Kevin and Sarah's Wedding

Kevin and Sarah are full of sincerity and honesty. When you speak with them, you know that they’re really with you, giving you all their attention. They are incredibly comfortable with one another and work hard to include their friends in their relationship. Although they graduated in the same class as Tim and I did from Wheaton, I wish we’d gotten to know them better during our time there. I feel so blessed to have been able to spend time with them leading up to, during, and after their wedding.

Tim and I were lucky enough to shoot our first wedding together for these two. Kevin and Sarah took time the morning of their wedding to spend with their friends, which I absolutely loved. The tradition for any bride on Wheaton’s Cross Country team is that all of the girls from the team join her for a run the morning of the wedding. I photographed Sarah’s run with her team as they arrived back on Wheaton’s campus. Meanwhile, in another part of town, Kevin and his guy friends were beginning a tennis tournament. Tim captured some great moments of both triumph and defeat throughout their morning.

I absolutely loved how much family history and stories were interwoven into Kevin and Sarah’s wedding day. The dress Sarah wore has been reworked several times to the one it is now. The dress originally belonged to Sarah’s grandmother. Her mother had the amazingly long train removed and wore it when she married Sarah’s father. When Sarah was a baby, parts of the train were made into a christening dress for her, and after the sleeves were removed and the dress reworked, Sarah wore it for her own wedding day…I wonder if the dress has one more wedding in it :)

Kevin and Sarah’s ceremony was well thought out and so full of symbolism – I appreciated how important that sacred space was to them. It was the first wedding I’d seen where three pastors tag-teamed the ceremony, one of them being Sarah’s father – something I highly approve of ;) After the wedding, the reception took place at The Oscar Swan Inn, a little oasis of beauty and country chic hidden within the suburbs. And I must say that Kevin and Sarah had the most epic first dance I’ve ever seen. The night was truly a celebration of what God has done in bringing the two of them together.

A full gallery is coming soon, come back for more!

The Rehearsal

The morning of the wedding

Wedding preparations

First Glance

The Ceremony

The Reception

Goodbye Chicago, Hello Seattle

I have a love-hate relationship with the season of life that Tim and I are in right now. Mostly love, only a little hate. The part I’m not liking about this transition time is saying goodbye to all the people I love here in Wheaton. Over the past four years they’ve shaped who I’m becoming and I could not be more grateful for that. The love part involves so many things – doing life with the person who knows me best, having an adventure where I don’t know what’s on the next page of the story, and especially feeling loved and supported by family and friends to pursue what I’m passionate about.

We’re headed to Seattle because I have an internship opportunity waiting for me there with Sarah and Chris Rhoads. It’s something I’ve wanted to do since last November and I’m so thankful for the chance to learn from two people I respect in many ways. Actually getting to do this internship hinges upon Tim and I being able to find work in Seattle to pay the bills :) We’ve been living with our dear friends here in Wheaton while searching for work in Seattle, and God has just opened up a door for us to stay in a friend’s house and job search “on location.” We’d love your prayers that once we’re there we can quickly find work and an apartment so I can begin training with Sarah and Chris!

Although I hate saying goodbye, I’m so grateful that our transition from one side of the country to the other has been filled with an abundance of family and friends. These are a few snapshots from our time in North Carolina, Maryland, and Illinois.

Hinkle-Huffman Preview

Lainie holds a certain special place in my heart. We’ve been friends since I was in kindergarten and she was in third grade, when my family moved from Minnesota to North Carolina. She was the oldest in our little group of neighborhood kids and therefore she was the ringleader. While I was gathering photos for the slideshow Tim and I had at our wedding, I came across this one. That’s Lainie and I in the back, one of our many afternoons spent saving the neighborhood from evil villains – this time as Batman characters :) The following photos are a few snapshots from the day of Grant and Lainie's wedding. I’m still catching up on my editing since my own wedding, but I thought it was only fair that these friends got a little preview of their wedding photos!

Wheaton Wedding Reception

Wow, it’s been nearly a month of craziness for Tim and I – from getting married, to honeymooning, to spending time with both our families in North Carolina and Maryland, to moving back to Wheaton (for the time being), to applying for jobs in Seattle, to editing lots of friends’ wedding photos, to spending time with friends back here… I’m happy to spend a little time updating the photo blog :) On Friday Tim and I had a reception here in Wheaton for all of our friends who couldn’t make it out for our wedding. We had so much fun reconnecting with everyone and felt a lot of love from all our friends. We decided at the last minute to put up a “photo booth” to capture some of the fun (thank you to Adam Pratt for the backdrop and lights!) Enjoy a little of our Wheaton reception photo booth!