Jun 05
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lucy & grant are married!

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we love lucy and grant, i really don’t know where to start telling you about them so i’ll start with our arrival.  to the rehearsal dinner friday night.  an hour and a half early.  pfff, central time! :)

i would love to write about the joyful tears and the sweet toasts and the abundance of hugs that night, but i’m going to control myself and dive straight into the wedding day instead.  

tee time was 8:30 for the men so i dropped matt off and headed back to the hotel to finish getting ready before the bridesmaid’s luncheon at 10:30.  it’s very rare that matt meets up with the guys earlier than i start shooting hair and makeup; it was a nice change of pace.  

the luncheon was at emma’s tea room, a perfectly intimate and girly eatery in downtown huntsville, alabama.  surrounded by her best friends and lovely family members, lunch at the tea room was such an encouraging way for lucy to start her day.  

lucy’s mom is such a creative and thoughtful woman; she had come up with so many surprises for the girls!  my favorite detail she surprised everyone with was a charm cake.  having not seen this before i watched through my camera as the ladies encircled a sweet little cake with looped ribbons overflowing from the center.  everyone was instructed to pull a ribbon from the cake and at the end of each was a little charm that was supposed to represent your bright future.  i was snapping away when i felt her mom touch my arm and say ‘you aren’t going to leave your future in that cake are you!?’ what a sweet lady to include a future for the little ol’ photographer, it made me feel so loved!

full and happy the girls all went separate ways to get ready for the wedding.  with as many bridesmaids as lucy had it would really have been tough to get ready in the same place!  i jumped in the car with lucy and headed to her childhood home to meet her stylist(s).  lucy, your shower curtain makes this shot, haha!

meanwhile, the guys started a little of their own getting ready back at the hotel.

a few last minute touch ups, a prayer, and some hastily wiped away tears later lucy and her dad found themselves alone, counting down the seconds until it was time to walk down the aisle.  her dad was beaming and lucy’s watery eyes were the result of pure joy and excitement.

ah, they did it!  and it went perfectly, and that one kiss at the front of the church was not nearly enough to celebrate!  i love this picture of lucy’s friends looking up at her as she hugged her mom after the ceremony:

we grabbed a few portraits as the sun set behind the church before heading to the reception at the huntsville country club.

and now the party starts, these pictures do not need much narration, the love really shines though!

quite a dip there lucy!

lucy and her little brother – they are dancing like crazy!!

matt likes to call this shot the ‘garter search’!

and they’re off!

lucy and grant, you guys are amazing and we’re so excited you asked us to be a part of such a special day, we had a great time!  we’re also really excited you’ll be settling in atlanta, enjoy the honeymoon, hope to see you soon! :)

 

 

Jun 04
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working out…?

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jessica and mark, i’m in love with your pictures! everyone – check them out here!

i’m unbelievably good at excuses when it comes to working out.  i’ve been perfecting this skill since late high school, and really, i’ve arrived!  like a lot of other people (i say ‘other people’ to make me feel better) i can’t summon up the motivation to run to a point, turn around, and run back.  matt knows that unless there’s a goal (other than toned calves, that doesn’t count to me, i’d rather just wear jeans ;) ) i will immediately have 10,000 (quite valid, after all that practice!) excuses to not go.  

what he also knows is that deep down i’m as simple as a little puppy, and if he dangles something out in front of me i’ll follow almost without thinking.  this means that matt has gotten creative.  he’ll come up with something we need at the grocery store and we’ll walk there, or he’ll mention wanting to look at something particular in the book store and we’ll trek over there (although, not his best idea, he basically has to drag me home after that!), and on sundays the parking is so nuts at our church that he’s convinced me to walk there too.  that usually means that almost without realizing it i’ve walked two to three times during the week and with shooting on the weekends (shooting = pilates) i’ve always thought that’s enough.  

until recently.  lately, i’ve been waking up puffy-eyed and exhausted even after my normal eight hours! i did some research and it sounds like i need to work out more…so matt (and his sedentary lifestyle theory, haha) wins permanently.  i’ve asked that no matter what fabulous excuse i come up with that he ignore it and make me do it anyway.  what in the world can i tap into for motivation!?  um, no idea, i’m searching.  but with much creativity gone to waste on reasons why not, we have started our new routine.  we’ll see how it goes and of course i’ll keep you posted!  

Jun 02
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just a thought*

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leanne & ed, welcome to the gallery!!! :)  

to most of my friends matt is ‘uncle matt.’  they started calling him that when he graduated and became an adult three years before any of us were even considering growing up.  he started learning things about insurance and cooking and budgets and we gave him a hard time about all of it.  i think he knew that deep down we were all really just impressed and a little intimidated – he probably knew that because of his adult related wisdom or something ;)

looking back on those days i laugh and miss all of my crazy friends but i also see how beneath my jokes i was secretly growing up.  without much experience himself, matt was patiently leading me into adulthood. we spent time learning to cook together and proudly forced down every concoction we created!  we talked about money (something i was rather convinced i didn’t need at all: ‘matt i just want to make art!’ ;) ) and he convinced me that budgeting can be a good thing.  

today we are still not really grown up but thanks to matt we’re at least adult-ish in the necessary parts of life.  he’s still leading me and i still can’t resist an old man joke every now and then, but we’re totally in this real world thing together.  it’s different than i expected, way more fun and free than the rumors suggest.  i’m learning that being an adult doesn’t mean i have to stop watching ‘scrubs’ with friends, eating a handfull of marshmellows at 11:00 pm, or even creating art – and i love it.  

so i guess this post became more serious and contemplative than usual.  sorry for that but it’s the beginning of the month and we spent this morning budgeting for june so i guess adulthood was on the brain.  keep in touch for lucy and grant’s wedding pictures coming soon!  sweet dreams friends! (part of adulthood i kinda like, bedtime!)