A Butterfly Wedding at Maple Grove Estate It has been nearly 2 years since I first took this couple’s engagement photos at Baxter Gardens. It was so springy and colorful and fun. They were originally supposed to get married in May of 2022, but just a couple weeks beforehand, Samantha broke her foot. I felt […]

My Favorite Weddings from 2022 How appropriate is it for my 2022 Wedding Favorites to fall on Valentine’s Day? It’s like I planned it that way! Of the 30 big, full size weddings I shot this year, there was only one that was a reschedule from the 2020 chaos. That means I booked 29 full […]

If you prefer an outdoor wedding, saying your vows on a mountain top is definitely something you need to visualize. You intend to get married once in a lifetime, so why not go big and do it thousands of feet above ground level? Mountains with their greenery are among the most picturesque creations of nature; […]

Winter Wedding at The Square Room You know those people you have tons of mutual friends with but have never met before? When you finally do meet, you start realizing just how close you have come to meeting on multiple occasions? That was me with Pamela and Neal. Pamela first found me because her best […]

Winter Courthouse Elopement I first met Melissa a few years ago when I photographed her as she graduated nursing school. At that session, she mentioned she had a boyfriend she had been dating for awhile, and they hoped to get married soon. Then, the pandemic hit. Melissa is a nurse, and Brooker is in the […]

An elegant micro wedding at Homewood Castle in Asheville, NC When Savannah initially reached out to me, she and Will were planning to get married at the downtown Asheville courthouse. They are both from Knoxville, and when I asked her, “Why Asheville?” she just said she thinks it’s pretty. They reserved their date with me, […]

A little boy newborn session at The Studio at Fountain City This little boy is named Charles Gash, but he goes by Cal. We did his newborn session in my studio right before we left to go out of town for Christmas. It was a yucky, rainy day, but nothing could prevent the joy and […]

A Castleton Christmas Wedding for the Books When Kara described what she wanted her wedding day to look like, she literally used the phrase, “I want it to look like Christmas exploded everywhere.” When I walked into the Carriage House for this Castleton Christmas wedding, it looked exactly like Christmas exploded but in the most […]

Overcoming a Rainy Wedding at The Quarry Amy is Vietnamese, Antonio is Hispanic, and both are Catholic. Between the two of them, there were LOTS of traditions on their wedding day; none of which included a bunch of tiny pop-up rain showers! When I checked the weather the night before their wedding, it said 18% […]

Tropical Castleton Wedding I bet you stopped and looked at that header twice didn’t you? Hawaiian wedding? At Castleton Farms? She must be mistaken. I am not, my friends. It was, indeed, a Hawaiian wedding at Knoxville’s luxury wedding venue Castleton Farms. But how? Well, the bride and her family are from Hawaii. They lived […]