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Wedding Wednesday Inspirations | everyday

Feb
2011

I am SO excited to start Wedding Wednesdays as a weekly post. I am even more excited to have my second photographer, Leslie Kerrigan as the guest writer!! Leslie has been shooting weddings with me regularly since the fall of last year and I am happy to announce that she will be playing an integral part in all my weddings from this point forward. Leslie is a portrait photographer in the area who is extremely talented and has a fabulous energetic personality. Please take a moment to check out her website.

Leslie and I have been brainstorming like mad over the last couple of months about ways we can be of inspiration to our clients and Wedding Wednesdays are a good place to start. We plan on adding other categories very soon!

Welcome Leslie…

I first met Lisa at a wedding. I was hired as her third shooter for this large, beautiful wedding in Greenville. I must admit, I was nervous. I had never met her before and here I was joining her on one of the biggest weddings of the season! We didn’t have any time to get to know one another or chat about anything beforehand. She immediately put me to work on shooting the details of this wedding. I was terrified!! I was terrified I wouldn’t get the right shots or that my photos wouldn’t be good enough. But I buried the nerves, got out my camera and shot away, hoping she would hire me again!

Luckily, she did. And we have been doing weddings together ever since. And she continues to trust me with the details. Which, lucky for me, is my favorite part of a wedding!

To me all weddings are beautiful. The bride in her gorgeous, white gown, the groom in his handsome tux, flowers galore and smiles all around….how could it not be one of the prettiest days of your life! But what I love the most is the details. Those special touches that each bride and groom add to their special day to make it, well, special! The southern food served to welcome a family from the north, the invitations that the bride designed herself, the favors that represent the bride and groom’s culture, the shoes, the jewelry and much, much more, can all be details that add up to a unique wedding experience. And all of these things make my job so much fun!

If you are planning a wedding, consider adding unique details to make your day stand out. Think of things that you and your fiancé like to do and incorporate that into your day. Pick a color and design all the details around that. Show off your culture with special food. Show off your talents and design a unique invitation. Take your guests down memory lane by sharing details from your courtship. Whatever you do, make it special to you! And I promise to capture every detail with my camera!

Below is an inspiration board all about the details. Since Valentine’s Day is around the corner, I thought I would show off all the ways you could incorporate love into the details of your special day. After all, love is what brought you together and love is what your big day is ultimately about! Happy Valentine’s Day!

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Crush Strawberry Soda – photo courtesy of www.karaspartyideas.blogspot.com
Cake – photo courtesy of www.MarthaStewart.com
Shoes – Christian Louboutin
Valentine’s Invitation – www.birdandbanner.com
Be My Valentine – photo courtesy of www.Oncewed.com
Cute Heart-Shaped Sandwiches – www.cutestfood.com
Heart in Coffee – www.colbes.blogspot.com
Kissing Booth Letterpress Poster – www.etsy.com/shop/rollandtumblepress
Bride and Groom – www.jcrew.com
Drawstring Bags – blog.weddingwire.com
Lips – www.whiskerworks.com
Straws – www.handcrafteddelights.com

Tune in next week for the next Wedding Wednesday post!

thank you for stopping by!

~Lisa & Leslie

Andrew & Laura Anne | wedding

Jan
2011

How often is it that we get to photograph a wedding with snow on the ground here in the south? Not all that often! South Carolina has not had a white Christmas since 1963 and I must say it was really pretty. Then about a week before Andrew & Laura Anne’s wedding, another big snow storm came our way and this time the snow stayed….for days! Many people complained of cabin fever because it was difficult to get out and drive around and many just decided to make the best of it and have fun sledding and making snowmen. As the wedding day approached and the area was still shut down for the most part, there was a ‘little’ worry about how it would affect the wedding day. Laura Anne’s mom emailed me asking if I thought it would go away before the wedding and I said if not, I already had a plan to order a case of hair dryers and would go melt the stuff myself 🙂 After I made the silly joke about hair dryers, I reassured her mom that either way we were going to have a fabulous day and still get amazing pictures. If anything, we would get the chance to get really pretty photos of everyone with the snow covered background. It definitely was cold taking pictures outside, but I was so impressed and thrilled how everyone went out and had a blast despite a few goosebumps.

Enough about the snow…it is time to talk about Andrew & Laura Anne! Andrew & Laura Anne are both graduates of Auburn University and that is where they met. They met tailgating at an Auburn Football game and then reconnected when their friends got engaged. Speaking of football, Andrew played at Auburn. Both of them are always so full of energy and have smiles that go on for days. When we did the engagement session last summer I got to see how much Andrew likes to have fun and goof around, so it was no surprise that ALL of his groomsmen were just as much fun. They were a blast to work with on the day of the wedding. As for the bridesmaids, it was so cool to know a good bit of them from either previous weddings I have shot OR having shot their wedding. So it was funny when one of the bridesmaids and I joked around about how she should know exactly what to do for pictures now that she has worked with me a handful of times.

After the ceremony everyone headed over to Zen downtown for the reception. The dancing was so incredibly fun to watch that I had a perma-grin on the entire night and even attempted to bust a few moves myself. At the end of the night I remember saying to my second photographer, “THAT was a very fun wedding!!”. Congrats Andrew & Laura Anne. It was such a pleasure working with you and getting to know you along the way. I am honored. Thank you so much to my amazing second photographer Leslie Kerrigan…I am thrilled to have you as part of the team!

Please enjoy a handful of images and the slideshow below them. The online gallery with all the images is currently loading and will be ready to view shortly.

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