I wanted to write this post to somewhat explain why you may not see a lot of weddings on this website.

Since I started my business, I made the personal decision not to pursue a lot of weddings. This is because it was just too hard to shoot and edit weddings while working full time as a civil engineer 45+ hours a week. Last year, after the birth of my daughter, I jumped back into shooting families as soon as possible and it. was. hard! I ended up neglecting my husband and felt constantly stressed from trying to balance being a new mom, being the wife my husband deserved, working 7-5 as an engineer, and then owning my own photography business. It was too much and I decided that it was just best to not pursue photography anymore. Being a good wife and mother were more important in the long run and I thought that photography was the reason I wasn’t being able to do that anymore. So I started referring out all sessions to photographer friends of mine that I knew could make my past clients happy. It was so so hard to say no to the clients that I so much cared for, but I thought I was doing the right thing.  Fast forward to this past August when my very good friend died. Shea was an unbelievably talented photographer and someone that I looked up to so so much. She was entirely way too good for this earth and it’s still so shocking that she isn’t here anymore. She was most definitely one of the best persons in my life and I truly mean it when I say that I feel honored that I was her friend. When she passed away, we photographer friends made sure that her clients were taken care of. Shea had employed an amazing assistant, Kathryn Mitchell, who managed her business through the end of last year and made sure that her weddings were photographed and edited. Below is just one of the weddings that I helped photograph. I wanted to share some of the images that I took at this wedding and say I AM TAKING ON WEDDING CLIENTS! After helping finish out Shea’s remaining wedding clients, I realized how much I absolutely missed photographing weddings and needed it in my life. Even though I was working more, I was such a happier person to be around. My husband noticed a huge shift in me and we had a long hard talk about me pursuing photography again. This time, we put pen to paper and we made a plan together. A plan that both of us are happy with and believe will work. I have some huge goals for 2017 and those goal include a lot of weddings. I will be rolling out a referral program soon and sharing some more amazing plans very soon. This post is already entirely way too long, and if you’ve made it this far, you are a true friend. So I will now stop talking and let you see this gorgeous wedding…..

But first, one more really important thing, please note that with the exception of the self portrait directly below, these were all edited by Shea’s assistant to match her style of photography. These are not my edits, but I wanted to showcase some photographs that I took and absolutely love to show potential brides my skills as a wedding photographer.

You can see all of the images from this gorgeous wedding over on Shea’s client gallery website. Just click here to see them all: Cox Wedding

kelly + rob, thank you so much for asking me to be your wedding photographer.  i cried, i laughed, and i fell in love with your love.  you have such a beautiful love for each other and i am so glad that i got to witness your wedding day.  i hope you love your sneak peeks which were oh so hard to narrow down.

i want to send a big thank you to my second photographer for this wedding, sue white photography.

if you would like to see kelly’s bridal session, just click here!

and if you want to see when i have all of the images from kelly + rob’s wedding edited, just follow j. photography on facebook (click here)

i’m so glad that we were able to use the wedding location for kelly’s bridal session.  it was such a perfect day and i just loved being at miller century farm.  wedding sneak peeks will be coming soon!

 full gallery

erinn + kyle,
i am so happy that you chose me to capture your wedding.  there were so many points during the day when i saw your amazing love for each other.  i had to fight back the urge to cry happy tears when i saw your mother, erinn, holding back tears as your daddy escorted her to her seat.  i firmly believe that your marriage will be an amazing example for others and i hope you love your wedding sneak peek that you are about to see.
love,
jac

thank you so much for stopping by….please leave erinn and kyle lots of love in the comment box.  if you would like to see more of erinn and kyle, i have posted the links below and as always, i post a lot more on facebook so head over there and “like”
j. photography if you would love to see the latest and greatest!

erinn + kyle’s engagement session

erinn’s bridal session