Well the time has come to play a little catch up on the blog. I love my blog because it is exactly what I want it to be. A place for me to not only share my personal life and accomplishments with you guys (did you see my last post?) but also a place for you to get to know me and what I do a little bit better.

Michael and Le’Ann belong to two families that Kyle and I have known literally almost our entire lives. From GT teachers to church youth programs to kindergarten teacher to church choir director, these two families have been around for a lot of the milestones in our lives. And their families have been intertwined with one another in pretty much every sense but marriage…until now.

When Michael and Le’Ann were cosmically forced back into one another’s lives by sharing living space in Brooklyn..I’ve heard it was fireworks from the start. These two have both been away from our hometown for years and years and when Le’Ann called Michael’s brother Chris and told him she needed a place to stay because she got a job in New York, he immediately invited her to his place. Having been friends for years, he knew she’d be most comfortable there. That good old West Texas hospitality sticks with you, I’m tellin y’all.

So when Chris’s younger brother Michael and Le’Ann fell in love. I don’t think too many people were what you’d call “shocked.” When I first started seeing photos of them together on facebook, I just smiled and thought, “Of course. It’s amazing that hadn’t happened before.” And I think to say that their families were thrilled would be maybe the biggest understatement of my life.

This wedding day was full of so much encouragement, hope and love. And rain. Lots of rain. (Sidenote: in our crazy busy season of the Fall it seemed like the rain was following us around. We got really good at shooting in the rain. Really good. And really confident that our equipment could handle a few raindrops as well, which was cool.) Le’Ann told me several times that everything they did on their wedding day they were doing for a purpose. When they saw each other before the wedding, it was in the middle of their ceremony site, a circle, surrounded by their families and friends in their wedding party. I couldn’t explain to you the beautiful symbolism of the circle better than Le’Ann did herself:

“The circle of life comes up again and again in the images and words spoken during the ceremony. it’s extremely important to me to gather all the love and goodwill we can muster and take that gift of love into our marriage. It’s also very important to me that everyone who attends the ceremony feels love from us in kind.”

If you were a guest, a caterer, a family member, or even someone walking by this beautiful community center on this crazy rainy day, I don’t think you could have ignored the love and goodwill radiating from this place.

Le’Ann and Michael, I hope upon hope that you felt that love in return, and that you saw it reflected on one another’s faces through these photos. I know we did. Thank you so much for allowing us to be part of that day!

I hope you guys enjoy this blog post, it’s been a long time in the making!