While I LOVE pictures, I was dreading the time in front of the lens with Chris. I know that I don’t photograph well. I know he tends to make faces. I was worried that it was going to be an awkward session of us being weird because we’re not good subjects. Boy, was I wrong! Brooke is awesome. No no, you don’t understand. She’s seriously superwoman because not only did she get amazing pictures of us (NOT MAKING FACES… well all the time) but she also turned something we were dreading into something that was really fun. After a while, we forgot she was the photographer and she was just another friend that happened to be laughing at us while we ran around the beach like idiots. She literally has the best personality of anyone I know, I can’t cheer about Brooke enough. I need “Pocket Brooke” as an iPhone app so I can have her cute little sayings whenever I’m trying to make people get silly at weddings. If you are EVER in the Outer Banks you need to look her up. I know I have said this about a million times through this recap but I can’t say it enough.

The proof is in the pudding right? So here’s the pictures! Keep in mind that all of these were taken in about 20 minutes or so and all where the ceremony was at. Proof that a great location + a great photographer = awesome pics in a short amount of time.

I love how there are two birds above us.  🙂

 

It’s hard to tell unless you look  by my feet but we are sitting in a shipwreck here!  Dad had discovered it the year before and I wanted to make sure we incorporated it into the pictures.  It’s an unknown shipwreck and when it’s uncovered you can smell the turpentine still all these years later from the wood.

 

Another rare shot of me that I like.

 

Brooke had us walk down from the dune area and go towards the water.  I love this picture SO much.  Used it for our christmas cards that year!

 

Brooke didn’t tell, ask or even hint at me going into the water.  I went in on my own.  Chris stopped when we got towards the ocean but I kept going in!

 

These pictures make it worth it.

 

Um, completely worth the salt water and sand in the dress.  COMPLETELY.

 

I loved my bouquet.  Renee Landry Style rocks socks.  I wish she had a subdivision in Ohio so I could have her awesome flowers at all of my weddings.

 

“What is she doing!?!?  Do I go in too??”

 

Favorite!!!!

 

Yes, we did.

 

My favorite one of us smiling at the camera.

 

So this isn’t a great photo of us but a hilarious moment captured.  We tossed my bouquet up to catch it and it got some flowers knocked out of it when Chris grabbed it.  I LOVED my bouquet so that made me sad… so I chucked the fallen rose at him resulting in this image.  LOL!  I love how it’s exploding off his head.

 

One last pretty portrait on the beach!

 

And another shot as we walk up to the stairs… LOVE this one a lot.  Especially my awesome bruise.

 

Another shot I adore, featuring said awesome bouquet.

 

Such a lovely moment… he was threatening to shove me over!

 

How I got rid of the sand!!!  🙂  LOL