Raleigh wedding | River Ridge Golf Club Venue

River Ridge Golf clubis a beautiful wedding venue in Raleigh,NC.  When I arrived at the venue I immediately went to the reception tent to check out the best place for my lighting. I fell in love with her blue and yellow decor right away. When done with that I went to the brides room where I was greeted with a big smile. Honestly that's what really makes my day at weddings, to walk into a bridal room and the excitement on a brides face that I'm there, definitely warm fuzzies. Faith got into her dress and we headed outside to do all the formals, bridesmaids,groomsmen, etc etc. One thing really special about this wedding is Faith made ALL her details, from the bouquet of flowers, girls necklaces, bows, flowers in jars hanging on the aisle of chairs of the wedding, etc it was all done with love by her and her friends.

Faith wanted really fun type photos. Her yellow sun glasses for the girls and the guys yellow socks, really added to that . Yes we did the traditional type posing but we also threw in some fun jumping shots and a request by the bridal party was to have the girls wear the jackets and the guys hold the flowers. I loved every minute of it. As I went through and worked on the photos I laughed out loud several times. Jumping in the air type photos is not for everyone but for this bridal party it was, they will love and laugh from the wedding photos a long time to come.

The weather turned bad on us after dinner that was catered by Cannon Catering. Thunder, lightning, and a whole lot of rain. Standing in a puddle of water while trying to capture the shot was definitely scary, but I took one for the team. We finally moved the party inside the building where everyone danced the night away. The funniest part of the whole day was when the bride and groom left, one of the guys hot wired their car so that every time Phil pressed on the break the horn would sound. Oh my goodness you talk about funny, now that's when you need video b/c pictures can't make sounds,lol.