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CONTEST WINNERS!

August 13, 2015 by Jensey 10 Comments

Remember in JULY when we posted about a session giveaway with the deadline of July 31st, and initially gave ourselves like 48 hours to pick a winner, only to extend the contest to buy us more time? Well, that ended up being a whole other problem because then we got even MORE entries which only made it harder to choose!

I feel badly about taking so long to post the winners, but the truth is we got 60 entries this round, and I wanted to give sessions to everybody!! Seriously- The stories and photos we received were so touching and amazing and we couldn’t decide ourselves so we finally called in for help from Lorie and Jon, our best friends who have always helped us decide in the past. They happened to be driving their moving truck from Nashville to Seattle the day we sent emails, so we had their full, undivided attention. :)

SO. Without further ado, our TWO session winners are Kate R and Julianna, who nominated her niece, Summer! We’ll be sharing their entries when we blog their sessions. We can’t wait to meet you, Summer and Kate!

I told you the decision was hard, so this time we have a handful of second place winners as well. These guys will receive a mini session (15-20 minutes) and high-res images. Congrats to everyone shown below. Again, I look forward to sharing their stories soon!

Seriously- Thanks to all of you for entering and being so patient with us. I want to photograph you all, so we’re extending a 20% full-session discount to everyone who entered. :)

Nate will be in touch over email with details. Congrats to the winners and we’ll talk soon!! <3

Yay Giveaway!

July 17, 2015 by Jensey 10 Comments

Today is one of those silly milestones that might not seem like much, but it’s a pretty big deal for me.

This is my 1000th blog post. 1000, you guys!!

We wanted to do something fun to commemorate it, so here we go! Years ago we did a session giveaway and loved the response. It actually led us to meeting one of our favorite families, one of the daughters eventually becoming our wedding assistant for a while! :)

So maybe you’ve been putting off booking that family photo session. Or you want to see my cute husband climb a tree. Maybe it’s been 10 years since your wedding and you haven’t been in front of the camera since. We want to hear from you!

Nathanial and I will be giving away one free portrait session* and USB drive (Valued at $700.) All entries must be received by Sunday, July 26th as we will be announcing our winner Thursday, July 30th on the blog.

All you have to do is take a photo of you and whomever else will be photographed and write a little something about why YOU should be in front of our cameras and send your entry to yaygiveaway@rootweddings.com. Your 10 day deadline begins now… We can’t wait to meet you! :)

*Your entry must be received by Sunday, July 26th at 11:59pm EST. The winner will be announced on the blog on Thursday, July 30th. Session date is based on our availability. Session must take place in Central Florida and take place by the end of June 2016 unless otherwise discussed. Must be at least 18 years old to enter. :)

Portrait Session Winners

May 17, 2010 by Jensey 16 Comments

We knew this giveaway was gonna be hard to judge, but we had no idea how hard. If it was up to me, we would have given away 60 free sessions, but after realizing that’d be over 180 hours of our time this year, well… I don’t love you guys that much! ;)

We sat and read through all of your wonderful entries over pizza and Coke. I was worried I’d be fighting for who I wanted to win until the wee hours of the morning, pulling a Mr. Smith Goes to Washington worthy stalemate. But after all was said and done, we pretty much agreed on the same 10, narrowed that to 6, then 2. So, friends, I now present our lucky session + image disc winners! (I know we said there would only be one, but we loved both of these entries so very much!)

Because we seriously had the hardest time choosing, we also have four runners-up. We’ll be in touch soon regarding your prizes!

Stephen S.
Hayley O.
Amanda P.
Lindsey H.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for taking the time to enter! We loved hearing everyone’s love stories, and some of you were so darn creative it rocked our faces off! If you didn’t get picked this time around, don’t be discouraged… I’m sure we’ll be running another portrait giveaway in the future. :) In the meantime, to all of you self-proclaimed blog stalkers, leave some comments and say hi! Let’s be friends. :)