Sean and Erika ~ Ash Lawn-Highland

Erika and Sean were married late in the afternoon on Friday. It was a beautiful wedding at Ash Lawn-Highland near beautiful Charlottesville, Virginia. My BFF, Laura, came along as my second shooter which really was loads of fun. She is a fantastic photographer and I was thrilled to work together. I had not met Erika or Sean until the wedding but instantly fell in love with them. They are the nicest, most down to earth couple. It was so clear to me how much they truly love each other.

Jennifer Pharr did a wonderful job helping them with the arrangements at Ash-Lawn. She too loved Erika and Sean and wanted to help them any way she could! How nice is she! Derek, the DJ and Emcee did a great job pacing the events of the evening and Erika's uncle did an outstanding job catering the food. He owns LaCocina Del Sol in Crozet and in town.
I loved Sean's sense of humor!


Erika is stunning.






I loved the fence with the rings.


If you can tell me why I took this shot I will put your name into a drawing for a $15 gift certificate for photos from the wedding.


You can view their slideshow here

At Home In Charlottesville

Today is Erika and Sean's wedding day at Ash Lawn. Laura and I will be heading there around 2:00 to get to work. It is going to be another spectacular day and I couldn't be happier for them!

Yesterday I split the day between Peg and Dana. I started out driving over to my old neighborhood off Owensville Rd. to see my old house. It has been on the market for awhile now and looked pretty lonely with no one living there to take care of it. Then it was off to Bodo's for breakfast and shopping on the downtown mall.



Mojitos with lunch at Mono Loco!


Peg had to leave for an appointment and then head to Fluvanna for her son's baseball game. I headed out to meet Dana for coffee at this cute coffee shop in Belmont. There are a lot more coffee spots in and around Charlottesville now. It reminded me of Seattle.


Dana and I headed back to the Mall to walk before catching up again with Peg. The new amphitheatre is beautiful and the mall was quite busy with it being such a gorgeous day. I saw John Grisham and his wife, Vanessa having dinner and Boyd Tinsley, the violinist from the Dave Matthew's Band, having a drink at Miller's. I took this photo of the mall before I saw him sitting there. Boyd is in the right corner!




We had a delicious dinner at Orzo, an Italian restaurant and wine bar.


For fun I took their photos outside the restaurant against this cool blue tile wall. Both of them love blue!


It was a great day!

If you live in or have ever been to C'ville, I would love to know what your favorite thing to do is! Leave a comment here.

Good Friends and Good Wine!

I started the day in Harrisonburg with Laura. Once we got the kids off to school we hit two local wineries in the Shenandoah Valley. Of course we could not be together without doing (or wearing) something silly!

Rockbridge is located in Raphine, VA. I liked their Rose Shiraz.


This winery, Veritas, is in Afton near Wintergreen. I loved it. Gorgeous place for a wedding and the wine was wonderful.


Okay, so the shirts are a little corny but we had fun wearing them.


The flowers were beautiful everywhere we went.



We had a fabulous lunch in Nellysford at this adorable restaurant and shop.


Then it was off to Charlottesville to visit my friends, Peg and Dana. I saw an old familiar site; the Boar's Head balloon over Peg's house.


Dana met up with us after work and brought some munchies. We laughed, talked and drank more wine. It was a great day.