New Additions: Prints & Products
I spent the better part of a year exploring my options as far as products and professional photography labs went to see what was a good fit for the type of items I wanted my clients to be able to call their own. Now, I hand deliver prints, albums, books, canvases and get the added bonus of watching you see that favorite moment in print! I will never go back to just uploading a file and calling it a day, printing your images is entirely too important in the long run. These are the moments your family will look back on, the albums they will flip through with their own children. Here are a few featured items that we now offer our clients!
When I began working with clients and exploring the career path of photography, I admit I really had no idea what I WANTED to offer them. I would book a shoot and deliver files without really thinking about the entire client experience. Then came my daughter, Isla. With her arrival came the departure of free time! I immediately knew that just delivering computer files of my clients' sessions was not doing them a service at all! I realized that I had the best of intentions of printing images of my own kiddo, but never the time to sit down and get it done! So, I spent the better part of a year exploring my options as far as products and professional photography labs went to see what was a good fit for the type of items I wanted my clients to be able to call their own. Now, I hand deliver prints, albums, books, canvases and get the added bonus of watching you see that favorite moment in print! I will never go back to just uploading a file and calling it a day, printing your images is entirely too important in the long run. These are the moments your family will look back on, the albums they will flip through with their own children! Here are a few featured items that we now offer our clients!
Our Leather Coffee Table Book
8x8 in size and offered in a variety of genuine leather with thick pages that lie flat when opened. Custom designed and available in 4 colors. Each book includes the digital file for all images used in the design of your book! (P.S. This also makes a great Guest Book for a wedding! Instead of the traditional guest book that you probably won't get much use out of after your big day, this book will be filled with images from your Engagement Session as well as plenty of space for guests to leave their congratulations!)
Fine Art Giclee Prints
Each print uses fade-resistant, archival quality inks and thick paper for gorgeous quality images. I am absolutely in love with these and highly recommend this product! I tested many, many, MANY photo labs and you just cannot compete with this quality print. The worst offenders for weird colors, high contrast and images that looked blurry in comparison, if you are interested, were: Walgreens, Costco and Shutterfly. This is why I think it's so important to invest in your prints after booking a shoot! You will not be disappointed! All prints come with the digital file of the image used for safe keeping.
Wooden USBs
All of our wedding packages include your image files which will be delivered on one of our new wooden USBs! Any photo session can be upgraded to include a USB of all of your shoot images as well.
Linen Accordion Albums
This is definitely a top seller lately and I completely understand why! This sweet 5x5 linen covered album opens to reveal a double-sided accordion fold album of your favorites. Enclosed in a frosted slipcover, each album holds 5 images on one side, 4 on the other. The cover uses a magnetic closure and beautiful linen comes in a variety of color options. Cream is shown below. The accordion albums are sold in a set of two identical albums, one to keep, one to gift! These make fun little gifts for parents after a wedding, grandparents for the holidays, etc! This set also includes all nine images in digital file form for safe keeping.
Dear Dads
Wishing a very Happy Father's Day to the leading men in our lives. We love you all very much!
(Our wedding photography courtesy of the amazing, Laura Ivanova Photography. Check her out!)
Dear Dad,
We were really lucky. Some Dads promise their kids the world. You actually delivered. You taught us that you never have to be just a tourist while traveling, but to really get out there and experience your environment through the people, the food, the culture. You taught us to soak it all up. Every amazing, life changing trip I ever took as a child was with you at my side, leading the way. Dad, thank you from the bottom of my heart for such an amazing gift. I only hope that I can keep that same promise for Isla. I'll never be able to thank you enough. And for all of this and so much more, I love you!
Dear Hotch, just six months after Isla made me a Mom, Charlie Layne made you a Daddy. Watching you with your little girl makes me one proud sister, you're doing a great job. Can't wait to see what the future hold for us, thank you for putting up with "the milkman's daughter" all these years. Love you!
Dear Papi,
I can only imagine all of the shenanigans Isla is going to be privy to with you in her life, and just the thought makes me so happy! Our little girl is surrounded by such strong male role models and I have a feeling that with her Papi as one of them, she's going to laugh often and establish a quick wit to match yours! I wish we all lived closer, but I promise to get this grand baby of yours up to visit as often as we can. We love you and are so grateful you are in our lives!
Happy Father's DaY TO THE LEADING MEN IN OUR LIVES! xoxo
Her 1st Word was "Dada"
I cannot explain how thankful we are for you in our lives. You & Isla have made my life, that's for sure. I will never be able to thank you enough for making us a family. We love you, from the very bottom of our hearts to the ends of the Earth. Isla is so lucky to call you her "Dada". (Now could we pleassssse work on "Mama"?) xoxo
Holy, smokes, you're a Dad! Well, Dada to be exact. When I take a step back and look at how far we've come in the fifteen years that we've been together, Babe, it really blows me away... Do you know that I knew from the very first time I saw you interacting with Miranda during your family's Disney World visit that you would be a really great Dad one day. I don't know that you believed that yet, but I saw it and just knew.
And I was so right.
The feeling that I get when I see Isla snuggled next to you on the sofa in the morning, under her fluffy robe, melting into your side with her sleepy morning face and bed head, your arm around her shoulder, watching "The Today Show" before the coffee has even been poured... I cannot explain how thankful we are for you in our lives. You & Isla have made my life, that's for sure. I will never be able to thank you enough for making us a family.
