Lexington Courthouse Wedding Exactly four days after Christmas, Dustin and I headed back to Somerset, KY where his family lives. A really close family friend of the Fothergill’s was having a Lexington courthouse wedding, and they wanted me to photograph it. It always means a lot when family friends choose me as their photographer. They […]

Fountain City United Methodist + The Foundry Christmas Wedding On December 22, 2018, Katie Bales married Chris Kelly at Fountain City United Methodist Church. Afterwards, we went to The Foundry in World’s Fair Site to celebrate with a reception. One of my favorite shots of the year came from this wedding. It’s the one with […]

Spence Cabin Proposal Jonathan and Josie were in town visiting from North Carolina for the holidays. They had been together for 6 years when Jonathan decided it was time to put a ring on it. He contacted me on Tuesday this week inquiring for a surprise proposal in Cades Cove on Wednesday…as in the next […]

Colorado Destination Wedding On December 5, the Fothergills flew to Denver, Colorado 3 days before my little sister’s Colorado destination wedding in Breckenridge. I’m not going to gush too much of the details of our vacation time because I have personal pictures saved up for that, but I will tell you, if you haven’t ventured […]

Cades Cove in the Smokies I hope each of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and are now decked out in full on winter gear, singing Christmas songs, and wrapping presents to go under your tree. You would never know by looking at these pictures, but it was FREEZING the morning of Taylor and Austin’s pictures. […]

Estate of Grace Session Another Estate of Grace session?!?! Yup. Are you getting tired of them yet? Yeah, me neither. I’m thinking next year, I just need to do one mini session day there so all the families that want an Estate of Grace session can come, and we can do them all at once! […]

Black Fox Farms Wedding This is the second wedding I have shot at Black Fox Farms, and both weddings have been AMAZE-balls. The first wedding was for Nikki and Austin a couple years ago, which you can see here. The farm has two different ceremony sites, both of which are stunning. The location that Morgan and […]

Studio & Lifestyle Newborn Avenly Burton is here, you guys, and she is sooooooo stinking cute. This girl could literally sleep through anything. I guess that’s what happens with all children after your first one, but seriously, you should have seen her at her lifestyle newborn session. Her two big sisters jumped around, played with […]

Toqua Campground Wedding In the history of great sunsets for this year’s wedding season…this one is ranking number one. When I first met with Hannah and Matt, one of the things that was most important to them for their Toqua Campground wedding was the pictures. If a couple starts out our meeting with telling me […]

Upstairs at Midtown Destination Wedding This Upstairs at Midtown wedding was so much fun on so many levels. I absolutely loved how Kaera and Adam did their own thing regardless of tradition. Let me explain a little bit about how the weekend went. Both Kaera and Adam are brunch people so they knew from the […]

Meads Quarry Sunrise Session This past weekend I was in Charleston, but the weekend before that, I had a Sunday wedding in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Since it was on a Sunday, I got Saturday all to myself. My only Saturday in the whole fall season that I got off to do all […]

Sampson’s Hollow Fall Wedding This was the first wedding this year that truly felt like fall, and it was faaaaabulous. I’m so glad it happened for this couple because they are cold weather people, and they had guests from Atlanta, Kansas, Missouri, Maine, and beyond. What better time of year to visit the Great Smoky […]

The Stables at Hunter Valley Farm The Stables at Hunter Valley Farm is an actual working horse farm. and Caitlin, today’s bride, grew up riding horses at The Stables at Hunter Valley Farm. She stressed how important it was for her to get photos with the horses while we took her and Billy’s romantic portraits. […]

Parkside Resort Destination Wedding I’ve shot at a lot of resorts in the Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg area for destination weddings over the past couple years. They always have beautiful views, but this Parkside Resort destination wedding really showed me a different side of the Smoky Mountain cabin vibe. These cabins are so modern. They weren’t logs […]

Kincaid House Wedding Every time someone said, “Amanda!” at this Kincaid House wedding I would turn around. I was completely ready to listen to whatever they needed to say to me, but every single time I was that person. You know the one. The one waving at someone who is actually waving at someone else […]