Getting an email from Sarah has been the highlight of my day for the past several months.  She makes me laugh every time, whether we’re discussing which locations to choose for a shoot, what the travel plans will be, or a nightmare she had the night before.  She is just a hoot I tell you! :0)  She’s also all about having a wedding that is the antithesis of wedding stereotypes which makes her my favorite kind of bride.  I mean, you know she’s taking her wedding down an alternative path, just by looking at her dress.  LOVE. IT.  We shot her bridal session a couple of weeks back, but we had to hold off on showing the sneak peek until after her wedding and I’ve been dying to post these!  We had the best time and can you guess from the images where we shot?  It was such a fun location!

Sarah and Neil, we wish we would have been available to shoot your wedding!  I’m sure it was phenomenal and I’m so excited to see your photos! :0)

A few weeks back I saw a posting on twitter from a fellow photographer out in California.  He posted a link and said it was the coolest thing he’d seen in a long time, so of course I had to go check it out.  What I found was Lydia Shannon – an incredible woman who was doing everything in her power to raise money for breast cancer research through the Susan G. Komen Foundation.  She was gathering together photographers who were willing to auction off mentoring sessions, photography sessions, and photography products.  The goal: to raise 10,000 dollars!  $10,000!  And she didn’t stop there.  Lydia vowed that if she was able to raise all of the money, she would go one giant, daring step further in her efforts and shave her head in order to donate ALL of her hair to Locks of Love.  Wow.  We’ve never met Lydia before, but Sean and I are big fans of lofty goals and brave maneuvers and we knew that we wanted to help!

We will be auctioning off a one-hour mentoring session to be conducted via phone or video-chat.  It can be held in person too if you’d like to come see us and if you do make your way down to Nashville, lunch is on us! :0)  In our time together, we would love to help you with whatever it is you’re struggling with about your business and we promise to be an open book.  The auctions start on Thursday, October 14th and ends on Tuesday, October 19th.  As soon as our auction goes live, I’ll be posting a link to it here in this post.

In the meantime, we need your help!  Please spread the word about F/Stop Breast Cancer and please please come bid on our auction!  We want to help Lydia raise as much as we possibly can and we guarantee it will be worth your while!  You can also follow along in Lydia’s progress toward her goal by following her on twitter: @lydiashannon or following the hashtag #fstopbreastcancer

We can’t wait to see all of the good that comes from this!  Thank you Lydia for putting it all together, and thank you all in advance for helping to make it a success!

You may remember Josh and Ting from the trip we took with them to Iceland earlier this year.  This past weekend was their wedding celebration extravaganza in NYC and we were thrilled to be there and take part!  These guys did it right – marriage ceremony in February, amazing trip and photo shoot in June, and two days of celebration with friends and family in September — they got married all year long! :0)

While we were in town, we took these guys around for a little NYC couple’s shoot and here are a few of our favorites:

Josh and Ting actually got married at the Apple flagship store in NYC on Valentine’s day.  I was very very pregnant at the time and unable to make the trip so I’m so glad Sean was able to get out late with them one night and get fun images like this to commemorate their ceremony. :0)

Ting and Josh – we miss you guys already!  Come see us in Tennessee very soon! — Or we could come back to New York – you know, twist our arm. ;0) Congratulations to you both! We heart you guys!