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I’m just going to come right out and say it — Nabila and Aly are a gem of a couple.

I love that just looking at each other makes them laugh. I love that it’s evident how much they treasure getting to be together — probably because they’ve been a long-distance couple for the majority of their relationship. And I love that they’ll never be long distance again with their impending October wedding.

All of it just makes my heart happy.

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 I’m so thrilled to be the photographer you’ve chosen to document this sweet engagement and wedding season. Thank you, thank you.

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A week ago today James and I flew out to the Virgin Islands. We met up with this awesome couple on Monday morning, flew out in a helicopter for their beach ceremony, and took lots of photos.

It was awesome.

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More of Erin and Wes’ island wedding to come.

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Meet Maddie and Christopher, the JZP New Year Wedding Giveaway winners.

I can’t really pinpoint exactly why I chose them out of the stack of entries.

Honestly, the best I can explain it is that they’re basically just awesome.

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They’re both baristas so of course we had to figure out a way to work a french press into the session.

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Fun fact: Before they were engaged Christopher bought this dress for Maddie as a Christmas present with the secret motive of her wearing it in their engagement photos — as he already had the proposal on his mind. The man’s got style.

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In brainstorming ideas before a session sometimes a particular movement will come to mind for a particular couple. The image above was the idea that my brain gave me specifically for Christopher and Maddie.

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Looking back on the session, the dreary, windy weather sets the perfect mood in these images but in the moment I had not been super-pumped about the weather up to this point in the session.

But then we were gifted with this sunset.

And it was all okay.

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Yep. Christopher and Maddie, I think you guys are awesome.

Just thought you should know.

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I’d like to start off this post by saying: “HAPPY WEDDING DAY, MORGAN AND TYLER!!”

I wish I could be there documenting it but since I couldn’t, I’m so happy that I was able to share in this season of y’all’s lives by taking your engagement photos.

The three of us met up in Tolar (my tiny hometown — WOO!) a couple of weeks back to wander around Tyler’s family’s land and snapping some pictures while we were at it. I had such a great time photographing these two lovebirds.

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I’m so happy for you two. Just in spending two hours with both of you together it feels like y’all truly bring out the best in each other. And I like that.

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