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Posted on May 26, 2011

lenka and james… married at the Barn at Valhalla, Chapel Hill, NC…..  <3

 

 

lenka and james, you had a Wonderful wedding!!  we were so honored to spend some time with your family!  what an incredible group you guys are!!  hope you are having a Great honeymoon!!

much love, jamie and richie <3

 

Posted on May 23, 2011

there are no words to tell you enough about courtney dimont.  she may certainly be one of our hugest fans EVA!  courtney and chris are getting married this october at the hayloft in mcleansville and i have a feeling this wedding is going to be a BLAST!!!  we did their engagement pictures last week at the hayloft and even though there wasn’t sun to get pretty flares, the clouds were Kickin!  chris and courtney, we Love you guys.  like for realz.  and we had a Hilarious time at your shoot!  in fact, its a wonder i got anything shot from laughing so hard the whole time!!  haha!  here are some of my favs from your session!

Posted on May 22, 2011

the k2 wedding….  k2 + OBX = keith and kendra married….  LOVED this group of family and friends!!  seriously, we could have hung out with them for Days!  and to see keith and kendra light up when they are together… Wowza!!  soooo sweet!!  here are some of our favs from their day!

 

congrats dr and mrs keith sales!!  we seriously had a Blast shooting your wedding!!!  much love, jamie and richie <3

Posted on May 20, 2011

Ok….so….Jamie and I have had the opportunity to met some very extraordinary people during our time as photographers.  We have traveled from Italy to South Carolina to photograph people on their wedding day and have seen a lot of different traditions on those special days.  Some time last year we had the great fortune to met Lenka Hejlkova and James Garlik who just happen to be getting married this weekend in Chapel Hill, NC.  Lenka is a new type bride for us in that she is originally from the Czech Republic in central Europe.  We had a pre-wedding dinner consult with Lenka and James and discovered that their wedding would be a mixture of both American and Czech customs/traditions.  Lenka’s entire family still lives in Central Europe and we just found out that most of them arrived in NC this week.

Her family arriving brings us to our blog post today…in that this is where a Czech wedding traditions come into play.  It goes like this…Some time before the actual wedding day the groom is taken away on a trip (which has to be out of town) with his friends and in this case James and his crew spent the day touring the Yadkin Winery’s while enjoying each others company and wine tasting.  While at the same time the ladies spent the entire day making  around 2000 wedding pastries called “Kolacky” (spelled several different ways).  This custom is unique in that its purpose is to bring the ladies together for a day of socializing, laughing and sharing time with each other before the bride is married away into another household.  Tradition says that the bride is not allowed to help in the making of Kolacky and in fact if she does she will have both a bad marriage and whinny kids.  This means that the task has to fall to her mom, her aunts, cousins and closest friends.  The process of making Kolacky is very involved and each lady has her role to play, or has their job to preform.  Its a virtual assembly line churning out thousands of these tasty little treats.  The making of Kolacky and the endearing friendships that we formed while there is what this blog post is really all about…

Every lady has a specific job which I believe is based a little on seniority   Lenka’s mom and Aunts had the very difficult task of wrapping them before they go into the oven.

I wanted to create a sense of movement as that is exactly what they were doing, no idle hands here!!

love this view as it clearly shows the stations that each lady was holding

very very cool in that the ingredients and the liquor were all brought from the Czech Republic!!!!! doesn’t get any more authentic than that.

half way finished so a toast was in order before lunch

the lunch was amazing, loved the variety and selection, we were so honored as they treated us just like family

Jamie was trying to fold the dough before it gets to the table for processing…you can see why its left to the experts to get done!!

again, wanted to use a sense of motion to better show how fast she was moving and really its way way more difficult than it looks like.

a single raisin has to be placed into each and every Kolacky…

after the oven they are all emersed in powdered sugar and then placed in boxes ready for the big day.

Lenka (stripped dress) her mom, aunts, cousins and closest friends

Posted on May 17, 2011

brittany and tyler married… chapel hill nc….  <3

Posted on May 16, 2011

caitlyn and justin … married… at THE sweetest little chapel in elon!  <3 them both!!

caitlyn and justin are one of our “first look couples”!!  there was no doubt that it was Perfect for them and made their day flow so much easier!  they wanted to leave the ceremony and go straight to the reception and doing the first look made that completely possible!  plus, i don’t think they could have gone much longer without seeing each other that day! 

i’m sure the party kept getting better and better after we had to leave!  it was a great wedding and we were so glad we could be there!!   xxoo, jamie and richie

Posted on May 16, 2011

as promised…. katie and david… married.  <3

katie and david… your day was PERFECT!!  you guys are SO wonderful together!  i know you will have lots of happy, wonderful years together!  thank you for allowing us to be a part of your day!!   xxoo, jamie and richie

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