After shooting Kylie and Mac’s Stonegate Mansion wedding this March, I ended up receiving multiple social media comments saying that this couple looked like “my type of couple” and their wedding looked like “my type of wedding.” I enjoyed that this was so evident, because it really couldn’t be truer. Kylie and Mac are so much so my ideal clients that on several occasions during their bride-groom portraits I found “I LOVE YOU GUYS,” just involuntarily spilling out of my mouth. Sorrynotsorry.

I can’t pinpoint it exactly but perhaps part of what draws me to them is the genuine that comes with them. That’s right, I used “genuine” as a noun — just go with it. It comes out in their facial expressions, exudes from their postures. They lived their wedding day instead of letting the day or the traditions run them over. They never got lost in it. I love it when that happens and I do just love Kylie and Mac. There, I said it again.

So here’s the deal, Kylie loves, loves this tree. In fact, her plan was to get married underneath it but rain was forecast for their wedding day, so the ceremony was moved inside Stonegate Mansion but we decided to have the first look unfold under the tree if weather permitted. Well, we made the weather permit because even though it was sprinkling ever so lightly, the leaves of the tree were so dense that as long as Kylie and Mac were underneath it, they stayed dry. So while Kylie didn’t get married under the tree, it was the place she got to see her groom for the very first time that day — yay!

Y’all, I cannot handle how Kylie and her parents are all making the exact same facial expression in these next two images. SO CUTE.

Kylie’s father convinced them to serenade us with the last song and these two musicians so kindly obliged. It was the best thing ever.

 Thank you, Kylie and Mac. It was such a joy getting to know you both in this season. Just, thank you.