Shannon & Tucker's Wedding at St. Matthews & Thornblade Country Club

It's almost Wedding Festival time again and we are working on lots of ideas to make our booth extra cool this year, as well as creating a shiny new website. Needless to say we are pretty busy and have let the blog slip a bit but this week we intend to remedy that. Here are a few (okay quite a few) of our favorites from a recent wedding with the very fun and very awesome couple, Shannon & Tucker.


Every bride needs an entourage.





Love this one. Shannon is gorgeous anyway but the light was making her even more glowing.





There she goes glowing again! This time helped by a little backlighting by us.





Shannon and her girl's putting their diva hats on...


...and then going nuts!

While we are on the subject of craziness,
here is an outtake we have appropriately titled "Crazy Eyes"! (inside joke)


Love the emotion from Shannon's mom and dad.











Tucker's dad/best man definitely approved of Tucker's beautiful bride as she walked down the aisle.


Emily's View (left), Curtis' View (right)


















Another gorgeous creation by Holly's Cakes complete with flowers by Dahlia.


There was a wonderful range of emotions during the father-daughter dance.







So everyone started dancing, having a good time when out of nowhere...

BAM!


From the looks of it, everyone else was just as shocked as we were.


And then Shannon rocked out on the cow bells along with the band, Threshold. They did a great job keeping the party going.


Then after it was all over, we followed the newlyweds back to the Westin Poinsett for some end of the night romantic portraits.




How hot are these lovebirds?!


We'd say pretty dang HOT!!!



Curtis & Emily
Kismet Photography

Amy & Jeff's Wedding & Day After Portraits

Dunkin' Donuts or Krispy Kreme? That is the question...or at least it's the one thing we know Amy & Jeff can't agree on. But that's ok. What would marriage be without it's compromises and differences of opinion? So if brands of delectable pastries (we personally would eat either by the dozen and be happy!) is the biggest thing they don't see eye to eye on, then these newlyweds will have a long and happy marriage.

They certainly got off to a great start with a beautiful ceremony at Memorial United Methodist in Greer followed by a karaoke-esque reception at the always wonderful Wyche Pavilion. They then took a two week honeymoon to Australia! (read: we're jealous) If they can survive that long of a plane ride with a screaming baby on board followed by the worst possible jet lag ever (read: not so jealous), all while still loving each other, then they are made for each other.



How appropriate.







Their "First Look":
Amy looks a little nervous but that certainly went away once they locked eyes.


We love our "First Looks"! Grooms are so much more emotional when they're not standing up in front of everyone they know. And we are able to capture it from much better vantage points, as opposed to being restricted to the balcony 200ft away like in so many churches. Not to mention everyone is fresh for pictures and full of excitement...

...like so:



And the groom off to the side always gets the best smile/laugh out of the bride.





Definitely a favorite!





Love the reflection of the church, hate the power lines. But whatcha gonna do?!

Well, we're gonna take the shot because it's cool and then remove the power lines for the couple's album, like so:
Then we send a bill for our digital artwork fee to the electric company ;)





These girls were really bustin' a move! The one on the right looks straight out of a Beyonce video. Can you say "Single Ladies"?

But Jeff's mom was not to be outdone by a couple of tots hopped up on sugar, ohhh no.



And the rock power ballads made for some impromptu karaoke. Can't you just hear "Don't stop belieeeeving, hold on to that feeaeeaaling"!







Before the newlyweds whisked off to the other side of the globe, we had a little more fun at their Day After shoot.

Love the sun on Amy's gorgeous red hair.








What would a shoot with them be without a little of Jeff's signature goofiness?!


Curtis & Emily
Kismet Photography

Jessica & Brad's Wedding at Christ Church & The Wyche Pavilion

What do you get when you add a reception full of lawyers, alcohol and a bunch of left-over sparklers? Well apparently a fire that required an extinguisher to put out. We had already left with the couple for some end-of-the-night shots but we heard the tale later. Luckily no one was injured. The rest of the day was catastrophe-free though and everyone had a great time despite the relentless heat.

Please enjoy some of our favorites from Jessica & Brad's beautiful wedding.








What a gorgeous bride Jessica made.





The beautiful Christ Church in all it's splendor! Truly capturing the amazing (and bright) stained glass in such a dark church does pose a photographic problem though. This is actually two shots combined to retain the detail and color in the glass but still have the ceremony scene well exposed. It's just one more extra touch that we feel is an important one and makes us not just photographers but photographic artists.


We loved the expressions as they burst through the church doors. This and several others made a great series in the couple's album.


Love it!














Jessica's uncle was quite the dancer and it sure looked like he had fun. Don't you just love cooky old guys?!


Brad rocking out with the awesome band Hit Mob 7. Definitely a band to scope out if you are looking for crowd-pleasing live music.





What makes this exit even more cool is that Brad and his dad have been restoring this antique Datsun since he was a teenager.


So naturally it had to have it's own photo shoot...



And of course we could not leave their furry friend, Rutledge, out of the fun. After all, they even made a lil' doggie tux for him. What a handsome devil!



Curtis & Emily
Kismet Photography