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Brick & Mortar Events Wedding for Stacy & Dax Dax & Stacy’s wedding at Brick and Mortar Events in Clayton, NC was green and gold and full of emotion AND dancing. In a word, delightful. This was my first time at downtown Clayton’s Brick & Mortar Events venue but I definitely hope it won’t be […]

Brick & Mortar Events wedding in Clayton, NC

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Brick & Mortar – Clayton Wedding

March 10, 2022

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Monica & Matthew’s Orlando Destination Wedding When you’re a Disney lover like Monica, and grow up going on vacation in central FL a lot you kind of have to have an Orlando destination wedding. Monica loves Disney World as much as, if not more, than John and I do, and she grew up going to […]

Orlando Destination Wedding - wedding portraits at Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress

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Orlando Destination Wedding

March 2, 2022

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Stephenie & Matt’s Durham NC Winter Wedding You already know how much we love the Cotton Room in the winter time – the decor is perfect and the bricks are just the right kind of cozy for the Durham NC winter wedding season. Stephenie & Matt fell in love with it too and knew it […]

Durham NC Winter Wedding portraits at the Cotton Room

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Durham NC Winter Wedding

February 25, 2022

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Shady Wagon wedding in the fall It’s been a bit since we had a wedding at Shady Wagon farm, and it was so nice to be back for Sara & Ben’s wedding on Saturday. Despite the December date, we had pretty nice and mild weather for most of the day. Which was great because Sara […]

Shady Wagon Farm wedding

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Fall Wedding at Shady Wagon Farm

December 16, 2021

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Graham Mill wedding filled with delightful nerdiness!! This was my first wedding at Graham Mill and it was the best experience! I first met Susan & Adam at a wedding show where she showed me her incredible custom Harley Quinn claddagh ring and I knew that I would be devastated if they didn’t book me. […]

Loved all the rainbows and nerdiness at this Graham mill wedding

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Nerdy Graham Mill Wedding

November 23, 2021

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Museum Wedding in downtown Raleigh, NC It was back to back museum wedding weekends for us in the last weekend of October/first weekend of November. We had Rachael & Andrea on Halloween at the Museum of Life and Science in Durham, and then 6 days later, Sarah & Adam here got married at the North […]

NC Science Museum Wedding portraits

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NC Science Museum Wedding

November 13, 2021

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Edgar Allan Poe Wedding on Halloween! Rachael & Andrea’s Halloween wedding included an appearance by Edgar Allan Poe. It was to die for and The Bells were jingling and tinkling. (Sorry, not sorry). These ladies got married at the Museum of Life and Science in Durham on Halloween night and it was truly POEtic. (You […]

Halloween wedding at Museum of Life and Science in Durham

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Halloween wedding featuring Edgar Allan Poe

November 9, 2021

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Greensboro Wedding at Barber Park Event Center Remember Claire & Ben from just a couple weeks ago? They just had their wedding celebration at Barber Park Event Center Saturday!! And it was awesome. Just wait until you see all the emotions at their first look. These two are just the sweetest and their friends and […]

Gateway Gardens wedding portraits

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Barber Park Event Center Wedding

November 4, 2021

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Stephanie & Zach at the Matthews House in Cary, NC In one of our most emotion-filled weddings of the year, Stephanie & Zach tied the knot at the Matthews House in Cary last weekend. I knew from my first call with these two that there would be happy tears on the wedding day. Both of […]

If you're wearing a veil on your wedding day, you have to get veil photos

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Matthews House, Cary Wedding

October 24, 2021

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Part 2 of Joe & Allegra’s Wilmington Wedding Do you remember the fun we had for part 1 of Joe & Allegra’s Wilmington wedding journey? If not, check it out here. Last year they had their intimate wedding ceremony at the Brooklyn Arts Center, with just a small beach gathering after. This year, we got […]

Wilmington wedding at Brooklyn Arts Center Annex

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Wilmington Wedding at Brooklyn Arts Center

October 21, 2021