Angie {BRIDAL}

Not only was Angie STUNNING in her wedding dress, but Lownde's Grove is simply amazing.

I had so much fun, I could barely focus on the fact that I was just getting over a ridiculous stomach bug (while simultaneously catching a cold). Luckily, my sister Anna from Anna McSwain Photography was able to come along and help out.

We all had a great time and the pictures are beautiful!

Angie and Danny JUST had their wedding last week so I can FINALLY post these awesome previews (wedding previews coming soon!):

Ashley & Travis Parys - Pepper Plantation {MARRIED}

September 17th was Ashley & Travis's awesome wedding at the BEAUTIFUL Pepper Plantation!

The weather was nice and COOL and the clouds in the sky were fantastic!

We also got to work with some awesome vendors: 

Janet Meister did a superb job coordinating and decorating everything AND SHE WAS EVEN IN THE WEDDING! She did SO MUCH that day and it made our work so much easier! I highly recommend her. 

Burt from Finger Snappin' Entertainment was the DJ and HE WAS AWESOME TOO! He clearly knew what he was doing and was very confident behind a soundboard AND he actually got out and danced with everyone. He played a great mix of songs and it just made the night fly by!

This was seriously a great venue with great vendors for a beautiful wedding.

Everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves, EVERYONE (even the littlest kids!) was out on the dancefloor, the food was great and the cake was beautiful - everything was great, as it should have been to be 7 years in the making ;) :)

We had a lot of fun and we can't wait to finish all the pictures and share them with the Parys's!

Here's a sneak peek from their day:

(photo by Lesley Blanton) 

(photo by Lesley Blanton)

Courtney & Michael {ENGAGED}

Courtney wanted to have her engagement session include trains & train tracks, so after I found those awesome old trains downtown I knew exactly where we'd go! (That, and she specifically asked to go there, lol).

We had a couple of run-ins with hornet nests and we found someone's sleeping bag hidden inside (an abandoned  rail car) but we also had a lot of fun.

This is actually becoming a very popular spot in Charleston to have sessions. It'd be nice if someone would go through and actually clean up all the garbage and dangerous, rusty metal & broken glass.

Hornet's nests, HoBo sleeping bags, rusty metal shards and broken glass...we like to go on adventures for our sessions, lol.

Courtney & Michael's special day is just a few weeks away, but here are some previews of their engagement session:

Little Miss Ainsley - PREVIEWS

SHE'S HERE!
We took pictures of Ainsley when she was still living in Nicole, but now she's here and ready for the spotlight.

Sortof :)

She, mostly, cooperated and we had a lot of fun! She is SO TINY AND CUTE!
Here are some previews of the session we had with her last Friday:

There were a few times when Ainsley got too hungry to take any more pictures so we had to be patient and wait for her to finish eating...I tried my hardest to remain patient while I was playing Call of Duty: Black Ops with Nathan, lol...

and then, Ainsley had enough of me taking pictures all together, LOL...

Isn't she so funny :)