kyle hale - gangster

{i straight ganked this image from facebook}

we've mentioned him lots on this blog and in our various casual conversations but we still get asked frequently who was behind the lens for our engagement photos and wedding photos. this is the man: Kyle Hale.

Pete referred us to his old GCSU college buddy and we were blown away when we saw his photos. there's quite a few surprises hidden behind kyle's sexy little beard. not only is he bad awesome with his camera and computer tricks, he's got a degree in audio engineering, owns bunches of cool instruments, likes good music, likes good design, loves God, laughs a lot, works at the CNN center, rides a vespa, smells nice, and protects the innocent. i like him a lot.

for those wondering, kyle shoots with a Nikon D80, a Nikkor 24-120 f/3.5 VR lens, a Nikkor 50mm f/1.4, and a lot of skill. we lost light quickly after the wedding and kyle did a great job snapping the photos before we completely lost light and editing photos to make it look like there was light. our engagement photos were as fun as they looked largely due to kyle's creativeness and knowledge of the city. there was a lot of improv and laughs with only a few life threatening situations. we'll probably work with this guy again in near future. you should too.

check him out at www.kylehale.net.

i'm so excited

and i just can't hide it!

really. i cannot wait. every time i think about marrying this kid i get all chicken-skinned and stomach butterflies.

on a side note, we're following dave ramsey's total money makeover plan to pay off my student loans. i borrowed the book from our friend zac, and i'd recommend it for all of you students with loans & credit card junkies. and nerds like me who get all excited about money. to prove my enthusiasm, here's the sweet poster i made that's (not yet) hanging in our office:

we're going to be writing about our trip to estonia a little later on, so watch out for that.

save the date postcards

I'm so stoked - we received our "save the date" postcards a couple days ago. I've addressed over half of them, and will be mailing them out tomorrow. I went for a quirky-semi-script hand lettering technique, using a brown pigment marker pen. This style's not perfect for everybody, but it's very us.

engagement photos

today was an awesome day. lot's of news - i'll share a little now, and more later. we have our final date for the wedding : august 2nd. it's soon! so we'll be sending out our "save the dates" this week. we're leaving august 3rd for Estonia. (look it up on Google maps) much much more to come about that - for now, I'm going to plug our wedding photographer, Kyle Hale, real quick.


we shot our engagement photos with him in March. we went to six different locations and had a blast at all of them. we think the photos are totally rad & Kyle is such a real dude. if you have need of a photographer, I would very highly recommend him. if you don't have need of a photographer, I would very highly recommend checking his stuff out.

You can view all of our engagement photos here and here.