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MEET THE KIVII
Fandom means being super passionate about some particular thing. There are movie fans, wine fans, football fans, Broadway fans, etc.
We're fans of lots of things, especially of being nerdy wedding photographers, and we love hearing other people get excited about their fandom(s).
Elyssa is a double Tar Heel. John is a Clemson Tiger but cheers for UNC too (his grad school) because otherwise Elyssa would be sad.
Don't worry, we've happily (and peacefully) photographed weddings for rival fans. Everyone deserves beautiful images!
Craft beer is DELICIOUS, but high in calories.
Running is TERRIBLE, but it's great cardio.
Beer + Running = Balance
*It's okay if you're not a beer person or if you actually enjoy running, we can still be friends!
Y'all are awesome and beautiful!!
You are all so lovely and it brings me so much joy to capture that beauty in photographic form.
We love being Raleigh wedding photographers (& Durham wedding photographers, & Chapel Hill wedding photographers, etc. etc.! We love NC weddings)
He has a delightfully sarcastic wit.
He good-naturedly teases his loved ones (especially me).
He’s fiercely loyal and caring.
He’s wicked smaht (and hails from New England).
He cheers loudly for Clemson.
He started writing in notebooks to cut back on screen-time and that led (quite quickly) to collecting fountain pens!
He's an introvert.
One time, he dislocated his shoulder and he just popped it back in himself.
He’s an Apple fanboy, former programmer, and the Kivus & Camera tech support team.
His favorite movie is The Two Towers.
He's an IP attorney AND runs the best site on the internet: Rope Drop [dot] Net.
He’s really really ridiculously good-looking, but knows there’s more to life than just that.
He’s my favorite person on the planet and he makes me laugh every day.
I was a divorce attorney.
I had brain surgery.
I became a wedding photographer.
I still have the same brain, just minus a tumor.
That sort of thing resets a person's priorities, and it solidified my desire to stop practicing law and return to my roots as a photojournalist, this time documenting the pure magic and joy of love stories.
Here are some things I really love:
ASOIAF (Winds of Winter will be here soon?), The Broken Earth Trilogy, Carolina Basketball, Chapel Hill, chocolate, Disney World, double IPAs, dresses (bonus points for pockets), Durham, elephants, french fries, great television, John Kivus (duh!), the MCU, naps, photography (duh!), puppies, Raleigh, shady spots on sunny days, Star Wars, The Stormlight Archive series, thunderstorms, true crime stories, Weddings
oh, and alphabetical lists ;-)