Featured Image: The Wedding Blog in Australia!

Erica should be so proud of all the work she did for her November wedding! Not only was it picked up by the wedding chicks, but one of the images was picked up by The Wedding Blog in Australia for a color palette of "cloud and cream". I can't take credit for the awesome color scheme, but I am super excited to see that other people are loving her wedding as much as I did. Thanks again, Erica! And thank you, The Wedding Blog!

Featured on the Wedding Chicks! Hip Hip!

Exciting news! Spindle Photography was featured on The Wedding Chicks (really great inspiration blog that I personally subscribed to as a bride!) last week! I'd love for you to take a peek around their site and leave a comment (especially if you know Erica! her wedding was amazing!).

Either way, hooray! It is fabulous to see Erica's wedding where it belongs, amongst all of the other fabulous weddings they feature!

Erica & Yorgos: Dinner

After the ceremony there was a lovely seated dinner at one of the resort's restaurants, Asadito, an Argentinian style steakhouse. I loved that the entire group could sit at the long table, decorated with candles and coral. The setting fit very well with the intimate feel of the whole wedding.




This was truly a DIY wedding done right, Erica was responsible for all of the details!

Erica & Yorgos!

how gorgeous is this lobby?

Erica & Yorgos: Ceremony

The best part. Erica had been planning the look of the ceremony for months and I really love her all white theme. The bridesmaids and groomsmen in white and the bride and groom in a champagne/khaki set look amazing together. It made for such a classy look, and subtle is the new black. Sorry to inundate the blog with images, but I'm in love love love with this wedding, if you couldn't tell already.


A never-before event on the blog, this image was taken by my darling husband, Garrett! He's a natural with the camera and I'm so lucky I got to take him along as my second-shooter. I'm hoping I can convince him that he's in love with it too, because every time I'm at a wedding my heart beats fast as I watch a couple in love and think about us. It's really good therapy for people in relationships, it reminds you of the good things and I love it!

I love the look on Yaya's face.


At the beginning of the ceremony the rings were passed around to each guest so that they could bless the rings. I freaked out a little at the rehearsal when I heard that it was going to happen (what if someone drops the rings!) but of course it went without a hitch (except for the actual hitching, which happened later). It was a really special part of the ceremony and it's great that the group was small enough to make it a reality.

Erica's dad read a passage of scripture and Yorgos's dad officiated!

Pay close attention to the blonde groomsman.

He was our major excitement for the day, as he passed out halfway through the ceremony. Apparently the same thing happened at Yorgos's parents' wedding, so it must be lucky.

Here's a final image from Garrett as well. I better watch out, he's got some skills.

Erica & Yorgos: Pre-Ceremony

After a few scares during the day and a light sprinkle while we did portraits of the girls, we were relieved that for the ceremony the sky was beautiful.

The woman on the right, Yorgos's grandmother, introduced herself to me as "Yaya." And Yaya can dance.

Erica & Yorgos didn't see each other before so this was a fun moment of giggling and hiding for all the girls.

Next up is the ceremony!

Erica & the girls!

Erica & Yorgos, Getting Ready

Garrett & I arrived to the Dominican Republic this past Tuesday afternoon and it was like I'd been transported to another world. At least another country. Bits of the Spanish I learned during my month in Peru a few years ago and memories of Spanish music and culture came rushing back. I've never lived very far from a beach (in NC I was about 2 hours from the Atlantic), but it's not quite the same as being on a resort in the Caribbean with wet bars and catamarans everywhere. The Dominican Republic was a magical place. We got settled in and scoped out the terrain, and on Thursday morning kept our fingers crossed for beautiful weather. The patter of rain when I woke up was not a welcome sound. It quickly passed and I was so ready to share the day with Erica and her wonderful friends and family. They are such a sweet group of people and it was almost if I wasn't a thousand miles from home.

Erica's beautiful younger sister Gena was married last September (and if rain on your wedding day is lucky she should probably be selling off items of clothing, hers was in the middle of a hurricane!) and was great moral support (plus, she helped me find the spa in the very difficult to navigate layout of our sister resort)!





I wish my bedroom at home had such perfect places to display my shoes.



When Erica isn't glamming up the Dominican, she works in a floral shop and thus decided to do her own flowers. I might let you in on one of her secrets in a future post.






Is she not just gorgeous?! There is much more to come, and soon, because I have no patience at all when I'm excited and this whole trip was too fabulous not to share!