Jesse + Lauren - Mooresville Wedding

This past weekend was Lauren and Jesse's wedding in Mooresville followed by a super fun reception at Birkdale Country Club. I'll admit that I've been looking forward to their wedding all year! They are a totally care free, fun-loving couple that I knew would throw a killer wedding. They didn't disappoint. Lauren was all over all the little details (lime green and hot pink!) and didn't miss a beat. So fun!

So some of you know I had our most recent daughter just four months ago. I guess I'm still hormonal because I could not keep it together at this wedding! The minute Lauren's Dad saw her his floodgates opened, followed by Lauren's, followed by mine. I'm sitting there thinking "I hardly know these people, and I'm crying" but what's a girl to do? Usually the processional gets me, but this was the first time I cried while my bride was getting ready. I really am pathetic!

So as you can tell from the pics a great time was had by all. These are the kinds of weddings where I sometimes want to just toss the camera and join everyone on the dance floor. What a great time!

Ok, kids, I'm off to the beach. Happy 4th of July!

This is Lauren's signature expression!

Straight outta a magazine...

Jesse's so excited to see his bride!

Bubbles on exit

Mooresville ARP Church. Too darn cute.

Birkdale CC. Love me some pink parisols.

It was a sauna outside, but the tables sure were cute!

Just one of their many favors: personalized golf balls. Tee it up!

Dancing to "Jesse's Girl". Could they really NOT play this classic 80's hit? I think not!

Amanda + Lyndon - Charlotte Wedding

June has been my busiest month this year (surprise, surprise!) Since my last blog I've done one engagement and two weddings. All were fun; all were hot.

Especially hot was Amanda and Lyndon's wedding at Belk Chapel in Myers Park. The A/C was out in the church on a day where my car thermometer read 97! They were troopers and survived magnificently. Lyndon is an Air Force man (check out those Dress A's) so I knew he'd have no problem surviving, albeit even if it was H-O-T hot. Amanda deserves a Congressional Medal for withstanding the heat in her super big dress. She did great! This girl never complains about anything. I've spent a lot of time with her between engagement, bridal portraits, and the actual wedding. She has a great disposition and is simply a joy to be around. Lyndon lucked out! You know the old saying "Happy Wife, Happy Life".

Despite the heat, Amanda and Lyndon had a gorgeous wedding followed by a very classy reception at Maggiano's. It was very swanky and quite the party for a Sunday wedding if I do say so myself. Guests cut the rug all night long! We had a lot of fun. I haven't started editing yet, but here are a few favorites I've pulled out from the hundreds of files I have to go through.

Congrats Amanda and Lyndon! Enjoy this new chapter of your life in Charleston :)

Amanda before the wedding

Check out these cuties coming down the aisle

Just married!

So thankful to be out of the hot church!

Queens University has some killer photo ops. I love this one.

This was my excuse to eat some dessert first :) Who doesn't love Jelly Bellies?

I love the look on Amanda's face

All of the Academy cadets paying homage to "Top Gun"

Pete + Emma - Scranton Wedding

Ok, that is a complete lie, but I did get to travel to Scranton, PA this weekend for our good buddy Pete's wedding. (Jim and Pete got their MBAs together at Purdue in 2006.) Pete is from the "Electric City" also known as Scranton, Pennsylvania which most people know is the setting for "The Office" of which my husband and I are huge fans.

We were really excited for Pete's wedding. It's been a long time coming and we planned on going from the get-go. It just so happened that down the road they asked me to be their photographer, so of course I said yes. Normally I say "no" because if there's one wedding you don't want to screw up, it's a friend's wedding, right? It adds pressure and makes me nervous, but I knew Pete was such a nice, easy going guy that neither he nor Emma would make me uptight on D-Day (no pun intended.)

Scranton is a fun little city that reminded us a lot of Lafayette/West Lafayette. We quickly found the PA Paper Mill which many of you will recognize from the opening of The Office each week. As well, Saturday kicked off Scranton's weekly bus tours of all the famous locales depicted on the show. CFO David Wallace was in town for the first tour, but we had a wedding to go to and it was sold out anyway. ...Focus, Mary.... priorities!

Anyway, back to weddings. Pete and Emma's was awesome! They are both Catholic and got married in a beautiful old church that Emma's attended her whole life. We then hopped on the party bus, took a few pics at Marywood College, and then headed back to her parents' house to hang out before the reception.... which was out of this world by the way. It was held at the Scranton Cultural Center which is like a 100 year old historic building / performance hall. It was absolutely stunning. It reminded me a lot of the castle wedding I shot in Italy last fall. A-mazing. The food was also to die for and in massive quantities. They had seriously 10+ different cakes for dessert. Yum.

We are so happy for you, Pete and Emma! Have fun in St. Lucia! See you at homecoming (wink, wink... Oct 3rd.... Boiler Up!)