Carrie + Charlie have been wonderful clients and friends for years now. It all started with their wedding and now we get to do super cool sessions like this one for their anniversaries.

This concept was their idea. It was something very important to them. For the past 91 years, The Vinsetta Garage has been a functioning auto garage. It closed it’s doors and waas listed for sale at the end of 2010. Most who were familiar with the icon, were terrified that it would be torn down and replaced with a new generic building. However, the same people that brought us the amazing Clarkston Union are turning the garage into a restaurant (yes! it will have mac + cheese!). They say that the exterior will remain mainly the same, keeping the old garage vibe. Very cool. Let’s face it though, just that mac + cheese is enough to be labeled very cool ~ side note: if you have not bee to the Clarkston Union and tried that mac + cheese, do it asap.

So anyways,  Carrie + Charlie are super awesome and hot and happy and friendly and photogenic, so I know going into a shoot with them that it won’t be like work, it will just be fun and easy. This was no different. As soon as I point a camera at these two something magical happens. They make me love my job and photography more than I did before I pointed my camera at them.  That’s powerful.

A very special thanks to my friend Andy for helping me out on this special session.

Kendra and Bob are super awesome. I had not had the chance to meet them since they booked me from out of town. They were hilarious, easy going, laid back, not afraid of the camera (or me!) and so easy to talk to. Bob had about 1,000 different “looks” to work off of and constantly made each pose his own. Not too common for a dude at a photo session, but a very welcome change! They are getting married at the end of May and I cannot wait to spend a whole day with them!

The Scotts. I don’t even know where to begin about these 2 – I heart them SO much!

They are both named Scott. One is little and one is big. So they go by Big and Little. Adorable? Check.

For their engagement session they wanted to go to the airport, specifically, the McNamara Terminal. Well, you cannot just mosey into the airport with photography equipment and expect to get very far. So Little spent what felt like months going back and forth between the Westin and the TSA to arrange this. And it finally paid off.

This is probably one of the coolest, most unique sessions I have been a part of. There was SO much to shoot there. We started at the Westin. That hotel is perfection for a portrait session. Then into the terminal. After an odd and semi lengthy time at security with my giant rolling light, we were in. Amazing. My favorite spot has to be that strange light up tunnel. Those shots came out amazing.

Scotts – thank you for this idea and letting me be a part of it I heart you.

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Ellen + Matt are adorable. They came in professing how awkward and terrible they were at being photographed.

LIARS!

Together, they are comfortable, cuddly, cute and so in love.

I can’t wait for their April wedding at The Gem Theatre!

We had SO much fun spending this time with them. There was so much laughter at their session.

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The GTKY sessions (get to know you) have become my very most favorite thing!

I love reading through the questionnaires the couples fill out about themselves, each other and their relationships.

Shannon + Gerry are first and foremost hilarious. They are also so comfortable together and so adorable. The 3 main portions of their lives together that we focused on for this session were:

~ their love of going to the movies

~ the fact that they spend a ton of time playing all sorts of video games together

~ the fact that Shannons Family owns a produce company in the Eastern Market and that Shannon worked there and spent a giant amount of time there and now Gerry works there

The movie theater shot was my baby. I was SO excited to do this. This has been done before, I did not invent the idea, but I have never done it and so I was excited. It turned out SO rad!

The video game shots were done in our studio and they are hilarious! I told them to bring all the stuff they would normally have with them while they played games at home, so they brought blankets and pillows and wore their pajamas! So awesome! I love these silly shots.

The Eastern Market portion of the session was cold. We all agreed on that. But we worked through the pain and got some super cool images there as well.

A semi new offering for us, the Get To Know You Session is becoming quite popular~! Why?  Because it’s super awesome. Duh.

The GTKY (most rad things have an acronym) is a super pimped out engagement session done at a multitude of personalized locations. We have you both, yes groom  you too, a questionnaire to fill out all about your relationship and what you love. Then we create a super fun multi our photo taking engagement extravaganza for you!

Heidi and Jonathan, were engaged at Slows in Detroit. So we made special arrangements to shoot inside before opening. The b&w shot of them in the booth is the actual location of their engagement. Cool? Yes~!

They both went to the old Cass Tech. But they didn’t know each other. Crazy huh? So, we went there for some shots as well before it gets any worse looking

They like to ride their bikes and walk the Dequindre Cut, so guess what? We went there too!

~ they are hilarious

~ While shaving, Ryan like to shave his mustache into funny shapes and mortify Susan for a minute

~ they work together

~ Susan was in a TV commercial

~ their wedding is approximately 5 blocks from our house at the Reserve

~ Susan shares my undying love for cupcakes. She is the first person I’ve met who I think can rival my cupcake love

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