It’s no secret when it comes to planning a wedding that most of us are on a budget! Join a wedding facebook group or look at your feed and you’ll likely see someone posting about wedding planning and being faced with the challenge of how they’re going to afford everything. One of the biggest dilemmas we see as wedding photographers are couples not only trying to figure this out but also how to have ‘their version' of a nice wedding on a budget! I say their version because

Last year we attended Imaging USA for the first time! It’s a great conference for photographers of all levels, from beginners and hobbyists to well seasoned professionals, although I would say it definitely caters to the professional. Last year we learned a ton, gained a lot of new perspective, and at times we were partially overwhelmed with the expo as well! In addition to all of the presentations on technical skills, lighting, editing, marketing, inspiration, and busines

The last few years we’ve always done an end of the year recap of all of the couples we’ve worked with for their wedding days! After a few years we can say it's something we look forward to. It feels like a tradition and something we intend on continuing for the future! For us it’s always a little mind blowing looking back over everything and recalling the the fun days, touching moments, and inspiring people. In retrospect, it always feels like a lot but in truth it’s only

They say rain on your wedding day is good luck, so what happens when a hurricane hits on your big day? Well, if you’re Ashleigh and Byron, you embrace the massive amount of luck and roll with it! Truth be told everyone hopes that on the day their wedding finally arrives everything goes perfectly. When you start envisioning what it’s going to look like, the smiles, the love, the florals, the cake, dancing the night away, rain usually isn’t on the list no matter how much goo

What do middle school sweet hearts, great beer, and proposals have in common? Kaitlin and Brett! These cuties have been dating since Brett was 13 and Kaitlin was 15, and to hear him tell the story, they have been together ever since! Almost 9 years to be exact! After a recent move to NC to begin grad school at UNC, Brett told us that Kaitlin dropped everything to move there with him so they could be together. He could hardly wait to ask her to spend the rest of her life

Few things in life make us as happy as a happy couple totally in love and enjoying their big day! On the flipside of that, it can really cast a shadow on the wedding day when the bride or groom are stressed out! As wedding photographers, we have the ultimate insider look during the day as the majority of our wedding day is observation, so we get to see everything! Between last year and this year our team will have shot over 100 weddings and there are some definite trends we

Every new year brings new opportunities for us and with those opportunities we meet new friends and get to go to some pretty amazing new places! One of those new places to us this year has been the Rex Allen Events center in Hickory, NC! Being based out of a beautiful area like Asheville, most of our wedding photography and engagement photography is centered around local venues in the area. But of course, if you venture just outside of Asheville in just any direction, you’

There’s something to be said about awesome dance photos at a wedding! You have people in the moment, not a care in the world, generally an awesome feeling has taken them over, and boom! Photo gold for your memories! After photographing 50+ weddings this year, we definitely noticed if you want to take your dance photos to the next level and get the wedding reception moving, these are definitely the 5 songs to have on your play list. Now I will say, most of our clientele thi

As a wedding photographer, I can tell you that we get the opportunity to take tons of amazing photos for couples during their engagements and weddings. Everything from getting ready, to walking down the isle, the bride and groom saying I do and kissing, the father daughter dance, the cake cutting, you name it. Probably my personal favorite when looking back on a wedding or engagement are the up close and personal moments or as we like to call them the intimate details. Arm

Hey everybody, if you've been following our journey for a while now, you've probably noticed our wedding photography split up by some interesting events for local community organizations. We've reached out and covered everything from local mountain bike races to 'human' foosball! One of the organizations we hold very near and dear and are honored to have been a part of for a couple of their recent events. One of the things we wanted to do was give back to the community and