Pick up the latest The Knot magazine to see a photo from Michelle and Tomi’s E-Shoot! They took advantage of their engagement photos to also create Save-the-Date photographs that we used for their custom Save-the-Date Cards! The idea is featured in The Knot’s “Photo Trends” article on page 117.

This is The Knot: Georgia, but we’ve heard that the same article is in other magazines throughout the country. We’d love to hear from you if you’ve stumbled across this photo in another state! :)

We’re so excited to see Rebecca and Will’s wedding featured on the Completely Unveiled blog!

Click on the image to see the entire post:

I entered a couple of images into the WPJA’s first quarter competition, and was SO happy to see this photograph of Sara and Itan receive mention in the Portraits category!

Here’s what the judges had to say:

“There were perhaps other more “creative” photos than this one that showed how much the photographer was thinking and working it but as far as a portrait that the subjects will cherish and love, it doesn’t get any better than this. It is a very simple and clean photo and the subjects look completely comfortable and their embrace is sincere. Wonderful light and a great job scouting this location make this a photo that is really worthy of the large check I am sure they had to make out for “wedding photography”! In this business, I’m sure it is great to win awards from your peers, but when it comes right down to it, your clients are the ones who really matter and here you have done them a great service. Excellent work!”

Hooray!

Sara and Itan, we’ll be sending you a print of this photograph, so keep a lookout for a package in the mail!

See ALL of the award-winning photographs here.

Sarah sent us this picture of their Big Print in their house. They had just received it… it’s not even out of the protective plastic sleeve yet! 

Her Facebook commentary:

“the almasy’s have totally blown me away all over again!!! i’m so excited in fact, that i didn’t even take off the wrapping yet!!! i can’t wait for dan to get out of band practice so he can see it!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU sooooo much!!!”

Love it… THANKS, SARAH!

**UPDATE: Click **HERE to see Sarah and Dan’s wedding blog, and check out the original image below:

We sent Sara and Itan some greeting cards.
And Sara sent us the craziest-cool e-mail EVER.

“oh my gosh!
we just got the thank you notes!
holy sh*t!!!! those are SO AWESOME!!!

you guys are the absolute coolest photographers i could possibly imagine…i can’t tell you how glad i am that we found you. YA’LL ARE THE BEST!!!
the picture is so beautiful, the graphic design is so flawless…you guys KEEP BLOWING MY MIND every time i turn around…

i’ve probably said it 100 times this week, i paid way more than i thought i would for photographers, but i still feel with 100% certainty that i got a GREAT deal, b/c you guys are the best, and i am sure that in a couple of years it will have cost me double to get your services…b/c you are the f-ing BEST!

THANK YOU!

thank you for everything…
i’m rambling…
eventually i’m going to regain my composure…
and then i’m going to write a bunch of blurbs about how awesome ya’ll are and attribute half to me and half to itan and send them to you for your website (if you opt to use them is up to you…but i just HAVE to scream it from the mountain top!)

-sara”

No, Sara, thank YOU for making our heads too big for our necks… and for letting us share your awesome note!

**Check it out!

I got home from our (SUPER FABULOUS) wedding on Saturday to find that the latest WPJA contest results were in! YAY!

I’m very excited to have placed 4 images this time. There are so many great shots up, and it’s an honor to see my name alongside some of my favorite photographers worldwide.

From Michelle & Tomi’s E-Shoot, in the “Engagement Portraits” category:

From Sarah & Dan’s wedding, in the “Cake Cutting” category:

From Megan & Reggie’s wedding, in the “Departure” category:

From Elli & Jason’s wedding, in the “Creative Portrait” category:

Over the holidays we asked Heather and Dirk to each select their favorite photograph from their wedding day. It’s always really fun for us to see which images really resonate with our clients, and why.

Here’s what Heather had to say:

“…How do you expect people to pick 2, btw? :) This was too difficult!

WHY? We love the lighting and how the party setting is right behind us. It captures the mood of the day. I love our shadows and the fact that it’s outside. It is posed yet not posed… comfortable looking.
Our parents say it looks like a magazine cover…

WHY? This is the picture that we refer to as our “staple.” It is so serene and the texture and colors behind us are gorgeous. It looks so natural and we feel it really captures us. We both feel beautiful in
this picture- and I think you can feel the love just looking at it.

Love, love, love this… you guys “caught” us here I do believe!!!”

Thanks so much for sharing, Heather!

Oh, and for all of our couples out there who are still in the planning stages of their wedding, Heather has launched her own event planning service in the southeast! Check out her beautiful website here: Event Jolie, complete with some of our images from her own wedding! FUN!