melissa & will are engaged!

By | Engagement Sessions | 6 Comments

i cannot even WAIT to blog this week; there’s so much goodness to share!

we’ll start the fun with the couple i introduced you to in my last post, melissa and will. as expected, it was great to see melissa again and get to know will too! she totally cracked us up with stories about teaching a class of 20 four year olds; can you even believe that one day she saw a mouse in her classroom, managed not to freak out, caught it between two cups and escorted it outside, all without letting even one child realize what was going on? haha, amazing! spying on will as he watched melissa talk and laugh made me realize how perfect these two are for each other. there is no doubt he really delights in everything about her, and she in him. temperatures in the 40s could wipe a smile off any southern belle’s face, but will’s offhand sense of humor kept a twinkle in melissa’s eye. even when she was telling him to stop goofing off she couldn’t help but giggle while we were shooting. if you’ve ever wanted to see a picture of true love – see below; these two are in it for good!

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i love the way matt incorporated the arch in this shot, he really has a designer’s eye!
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determined not to hinder my mobility by wearing a bulky coat i wore two pairs of pants and three shirts – i was frozen. luckily, i love being active when i shoot so after some warming up i was ready for anything – even lying on my stomach in the gravel:
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matt really nailed it when he found the wall below, the texture is just great!
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i couldn’t end this post without a picture of her beautiful ring! look at all of the little details, it’s amazing! will has such good taste, huh?
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melissa and will, thank you guys so much for a great saturday afternoon! you are beautiful people inside and out – such a pleasure to shoot!

etc & birthdays

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hello all! i know that in my last post i promised pics from the engagement session of a lifetime, but im sure you assumed -judging by our recent posts- that the session was postponed. i know! we were sad too! but keep and eye out around feb. 16th for their awesome images!

this weekend we are headed to our alma mater, the university of georgia, to shoot some engagement pictures on the beautiful north campus. i met melissa my freshman year of collage, but as she was older and cooler (you know how that goes) we never really got to spend a lot of time together. that being said, i am very excited to catch up with her and her new fiancee, will, to capture their exciting new commitment to each other! I just wish we could capture the wedding too, so sorry guys! now, you all may have seen the weather report this morning and therefore might be thinking of the forecasted rain for saturday. yes, we are aware, but how cute are some umbrellas these days!!? we’re excited to go ahead with the shoot, and we might even get some cozy indoor coffee shop pictures as well. there are so many possibilities in athens, check back for a few of the best shots!

another of the many reasons i love athens is because so many of my friends are still there. i am excited to spend my birthday with old friends from college, who will surely comfort me as i turn yet another year older. i have no doubt you’ll see some great candids of my beautiful friends sometime next week!

tomorrow is my actual birthday, i’ll keep you posted on all of the adorable things matt is sure to do, hey baby i know you read this… ;)

because this is a photoblog, i am going to always try to include a photo, this one is from our good ole uga days, taken by a dear friend of ours from school:

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friends we haven’t seen in a while

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i’m always excited to hang out with our friends that live here in atlanta, but it’s really special when a friend comes in from out of town- in this case 3 of them: suz, emily and michael. it’s definitly great to see all of them, but it’s also a great excuse for rounding everyone else up by saying things like ‘hey, they drove here from out of town, lets all get together.’ emily and michael drove all the way up from macon just for an evening of fun, unfortunatly, their new acura was a victim of a hit and run, lame. and not just a little scratch hit and run, but a ‘lets take a chunk out of this vehicle’ hit and run. sorry guys.
even still we were able to have a good time after some italian in the highlands and heading back to sean and erin’s place, our fantastic hosts. i can’t get over how fun nintendo wii can be. yes, it’s almost embarrassing to say, but we spent the rest of the night playing a video game- check out the intensity on emily’s face in the last picture…
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