We love you, from the very bottom of our hearts to the ends of the Earth. Isla is so lucky to call you her "Dada". (Now could we pleassssse work on "Mama"?)
xoxo
Fort Fisher: Rachael & Jimmy Engagement Shoot
Warning: I make no apologies for the length of this blog post: this couple, this location, this light, their gorgeous daughter made it nearly impossible to narrow down my favorites, so we're just going to share a TON! I am so happy for these two and beyond excited to photograph their Wilmington wedding this fall!
Warning: I make no apologies for the length of this blog post: this couple, this location, this light, their gorgeous daughter made it nearly impossible to narrow down my favorites, so we're just going to share a TON! I am so happy for these two and beyond excited to photograph their Wilmington wedding this fall!
The River Room: Ali & Joe Wilmington Wedding Recap
With only one other wedding under my belt at the time, that thrill of being asked to photograph a wedding steps up a few notches when it's a person you know and think the world of, watching a friend surrounded by so much love and happiness... it's amazing, really! Ali & Joe, thank you for including us on your wedding day at Wilmington's River Room, it was fantastic!
It's hard to believe this wedding was a few years ago now! Only my second wedding, but probably one of my favorites thus far! That thrill of being asked to photograph a wedding steps up a few notches when it's a person you know and think the world of, watching a friend surrounded by so much love and happiness... it's amazing, really! Ali & Joe, thank you for including us on your wedding day at Wilmington's River Room, it was fantastic!
St. James Plantation: Vanessa & Aj's Wedding Revisit
One of my favorite St. James Plantation weddings to date with an absolutely beautiful couple inside and out, surrounded by adoring friends & family members, so much laughter and fun and the most joyous vibe in the air... this was a wedding to remember, folks! Now throw in three sets of twins to include both the bride AND the groom, a ton of super sweet DIY details, dueling pianists & a surprise "Top Gun"-esque serenade from the groom and his groomsmen to his bride!
This post has been such a long time coming! After posting their latest session, a beautiful beach maternity shoot you can find here, I realized that somehow I hadn't blogged one of my favorite St. James Plantation weddings to date! An absolutely beautiful couple inside and out surrounded by adoring friends & family members, so much laughter and fun and the most joyous vibe in the air... this was a wedding to remember, folks! Now throw in three sets of twins to include both the bride AND the groom, a ton of super sweet DIY details, dueling pianists & a surprise "Top Gun"-esque serenade from the groom and his groomsmen to his bride! Vanessa & AJ, thank you so much for including us on your big day and we cannot wait to meet your little one!
Leland: Isla Maeve
Summer days are here again! This year, our little kiddo is such a FUN age and luckily, she still tolerates the impromptu photo shoot from Mom! Thought I'd share a few of my current faves of this little darlin': Pokey, Chi Chi, Honeybuns, Honey Bunny, Babycakes or as she's sometimes called, Isla.
Summer days are here again! This year, our little kiddo is such a FUN age and luckily, she still tolerates the impromptu photo shoot from Mom! Thought I'd share a few of my current faves of this little darlin': Pokey, Chi Chi, Honeybuns, Honey Bunny, Babycakes or as she's sometimes called, Isla.
Oak Island: Vanessa & AJ's Maternity Session
Welllll... seeing as it has been two years since their BEAUTIFUL wedding and I have yet to post it (GASP...how did I miss that one??? Oh wait. I had a baby, lol), I am going to have to revisit that on the blog sooner than later! But for now, let's work our way from the present backwards and begin with this stunning maternity session on Oak Island & St. James for Vanessa & AJ!
Welllll... seeing as it has been two years since their BEAUTIFUL wedding and I have yet to post it (GASP...how did I miss that one??? Oh wait. I had a baby, lol), I am going to have to revisit that on the blog sooner than later! But for now, let's work our way from the present backwards and begin with this stunning maternity session on Oak Island & St. James for Vanessa & AJ!
St. James Plantation: A & B Wedding
Happy 1st Wedding Anniversary to Annette & Bob! Thank you for inviting me into your world for a day to photograph your beautiful St. James wedding! Here's to many more years of wedded bliss in your future!
Happy 1st Wedding Anniversary to Annette & Bob! Thank you for inviting me into your world for a day to photograph your beautiful St. James wedding! Here's to many more years of wedded bliss in your future!
Wrightsville Beach: Tandra's Maternity Session
I love our neighborhood. Not only are there a ton of young families around, but also some pretty fantastic photo clients to boot! Tandra and her gorgeous family joined me one afternoon for her maternity photo shoot at Wrightsville Beach. Her girls are lovely and they are soon to be joined by one more little princess, any day now! Congratulations, Tandra & family, you are simply beautiful and what a lucky little girl to be joining all of you!
I love our neighborhood. Not only are there a ton of young families around, but also some pretty fantastic photo clients to boot! Tandra and her gorgeous family joined me one afternoon for her maternity photo shoot at Wrightsville Beach. Her girls are lovely and they are soon to be joined by one more little peanut, any day now! Congratulations, Tandra & family, you are simply beautiful and what a lucky little one to be joining all of you!
