Lindsey – One word to describe Robby–Lovely    (Cat breed: red Persian)
Robby – One word to describe Lindsey–Radiant   (Cat breed: Scottish fold shorthair)


How did you get engaged? --Robby proposed on Christmas night at a bar called Bottletree back home (Birmingham, AL). It’s an awesome eclectic music venue and cafe–the best you can do by far in Birmingham. We popped some Andre to celebrate.

the “first look” captured before the ceremony


What is the official name for the bridesmaid color – I believe J Crew named the bridesmaids’ dresses Dusty Shale. J Crew has such a way with words, you know. I have no idea how that reflects the color of the dress. The dresses were neither dusty nor shale looking. I suppose it is supposed to sound romantic. To me, the color looked more like a muted mint green.



How did you two meet?–Unfortunately we don’t have some cutesy story about how we met. We went to the same high school and college. We never formally met, we’ve more or less been aware of each other throughout the years. I’ve known Robby’s brother for a long time, which is how I knew of Robby. Around my junior year of college, I started hanging out more around them on weekends and I guess it led to Robby asking me on a date. We’ve been together ever since.


the kiss!


Lindsey your creativity for this wedding blew me away. What was one of your favorite diy wedding projects?–
Oh thank you! My favorite project was creating the table numbers. I was inspired by a post from Project Wedding about DIY framed table numbers. Audubon actually had framed table numbers, but I wanted to make my own that reflected my own personal style. I went to the thrift store and bought various frames and basically stapled fabrics samples that I bought from craft stores to the backs of them. I cut out paper and fabric hearts and glued them on. I then painted the letters/numbers and hot glued them on. I thought my mom was going to have a breakdown at Michael’s when I approached a bin of like 500 wooden, unpainted letters all meshed together and calmly pulled out each letter for the numbers. Of course, this was like two days before the wedding. It was fun making each table number different. There were only ten so it wasn’t very difficult to use different fabrics and color combinations that still managed to reflect the overall style of the wedding.

What song did you dance to for your first dance? –“Hysteric” by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

i think they had a good time

Why are you two so perfect together? — We are comfortable around very few people, but around each other, we can be be ourselves completely.


One word to describe the married life? — cozy
If your love was a book what would the title be? Mixed Tapes, Margaritas, Marriage.

Vendors:

hair/makeup: hair: Joy Almerico and Jorinda Junius makeup: a friend of mine did the bridesmaids’ makeup and my cousin (one of the bridesmaids) did mine
dress: Town and Country
flowers: Glenda Ivy
cake: Cake Creations
band: After 8

exact name of bridesmaid’s dress color? salmon

Denise – what was it like walking down the aisle?
I was strangely calm. It’s all somewhat of a blur now, but I remember just being in the moment not thinking “this is it” or “I hope I don’t trip,” but just calm and happy.

Mack- what were you thinking up on the alter?
I knew we would get married after a month of dating; three and a half years later it was finally happening.

if you two could re-live one moment from the wedding day…….
Mack: I could watch Denise come down the aisle over and over again
Denise: There isn’t a single moment I wouldn’t relive. I’d feel silly saying it was “magical” so I’m going to go back to my original one-word answer: from beginning to end it was absolutely, positively, simply FUN.

what song played for your first dance? “It Had to be You”

One word to describe the wedding day

Denise – Fun
Mack – Perfect

one word to describe the married life…
exciting

Here is Robby and Lindsey’s Engagement Shoot we did earlier this summer about a month before the wedding {which I can’t wait to post!!!!!) but let me calm down and just focus on this cute lil summer shoot.
I loooove looove loovee how bright and summery this shoot is. We shot in Audubon right in front of the country club and along the water.
enjoy the pics!! I can’t wait to post the wedding!!!

and now it’s time for….

Brian and Amanda’s Wedding!

I really enjoyed seeing these two get married. You know when you can tell two people make an amazing couple and have a really sweet personal wedding that you feel? That’s Brian and Amanda.    They got married this past June at The St Louis Hotel and they were so much fun to capture. Before the ceremony they exchanged gifts in the room and we snuck around the hotel and took fun portraits on the balconies. After a quick walk down on Bourbon Street they got married in the courtyard of the hotel.   Thank  you Amanda and Brian for sharing your day!

Wedding Vendors:
Flowers: Christina O’Malley
Dress: Ramona Keveza purchased at Fabulous Bridal in Covington, KY
Cake: Haydell’s Bakery
Band: The West End booked through White Oak productions
Wedding Favors (fans): fans from Oriental Trading Company and picture frames from Dollar General

Amanda – One word to describe Brian - Superman
Brian – One word to describe Amanda – Wonderwoman

Where did you go on your first date? The Bean Haus (a local coffee shop) and Brian had a coffee called a Bananas Foster Latte ( and we were on a blind-ish date…we met through eharmony)
Can you tell us the story of your engagement? I (Amanda) was going crazy to be married to Brian, so I just told him I wanted to get married. He kept dropping hints about the ring he designed being ready and finally one night (after I had had an awful day) we walked to get take-out dinner and while we waited for our burgers to be ready we strolled around. We were standing in front of a clock tower and Brian proposed! I said yes and I couldn’t wait to see my ring in the light (it was dark out).

