Though that would only be if I was ChatGPT, which as I already said I am not and computers can’t lie, or can’t lie well. But their wedding day didn’t take place in a hockey rink in Paris, there was no need for a ref, pretty sure I never saw a cat, though I am sure they would have loved for Andrei Svechnikov to make an appearance at their Wait Chapel wedding - but the dude never showed.

The Biltmore is THE marker for Asheville, so getting to share Elaine and Kristin’s first time to town AND getting to photograph their Biltmore House engagement session for them was even more fun. A decade ago, I couldn’t even imagine this.

Anyone who has planned a wedding over the last three years knows how hard it is (COVID has been a real pain in the ass) and how flexible and patient you need to be. Dustin and James had to move their Asheville wedding day several times, and through it all, they kept moving forward, perhaps sometimes with a wonderful adult libation, but forward is forward, am I right?

Asheville, North Carolina is a lot of things, one thing it is not is disappointing, and Caitlin and Gregg’s Claxton Farm fall wedding could not have been at a better time. Fall foliage was in full color and Choco Chip the llama was in rare form. Have you ever seen a llama snag some greens from someone’s mouth and then mean mug the camera? Between the gangster llama and this beautiful western North Carolina mountain wedding, you are all in for something special!

In the city, my head is on a swivel as I try to take in everything around me (except when I am in New York, only because I know I'll look like such a kook of a tourist so I try to be sly as I pick my sights). But in the mountains, it's just simple beauty. Nothing more than what you see in front of you because you don't need anything more.