Angela = Bridal Portraits

Blue Ridge Parkway Bridal Session | Angela Jeane | May 6th, 2017

This session tops ANY other for the simple fact that it’s my little SISTER’S Bridal Portrait Session!!! What an honor to be able to photograph my sister as a bride!

Angela dreamt of having her bridals on a mountain field with a mountain range in the background. After literally WEEKS of researching staying up ’til midnight each night, and with the help of a new photographer friend, Katy Sergant (see her amazing work here!) we found the PERFECT PLACE in Tennessee! We were so excited.

Unfortunately, the weather had other plans for us – and ALL mountains in western NC and Tennessee were having terrible storms the weekend of our session – so last minute we researched AGAIN and Mom found a mountain range in Virginia for our location instead!

We started the day at Merle Norman with Caroline Sharpe doing her talented makeup work – and finished the glam at Mitchell’s with Melody Raper’s beautiful up-do (sorry in advance for the wind messing up all your hard work, Melody!)

[I had the chance to actually make Angela’s bridal bouquet! Phillip and I raided Trader Joes and Whole Foods that week, and Mom and I made the bouquet THAT morning. Mad props to the “real” florists, it was really hard (sticky) work!]

After hair/makeup, we jumped in the car and drove over FOUR HOURS to our location! We finally arrived, got out, and realized it was FREEZING OUTSIDE and CRAZY WINDY!!!!!

I’d never experienced wind like that before, and I suppose it was warranted since our location was at an elevation of 3200 feet!!!! I FULLY expected Angela to pose for 10 minutes and be ready to quit – but she BLEW ME AWAY (get it?? haha) with her endurance, patience, and determination to tough it out and pose for several hours.

Our method was to quickly pose, shoot, then run back to the car to warm up. We were rushing to beat the rain, and were also dealing with an overcast sky, then a bright sky, and trying to see what the weather would do. It was a process of almost 3 hours.

Mom, Kristy and I were SUCH a good team – one person dress fluffing, while the other protected the bouquet and put a towel around Angela, and then everyone running out of the shot just in time. People watching us had quite some entertainment!!!

We even lost the veil at one point, and had to climb up a tree to get it – hahaha! A fellow photographer found a stick for us to use to pull it out of a tree!

I’ll never forget how amazing this weekend was, and how special it was to photograph my sister as a beautiful bride!!!! Here are a lot of our favorite photos!

P.S. At the very end of the blog post are some “bloopers” behind the scenes of us at the shoot!

 

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