Mike and Ashley • Married! • Carrigan Farms • Mooresville, NC

Mike and Ashley had a beautiful outdoor wedding at the Carrigan Farms Rock Quarry in Mooresville, NC. I was especially excited to photograph there because not only are outdoor weddings my personal favorite to photograph, but I grew up going to the farm with my family to pick strawberries and pumpkins. Mike and Ashley both wrote some of the sweetest vows I have heard and Mike cried on multiple occasions throughout the evening whilst Ashley kept her composure. Such a sweet couple. I wish them both the very best in the their future together!

          

 

          

 

         

 

          

 

Kari + Ian • Married! • Echo Falls Golf Course • Snohomish,WA

Kari and Ian had their wedding at the beautiful Echo Falls Golf Club in Snohomish, WA a few weeks ago. The weather could not have been more lovely. I had the pleasure of second shooting with Fred Calma Photography for their wedding and wanted to share a few of my favorite photographs that I took on their special day.

         

 

         

 

         

 

          

 

Becca & Austin • Engaged! • Davidson, NC

I photographed Becca and Austin's engagement session last weekend in Davidson, NC. We galavanted around downtown Davidson and then drove out to Fisher Farms. 

Becca and Austin have an incredibly cute story that can only be told best in Becca's words. "Back in 2004 my sister and her (now) husband, Adam, had just started dating. Adam's family and Austin's family grew up close friends and Adam worked at the lumber company with Austin. Austin was bugging Adam one day about Jackie, asking if she had a sister that he could date. Adam said that as a matter of fact, she did! So, Adam and Austin got together and wrote me a poem called "Rebecca, Rebecca." Instant classic. :) It was hilarious and he passed it through Adam to me with a picture of them working under a car (typical, knowing Austin) and a Hoke Lumber ticket that entitled me to one "Dream Date with my Secret Admirer." I still have all three things, and I think Jackie and Adam have plans for them for our reception. :) Anyway, we chatted on AIM some but nothing ever really came of it except a few meetings here and there at Jackie and Adam's house. We both dated other people in college (though we were both at NC State!) and in 2011 we started talking online and eventually on the phone. He asked me out in April 2011 and we had our first date zip-lining at the Whitewater Center (WWC) and I got to cash in on my dream date. When I got to his house that day, I had no idea where we were going (he's quite sneaky) but when we got in the car he handed me a waiver that I had to sign for the WWC that describe the activity as an "extreme sport". I had a feeling I was in for quite a date and I definitely was. :) Our first date lasted from 2pm until about 1am and involved the ziplining tour, dinner and learning to drive a manual jeep. I think I pretty much knew then that something special was going on when we'd been together for almost 12 hours and I still didn't want to leave. The rest is history! A month later I went to my first NASCAR race and my life hasn't been the same since :)"


Enjoy the photographs from their engagement session. Looking forward to their wedding in September!

 Austin built this Datsun himself and has had a lifetime love of cars, so we thought it only suiting to take some of the photographs with his car! Here is the website where he discusses building his car.  www.vq240z.com