Southern Weddings

My favorite picture with my fiance is our very first picture together. It’s from a youth group trip that we chaperoned together…I was wearing a silly medal that one of the students gave me. I took a picture with my now fiance and in the picture the medal was glowing. We tried to re-create it several times with some of the kids but couldn’t get it to do it again. Everyone said it was a sign that we would end up together one day…and they were right!

My fav pic of the two of us is the first picture we took together. We had been dating a few months and I wanted this purple camera for Christmas. Well “santa claus” couldn’t find it. So I took back the one I got. So he called and he drove me all over backwoods southeastern Kentucky to every Walmart, Kmart, Target ect around to try to find this camera! We spent at least 3 days trying to find this thing! When we finally did find it we get back home to my momma’s couch, take it out of the box, and he snapped the first picture of us together! We got a lot of bonding time out of the ordeal and it was one of the first things he did for me that was sweet and selfless. All over a silly little purple camera!!

My favorite photo of us is one where he picked me up and held me behind his back, spun me around and the photo was taken as he set me back down. I was still clinging to him, both of us laughing like crazy! It’s such a good reminder of why we work together. :)

My favorite photo with my finance is after a hike we took in Utah. We are hot and sweaty and so happy. I love nature and spending time outdoors with my honey.

My favorite photo with with my ‘ham’ was taken while we were kayaking for the first time in Frisco, CO! I was so nervous about doing it but he made it so much fun that I didn’t even think about being scared! This picture was a self portrait from the middle of the lake and our smiles couldn’t be bigger….it 100% captures our fun-loving, patient and spontaneous love and life with each other!

My favorite pic is from a couple Halloweens ago. He was
Charlie Brown and I was Lucy, so we did the classic kicking the football just as Lucy pulls it away pose. When I look at it, it reminds me of the side of him that I love and that few are privy to- a far cry from the proper and polite southern businessman most people know him as.

My fiance and I went to his high school sweetheart’s wedding. They are a close-knit group of friends and we took a picture with the bride and groom and another guy that dated her and his new girlfriend. It was so nice to know how close they have all stayed after all these years. I love all of my fiance’s friends and I love how they support and stand by each other!

My favorite photo of Jeremy and I is a picture of us dogsledding through the snow covered mountains, I was all bundled up in a sleeping bag and he was steering the dogs! The only thing the photo didn’t show was that 5 seconds later a dog pee’d and it splattered all over us…gross…but hilarious! Great memories!

One of my {many} favorite photos of me and my bubba (smirk) is from our one year anniversary where we visited the beautiful and adorable town called Serenbe, Ga. We walked around the farm and ate amazing produce from that farm, did plenty of hiking and even played with the animals! My favorite photo from that trip was when we both got good n’ dressed up and headed to The Farmhouse for an amazing dinner – after we ate, we stopped and posed for a quick shot in front of the big porch and right then and there we renewed our vows. We had made it to one year! the first of many anniversarys for us. the photo, for me, represents a renewal of promises…to get dressed up sometimes instead of stay in jammies, to try to things and visit new places with each other, and to hold hands for as long as we can. :) i really love that pic!!!

on a side note, I’d love to use those props for the photobooths that I put up for my weddings! they’re great!

One of my favorite photos is from our engagement. I’m holding out my ring and we’re both just beaming from ear to ear!

My favorite picture with my fiance is one of us standing in front of a huge red maple tree in this expansive garden for our engagement shoot. We were pretty nervous about getting our picture taken and having it look natural. The photographer was getting into position when my fiance decided to let a fart out, we bursted into laughter and she captured the moment perfectly. It just describes our relationship so well, whenever I’m feeling apprehensive or uncomfortable about something, he always does something to make me laugh or take my mind off of things. Good thing she had no idea what really happened, the picture looked so sweet and romantic on film!

My favorite photo of my fiance and I is from earlier this January, taken in a field somewhere between Texas and New Mexico…

After seven months of dating and eight years of living in New York City–my boyfriend and I packed up a giant Budget moving truck (towing my car on a trailer behind it)–and moved to Los Angeles. We were initially delayed a few days as there was a gigantic blizzard and he got stuck with his family back home for the holidays while the airports straightened everything out, and I had to move the contents of both our apartments alone. When he finally got back to NY and we were about to start our journey–the battery died in our truck before we even left Brooklyn. We laughed it off, knowing we were in for an adventure–and boy, did we get it! The second day of our trip, we had a tire blowout. A few days later? Our gas was siphoned overnight. Even with all of these crazy events, we kept going, and kept laughing. Anyway….a gorgeous sunset crept up on the next to last day of our move, so we pulled over, put the camera on the bumper, set the timer, and kissed.

