November 25, 2014

Engagement in Raleigh

Meet Leslie and Mark! They are two fun and adorable people planning their wedding in VA next year at Leslie’s grandmother’s farm (which sounds totally sweet). We shot their engagement session in Raleigh near Hayes Barton Cafe where they went on their first date, and the night he proposed, and probably again after our engagement session since it seems like they’re kind of addicted to cake. We walked around and talked about their upcoming wedding and honeymoon (to Ireland where they can avoid getting sunburned). They’re the goofy, fun, upbeat kind of people and we had a great time wandering around parking lots and alleyways with them while they did handstands and threw leaves at each other. We know their wedding in Virginia next year will be awesome, much like them. :)

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June 19, 2014

Ariana+Matt // Raleigh Rose Garden

We met Ariana and Matt way, way, way back at the 4th wedding we’ve ever photographed. Ariana was a bridesmaid and Matt was a groomsman and they had kind of exchanged brief “hello”s at each other once before since their best friends were engaged. Now they were in the wedding, and I specifically remember photographing them several times talking and dancing because I was pretty sure they were a couple, but apparently they weren’t, but rather had just started actually speaking more than “hello” that evening. Clearly they seemed like a couple and that obviously transformed into them actually being a couple and I’m really happy that I took those photos because that’s pretty much when they first met so I feel like I have some sort of weird, cosmic part in the whole thing. :)

Through the years since that wedding, Ariana has kept in touch with me. She’s an extremely talented cellist who plays at weddings and with the symphony (and has performed recently with Yo-Yo Ma!) and is generally awesome. Recently she asked me for my hair dresser’s contact information and got her hair cut right before us so we were able to see her and recommend the best gluten-free restaurant ever in Asheville (Posana!) where her and Matt were soon headed for their anniversary (they’re gluten-freebies). She had a sneaking suspicion that he might propose, so we were anxiously awaiting the news, and he did, and it was awesome, and then they went to Posana to celebrate, so I feel like we had a weirdly cosmic part in that aspect of their relationship timeline as well! Clearly the cosmos think the four of us are pretty good together.

Anyway – we are thrilled, thrilled, thrilled to have them finally… all these years later… as our clients and we’re looking forward to their wedding next March! Here are our favorites from their engagement session at the Raleigh Rose Garden. We love you both and are so excited!

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June 8, 2011

Raleigh Engagement Photographer: Lindsey+Jonathan

I loved Lindsey and Jonathan before I even met them because they’re having their wedding at Marbles Kids Museum. :) So I knew we’d get along wonderfully, and we do!! They are amazing and hilarious and they’re both math professors. That’s right – PhDs in numbery stuff I don’t understand! Currently they’re both professors at NC State, but they’ll be leaving for a position later this summer at a university in West Virginia. They’ve been lucky to be working alongside each other at the same university spreading the joy of math! So we spent a lot of the session describing how I didn’t make it into Calculus and Geoff failed Differential Equations on two separate occasions, but that I was really good at English and art class and Geoff rocked it out in computer class! Hahaha. Please don’t judge us, Lindsey and Jonathan. ;)

There were a few different locations that they toyed with, but we all decided on the North Carolina Museum of Art because not only is it awesome, but it gives a pretty wide variety of locations. Also, the new building a photographer’s dream. However, we were kicked out of the area that I wanted to shoot at because apparently there was a really big fancy party that none of us were invited to. But that’s okay – I’m in love with this session and with the adorableness of Lindsey and Jonathan!

This was one of those sessions where you can tell how much the guy just looooves the girl. It’s so sweet.

This is one of my favorite pictures of the session. It’s just so precious. Also, Lindsey is gorgeous. Truly a natural beauty.

Hahaha so, Lindsey and Jonathan both play in an adult soccer league that plays against other local soccer teams for fun (like how Geoff still plays baseball). So they brought their ball along and we did some funny shots. They are SUPER GOOD at bouncing soccer balls off their heads, everyone! For real. Geoff had no faith in this when I described the shot to them, but it worked! HA, Geoff! :P ;)