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They say that rain is good luck on your wedding day.  Sydney and Daniel, along with the wonderful management at Three Oaks Barn, spent their wedding day dodging rain clouds, so they should be good to go!  Personally, I think with or without rain their future looks “happily ever after.”  Sydney and Daniel are the perfect mix of sweet and sassy.  They love to laugh, they love the Braves, and they love each other.  Easy going and matter-of-fact, Sydney and Daniel have been a joy to work with, and they ended up with a beautiful event at Three Oaks.

Here’s some of their story as Sydney tells it:

Daniel and I met in high school.  We quickly became best friends when we had Spanish class together sophomore year.  As we started getting closer to the end of our junior year, I started realizing that I wanted to spend all of my time with him.  We got out of school for that summer and spent every day together.  As I watched him interact with his mom, I fell in love.  I knew he was the one I wanted to be with forever.

We spent senior year dating.  Our first year of college, I drove back and forth to Auburn just to visit him for a few hours.  After the first year, Daniel transferred to Columbus State and we spent as much time together as possible.  After college, we fell into our jobs and continued to spend as much time together over the weekends and whenever we had days off.

Last December, we were having brunch with my parents with the hopes of going to Auburn afterwards for some Christmas shopping.  We ended up hanging around too late and not able to go to Auburn.  We went home to freshen up before going to visit his grandmother in the hospital.  I knew something was up, because Daniel wasn’t ready to go.  I kept asking him if he was ready, and he kept acting weird.  He finally told me to come sit down beside him on the couch.  That’s when he proposed!

 

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Hey Guys!  Every once in a while I want to share a Family session of the Cottage, so I’m dubbing today Family Friday.  Sometimes I get a little bogged down with the getting it done part of this business, but I really want to share all the adorableness I get to see!  It’s not fair to keep it all to myself!  This is what I’m working on today, and when this image popped up, it was just too much.  This session was a mission to get some family portraits done before Miss Ansley got her braces.  I love when moms recognize that there is change going on in their kiddos, and they want to freeze time for just a second before being swept into the next phase of life.  Braces are a big deal!

I just love this family.  I’ve known them for years, but this was the first time I’ve had the privilege to work with them, and these two cuties made my heart happy.  They truly love each other.  They are so close in age, that if you didn’t know them, you’d never know which one was older, and they almost function as twins.  Ansley and Bo were actually happy to have their portraits done together.  I didn’t have to “make” them touch each other or act like they liked each other.  (It’s totally normal to have to do that, by the way, so don’t feel bad if you have to bribe your kids for a good photo!)  They were just fun and easy with a touch of silly, which is a great combo!  I wanted to give Mom and Dad a sneak peek of the preciousness I saw (even though I’m sure they already know!).

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Stay tuned for more session sneaks with The Cottage!

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Happy Labor Day everyone!  Some of you may not know that my start in photography came through a somewhat nontraditional avenue.  Yeah, someone saw my personal pictures and liked them, but my first “job” was a birth for an acquaintance (at the time), and I fell in love and hard.  I thought I would build my business on that niche, but for the time being, things have taken a different turn.  I still photograph births.  I love documenting births.  Please call me if you’d like to hire a birth photography.  Heck, call me if you don’t know why you’d hire a birth photographer.  I have a passion for that time for a woman and for a couple becoming Momma and Dada.  It is so so sweet and truly just “other worldly.”

So, one day I will share more about birth photography and all the whats and whys and details, but on labor day, I just wanted to leave you with the best kind of labor out there!  😉  The Pilgrims have moved from the area, but I loved being a part of both of their children’s births and they hold a special place in my heart.  Camden seems almost grown now, but this was his debut! (Click his movie below the picture!)

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Camden’s Debut

 

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I am thrilled to share a little “commercial” for Jamie & Clay on the blog today!  Jamie and her planning committee put so much thought into this celebration in personal and sentimental details.  The ceremony was at her family church in Mountville, Georgia, and the reception was on the family farm where Jamie was living.  As a photographer, the details of the wedding always intrigue me because it is what makes each couple and ceremony stand out in my mind.  Jamie won the dress award!  Her wedding dress was one of the most beautiful I had seen in person.  I will say that she probably would’ve been stunning in a paper bag though!  🙂

Get to know Jamie & Clay in her words:

The first time we met was at a friend’s house for a football party. Anyone who knows me, knows that I am NOT a sports fan…but I do like football parties for the food and fun! Clay lived in the same neighborhood and decided to pop into the party, I’m pretty sure Alabama was playing. We started talking and he asked if I wanted to play a game of corn-hole with our friends Lauren and Danny. We played and continued to talk, I thought he was nice and we ended up talking pretty much the whole night until I got tired and went home. However, Clay never asked me for my number and only got my first name so I did not think anything would ever come of that first night!

I was wrong! Clay went home and started telling his roommate, Jen, about meeting me. Just so happens, Jen and I went to high school together and she found me on Facebook. About a week later, I got a Facebook message from Clay asking if I’d like to go on a date. I agreed, but ended up getting sick and having to cancel…I’m pretty sure Clay was like “Yea…sick? Sure….” But we did end up rescheduling and went to dinner and a movie. Clay bought us tickets to go see Paranormal Activity 3 (or 4? I can’t remember) haha, if you don’t know already Clay HATES scary movies, especially really really bad ones, but knows that I love them. The movie was terrible but the date was great! That was back in November of 2012…5 years later, here we are!

Clay proposed just before New Years right before a special date to The Fig Tree in Charlotte, North Carolina.  This active, camping, fun-loving couple now live in South Carolina, but will always have a place on the family farm!

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