• maggie + firas

    years ago, when i was a starbucks barista, i had the pleasure of making friends with a lot of the regular customers. to this day i still recognize several of them and say hey when i run into them around town. firas happens to be one of my former customers and it was a pleasant surprise to show up to the meeting maggie and i had set up to talk about wedding stuff and to see that he was the groom! maggie and firas from the beginning had me excited about their wedding at cedarwood. between his lebanese background and her fabulous sense of style i knew it was going…

  • kat + justin memphis wedding

    what an incredible story i have for you from kat and justin’s saturday wedding in memphis. john and i arrive at the wedding at 3:45 to take just a few getting ready photos of the bridal party before the ceremony at 4:30 — him with justin and the guys, me with kat and the girls. i walk in and the girls are all prettied up and ready to go and i start doing some formals with them. we’re just having a great time, not a worry in the world. little did we know…just down the hall things were not going as well for justin. due to a mix up at…

  • larisa + michael’s sweet backyard wedding

    larisa and michael decided to go small with their wedding (35 guests and a friend’s beautiful back yard). it was such an intimate setting. i really appreciated how beautiful and personal they made it. it was also cool to see how much they got to interact with each of their guests — something not easily done with a large wedding! their guests were as laid back as they were and it just made for a really cool and peaceful wedding, free of negative hype and stress. check out some of the photos we got: larisa hand painted the branches on these lanterns. i had no idea — they look amazing!…