Denise ♥’s Wes. A Mountian Top Wedding at Home

Denise and Wes were married October 1st, 2011 at her family’s home near Clyde North Carolina. This was the first time this year that I’ve felt the briskness of fall and leaves were just starting to fall. That said, the family kept warm dancing late into the night with Asheville’s #1 party band “the Business“. Always good to see those guys.
It was a wonderfully artful wedding. Jessica Sloane of Lovebird Style put together a beautiful event that made the most of an already magical fall day.

The two rings together

Denise putting on the finishing touches.

Lacing up the dress

Flora Diva in Asheville

Mountain views

Artisan Catering at work

Beautiful photographer-friendly clouds! Yes!

The Bride’s promise came with tears and happiness

Jim Arrendell has the pipes

A family together

Jessica Sloane, Nashville wedding designer. http://www.lovebirdstyle.com

The Business at work

Granny Sax

The Matron of Honor and Best Man dancing

Mountain views

The Business

A family

Lamps that Swing

The Matron of Honor and Best man dancing

Granny Sax

Rob Geisler on the bass

tears and happiness

Denise and Wes

The two rings

Jim Arrendell has the pipes

Artisan Catering at work

Flora Diva in Asheville

Cake and deserts by Cakes du Jour www.cakesdujour.com

Wedding design and Planning by Jessica Sloane http://lovebirdstyle.com

Awesome Music preformed by Asheville’s The Business www.thebusinessmusic.com

Floral design by Flora Diva in Asheville www.studiofloradivaonline.com

Photography by Peter and Luke of Blend Photography www.BlendPhotography.com

Denise and Wes at home

We are really looking forward to Shooting Denise and Wes’s wedding at Hurricane Ridge tomorrow. It will be a pretty brisk day, first one of the season perhaps? Anyway, it should be a great day in the mountains.

Denise and Wes together at her family home.

Leah ♥’s Jesse, a wedding at the Grand Bohemian.

Leah and Jesse were married August 28, 2011 at the Grand Bohemian in Asheville NC.
Romance! It was a beautiful wedding.

Cake made with care by Cakes by Jane

Awesome dancable beats provided by DJ Dylan Skidmore

Marvelous floral arrangements designed by Studio Flora Diva

Leah’s dress was purchased at Lulu’s in Dallas

Accommodations for the wedding and reception were provided by the Grand Bohemian Hotel

Photography by Blend Photography of course. Photographers: Peter Lorenz and Jameykay Young.

Marian ♥’s Will. Wedding Photography by Blend.

Marian and Will's portrait in the woods

Hair and Make up by Cody’s Wedding Creations.

Flowers designed by Flora in West Asheville, NC.

Allegro providing music for the Ceremony.

Celebration!

There was much rejoicing. Sound Extreme kept the feet moving.

Bottoms up before the party bus

Dancing By fire light

After the ceremony and reception the Bride and Groom left to go down to the river and dance by a bon fire. It was glorious.

The Toss

Celebration!

Marian and Will’s portrait in the woods

Because they could. A Bonefire at Lands Creek

Makeup in the Mirror

Midnight Bluegrass

Dancing By fire light

Bottoms up before the party bus

Cody’s wedding Creations at work

Leah’s Bridals – The Blue Ridge Parkway & Grand Bohemian Hotel. Asheville, North Carolina

You know what is hard to wait for? Blogging Bridals. I love shooting them! But then after they are all ready to go everyone has to keep them totally secret until the wedding day! I suppose it is worth the wait in a lot of ways though. It gives me a good opportunity to blog images with freshly blooming rhododendron for instance…

How about a hand for Leah, just married this last Sunday! She was a wonderful subject for photographs. Working with her (and her Mom, hi Cindy!) was a pleasure.

Very please with how this tunnel of foliage turned out. The light played along all sunset.

Golden Hour turned out very well, as seen above.

The Grand Bohemian provides for lots of uniquely gilded shooting opportunities. A lovely place fo sho.

Ah Mountains. Yep. Glorious.

Kyla and Justin’s Engagemnt on the Biltmore Estate

Make-up by Scott Thompson Make Up at the Grove Arcade.

Photographs taken on location at The Biltmore Estate

Photographs by Peter Lorenz and Blend Photography

Josh and Susie, on a chilly spring day in Asheville

What the heck? The weather has been so lovely so far and we got the one windy cold day? Whatever…

Susie and Josh braved the day in sturdy awesome coats. We spent the whole shoot wandering around downtown Asheville, going from shop to shop, kind-of free form. I really like these two shots. One from Asheville’s Fine Arts Theater and the other in front of that cool old Coke mural. Chech’em!

A special thanks to the girl at Fine Arts who generously provided us with free popped corn!

Briana and Dan’s engagement sneak peek

We just wanted to share a couple of quick images from Briana and Dan’s engagement shoot.  They wanted to do something a little different and so we put are heads together and came up with a completely original theme for the shoot.  Ok, just joking (AMC, please don’t sue us).  We might have looked over a couple of stills of Don and Betty Draper before the shoot.

The shoot was awesome and these guys are some great friends so I hope you enjoy it.

Lets make a cake!

Just kidding, we aren’t making a cake. We are reading a photography blog though! So lets look at pictures instead.

Kyla and Justing are getting married on October 7th, 2011. But no one will know that unless they get some Save the Dates out there! The images below are from that very shoot. Enjoy!

Honey I'm home!

...and then this happened.

Yep, BFFs

A beautiful cake from Cedrics on the Biltmore Estate.

♥

Throwback! Autumn and Chris and time travel.

Autumn and Chris, I’m still thinking about you’re engagement pictures. Lots of fun.

Check out these creative shots for their “get to know your photographer” session. The theme, picnicking through time! Good stuff.