Emily and Michael - Engaged - Charlotte Wedding Photographer

Yes, it was a dreary, misty evening...but that surely didn't stop us from meeting Emily and Michael for their engagement session on the first day of November. I know I say this every time, but really, we are BEYOND excited to shoot their Wilmington wedding next May. Emily is as sweet as they come and Michael is pretty much a total crack-up. Plus, with planner Alyse Woodward behind the whole thing, I know it will be fabulous.

Being the day after Halloween, and having our two un-carved pumpkins still, we decided it was fitting to incorporate for a few shots....hence the above shot. :)

Emily brought out her umbrella to shield them from the mist.....and conveniently, it matched her outfit perfectly. :)

Completely adorable, right?

I don't know what it is about this shot, but I 100% LOVE it and will be putting it up in my home. Oh yes, I will.

A fave, fave, FAVORITE.

And THIS, my friends, is going on my website....when I update it. :)

At the tail end of our time in the street (when Emily and Michael were total champions for not looking like the freezing cold that they were), we had a elderly resident from an above condo serenade them with his trumpet...the perfect ending for our session. :)

Christmas Came Early :)

Geoff and I have been married 2.5 years and we have yet to design and print our own album. And let me tell you, whenever we get one of our client's wedding albums in the mail, I get that much more excited to make ours...finding the time is the problem. Perhaps in January when we slow down we will order ours....fingers crossed. :)

Anyway, I'm excited to show these to you!

Since our work has changed since we ordered our first set of sample albums, we figured a new set was in order. First, we decided to showcase Kristy and Russ's beautiful wedding in a 9x12 silver leather with a cut out photo window on the front.

We also ordered a parent sized sample using Holly and Drew's wedding in a 6x8 aqua colored leather with their names imprinted in silver on the front.

We've also had two client albums come in.....

Brooke and Matt's went with a 15 spread 9x12 with a basic black leather backing to accent their cover cut-out pic.

Lauren and Jon got the big guy - a 20 spread 12x16 with an upgraded acrylic photo cover. I think they accented it perfectly with the brown/gray leather backing.

And for those who might be wondering, we use Finao albums. :)

Have a fantastic weekend, everyone! We'll be shooting our last Saturday wedding of the year tomorrow - I'm dying to post Trinette's uptown theatre bridal portraits next week - you won't want to miss these!

Late Night Epiphanies

Today was supposed to be a post showing off a bunch of new wedding albums that had recently come in. And while I am excited to show them to you....because they do look amazing....I couldn't pass up the opportunity to write about my husband on this day.....just because. :)

Last night he got home pretty late - it was almost 1:00 in the morning. Even though he had been a slave to his at work computer all night doing some freelance motion graphics work, he wasn't all that tired when he got home.....or maybe that was because I don't know how to set our new security system right and the SCREAMING alarm that went off when he opened the front door woke him up. I don't know. Regardless, we decided we were awake enough to grab ourselves a bowl of Special K red berry cereal and chat for a bit at our dining room table.

As we sat there across from each other - our spoons clinking our bowls - I had a moment. You know what I'm talking about? When a seemingly insignificant activity suddenly becomes an incredible moment in your life that you realize just how dang AWESOME you have it? That was me.

Goodness, I love this guy. And goodness.....I am SO thankful that God has orchestrated my life so perfectly that Geoff was brought to me. And I swear....EVERY day....I am astounded at WHY IN THE WORLD I have been blessed so.

Geoff, thank you for being such a loving, supportive, patient, selfless, serving, funny, sensitive husband - you are beyond precious to me....I love you more than I love See's Krispy Coffee candies.....and that's an awful lot. :)

I 100% meant what I said last night from across the table - you are SUCH a good man. Love you to pieces. :)

Andrea and Shawn - Married - Vanlandingham Estate

On October 3rd, we declared it as the nicest day of the year. The weather was impeccable. The PERFECT weather for the outdoor wedding of Andrea and Shawn at the gorgeous Vanlandingham Estate. October 3rd also kicked off a very busy month for us - Andrea and Shawn's was the first of five weddings that we shot that month.

Ironically enough, we ran into the parents of the bride and groom we shot almost exactly a year prior - remember Ginger and Dean? It was great to see them again. :)

This wedding was also the first that we were able to see the work of Todd with Crawford and Company firsthand - I was just about drooling over the beautiful florals he created.

Hair/Makeup: Kymm w/ Who's the Fairest
DJ: Split Second Sound
Cake: Decadent Designs
Florist: Crawford and Company

Shawn is a comic book collector, so you can imagine his excitement when he received his wedding gift from Andrea - a wedding comic book.....customized to reflect their wedding. :)

Congratulations, you guys! Here's to a long and happy life together. :)

Whirlwind.....that's just us.

Hi friends. Can you believe we are almost a week out from Thanksgiving?! I'm going to work super hard this week and really try to knock out a huge chunk of editing so I can actually enjoy a couple days off around Thanksgiving and not feel guilty. :/

Things have been a whirlwind around the Schultz household. In a good way......yet still a whirlwind.

Friday's are typically reserved for date/hangout day, since it is our only day off. We rarely spend time cleaning/getting important things done during this time....but for some reason, the majority of last Friday was spent cleaning and organizing. It felt good to catch up a bit on life stuff. And perhaps we fit in some Baskin Robbins ice cream and a movie (Premonition with Sandra Bullock - good movie in my opinion).

Saturday we got to shoot the wedding of Lindsay and Alex - this wedding was extra special, as they were married at the same place Geoff and I got married 2.5 years ago - The Great Aunt Stella Center. :)

On Sunday, I was out-shot by Geoff at Neera and Dave's engagement session in Belmont. Here's one of his amazing shots:

Yesterday - Monday - was my mother's 50TH birthday! Nothing else to report. Happy Birthday Mustang Sallee!

Today is Tuesday....and it will consist mostly of editing and giving lots of love to sweet Frank. He had his heart worm treatment a week ago and has since had his ups and downs. Today is a bad day.....lots of coughing and hacking....breaks my heart in a million pieces. I've been praying hard that he is relieved of the pain. :( Poor, sweet Frank.

Tomorrow - Wednesday - is going to be ROUGH. Sadly, I have totally and completely fallen off of the train of working out and eating right. But tomorrow, I'm going to my first Body By Buck session with Geoff and a bunch of other Elevation staff and spouses. It will be a miracle if I can make it through the 45 minute session.

And there you go. That's what's been going on the past few days. Also to come......are these:

Jen and Brian

Rebecca and Thomas

Emily and Michael

Melissa and Diego

(and a peek of their details - special post for Alyse) :)

Tomorrow you'll get to feast your eyes on Andrea and Shawn's Vanlandingham Estate wedding. :))))) Happy TUESDAY!

Brooke and Jon - Engaged - Charlotte Wedding Photographer

A few weeks ago Brooke and Jon came down to Charlotte from Winston-Salem for the engagement session with us in NoDa. And, despite perhaps a few pre-shoot jitters, no surprise - they rocked it out. :) Can't wait for their April wedding at Graylyn. :)

Doesn't this just make you feel happy inside? Does for me. :)

Brooke and Jon will be incorporating pinwheels into their wedding and thought it would be cute to bring in them in for their session....so glad they did. :) They handmade them - I LOVE.

Gorgeous - Brooke, you are GORGEOUS.