New Orleans Destination Wedding at Brennan's - Kelsey & Justin

One of the most enticing things about New Orleans is it’s charm, but the one thing nobody really tells you about, is what that charm actually is.

Some folks believe it’s the old world architecture, the food, and the sort of laissez faire attitude that us residents tend to live by. Those things are all charming, and they definitely are part of the makeup of New Orleans, but what that charm actually is, is it’s people. The way our city bands together in times of happiness and strife, the way it’s people make you feel at home by inviting you in and making you feel like you belong, like you’re just part of the family.

It’s the welcoming arms of the city and it’s unbeatable food that brought Kelsey and Justin back down to New Orleans with their all of the closest friends and family in tow for an all out beautiful celebration deep in the heart of New Orleans. They fell in love with how the city embraced them and made them feel welcome. Their guests felt the same and everyone threw care into the wind and had a long, fun night of dancing and celebrating the love between these two. We love when people love New Orleans.

Venue: Brennan’s Restaurant

Coordination & Planning: Girls in Black Events

Music: Calfee Productions

A New Orleans Wedding at Broussard's - Denver & Lexie

A little throwback to what I used to photograph some 5 years ago before I fell in love with documenting people’s lives and the start of their families. Fun fact, this is how I first met Denver. On a blazing asphalt track during the peak of summer in New Orleans, the ground was probably close to 200 degrees and I could literally feel it burning through my jeans.

That’s the kind of crazy shit photographers do to get the shot.

Fast forward a couple of years and we hear from Denver again, this time it’s not about his Porsche, but this time it was about something far more important. It was about how he found the love of his life, Lexie and wanted us to document the start of the next chapter of their lives together.

Thankfully their wedding was at the end of December; the weather much cooler and no scorching asphalt to contend with. Instead, we got the moody misty weather that is pretty typical of winter in the south.

These two are some of the greatest people we’ve ever had the pleasure of working with and call friends. We’re so incredibly thankful and excited to share what we see as a lifetime of happiness and love.

Vendor love:

Venue: Broussards

Dress: Wedding Belles Nola

Flowers: Meade Wenzel

Coordinator: Weddings Taylor Made

Cake: Oh my gosh Ganache!

Live Painting: Pappion Artistry

Music: The Nola Dukes Band

Intimate New Orleans Wedding at The Degas House - Heather & Eric

We don’t really love writing blogs, it’s kinda’ dreadful. We love sharing our work for everyone to see, but finding the right set of words that best describe how incredible one night was, especially when that one night is the night that two amazing people celebrated their love for one another, eludes us. We’re not great at it, we’re more of the kind of folks who say, “hey, let me show you” versus “hey, let me tell you.” That’s probably why we’re better photographers than we are writers. But we owe it to the world to share just a little sliver of how incredibly good the world can be when times seem rough or when life has you down.

And so we’ll do our best to tell you the story of how an engineer named Eric and a social worker named Heather came down from Chicago, friends and family in tow, to witness and celebrate their love between one another.

Their beautiful ceremony took place in the courtyard of The Degas House on a chilly New Orleans evening in November. There was happy tears, smiles, love and happiness, a gumbo of all the best emotions. And of course, nothing caps off an incredibly intimate and joyous ceremony like a second line. The Big Fun Brass Band led the way with Heather and Eric at the front of the parade that headed down Esplanade.

Anyways if you’ve kept reading we applaud you and we’ll stop trying to tell you about how awesome their wedding was and and we’ll just show you how incredible it all really was.

New Orleans Engagement - Anthony & Darius

Anthony and Darius frequently visited New Orleans while they dated, so it was cruicial that we decided to meet them in an area that they've spent far less time in, and admittedly us as well. We've always enjoyed afternoon strolls through the Marigny/Bywater, and Crescent Park seemed like the most obivious choice for a sunny summer afternoon engagement session. The breeze rolled off the Mississippi river providing us a much needed reprieve from the stiffling heat and humidity that is notorious for a New Orleans summer. As we talked and got to know their relationship better, the excitement for their wedding this fall grew even more. Here we have two amazing people bringing their families from all over the country to come celebrate their love together in our hometown, it's a welcoming treat to have the honor and privilege of being able to document their marriage to one another. We don't want to spoil all the details about it because we want it to be a surprise when we get share it with the world, but we can say it's going to be really freaking awesome. 

Algeirs Point Wedding - Josh & Julia

We love those weddings full of really great vibes and really good people. It's the kind of place when as soon as you get there you can feel the warmth, and you just smile. It's the kind of wedding we love to attend, it reminds us of all the great memories in life and where they all began on our journey together.  

