Happy holidays from us to you.

This is my second-to-last blog post before the end of the year (my last one, coming in a few days, is our best of 2011 post). I don’t post personal stuff terribly frequently, but before the Best Of post I wanted to say Happy Holidays to all of our clients in all different parts of the world and of every religion and non-religion. This is a glimpse into our corner of the world’s holiday cheer which consists of really bizarre family traditions like dressing up the CSP spokescats in t-shirts, taking your sister’s plastic dinosaur and placing it in the tree with a crown on its head while it simultaneously eats a reindeer and plays the saxophone, and feeding a healthy dose of eggnog to your nutcrackers. Happy holidays, ya’ll and yinz guys. ;)

Featured in Luxe Mountain Weddings Magazine

Woooooo!!! We are very very happy and thankful to have one of our weddings highlighted in Luxe Mountain Weddings Magazine! It’s always exciting to have work of yours in print… and I gotta say I’m pretty proud of us. :) … though we couldn’t have done it alone!

Thank you, thank you, thank you to the following people: Debbie from Luxe Mountain Weddings, Sarah and Jimmy – our wonderful couple, all of the amazing wedding vendors from their wedding, and Geoff (husband) who second shot this and every wedding with me… and whose photograph landed the main “Escape to Asheville” page of the magazine!

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Portraits in Raleigh: Wendy+Nelson+Ashton

This was a combination engagement and family shoot that took place on one of the coldest mornings I’ve ventured outside in a long time! Wendy and Nelson are engaged to be married in April of next year with Nelson adopting Wendy’s 11-year-old son Ashton. This is a big and exciting moment for all of them, so they wanted Ashton included in the engagement pictures with them. :) Wendy is a recruiter and Nelson is a lighting engineer… which means he gets to design the lighting in major buildings which I thought sounded pretty cool! Ashton is in 5th grade and his favorite subject is science. He plans on becoming a Marine Biologist, and his favorite superhero is a tied position between the Green Lantern and Captain America (he has good taste).

We’re super excited to be working with this loving and beautiful family in the spring!