meet stephanie and johnathan.  a few weeks ago i shot their wedding in nashville at the beautiful riverwood mansion in nashville, tn.  i grew up with johnathan's sister lauren and think that the last time that i saw him, i was about 12 years old.  next thing i know, i'm shooting his wedding.  it was such a fun day!  the weather was a little touch and go for a while, but it turned out to be absolutely beautiful!!  it was definitely HOT and HUMID, but hey, we'll take it!  i have had such a great time getting to know stephanie and it just made it that much sweeter for me personally, to get to photograph their wedding.  i loved seeing how happy johnathan and his family was.  i loved seeing how excited stephanie was to marry johnathan.  it really was just a happy day.  anyway, here are a few of my favorites. 

this past weekend i shot a beautiful wedding in nashville at the gorgeous riverwood mansion.  it was touch and go there for a while as far as the weather goes, but we lucked out.  the rain held off and stephanie and johnathon got to have the outdoor ceremony they were hoping for!  i'll be posting photos from there wedding soon, but first i wanted to share with you stephanie's bridal portrait session we shot a few weeks ago.  stephanie is just so beautiful and made for just a perfect bride.  here are a few of my favs from our time together!

i was just noticing that it has been a while since i have posted on actual wedding on the blog.  well have no fear.  there are LOTS of weddings to come.  i kicked of my wedding season on april 24th.  it rained pretty much all day long, but caroline and lawrence were so excited to get married it didn't matter.  their wedding was so sweet and i just felt honored to be around such a beautiful couple.  it were the sweet moments of their day that were my favorite.  caroline and lawrence, i wish you both the very best!

a couple weeks ago i had the privilege of photographing julie and todd's wedding.  as most of you know we had the coldest february ever pretty much, so when i saw that the forecast for julie and todd's february 20th wedding was 50 degrees and sunny, i was extactic.  it really was such a beautiful day. the wedding took place at the beautiful st. john's lutherin church and then the reception was at holston hills.  they both were just perfect places for a february wedding.  julie and todd began dating in high school, so their day was very sweet.  there is just something so special about seeing  a couple get married that has been together for so long, and really really knows and loves each other.  julie and todd,  i am so happy for the both of you and thank you so much for allowing me to capture your day.

so i will admit it, i am horrible at blogging and even worse at new years resolution.  although i do have an excuse, it still doesn't really make up for it.  i have been working like crazy to get my little studio all set up and i just haven't really had time for anything else.  needless to say, it is finally almost done and i can have a life again.  i will say that it looks pretty awesome and as soon as it is totally finished i will be posting a ton of photos!  believe it or not, i did shoot a wedding a couple weeks ago and am just now getting around to blogging it.  i had the absolute pleasure of shooting an old friend of mine's wedding at the emporium downtown.  her name is whitney and owns salon W in west knoxville.  you should totally go check it out.  really cute salon with some amazing hair stylist! :)  i actually got the call to shoot this wedding from another friend of mine, elizabeth, who happens to be whitney's best friend, about 5 days before the wedding!  i will say, you would have never known that it was planned in such a short period of time.  it was just such a fun, laid back, amazing day.