
Markeshia and Marcus // Wedding
“Take my hand, I'll teach you to dance
I'll spin you around, won't let you fall down” - He is We I didn’t know much about Markeshia and Marcus before their wedding. I did have the joy of meeting them the weekend before their wedding at my cousin’s wedding; Markeshia was one of Annika’s bridesmaids. We simply introduced ourselves and exchanged excitement for both Annika’s wedding and her wedding the following weekend. But upon arriving at Markeshia and Marcus's wedding I qui

Ashley & Ward // Proposal
“Well I wanna love you forever I do I wanna spend all of my days with you I'll carry your burden and be the wind at your back I wanna spend my forever, forever like that” - Ben Rector A few weekends ago I drove down to Charlotte, North Carolina, to surprise one of my best friends; however, my surprise was not the biggest one of the weekend. I arrived on Friday, July 12th, and met up with another one of Ashley’s friends, and Ashley’s mom, dad and brother. On Saturday morning,

Josh and Annika // Wedding
I’m crazy about you. You’re my very first love, and I feel like telling everyone how wonderful you make me feel.” - anonymous All weddings are beautifully unique, they all speak to who the couple is, what they value and how they want to start this chapter of their lives together. A wedding with several hundred guests is no better or worse than a small intimate family wedding; a wedding with a plated dinner is no more or less “successful” than a wedding with a buffet. All wedd

Blake and Abbie // Engagement
“A soulmate is an ongoing connection with another individual that the soul picks up again in various times and places over lifetimes. We are attracted to another person at a soul level not because that person is our unique compliment, but because by being with that individual, we are somehow provided with an impetus to become ourselves.” – Edgar Cayce When you meet with a group of future classmates you don’t usually enter thinking, “I bet I am going to meet my future spouse t

Sandlund // Family
My husband and I thrive on friendships; we thrive in relating to other people and we are so thankful for the people the Lord has placed into our lives since we moved to Kettering after college. Tim and Jenna are some of those people. Tim and Jenna were part of our first house church when we started attending church in Kettering. We have had the joy of seeing them transition from newlyweds (they got married just a few weeks before us) to parents to be, to parents of two beauti

Andrew and Amanda // Engagment
"When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable." - Walt Disney Amanda contacted me back in December of 2017; she described her wedding day as dreamy and whimsical. She went on to explain that it was Disney themed and they wanted to be able to capture the magic that surrounded their wedding. I quickly knew this was a wedding I wanted to be a part of. I could tell from our conversations that Amanda and Andrew had a sense of magic in their