OK! On to part 2 of Jamie & Brian! With being out of town for my day job all weekend, it took a little longer than expected to get the 2nd half of this post done…. but here goes nothing! We left the grassy fields & giant trees for….. a less than desirable section of Charlotte. I drive under this bridge a lot. Every time I think, gah, wouldn’t it be awesome to shoot in that bridge!?! Well, when Jamie gave me free reign to do what I wanted for this shoot, I knew I had to at least bat my eyelashes, sweet talk & bribe whoever need-be to get in this bridge. It was sealed off years ago due to “personal safely issues”. Well, after a string of emails to people at the City, I located the right person, with the key. They were so sweet to unlock this bridge for me, and trust me on it. I’m so thankful they did. We got countless honks from highway passengers as they watched us shoot from below! I had grand ideas of filling a section of the bridge with balloons, having them hang around Jamie & Brian, shooting through the balloons, ect….. all of which went right out the window. I had NO IDEA how windy the bridge would be because of all the traffic rushing down below (and the windy weather). We couldn’t let the balloons go, as they would go flying down the bridge towards the entrance (we almost lost 2!) So even though things didn’t go as planned, I was still thrilled to shoot inside this bridge!!! We started by having Jamie & Brian run up towards the middle of the bridge…. I really love these images & their expressions! The images above are all Jeremy’s…. the 2 below are mine 🙂 Thank you SO MUCH to Chip, Louis, Garland, Kumar & Cheryl with the City of Charlotte!

Jamie & Brian…. they are younger siblings of my grade school friends. They’re cute as a button together, and I’m so delighted they’ve chosen me to document their wedding this October…. but Jamie felt like she needed “practice in front of the camera” first…… yeah right…. this girl is a knockout & couldn’t take a bad photo if she tried! She pretty much gave me free reign to do any shoot I had in mind. Picnic themed it was. Lucky for us, her & Brian like to visit a local bakery, Sweet Cakes, in Cornelius….. bam… we just had our picnic food… cupcakes! The skies were very gray, and rain kept threatening our shoot…. but we were persistent & Jamie & Brian were troopers 🙂 Our first stop: the bakery of course. Then on to the picnic! I absolutely LOVE this last series!!! Jeremy captured it perfectly! Stay tuned for part 2.

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