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Meet ROBYN & MATT: Matt had his bachelor party the night before our engagement shoot.. for you future couples…. this is not the best time to decide to walk around Charleston in the elements if you aren’t quite feeling up to par. But he cheesed it up for me quite well… and nearly got attacked by a pigeon but was all worth the while. OH, the things you do for love! Now, take a look at this couple-in-love before they TIED THE KNOT!
 Led Zeppelin style. Had a whole lotta love the past few weeks, so much love I’m having trouble keeping up with it all. But I’m gonna start with Morgan and Michael. Here’s their facebook image. I met Morgan when I met Brice and Kim one evening {{ Everyone know Kim and Brice? May 2 yrs ago they tied the knot! }}. She was introduced to me as the ‘artist sister’ of Brice. My ears perked up right away. An artiste? EXCITING! Her artwork is fabulous! And if I had her link I would include it.. but for now, I’m just going to tell you… she’s fantabulous good!
Flowy dress + Windy = YUMMY
I love her skirt.. she wore flowy, feminine clothes… and that seemed to photograph VERY well. It fit her eclectic, romantic whimsical nature. She has the fashion sense I always wished I could adopt.
That’s a GREAT looking couple. Magazine worthy.
One of my newest ventures is lighting. I couldn’t get enough of that skyline and how warm it was. This was prob about 830 in the evening and I picked up just the slightest warm light on the horizon and thought it looked so beautiful. I love how Morgan is just illuminated with some backlighting. SEXY.
Sigh. There it is again. I love these shots. Can’t deny. Good night — please don’t forget to do a nice thing for one of our couples and lend them your vote! Until next time xoxoxo
1 comment February 7, 2010 - 3:03 am
what a great site and informative posts, I will add a backlink and bookmark your site. Keep up the good work!  I am going to post photos and come back and ad lib later. I wrote this blog twice now and the computer locked up on me both times and deleted my info. I am running short on time but will amend this to include a little bit of charisma, if I can find some.
Will add more later.
1 comment August 5, 2009 - 1:10 am
These are beautiful! I LOVE the first one. Great work!  And they took me along with them. So.. how excited was I to do this shoot? Pretty daggone excited. I love challenging myself and stepping it up! And welcomed it eagerly! I met Candice because she owns Yoj designs and events. She is a wedding planner locally here in Charleston, and does beautiful, customized work. You should check her out!! I was initially struck by her warm friendly nature. She has this GORGEOUS red hair and a smile that just makes the room glow. We hit it off and was one of those meetings where we had to make ourselves leave b/c conversations flowed, it was like hanging out with an old buddy. We kept in touch back and forth in both our busy lives and she wanted to get together for margaritas. I thought it was b/c I was such a cool cat, but I soon learned that Erich had proposed and she herself was in the midst of planning her own wedding!! And she wanted no other than ME to shoot her wedding!!! I had to say. I was so flattered. She has access to numerous photographers and there are PLENTY in Charleston. For her to like my work well enough to hire me for her own wedding is one of the best compliments I’ve received. So we talked…. Erich is in the Navy and they have a rich history on the water, and in the water. She certainly doesn’t seem like the ‘typical’ everyday bride. She told me she hired me for D.I.F.F.E.R.E.N.T!! *gasp, me?* .. so different we worked on. I had always wanted to shoot underwater images so Candice was the perfect guinea pig. I know this isn’t for everyone but I love her willingness to be unusual! Fun for me. Awesome images for HER.
Might I mention, she also didn’t wear your everyday bathing suit. Now, why would she? She had heels on, bright pink heels, I might add.. and a black dress that had a crinoline skirt, lots of jewelry and a hairpiece we kept fishing out of drains that resembled a peacock… she was going for fun and FAB! Mission complete.
The underwater housing for these cameras are Sooo expensive. I thought I might want to do this more often, but not sure I can afford to. Oh, I also don’t have a pool, but if you want to donate yours that’s one step closer.
We had a sexiest hair toss competition. I dunno, it’s still a toss up!
And when Candice pointed her pruny, wrinkled finger at me…. I knew we were done! What a fun, invigorating shoot! I loved stepping it up! We will be getting married in April and I can’t wait. It will be a GALA affair, to say the least!
1 comment July 29, 2009 - 9:26 pm
Too much fun! I love seeing what you come up with, and I never know what you are going to do next. Well done, Tomme!  What a story! Trisha and Ryan. Got married July 5th at The Historic Rice Mill . { Insert photo }
The event planning was smoothly ran by OOH ( Out of Hand) Events.
The delish little well worth it calorie delights was thanks to delight petits.
These things looked so amazing and I forgot to get one. Well seeing them now, at 1230 am makes me want to run to King St for a sugar rush.
As the girls were getting ready in these cool green dresses. Trisha and Roz decided to sashay. I think AMTM would be impressed!
Does this give you an indication of how cool Trisha is? I mean, honestly.. I could have posted this as the first shot and you could just tell how much fun and spirit she has. She and I vibed so well from day one. She is upbeat and fun, and loves to dance. The girls danced most of the time they were getting ready. It was fun, energetic and I’m sure it kept her mind off being nervous.
This was on our way to see Ryan for the first time. They met before the ceremony for their pictures and they both were SO nervous! It was so cute! I get anxious for them when I do these shoots too.. how long they’ve waited for this moment and how much planning involved…..
So here is where the convict story begins. Ryan asked me to come to the gas station with them to get some brews. We decided to take a pic of the guys sitting down chilling out for a few minutes with their brew. WELL……..http
So the guys got this beer for the photo op. Some guys weren’t from here and didn’t know how easy going our Charleston Police Dept can be at times. smirk. So the cop car was a female cop who happened to pull in at the same time we started the pics. The guys, not thinking about anything but having to get there ON TIME got in the car with the beer, the OPEN beer can. You pretty much get where this is going, right? So, she had a SWELL sense of humor, I must add. She came right to the windows of the vehicle searching for contraband.. and whaddya know, found what she was looking for! Lotsa guys, in rare form, open beer and ready to party! Ugh, this wasn’t looking good for us. Ryan, in his best spirits tells her not to worry we were just doing SHOTS! I quickly intervened and let her know that we weren’t doing ’shots’ but were taking photos! This could have went south fast! Needless to say, thankfully for those photos Ryan had proof as to why he almost didn’t make it to his own wedding!
So, it’s 1:30 am and I have a bridal meeting in the morning so I am saying Sayonara? and Thanks to Trisha and Ryan for the amount of time you gave me. They are off to Paris for their Honeymoon! xoxo
2 comments September 9, 2009 - 12:35 pm
Great site…keep up the good work. July 14, 2009 - 12:27 pm
Awesome! I definitely LOVE all your detail shots. They are just SUPERB. Very beautiful. |
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