The picture is admittedly pretty epic…it almost looks like an advertisement. The light is perfect, the wind is blowing my hair, our clothes randomly matched the scenery–and most of all–it’s clear that we are a couple very much in love. (linked above as my “website”)

We’ve now been living here for 6 months, and last month we got engaged & will marry in Louisiana next May…and of course, we’d love these cute props!

My favourite photo of us if our very first photo we took. We are both photographers so went shooting our little town for us first date and in the end when it was getting darker we decided to put my camera on a tripod and shoot a few photos with remote control. The whole photo is blurry and a big bokeh but we love it so much since we were laughing so hard cause we couldn’t get a “proper” focused shot of us but in the end we love the bokeh and blurry photos so much and it’s the best from all the photos we took since it’s our first one taken on our first date :)

My favorite photo of my man and I is a black and white taken at the U of Arkansas homecoming game. We’re looking cute, spirited, and so happy to be together!

xo

We take goofy pictures each year and send them out to my family. My favorite one is us wearing white turtle necks and jeans jumping in the air. We have such a fun time having out friend do the shoot and just getting to be goofy!

I actually have two favorite pictures, but they are related. When we first started dating, we decided to do two weekend trips in a row – one to the local Western NC wineries and the next weekend to Charlottesville, VA area vineyards. Our first stop in NC was Raffaldini Vineyards where we had someone snap our picture outside on the piazza, it was our first pic together and now that very spot is where our wedding ceremony will take place. The next weekend in Charlottesville, while enjoying King Family Vineyard, we snapped another picture outside and recently realized the tree we were engaged under (a year later) is in the background of that picture. Needless to say, they’re all great memories and very special mementos to us!

My favorite picture of us is our first Christmas card we sent out to our friends and family. About three years ago, we had been dating for 7-8 months and decided a Christmas card would be a fun way to show everyone how happy we were together. We bought Christmas themed onesie pajamas that had cute little footies (Sam’s feet looked like sock monkies)!! We had a mini-photo session in my living room and looked like complete goof balls! Thankfully, our fun times made the most hilariously adorable picture!

my favorite picture with my sweetie is a picture taken at her college formal! it was taken spur of the moment and captures our happiness as a couple!

My favorite photo of my fiance Chris and I is a photo that mom took of us at the beach when we were dating. I made him dress up and go out to the beach for a mini photo shoot. He was goofing around and my mom snapped some photos of us in our element. We ended up with a beautiful photo with the wind blowing, both of us laughing and totally happy. I love this photo so much because I think it portrays our relationship perfectly. We both look so happy and comfortable. Also, it was taken on Isle of Palms, one of my favorite places :)

My favorite picture is one from our engagement photo shoot. It’s of the two of us holding hands and walking away from the photographer with our backs towards him. I love because to me it symbolizes us walking to our future together and it’s in black and white which are my favorite kinds of pictures. It was taken near Greensboro, NC at Hagan Stone park on a pretty nasty day but you would never know it from the pictures.

These are absolutely the cutest photo booth props I’ve ever seen! I’d love to win them for the photobooth at my wedding on October 1st!

My favorite photo taken with my sweetie is from our trip to Australia last year. He works for a band and is away from home on the road for half the year, so I was overjoyed to get to accompany them to a festival they played in Australia. One of his dreams was to snorkel the Great Barrier Reef. It sounded pretty amazing to me as well, but I was really scared. A bumpy three-hour ride into the ocean didn’t exactly calm me, and when it was time to jump in the water, I was shaking. I finally jumped in, and my sweetheart reached his hand up to me to guide me toward the most beautiful fish I’d ever seen. It was almost as big as me and stunningly colorful, just gracefully swimming along. The photographer from the excursion we were on snapped our photo, and perfectly captured the moment where my fiance gently took my hand to guide me toward the fish. It was probably the most amazing experience of my life, and a really loving moment between us. The picture now hangs on our wall, so we can be reminded of this special moment everyday.

Melissa

My favorite picture of my sweetie and I was one of our first ones. After we went out with some friends, we got a late snack at a pizza parlor. I, for some reason was in a bad mood and Josh came up to me and pulled my lips up into a smile with his fingers. One of our friends had taken a picture of the moment and my mood had suddenly changed from bad to good. I’ll never remember what exactly I was upset about. He always knows how to turn my frown upside down! :)

My favorite pic is from our engagement pictures- it’s a very dramatic shot of him holding me close and kissing me while the sun shines strongly through like a really cool lens flare! It’s framed in our bedroom! :)