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Kaley and Bo met me out at a friends farm last week to shoot their engagement session. We had so much fun! I am so excited to shoot their wedding this coming Summer… Enjoy!
Some of you may know that I use and LOVE the new photo delivering system called PASS… I am so excited to announce that I have the honor of using the Beta for the brand new and HUGELY improved PASS, and got to try it out with Kaley and Bo’s photos. Check out their gallery and feel free to share it with your friends here!
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Last fall, I had this sudden urge to book a “real” photo session of myself. (Is it sad that i hadn’t done it until this past year?) I knew exactly who I was going to hire, also… The lovely Ashleigh Jayne :) I’ve seen many photographers’ work in the past few years of my life, and for some reason I just could never get Ashleigh’s work out of my head. She’s one of the first photographers I’ve ever been in contact with, and she’s been amazing to me since the beginning. When I brought the idea of photos to her, she was completely on board. We made a plan to meet half way in Mississippi at the end of last year. I have to say, this was by far one of the most amazing experiences I’ve ever had. It took me a bit to loosen up in front of the camera, but Ashleigh really knows how to make a girl feel comfortable. It was so fun! Here’s a few shots that she got…
YES! Only the beginning :) :) Love you! She woke up Sunday morning thinking she was going on an early breakfast Valentines date with Evan. He showed up at her apartment at 6:15am, roses and a note in hand. She got in his car, not sure where they were going to eat. He broke the news that they were driving to her favorite place, Asheville NC (6 hours away), for lunch. A Starbucks stop and six hours later, she was enveloped by the Smokey Mountains, happily munching on a fried egg BLT at her favorite restaurant, in her favorite city. After they ate, they had about an hour to spare and headed across the street to her favorite art gallery. A surprise gift made by a local artist and a good ten minutes later, they headed out to the Mardi-Gras celebration infested streets with Evan saying he had a coffee shop he wanted to take her to. While on the way, all of a sudden I show up, Evan gets on his knee (with her dream ring), in the dreamiest of cities. Six hours later she was back in Birmingham where Evan had secretly planned all of her favorites: smores, Edgar’s strawberry cake, and some of her favorite people in the world all gathered to celebrate the beauty of Christ in marriage. I’ve known Evan and Brittany for a while now, and I have always loved their relationship. Correction: everyone loves their relationship. There’s just something about the love and bliss that they share. Evan and I have been talking for a while now about this proposal. We’ve been throwing around ideas, dates, and stayed in contact for the past few months. We were going to plan a cute date in Birmingham, and figure out a way to surprise her. It had been a while since we talked, when I got a phone call from Evan. He had a plan. What I didn’t realize, is that he really had a plan. Ha! He let me in on the “secret”… her favorite place in the world is Asheville, North Carolina, which is also where her favorite restaurant is. Of course this required 6 hours of driving each way, but I was all in. So we were set… The only problem, neither of us had ever been to Asheville, which obviously creates some “excitement” with trying to communicate on a place/time/how to do it. But we were determined to make it work… 6am on Sunday morning comes, and my sweet friend Mary Grace and I hit the road. Brittany and Evan followed shortly after, Britt having NO idea what was about to hit her. We arrived in Asheville just in time to get ready to shoot, and were welcomed with a lovely surprise of a HUGE Mardi Gras parade. That definitely made things interesting! So through some confusion, lots of texts, and fingers crossed, we found a place and got set up to shoot. Brittany and Evan started walking up and everything was a blur from there. But a sweet blur ;) Brittany was SO surprised and so giddy all day. After the proposal, we walked around Asheville to grab a few shots of them together in her favorite place…
With the new year, comes time for some exciting changes! One of those being my new website and blog. I’ve been working on this for months, and am so excited to share it with you! :) Let me know what you think and please share with your friends! I am taking off for the month of January to focus, pray, and get ready for the year but will be blogging regularly starting in February. So excited :) Click here to check out my new site.
Looks purty! Love it girl! :) Beautiful Very well done congrats!
I was talking to a friend recently about some situations in my life that in some ways can leave me feeling a bit broken. after I got a few sentences in, she finally grabbed my hand and stopped me. she looked in my eyes, “Elizabeth Ann, you don’t have to justify yourself anymore…” and I realized in that moment that I was ashamed of my heart. of my brokenness. of my shortcomings. and of my inability to see the bigger picture sometimes. I realized that i spend so much of my time trying to justify my heart. justify my feelings. and justify the fact that I don’t always have it all together. I realized in that moment that there is a friend in front of me who wants to listen and love me, and more than that, a precious Heavenly Father who wants to embrace and heal me, and i’m too busy trying to justify myself… I’m trying to do it on my own. You know.. there’s a beauty in brokenness. It really is beautiful. and most people don’t get to embrace it because they feel like they have to have it all together. we’re too distracted or afraid to be broken… so we pretend we’re okay.. so we miss grace. but what we quickly forget is that grace is the backbone of every woman standing today. “and the God who so loved this cracked world that He gave, He hasn’t ever stopped giving, and He won’t stop giving today and it’s His very mercy that gets us from one moment to the next.” “Have it all together” is a lie. a lie straight from the pit. and i want you to know today NOTHING in your sweet Father is asking you to do this. He is actually telling you to be broken… Psalm 51:17 – “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.” don’t stay broken, but be broken. it’s there that Our sweet Father can hold you, love you, whisper in your ear… tonight, i may feel some brokenness. i may be confused. i may even feel a bit lonely. but what i know is that God sees. and that tomorrow i’m gonna stand up and i’m gonna walk. and i may not have any strength and may not even know why, but I will because He carries me. and in and through every season, HE is faithful… oh happy day :) and if you feel that brokenness, tell God and tell someone… tell me if you don’t have someone to tell. don’t let it stay in the dark. oh how i wish i could reach my arms through this crazy internet world, and just wrap them around you. because i know that’s what you need. but i’m an email or phone call away. so if you need someone to listen and point you to grace, call me. because i know how that feels. If grace is an ocean, we’re all sinking. There’s a healing coming with each breath in all of this ocean of grace…
So raw and beautiful! Love it! Beautiful, just beautiful! Good reading Carmen! love and live every day with your heart guiding you… if you do, it works out and you won’t have regrets. because you did your best. Love, forgiveness and understanding are important components. of daily living, in my opinion. |
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