now, on to some photos of their day!

p.s.  changing the posting format a little bit....what do you think??

whitney and tristan, i had such a great time capturing the love and joy of your wedding day.  i wish you both all the best in the world!  here are a couple of my favs.

like i said, whitney is a hair stylist and her son had to get a little trim for the big day.  how cute is he!

these two might be a couple of my favorites from the whole day.  it was so sweet to see how excited whitney's son was to see tristan.

whitney has always been just so beautiful.

so this might be one of my favorite first dance shots ever!  i love the back lighting and of course the sweet expressions on their faces

 

the reception was really dark, so sometimes, you just have to embrace the grain!

THIS was awesome.  they surprised tristan by pulling out an old video of him dancing to footloose when he was little and played it during the mother/son dance.  he was clearly shocked!

and not only can tristan dance, but he can sing.  he sang frank sinatra's "fly me to the moon" to whitney on their first date......so she made him do it again at the reception.  she thanked him for it :)

and the send off :)

well, the big annoucment is, i am opening a studio/meeting place!  

kinda of crazy and i still can't believe that it is actually happening but it is indeed.  it all started a few months ago when my dad bought an old building in downtown maryville to renovate.  a few months after that my dad approached me about the possibility of having an open office space there if i would be interested in using it....well, at first, i was hesitant.  one reason being, the office is in maryville.  i live in west knoxville and most of my clients tend to live around this area as well.  i wasn't sure if it was going to be worth it to make the drive.  second reason, i hadn't seen the space and had always had something specific in mind and wasn't sure if it would meet what i was looking for.  well, after going out there i realized i could totally see this space as my new home for my business.  i felt that this was an opportunity i simply could not pass up.  i am hoping to use this space for lots of fun things.  one will be a place for me to meet my clients.  i know that it might be a drive for some of you, but i promise, i am going to make it worth your trip.  this space is going to be awesome!  i feel it is going to give me the opportunity to serve my clients in a way that i just haven't been able to do thus far.  second, this space has some awesome natural light, so i am hoping to use it for some photo sessions.  it is going to be decked out in some beautiful furniture that i think is just screaming to have its' picture taken.  then, this kind of sealed the deal for me, it is going to look out to our own private garden/courtyard.  right now it is a pile of dirt and rocks, but my good friend, mitch stewart, is a landscape designer who is going to make this place awesome come spring!  PLUS, we are located right behind tomato head, so good food is just a few steps away.  and if you haven't been to downtown maryville before, this will be a great excuse to make the trip.  it is so cute and full of antique shops and some really cute boutiques!

i don't have any photos of the space to share with you yet, it is still being finished, but no blog post is complete with at least one photo so i snapped a few of some totally awesome things that are going to be going in my new place.  i just got a lensbaby a couple weeks ago so i thought i would play around with it a little bit and shot these photos with it!!  more updates to come soon!!!

lane and bill are such a sweet couple!  i didn't get to spend a ton of time with them before the wedding but just felt so priviledged to be able to capture the sweet love that they have for one another.  bill is in the military and is being deployed in june so it was just so fun to be around all their friends and family before he leaves.  here are just some of my favorites from their wedding!

i mean seriously, how cute is she!!

lane, reading a note from bill

LOVE these next three.  lane's mom had made a garter out of her maid of honor's bridesmaid dress, and a charm from the first piece of jewelry lane's father had ever given her.  i'll admit it, i cried too.  it's ok, i'm pretty sure my sister did too!

and here is the garter.

this was pretty awesome too.  kimball's jewelers had given this to lane's mom to wear on her wedding day.  so lane wore this in her shoe.  lane's mom still had the box!

lane.  you are just so beautiful.  

loved this, of lane's mom putting on her veil.

you know how sometimes, there is just a random image that gets you.  this is one of those for me.  I LOVE IT.  just do. 

ooooooo...i LOVE this too!!!

so cute, so wintery!

some fun reception details

lane and bill, thank you thank you thank you for letting me capture the sweet moments of your day!  it was a blessing!

and HERE IS THE SLIDESHOW I HAVE BEEN WAITING TO MAKE EVER SINCE I HEARD THE SONG!!! :)  thanks avett brothers