietly scoot on through...but then we saw this guy.  :-)

 

Greenville Wedding Photographer : Chris and Carly : Part 2

One of the things I learned during my summer at the Flat Rock Playhouse, in addition to the fact that I should probably not be a professional actress, was that actors are amazing photo subjects.  And, yes the celebrities that you see in magazines all the time are super experienced and usually photoshopped within a literal inch of their existance, but that's not what I'm talking about.  Actors, famous or not, love to perform, and being in front of a lens is just another great means to do that.  They also like to be looked at.  And have a particular penchant for looking at themselves.  I know that one from my own experience...just ask Steven what happens when I get sat near a mirror in a restaurant.  Or my friend Joanna about how many times I have to stop for a picture of myself when touristing.  

My very roundabout point, friendlies, is that this was a wedding chock full of actors.  A group of people that was just as excited to have photos taken of themselves as I was to take their photos.  And, as icing on the cake of awesomeness, Carly planned in 3 hours between her ceremony and reception, just to make sure we had plenty of time.  I told you I loved these people...

It rained for a good hour right before we were scheduled to head into Falls Park.  Luckily, it stopped just in time and I was working with a fabulous group that wasn't worried about the added humidity.  What we got in return was some rather dreamy looking haziness, and some crazy water in the Reedy River.  Love.

The girls decided to make this little hike down to the rock a barefoot experience and I can't say I blame them...

The furry guest of honor.  I should note that these are Hallie's favorite pictures...

As I may have mentioned before, I'm about eleventy billion years behind in blogging.  The movie had just come out when Chris and Carly actually got married, so we were totally trendsetters here!

And then this happened...

And then this...

And then this!  With no coaching from me, might I add...

Mr. and Mrs. Brown...I cannot thank you enough for allowing me to be a part of your day.  It truly meant the world to me!  I hope you guys are loving every second of married life!!