Wrapping up my January wedding whirlwind was Lauren & Brandon, a delightful couple who tied the knot at Flint Hill on January 21. Fun day and really great images. Enjoy the slideshow!

Another beautiful January wedding! Lauren and Matt married at Puritan Mill with some great portraits shot at King Plow Art’s Center (across the street) on January 15th, 2012. It was a perfect day and I’m sure everyone on hand had a great time. Enjoy their slideshow!

Tracey and Mark had a beautiful New Year’s day wedding at the Wimbish House on Peachtree. What a great venue, too! If you’re still looking for a place to hold your event, I urge you to take a look at it.   Enjoy the slideshow of the wedding and give me a call at 404.210.0879 or send me an email at info@caycecallaway.com if you’d like to talk about your own wedding.

In addition, Gail Johnson at Gail Johnson Weddings was the coordinator and Heather over at Stylish Stems provided the beautiful flowers.

I know I always start my blog posts the same way – apologizing for not posting more often!  So, why change that?  I’m shooting a lot these days, so unfortunately, it means I don’t get onto my blog very often.  I put together a slideshow of my weddings for the Winter and early Spring.  I’ll then blog the Spring and Summer weddings and engagement shoots separately (I hope!).  Anyway, there were some amazing weddings in the first four months of the year and I definitely wanted to show them off!  So enjoy the slideshow!

Allison and Ron and I met at Centennial Park here in Atlanta, back in the early spring to shoot their engagement photos.  We chose the park because they had their first date there and it was pretty special to them.  We also had hoped to drop over by the Georgia Dome to grab some photos there as these guys are big Falcon’s fans.  Unfortunately, all of our plans were derailed by an overzealous security guard who said my off-camera flash set up made it clear I was a pro and we couldn’t shoot there without a permit.  Boo hoo!  We moved up to Castleberry Hill, another of my fav spots in Atlanta and finished the shoot, but I really hated that we didn’t get many shots off in the park.  Since I had never had a problem there before, I contacted the park after the shoot and asked if I needed a permit.  The woman there could not have been nicer!  She said it was a mistake on the part of the guard and they welcomed couples to the park to take photos.  So, I decided to Allison & Ron an extra hour at the park a few weeks later even though they loved their Castleberry shoot.  When you’re dealing with someone’s wedding photos or engagement photographs, sometimes you just have to make it happen.  It’s just too important a time in life!  Anyway, check out some of their photos and stop back in later for a view of their gorgeous wedding photos, which Chelsey and I shot a couple of weeks ago at Little Gardens in Duluth.

I’ve been asked this all important question one time in the last couple of years and that was from a couple who was being coached on choosing a photographer from their wedding photographer friends from out of town (who were coming to the wedding as friends) and they booked me after I complied.  What’s so important even though it never makes it onto the lists you read in online wedding blogs and bridal magazines?

Can I see at least two full wedding galleries from the last year?

It sounds really simple, but 99% of the time it’s neglected.  Why is that?  For one, if you’re getting married for the first time in the last 6-7 years, which will be most people having a big wedding, you might not really know what that means.  Most proofs (the edited images from your wedding) are delivered online these days.  You get a password protected gallery where you can view your images, make album choices, if your photographer allows that (I do), order prints and show your family and friends all of your wedding photos.  Most are up for a few months and can be extended if needed.  These are not the small galleries viewable on websites, with 15-30 images from the wedding.  These are galleries with hundreds of images from a single wedding – exactly what you will see after your own wedding images are completed. (more…)

So I shoot a lot of boudoir photography, which has become increasingly popular.  But because it’s Georgia and because my blog automatically posts to facebook, I rarely blog about it.  I’ve had some wonderful clients who graciously allow me to use their photos for marketing purposes (Thanks so much!), but given the guidelines on FB, I’m just choosing a few a shots.  If you want to see more of my boudoir work, head on over to my website, www.caycecallawayboudoir.com and take a look.  I try to post new images monthly, but I really love a lot of them, so it’s hard to make myself take down past work.  As a result, I have like 83 images in my gallery.  But, honestly, I wish I could show you everything I shoot!  There are simply some amazing looking women in Atlanta and the surrounding areas and many of them definitely do not think of themselves as the typical boudoir type.  They come in all shapes and sizes and all age ranges.  And they all get a renewed sense of themselves after seeing their photos.  So, if you’re on the fence about doing a shoot, give me a call at 404.210.0879,
send me an email at info@caycecallaway.com or send me a fb message and I’ll be happy to tell you more about it.

Duane and Brianne and I met at Piedmont Park for their engagement session on an early spring day.  It was totally beautiful with the cherry blossoms just starting to make their appearance.  They are such a fun couple to work with – one of those couples that mesh so well with each other that you can’t help but enjoy being around them.  I felt that way from the first time I met them.  The engagement photos were no exception.  Easy and fun in front of the camera, we walked all over the park, making surreptitious outfit changes behind walls and towels (why don’t they keep the bathrooms at Piedmont open for longer hours?).  Enjoy the photos below and check back in July to see their wedding photos.  They’re getting married in the 755 Club at Turner Field and we’ll get to take some of their portraits down on the field!  Totally cool.  Chelsey and I are both really looking forward to that.  Duane and Brianne are both big Braves fans (like the kind that actually go to Spring training!) and my Dad played for the Crackers and was owned by the Braves in Milwaukee  in the late 50′s, so we had lots of things in common.  Check back in the summer to see their photos!

Oshea & Francisco had a beautiful wedding back earlier in the year (of course, I’m a little behind blogging). It was very cold, with a little bit of snow still on the ground. Both the bride and groom and her family are very active in their church, so the service was lovely and much longer than most weddings these days. They took what was most important in their lives and applied it to their wedding. It was quite lovely to see. Enjoy the photos!

So, as promised, I’m actually going to blog my weddings as they happen! Notice I didn’t say try or attempt – I’m not going to give myself that out. It’s hard to do when I’m busy, but I shoot so many beautiful weddings, that I really want to show them all. I wish I could blog my boudoir shoots, but I’ve very discreet in that arena and I completely understand why most women don’t want those shown online…

Back to this perfectly stunning wedding I shot in Savannah on 12/28 (and big thanks to Diana Daley who so graciously offered to second shoot and fill in for Chelsea, who was visiting her family for the holidays. I didn’t blog any of Diana’s shots, since she doesn’t shoot with me on a regular basis, but they were terrific and anyone down in Savannah would be very happy with her work). Ashley and Lance are both quite beautiful, inside and out. They were a dream to work with and their wedding was a perfect little jewel of a day. I know everyone can’t swing it and everyone doesn’t even want to (nor should they as many of my large weddings were totally stunning), but if you’re on the fence about having a small or a large wedding and are leaning toward a smaller one, then I would highly recommend it. It’s obviously a very different kind of day, but the intimacy at the smaller weddings is really nice and it gives the bride and groom a chance to spend time with each guest. And slipping off to a nearby destination wedding – like this on in Savannah or one I’m shooting in Chattanooga in May – allows you to keep the guest list small and save a little money on your catering costs.

Anyway, this day was lovely and the guest and families so warm and excited for Ashley and Lance. Ashley’s a teacher and Lance is in Pharmacy school at UGA. They’re both a lot of fun to be around and it was very clear after meeting their families and friends where all of that charm came from. So enjoy the photos from their wedding!