Charlotte Photography: Ian and Jessica: Engagement Pictures

This past weekend I got to take engagement pictures for one of my oldest friends. Ian is a year younger than me, but I often tend to forget that. We grew up going to school, church, and more together. He came to my birthday parties I went to his. My junior year he was my date to the Sadie Hawkins dance. When I was 4 I cut my finger off in his basement....and I like to blame him for it...luckily they were able to reattach it. :) Ian only has brothers and I loved my role as his stand in big sister. He still starts almost all of his texts, messages, or facebook posts to me with a "Hey Big Sis!" Love it. In middle school we started swing dancing together. His parents would teach swing dancing lessons around town and we would be their "models." They would describe the move, we would demonstrate it. The first time we swung dance together was at the middle school dance. The one year where I was in high school and he was in the 8th grade was a huge bummer because we couldn't show off our skills. :) But every dance after that we would tear it up whenever Zoot Suit Riot would come on (we were usually the ones who requested it). We even got to swing dance at my wedding (minus the flip, for obvious reasons :)). Here are a few pictures that Annie Werner took that night....so much fun!

And just to go back a little further...Ian and I after the Salthawks won their very first state championship.

Ok...enough of memory lane. We split Ian and Jessica's photo session up in to two smaller sessions due to some time constraints. The first night we did all the ones in the Red Sox shirts and the next night we mixed it up with some downtown shots and country shots. I had the HARDEST time narrowing it down. I loved so many pictures! Hope you enjoy your preview guys....can't wait to photograph your wedding in less than a year! :)

Loved the sun in these next couple shots.

We went up to Sunflower Electric to take a few pics since that is where they got engaged. We had plans to go up to the roof, but in the end decided it wasn't worth the effort (this was after Ian was already on the roof...oops! :)). But that was ok because I was OBSESSED with the inside of the building. I must have talked for 20 minutes straight about how they need to turn it into an event space. They have a huge elevator to transport people up, plenty of room for tables, bars, dance floors, etc. And the MOST AMAZING windows. I loved them. Here are a few pics so you can see how neat this space was, too.