The getting ready moments are some of my favorite times of a wedding day to photograph. The bride and groom haven’t seen each other yet, and the air is buzzing with excited energy. The smell of hairspray, perfume, and powder fills a chattery room of best friends anxiously awaiting the rest of the day’s events….

There really, truly, isn’t much that I love more than proposal shoots!! Anytime anyone calls me up about photographing their engagement I turn into that middle school girl who just got asked to the school dance by her crush – giddy with excitement, slightly obsessive, with a serious case of perma-grin…

There really, truly, isn’t much that I love more than proposal shoots!! Anytime anyone calls me up about photographing their engagement I turn into that middle school girl who just got asked to the school dance by her crush – giddy with excitement, slightly obsessive, with a serious case of perma-grin…

I get excited about pretty much anyone getting engaged, but Ciara isn’t just anyone. She and I have been friends for years now, and the fact that she found someone who brings out the sunshine in her like Shane does makes me so unbelievably happy!

These two share a deep love for ….