Barclay Villa | A castle wedding venue | NC

Barclay Villa in Angier, NC is a beautiful castle wedding venue. Barclay Villa is a great  venue to host your outside or inside wedding as well as your reception. So here's a little back story on how I came to photograph Lauren and Brian's wedding. The Landmark in Garner was having their open house event for brides to tour and asked me if I would come set a booth up to show my work. Well that night I met Lauren, her mom, and Ayoka aka "Yokie"(Funny story I'll get to that  later). I arrived on wedding day and walked into the brides room and introduced myself to Lauren feeling a bit confused, haha I had only met her once and when I met her she had very very short hair. She said we met at the Landmark and I have long hair now. She proceeded to tell me that they actually knew I was going to be their wedding photographer and didn't know I was going to be there that night, now talk about faith. Now about Ayoka, lauren's sister, who I met 2yrs ago when I was the wedding photographer for her friend Lindsay Morse, now my good friend. Ayoka does GREAT WORK! I loved loved all the girls make-up for her sister's wedding. The funny thing is throughout the whole day I called her "Yokie" it wasn't on purpose at first but after I saw her giggle after I said her name I asked if I said it right she said no and we both laughed cause I had used it all day, so it stuck with us the rest of the night. "Yokie" was such a great support to me by helping with some special night shots. She held the little light for me and man I love love how those photos turned out.

This couple really allowed me to do my own thing. They had been a fan quite sometime so they didn't feel the need to bombard me with a long must have list, cause most of you know I don't like lists. Yep I said it. What I can say is that you can ask any of my past brides and they will tell you we will have a conversation about those must haves of family members. Photographs that are a given for most any wedding photographer is anything you paid for ex: flowers, cake, bouquet, table tops, venue,rings. The food I find is not always a given b/c the guest might mess it up before I get to it. You will see on my site Raleigh wedding photographer that there arent any formal family pictures. That's just a given that I do at every wedding and I want my site more about the moments captured then everybody lined up for a family picture. So thank you Lauren for letting me rock it in NC.