A romantic and original enchanted garden inspired engagement photo session in the Lindley Park neighborhood of Greensboro, North Carolina. With all the trimmings of craft beer, good food, tea lights and a laundromat! Come check it out!

What is a post wedding session?

It's just an opportunity to get back into your wedding gear (dress, suit, hair and makeup done...just like you did for you wedding day) and actually take time to make some beautiful photos. Maybe you didn't have enough time to do proper portraits on your wedding day or maybe the weather wasn't great or maybe you just want to spend some time with your photographer again, have a few drinks and look good while doing it.

The room fell dark and quiet. I heard Alex laugh. Then something happened. The entire room, all the guests and family, took out their phones, turned on their lights and began singing. There was nothing that was going to stop this wedding from being everything that Alex and James had planned on it being. The phone lights and the singing didn't end with just Alex and her dad, they continued for James and Alex's first dance as well. Even when the couple tried to stop and thank everyone for those few moments, the guests urged them to keep dancing and so they did and it was unreal!

In-home engagement sessions are pretty amazing. Partly because it allows me to get to know my couples that much better by seeing some of their routines, as we are all most comfortable in our own homes as opposed to some random location. But also because it allows it to be just us; no onlookers, no traffic, no parking issues...just some quality time.

The night went off brilliantly, thanks to the always amazing Katherine Brown of Gather Together. Peter Lamb and The Wolves tore up the night with some great music finishing with a jazz rendition of the Mario Brothers theme music, and you could watch every person who was coming of age in the mid-80s just nerdily burst alive (including yours truly) as they broke into it. Kids were flying across the dance floor, people were enjoying some great cocktails and desserts and Jeni and Brad were nearly inseparable all night. 

What do you get when you have a cool bride and finely bearded groom, an epic whiskey bar and a decked out classic El Camino? A fantastic wedding day!

While I love being a Raleigh wedding photographer, if you know me you know that the mountains are my true home. So having this set right into the mountains outside of Boone was such a treat and to do so with such a rad group of people made it even better.

There was barely a dry eye amongst their guests or any of the hotels guests for that matter, who had gathered by the pool and outside their rooms to watch this gorgeous Umstead Hotel and Spa wedding.