Anyways, enough about all of that, I wanted to share some of my favorite images from Phil and Kristen's Engagement portrait session. The session was at the Water Front Park in Columbia, SC. I can't wait to shoot Kristen's Bridal Portraits and there wedding later this year!
Jenna was really a beautiful bride.
Jenna and her father walking down the isle.
The new couple.
Andrew is a really nice guy. He is in the Air Force and probably getting shipped over to the Middle East before the end of the year.
Flower Girls are just so darn CUTE!
Andrew and his best man.
The beautiful bride! Dana really did look great didn't she!
Dana and her Daughter.
The Flower girl in action. I used some selective coloring here to bring out the flower pedals.
I do, you do. Awesome!
I really loved this shot of their rings.
Rebekah is probably one of the most beautiful brides I’ve had the honor of photographing. She has such a classic beauty and look to her that at times I kept getting reminded of fairy tale princess or a classic beauty from the 1920s (Hints the soft sepia tones you'll see later). Take that and add in a beautiful day, a lake, mountains and a horse drawn carriage and you really do have a fairy tale wedding.
The hardest part of the whole wedding was getting back to my office and going through the pictures and finding “just a few” to post here as a teaser. To be honest I could have posted at least 100 that I think are just amazing. However, here are a few of my absolute favorite pictures from the day. I hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I enjoyed taking them!
See I told you she looked like a classic beauty!
She has a pretty big family so all the Bridesmaids where also sisters.
Fairy Tale wedding, complete with horses!
The images below were all taken at Boulders Beach in Simon's Town, which is just outside of Cape Town South Africa. We stayed there for 3 days and had a great time. There is a colony of Penguins that lives on the beach and between them, the rocks, mountains, and sunset, it was next to impossible to take a bad picture.
The Church had no lights, electricity, or air flow. It was designed to hold about 100 people, but almost 400 crammed in for this little wedding. 
The couple was a really cute older couple that desided to get married after having lived together for a long long time. I think everyone in the community attended the wedding, because in a small rural town like this, there isn't much else to do. The wedding itself lasted almost 4 hours. 
The church couldn't hold everyone. In fact at least another 100 people were outside the church. Many were very courious and watched through the open windows.
The reception was held down the road under an open tent in a field.
The main meal was sadza, which a corn based meal kind of like our grits only thicker
All in all it was a beautiful day (even if it was crazy hot). The couple even got blessed with a rainbow at the end of the day.
