Every now and then, Shane and I meet people who have SO much in common with us. It’s pretty funny when we all get together and realize just how much we get along! Katie and Patrick are from Nashville and oddly enough….Patrick is a photographer. Go figure, right?! And Katie works in the music biz, like I did…say WHAT?!
Yep. Kinda’ freaky. We met them at the Borders down on West End and chit-chatted over some coffee one day. As I’m trying to shield thesuperbrightinmyeyescan’tseeadanything sun from my face, we all go over the plans for their upcoming engagement shoot.
Random side note: Did you know that people search for “enGAGment photographer” more than they do “enGAGEment photographer” in Google?? I don’t know if this is just a typo or if most of America just can’t speel. (Nope, that’s not a typo loveys.) Now that’s just silly.
End side note. So for their shoot, we met off of West End at Centennial Park. Okay, so can I just tell you how confusing it is to have a Centennial Park and a Bicentennial Park, BOTH in Nashville?? I mean, is it just me, or is this confusing? Whatever. It is confusing. Either way, that’s where we met them.
Insert hour 1 of shooting: After arriving, me and Shaney-poo scoped out the area. Yes, he is now dubbed Shaney-poo. He’s gonna hate me for that. HA. This is why I control the blog. Aw, love you long time!
We first had Katie and Patty boy (I hope I don’t earn me some enemies with this…) sit on this really fantastico bench. Except I call it the “Don’t Talk To Me” bench. On each end, there is a little seat but they are so far away from each other. It’s like a separation bench for feuding parents who sit the children inbetween or something. Somewhat morbid for a couple who is getting married. But we mushy gushiedit up and made it romantic. That’s what we do. :)
Insert hour 2 of shooting: We walked around the park for a while and snapped away. At one point, I had Katie and Patrick lie down in the grass next to each other. Next thing I know, Shane is climbing a tree. I kid you not. I look to my left and can’t find him….until I see his booty up in a tree. I’m all for risk-taking…but that camera is expensive!!
Ha..just kidding. The picture actually turned out really great. He’s such a thinker! After Centennial (YES, I have the right park name this time…), we made a pit stop at McDonald’s on our way downtown. Katie and Patrick flew through the drive-through so fast we didn’t know where they went! I mean, those are some serious Mickey D’s skills. After refilling on some Sprites, we planted ourselves at Bicentennial Park. There is an amazing map of Tennessee down there! Katie and Patrick wanted a picture with their feet around the city of Franklin since that’s where they’re getting married in October!!
Okay, I just need to resolve to the fact that this post is going to be entirely TOO long. But hey, the shoot did end up being ohhhh about FIVE hours…so I have to include everything for all you bloggy peeps. Dis all be for you peeps.
Insert hour 3 of shooting: Now here, I must toot my own horn just a wee bit. I had this super duper cool idea of getting some shots with them in the street. There is this area by a bridge with that bright yellow line dividing the street. Katie and Patrick kissed over the line, pretended it was a balance beam, flirted with each other, and basically gave the camera EXACTLY what it wanted. Love it.
So if any of you have ever been down to Bicentennial, there is this HUGE amphitheater full of rock and stone. We got some suuriously cool peekchurs out dur. I mean, like suuriously. I included some below….
Next up – the night part of the shoot (ooh la la!). Okay, get your head out of the gutter. We went to a hotel!! Hmm…I think that just made it worse…
Insert hour 4 of shooting: Yeah, soooo…nevermind. We DID go down to the Union Station Hotel. Now we’ve reached about hour 4 and are sloooowly losing our energy, but we keep truckin’ along anyway! Really, this is too much fun. We got some shots of Katie and Patrick on the bridge near the I-40 interstate and yet again….in the middle of the street. Except THIS time, it was getting dark and there wasLOTS of traffic. Yikes. Nevertheless, we got some shots of Patrick running at the camera like a bear. Should I include that one in this post?? Hmmm…that would be a YES. Sorry Patty boy.
Insert hour 5 of shooting: Onward ho to inside the hotel! I found this really cool bar area we could shoot some in, complete with a chill couch and modern atmosphere. We shot in there a while and then got complained at by the bartender because “that flash is blinding everyone in here!!” Oh, the family of 4 across the room? Well, okay okay, maybe so…so we decided to shoot elsewhere. We are lovers, not fighters!
Something Katie and I both LOVED LOVED LOVED was that there is a black, shiny, super gorg, I-wanna-take-it-home-now grand pianoin there. One thing I was super excited to learn about her is that she plays piano too!! We got some shots of them around the piano, in the lobby, and some other areas around the ground floor of the hotel.
Annnnnnnnnnd scene.
By this time, we were all pretty exhausted!! We had an AMAZING day with Katie and Patrick. Seriously, we are already planning on getting together with them for mexican (hehe…I’ll never change!! Would you expect anything different?! Well, maybe we can throw in some margaritas this time…) and going out to shoot one evening. Patrick even offered to take pictures of Shane and I since he understands what it’s like to always be behind the camera and wanting to have some pictures taken for a change! Be on the lookout for those pictures of us in the next few months….
Shane and I can’t WAIT to shoot their wedding this October. I really feel like it is such a blessing to do a shoot like this. Not only do we work our bootys off and come up with some photos we are really proud of, but we made some great friends along the way. That probably means more than anything…..
Until next time…
Smile pretty,
Raychle
