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A trip to Asheville, NC

April 8, 2012

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Hi Friends!

I hope everyone has had a great Easter! A few weeks ago, Chris and I traveled to Asheville with our good friends Mandy and Dave! Mandy was shooting a wedding at the beautiful Grove Park Inn, and brought us along as second and third shooters (always love shooting for our friends, they are so great!). The wedding was gorgeous, and we will definitely share some of those images later on, but today just wanted to share a few fun pictures Chris took on our trip 🙂 Chris borrowed a Fuji x100, which is what all of these were shot with, for you photographers out there! (Not gonna lie, it’s pretty awesome, and we’ll probably have to get one eventually!)

Friday night, Mandy and Dave were at the rehearsal dinner, so Chris and I went out into downtown Asheville. We came across an awesome restaurant, that happened to have an INCREDIBLE jazz band playing. These guys were amazing!

The next day we wandered around downtown for awhile with Mandy and Dave. Chris and Dave also started the Iron Tamer Photo Bomb series, which continued throughout the weekend haha. (By the way, Dave owns Nashville Kettlebell, and is freaking awesome!)

And finally, a quick panoramic from the ceremony site at the Grove Park Inn. Yeah, it was incredible!

Definitely a great weekend, and I just wanted to share a little glimpse into some of the fun we’ve been having this spring 🙂 Appropriate actually, since we are currently in a hotel in Asheville again, on our way to South Carolina for some shoots this week! Definitely be on the look out for more personal and client work coming later this week, and if you missed it, don’t forget to check out the sneak peek from Jenna and Tom’s Nashville engagement session yesterday!

Have a wonderful week! Happy Easter!

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Purpose and passion and the lessons of over 17 years of weddings...

I'm writing this today staring out at the bright blue Colorado sky, near Boulder, CO where I live with my husband of nearly 17 years and our 8 year old son. We moved here to chase the mountains and adventure and a life fully lived, after over a decade in Nashville, TN. 

It might seem silly to say that I believe part of my purpose here on this earth is creating photos at people’s weddings. But here’s the thing. Life is absolutely going to life. There are going to be days and seasons that are freaking hard and awful and the world feels like it’s burning down (literally, metaphorically, in all the ways). And there are going to be days full of so much love and joy and bliss and peace that you wish you could just bottle it up for all time.

And I feel so strongly that that’s WHY a wedding matters. And why your photos matter. And why making it so intentional and purposeful to you matters. To create the space to intentionally create beautiful new memories together. Because it’s a weekend to say that this love (yes, all love) and these people (yes, all people) MATTER. It exists. It is real. And it’s worth celebrating the f*** out of. In a radical defiance of everything telling us to be scared and wall up our hearts.



And it’s worth documenting. My purpose in this is to be present with what’s there on your wedding day—all the joy, love, and whatever else is showing up—and creating the record of it. A record of what is true to you. So that when the days hit hard, you can point back at this anchor of joy and love, and know that it exists. It is real. It is worth celebrating.

Sending all the love, wherever this journey of life is meeting you today. xoxo, Jen

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