"WHEN YOU FEEL THE WORLD IS CRASHING,

ALL AROUND YOUR FEET.

COME RUNNING HEADLONG INTO MY ARMS...BREATHLESS"

-BETTER THAN EZRA

THE WAY TWO PEOPLE CAN FIND THEIR WAY TO EACH OTHER CAN OFTEN TIMES START BY BEING CLOSE FRIENDS. IN SARA + RYAN'S CASE, THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED. WE ALL WENT TO COLLEGE TOGETHER AND THEY HAVE BEEN FRIENDS FOR SO LONG ALL THROUGHOUT SCHOOL. I HAVE MORE MEMORIES AT NICHOLLS THAN I CAN COUNT AND MANY OF THEM INCLUDE SARA AND RYAN. SO MANY TAILGATES, SORORITY SOCIALS AND JUST FUN CAREFREE NIGHTS. 

 THE PIVOTAL MOMENT EVERYTHING CHANGED WAS AT A BETTER THAN EZRA CONCERT IN CITY PARK. EVERY ONE WAS HANGING OUT AS USUAL AND FOR SOME REASON (I WOULD CALL THIS MOMENT FATE) RYAN TOOK SARA'S HAND TO DANCE AND SPUN HER AROUND AND ONCE THEIR EYES MET...THAT WAS IT. THE WHOLE DYNAMIC CHANGED AND IN LOVE THEY WENT. ROMANCE AT IT'S FINEST Y'ALL. SINCE THAT DAY, THEY HAVE BEEN THROUGH MUCH MORE THAN THE AVERAGE COUPLE. THEY HAVE PROVIDED REFUGE, COURAGE, HAPPINESS, LOVE AND TRUST IN EACH OTHER WHILE THEY WELCOMED THEIR BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER MYA INTO THIS WORLD. 

I AM SO HONORED TO BE ON THIS JOURNEY WITH THEM ACTING AS MUCH MORE THAN JUST A SPECTATOR. PLANNING THIS SESSION WITH WAS SO MUCH FUN AND WE HAD SO MANY INSPIRATIONS FOR THEIR IMAGES. WE KNEW WE NEEDED TO CONNECT THE PROPOSAL TO THEIR SESSION SO WE DOCUMENTED THEIR LOVE ALL THROUGHOUT NEW ORLEANS WHERE HE PROPOSED.

IF YOU ASKED ME TO CHOOSE A FAVORITE IMAGE...I SIMPLY CANNOT. THESE TWO WERE SO ON POINT WITH EVERY MOTION AND EVERY FLIRTY SMILE. AS A PHOTOGRAPHER, YOU CANNOT WISH FOR ANYTHING MORE THAN THEY GAVE ME. I LIVED FOR THE MOMENTS WHERE THEY LOOKED INTO EACH OTHERS EYES...THE GOOD FEELS HIT ME HARD. THIS WEDDING IS GOING TO EMOTIONAL AND JOYOUS AND I HONESTLY CANNOT WAIT!

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