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Michelle + Matthew : Celebration, Florida Roommate Session

August 7, 2013 by Jensey 6 Comments

Michelle and I became Twitter buddies a few years ago and know each other because she’s part of the incomparable Disney’s Fairy Tale Weddings and Honeymoons team. When her roommate and best friend Matthew was in need of a family session last year, she sent him our way and we’ll forever be grateful- his family session at Disney’s Boardwalk Inn is an unforgettable favorite. (If you need to remind yourself of which shoot I’m talking about, you can see the best looking family ever here!)

I was so excited when she and Matthew asked us to shoot a roommate session for them! There were a few ideas tossed around of where to go and what to do, but I’m so glad we ended up doing downtown Celebration, if just because Nate got one of my favorite photos of 2013 with the early morning fog… I mean, really. If we had a studio, you’d better believe this baby would be on a 30×40″ canvas!

Roommate Portrait Session in Celebration, Florida

Matthew is an incredible stylist (as if you couldn’t tell from his family session at the Boardwalk Inn!), but I think he really outdid himself this time. :)

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Is it weird that I wanna be best friends with them just so I can look at them all the time?!

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Matthew, I absolutely adore you.

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Michelle, I think this one’s my favorite of you!!! <3

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Favorite moment of the session? Michelle asked a random guy walking his huge greyhound on the street if we could use it for a photo, and he looked a bit concerned about how the dog would do. We told him no worries and went on our way. About a half hour later, he came back with a different greyhound for us to play with! :) I’m so happy he did, because I’m pretty sure this moment belongs on Celebration, Florida’s home page!

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Dear Michelle and Matthew, thank you SO much for the fun time. Can we please make it a yearly tradition? And can we please be friends so I can stare at your pretty faces whenever I want? Seriously- Thank you soooo much- Hope you love the photos! :)

Roommate Portrait Session in Celebration Starbucks, Florida

Related posts on the Root Photography blog :

  • Matthew’s gorgeous family at the Boardwalk Inn. Seriously. Go see. :)
  • Celebration, Florida’s Posh Pooch Festival with Disney’s Fairy Tale Weddings &  Honeymoons team
  • More Disney’s Fairy Tale Weddings & Honeymoons love

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July 23, 2013 by Jensey 3 Comments

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Rebecca + Joe : First Home Love

June 27, 2013 by Jensey 9 Comments

You may remember Rebecca and Joe (or Becky and Joey <3), from their in-park engagement session we photographed years ago. You can read the whole story here, but Rebecca got us special permission to shoot in Epcot before park opening and the Magic Kingdom, and it was the last in-park session we had before outside photographers were banned from shooting in the parks for a few years. (But we’re allowed again, huzzah! You can read more about that here.)

Walt Disney World Teacups Engagement Photo

Nate and I first met Rebecca when she was the event coordinator for a rainy dessert party we were shooting years ago. Rebecca recognized us and introduced herself as a blog stalker, and we’ve been friends ever since! I’ve heard of people who light up a room just by being in it, and Rebecca is totally that person. Seriously- the lights in a room she enters increase by at least 30%. Rebecca’s husband Joe is sweet and funny and you should click here to follow him on Twitter! We don’t see them nearly as much as we’d like to, they are two of the kindest people I’ve ever known and I’m always leaving our visits wanting more time with them!

On our last dinner date with them, Rebecca and Joe let us know they were doing the “m” word. I know we *technically* moved out of Orlando a few years ago, but we’re back so much that it doesn’t count, ok? Anyway, Rebecca and Joe were moving back to Rebecca’s home state of Texas (stupid Texas), and they asked us to take some photos of them around their first home before they had to box up and take things off walls.

It was my secret plan to do so well taking these photos that they’d never want to leave home!

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We set this shot up…

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… But then Rebecca let us know this is really how their evenings are. ;)

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Bed Jumping

Pillow Fight

The two that make me tear up: On the left is their master bedroom window where Joe proposed to Rebecca after they bought their first home (after watching Wishes from that window- Swoooon!), and on the right- Rebecca told me she wanted some photos of them dancing in the kitchen, which is where they’d practice their first dance. *sigh.*

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Kitchen Dancing

Kitchen Dancing

Rebecca and Joe, Texas is the luckiest. We love you both and hope to see you again soon. :)

Kitchen Dancing

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