Michelle & Terrin - Engaged! | Knoxville Wedding Photographer

There is such a fun story to go with this session! Michelle and I were BFFs when we were about 3-6 years old. She lived behind me and we had all kinds of adventures (mostly the kind that got us in trouble). We went to school with Terrin, and our old yearbooks even have photos of them sitting side by side in the 1st grade. In the second grade, Michelle moved away and I had very little contact with her after that. Terrin moved away sophomore year. Nearly 25 years later, Michelle and I found each other on Facebook and when she and Terrin reconnected, began dating and got engaged, it was such a fun moment. Then, after not having much contact for all those years, Michelle asked me to do their wedding photos and instead of me driving eight hours to Illinois to see them for their engagement session, they drove all the way out to Knoxville to spend a short weekend catching up and taking photos. We had such a blast. The true blue (or should I say red?) Cardinals fans had to pay homage to their team in Braves territory and while recreating a baseball field on the RR tracks, we got hunted down, chastised and were threatened with jail time for being on the tracks. Then we went to Cades Cove for a beautiful mountain shoot. The clouds parted just long enough for us to have the most beautiful sunset (see wall photos). It was perfect. It was so fun and it felt like we had never been apart. Michelle and Terrin are so stinking cute together - I'm pretty sure that in all the time I knew Terrin, I saw more genuine and laughing smiles from him around Michelle than I saw in all our school years together  They were made for each other and fate brought them together again. I'm pretty sure it's one of the best love stories I've heard 

A Problem...

I ran into a problem at my last engagement shoot with my childhood friends. I thought it would be an awesome idea to take a photo with our kindergarten yearbook photo. Unfortunately, *I* had circled a little boy in a blue heart back in the day...and he wasn't the one my friend is marrying! Hope photoshop can fix this one! 

Their engagement session will be blogged soon :)

The McPherson & Westmoreland Family

This session was so fun. None of the men wanted to be there at all, but they warmed up to me, especially when they learned I could take their jabs about my posing lingo (shimmy, scootch, etc)! The guys did a great job putting up with me but the highlight of the session was that sweet little 6 month olds photos! Mom clued me in on a little secret: when you make farting sounds, the baby smiles every time. Let me tell you, it worked every.single.time!!!! Getting her to smile couldn't have been any easier and it was so fun to hear all the oohs and aahs from the "audience" behind me while I was taking photos of that sweetie. Thanks for inviting me to capture your beautiful family, Patsy!

The Vernon Family

I adore this family. We have a long history together and I've been blessed enough to watch their family grow through my lens from the moment this mom and dad got married. I've documented their family's growth each and every year and each year I look forward to it. Our sessions are always a blast: tickle fights are common and the easiest way to get someone to smile. And mom is SO sneaky about it, I don't usually catch it! Without further adieu, here is one of my favorite families :)

Beautiful Jocelyn and Her Family

This session almost didn't happen but I'm so glad it did! Jocelyn is one of my newborns from earlier in the year. Her family took me up on my 30th birthday discount earlier in the year but as the date for our session approached, I received an email asking if I could photograph their house instead of their family because Dad's job was taking them to Kansas! I was disappointed to miss the opportunity to photograph this beautiful and fun family again but we managed to work it all out so that we could spend a fun evening visiting some iconic Knoxville sights before they left us for the Great Plains. I had a great time and judging by the smiles and oft times uncontrollable laughter from mom and dad while I was being ridiculous trying to get Miss J to smile, they did too ;) We'll miss you guys!