Underneath the gorgeous oak tree at Compass Point Events, Josh and Julia celebrated their love to one another. It was perfect. They stood together under a beautiful handmade chuppah, hand in hand as their closest friends and family experienced it with them. 

It was an amazing celebration between two beautiful people and we are incredibly thankful to have been able to document it for them. Don't just take our word for it, check out their story below.

Uptown New Orleans Wedding - Madeline & Jared

We've got a certain emotional attachment to the kind of wedding where families come together in celebration of two peoples love for one another.

Madeline and Jared took us on a roller coaster of feel good emotions from the second we arrived to her at The Ponchatrain Hotel. Madeline wanted to have some alone time with her father, and we she did, the room was just overflowing with happiness. Madeline's entire family waited for her on at the roof top bar, including her 90 year old grandmother. It was just incredible.

Across town, Jared waited in anticipation with his family at The Audubon Tea Room. Seeing each other for the first time in the garden was amazing. For us it's difficult to describe the emotions in these kind of moments, they make you feel warm inside and nothing else matters.

The ceremony was so heart felt and full of joy. Grandparents and parents, friends and family all mixed together holding hands, hugging, cuddling, crying and kissing. It was overwhelming in the best possible way.

In typical New Orleans fashion, they completed their commitment to one another with a second line into their reception. BRW played an amazing set throughout the entire night. Y'all everyone danced, and I mean everyone including Madeline's grandmother. It was awesome, they ended the night by busting out the Tea Room doors cheering, shouting and being present in the moment.

New Orleans Wedding - Jimmy & Adrienne

The best weddings, are the one's that really make you work for it. The type of wedding where everyone is an absolute mess of emotions, filled with the best people laughing, loving and crying their eyes out. It's freaking rad. It's what we live for.

Jimmy and Adrienne gave us that full experience when they got married back in November., and left us leaving with what Adrienne called it, a "healthy sweat", and some very awesome new friends.

Their emotion filled, love packed ceremony at Our Lady of the Rosary was incredible. Jimmy and Adrienne both had these amazingly awesome smiles throughout, and you could just tell that they were having the time of their lives. That raw excitement of just being present in the moment carried over ten fold when we made our way over to Pat O'Brien's on the River for one hell of a dance party. 

We had an incredible time, one that left us feeling crazy tired, sweaty and probably a little smelly, but we wouldn't trade that experience with them for the world.

Thank you Jimmy & Adrienne! Stay awesome!

New Orleans Proposal - Logan & Hannah

We had a plan. Logan and I had come up with this plan on where he could propose to Hannah, including a stiff drink to take the nerves off, and meeting on this pier along the river.

All of that went to shit when New Orleans decided to have one of those "screw everything you had to do" days with it's traffic, even despite leaving almost 45 minutes ahead of time. I parked unpaid in a lot and prayed my car wouldn't get towed for it.

So in a mad panic, I scrambled to get to the location and passed Logan and Hannah walking hand in hand, heading the opposite direction of where we were going to meet. I gave him a nod and a probably ridiculous looking wink to let him know I was ready as I passed them. He instantly dropped to one knee and popped the question, I'm pretty sure at that point I was like, "NOOOO!" But despite being a little thrown off, it was beautiful and it was worth every last drop of stress.

The momentous amount of joy and love they share between the two of them made up for it in stride. It's couples like this that make us truly appreciate what we do, and why we do it. We're not in it to make the next "epic" image, we're in it to get our heart filled documenting love and the gorgeous souls that share it.

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Brian & Sarah - Henry Howard Hotel

Photographing elopements in New Orleans has quickly become one of the most satisfying things about being a photographer in New Orleans. Here we are getting the opportunity to capture an amazingly intimate story of two people who in most cases have traveled pretty far, just to join each other in marriage in our beautiful city. Like how dope is that?

Especially if the couple is a really rad set of people who hails all the way from Seattle. You know, like Brian and Sarah here.

I feel so privileged to have been able to photograph their story for them at the gorgeous Henry Howard Hotel that opened up earlier this year. The venue fit these two perfectly, with its brass instruments lining the walls and sleek decor. The perfect fit for an amazing couple who's hometown is super rich with music.

These two were some of the sweetest and kindest people I've ever had the pleasure of photographing, and it was an absolute honor to be able to tell their story of their journey from Seattle, WA down to New Orleans, LA. 

Here's to life's journey together! Congratulations y'all!