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Canvas Giveaway!

July 5, 2012 by Jensey Leave a Comment

Today is an exciting day for our 2011 couples – We’re running our first annual canvas giveaway via our Root Photography Facebook page!

Nate and I have uploaded an album with one of our favorite photos from each wedding and portrait session we shot last year. If you want to win, it’s easy- Get as many people as you possibly can to “like” Root Photography *and* your photo before voting ends at 11:59pmEST on Wednesday, July 11th. We will have one winner from our weddings and one from our portrait sessions. The winners will be announced on the blog Thursday morning. :)

The couple with the most “likes” on their photo (comments count too!) will win a 20×30″ canvas print from their wedding or session. (They get to choose which one!)

Ready to vote? Click here to view the wedding gallery and here for the portrait gallery. Good luck, all!

Lorie + Jonathan : Anniversary

July 4, 2012 by Jensey 2 Comments

Just as I love Christmas so it’s extra fitting that our wedding anniversary is Christmas Eve, our best friend Jon loves America. I mean, I love America, too, but Jon is 30 and lights up when he talks about presidents. He even has a favorite president. I think it’s my most favorite thing about him. So it’s extra fitting that Lorie and Jon’s anniversary just happens to be the Fourth of July. :)

I can’t believe that two years ago today, our best friends Lorie and Jon were getting married under an Acacia Tree in Tanzania, Africa. This week they’re celebrating their anniversary by attending a friend’s wedding in Spain, and Jon plans on participating in the Running of the Bulls in Pamploma. Real bulls, people. They constantly inspire us to have more adventures!

Sarah + Zach : Leipers Fork at Home Engagement Session

July 3, 2012 by Jensey 14 Comments

When I was a senior in high school and made the decision to go to the University of Tennessee Knoxville, I didn’t have a friend to room with. I was put into the random roommate assignment and hoped and prayed that I wouldn’t be placed with a psycho killer. Sarah moved into my room a week before I did because she was rushing a sorority, and when Mom and I came in to unpack, she wasn’t there.

I’d written Sarah a letter when I got our roommate assignment and let her know how much I loved Disney (shocker, I know), and I guarantee you that letter didn’t prepare her for my half of the dorm room, which looked like Disney vomited all over it!

While it took us a bit to find some common ground as a sorority girl and Disney nerd, I quickly learned Sarah was a total nerd too, and I couldn’t have been put with a better roommate that first semester. We bonded over hundreds of viewings of Legally Blonde and Christmas Vacation, and before I knew it, she went from my roommate Sarah to my friend Sarah. As we said goodbye when I left for the Walt Disney World College Program, I thought for sure we’d lose touch and I’d never see her again. But thanks to Facebook and the occasional drunk phone calls before Facebook, Sarah and I keep in touch, and now we both live in Nashville! Granted, we’ve yet to actually hang out with our respective crazy schedules, but I’m hoping that changes soon. :)

When she wrote me about being engaged and her wedding plans, I was over the moon that my sweet college roommate asked us to photograph her day. Sarah has amazing style and I just know her wedding will be fabulous. I finally got to meet Zach, her amazing fiance, and we shot their engagement session around her parents’ amazing home in Leiper’s Fork. Their property is beautiful and is going to be the perfect venue for their wedding this fall! This session truly is one of my all time favorites, and I’m so excited to finally share it with you!