What was the best part about wedding planning? I loved getting to use my creative side to make the programs and ceremony and reception decorations with the help of my family and friends. That and having a good excuse to watch Say Yes to the Dress and read wedding magazines.

How did you pick New Orleans as your destination? I searched around Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, where we live, for a great place, but nothing stood out. We had both been in and to so many weddings we wanted something out of the ordinary, so Brian said, “What about New Orleans?” . He had never been there and I went to Tulane and knew how wonderful the Big Easy would be for a wedding, so we agree on a wedding in New Orleans.

Amanda – if you could re-live any moment of the wedding day what would you re-live? The part of the ceremony when Brian and and I exchanged our wedding vows…I just loved standing their holding his hand and knowing we are going to get to spend the rest of our lives together.

Why are you two perfect for each other? I am not sure how to explain it except to say that we both like to be in the kitchen, but Brian likes it because he likes to cook and I like it because I like to bake…we have our own lives, and we have things we share.

If your love was a book. what would the title be? The Good Life

One word to describe the married life? Better

i shot a wedding last week in oakland and stayed in the city for about a week.  the pictures are from walkin’ up and down my favorite streets and having some adventures….

I finally felt connected to the city with my camera. I’ve lived in san fran on and off and I never wanted to capture it so bad in my life than in this recent trip back.   I got a coffee or a “drip” from the coffee shop on the corner and took a walk every morning.   I finally saw what I’ve felt about the city.  In turn I want to feel this way about everything wherever I am… . .

the big blue!

AMBER – one word to describe Marco~ Charming

MARCO – one word to describe Amber~Vivacious

How did you two meet?
We met through a mutual friend at an improv show we were attending. We ran into each other later that week at a club, Funky Buddha Lounge. So as the night was winding down Amber made the first move and said that I should take down her number, but only if I remember her name (my short term memory is definitely unreliable at times). Of course I got it right and the rest is history.

How did you get engaged?    It was on Valentine’s Day. I had originally planned on proposing at the site of our first date, but that never happened because Amber got called into work. Needless to say, she was zapped after putting in a full day’s worth of work. So I proposed in our living room, right when she got in from work. I put a bouquet of flowers over the ring. She saw the flowers, but didn’t notice the ring box until about 5 minutes later. She was definitely caught off guard.

AMBER – favorite wedding memory
Walking down the aisle and finally seeing Marco and his ear to ear smile.

Why are you two so perfect together? We compliment each other nicely. Like interlocking puzzle pieces!

MARCO – favorite wedding memory ~Besides exchanging our vows I’d say the reception. More specifically, the dance portion. I thought the floors were going to cave in. We took a mental snapshot during it and I swear I didn’t know so many people knew the words to Aha’s “Take On Me”.

MARCO – favorite wedding memory ~Besides exchanging our vows I’d say the reception. More specifically, the dance portion. I thought the floors were going to cave in. We took a mental snapshot during it and I swear I didn’t know so many people knew the words to Aha’s “Take On Me”.

One word to describe the married life? Whirlwind. We live in Chicago. We got married in New Orleans. Went to Riviera Maya for our honeymoon. Now we’re back and all the projects we put off because of the wedding are now back in queue.

If your love was a book what would the title be: “Amber Is The Color of Your Energy” (sorry 311 pinching your lyrics)

So what was the best part about planning your wedding? when I bought my dress and when i was done, which was literally the morning of the wedding! im a bit of a procrastinator

Brittany what was your favorite wedding accessory? Well I actually had three very close to my heart: my rosary which my

what is the exact name of the color of your bridesmaid’s dresses? cobalt, my girls looked gorgeous!

Brittany – what did you enjoy most about the wedding day? What didn’t I enjoy! Everything was even more perfect then I ever imagined…loved the reception because I got the chance to celebrate with all of our family and friends

Sean – what did you enjoy most about the wedding day? Going out after the reception until after five in the morning with a few friends!

If you could both re-live one moment from your wedding day what would it be?
Sean - our first dance together
Brittany - Mine was the moment I saw Sean at the end of the aisle waiting for me…I couldn’t wait to make it down to him!

What song did you two dance to first at your reception? Everything by Michael Buble’ … its sweet but upbeat and definitely not boring

Sean - who smashed an entire piece of cake in your face later that evening? one of my college roommates, Chris. I did the same to him at his reception