In His Image Photography | Wedding Photographers Raleigh

I luv engagement sessions.  I do.  Usually they give me an opportunity work with a new couple for the first time.  I highly encourage my clients to have an engagement photography session for several reasons:

1. It’s often the only professional photography of the couple before their wedding day and provides for images options for wedding day slide shows, save-the-date cards, photo guest books, thank you cards as well as that casual images of just the two of you enjoying being just the two of you!
2. The second reason, I get to work with the couple in advance of their wedding day: learning each others personalities, getting to know how comfortable they are (become) in front of my lens, and by the end of the session taking those things they shared with me into their wedding day to better photograph who they are, together.
3. Did I mention how much I enjoy being an engagement photographer?  I digress.

Due to scheduling, I often photograph two couples at the same location on the same day, one right after the other.  Yet, I make it a point for each session to be just as unique as the clients themselves.  Enter Tobias + Jennifer.  Now to be forthright, this wasn’t my first time  working with Jennifer, but her bridal images are under wraps until their wedding day, June 26th!  These two are an awesome couple: saved, intelligent, playful, and in love.  We had a great time at Duke Gardens despite the breaks for rain showers.

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So in love: this is Aaron and Tiffany.  When I received the call from Tiffany sharing the news that she is now engaged and looking for a Raleigh wedding photographer, I had a quick reflective moment.  See, I met Tiffany and her family shortly after I returned to Raleigh, NC in 2002.  Her dad serves as the Minister of Music at URCOGIC, the same church were I met my beautiful wife!  I have so many memories from fellowshipping there.  But it’s been a couple years since we moved to Providence Baptist Church, so hearing from Tiffany was almost like reuniting with family after many years.

Aaron and Tiffany agreed to meet me at Duke Gardens for their engagement session.  Neither had seen this venue prior to the session, but were very pleased with the beauty of this botanical garden.  I love it when clients are comfortable being themselves in front of my lens.  Tiffany was so complimentary after completing their session.  It’s so important to enjoy yourself during your session!  See their images to see why.

In His Image Photography is approved to photograph at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens and listed on their recommended photographers list.  If you’re interested in one of our sessions, or looking for a professional wedding photographer for this venue, contact our studio by clicking here, we’d love to hear from you.

It was January when Jenille and I started planning for her engagement session.  I was hoping to do some new things this year and we are definitely off to a great start.  Cameron and Jenille are having a waterfront wedding and wanted to follow that theme in their beach front engagement session.  I loved the idea, “Let’s go to the beach!”  We settled on Falls Lake in Durham NC, a place I had never been.  I like it already.  After the session, I asked Jenille to share how she  and Cameron met:

“We met while serving in ministry at the best church this side of Heaven, No Greater Love Christian Church in Durham, NC.  Cameron serves as the Minister of Music and teaches Men’s Bible Study, while I work as the Pastor’s Armor Bearer and head of the Women’s Ministry.  Though we had been worshiping together for over 7 years, our paths did not cross until I was planning Vacation Bible School one year and wanted to to play the game “Name that Tune.”  I needed Cameron’s help to pull it off.  When we met to organize the game we discovered that we had a lot in common and really hit it off.  About a week later the NGLCC Church Family went on a church trip to visit Lake Junaluska in Asheville, NC. It was on this trip that Cameron and I spent time really getting to know each other and began to fall in love.  And the rest as they say is history!”

I present a preview from Cameron and Jenille’s beach front engagement session at Falls Lake in Durham, NC.