Corey and Chris got married August 15, 2007. They were such an amazing couple, they even had their first dance IN the pool!! It was insanely gorgeous!! Take a look at her
website! She is soo much fun! Any couple would be super lucky to have her!!
Here is a bit she wrote on her blog about her wedding:
When I tell you brides that I know how much work weddings are - I KNOW! I planned the entire wedding - AND the trip and not just for me but for my husband and his family and our friends as well. No one besides us had ever been to the area before so everyone was clueless on how things went. Not only did I design, print and put together programs and menus but welcome baskets full of pages and pages of information for the guests on their rental homes, the locations and where to eat. Beyond that I designed the entire wedding and even though I may not have put together everything I picked out everything and let my vendors run with it. My vendors then hit it out of the ballpark.
Although ALL of my vendors were phenominal and so awesome to work with, there was one that was the best thing ever since sliced bread (and BETTER) and that was my photographer Brooke Mayo. I fell in LOVE with her work online and her personality literally leapt off of the pages. Without even talking to her on the phone, I knew I had to have her and she and I would get along great. I booked her instantly and never looked back once. During the days leading up to the wedding she was so amazingly helpful with suggestions for vendors and what to avoid but she would top herself when we went down for our engagement session.
Chris and I were stoked to be going down for our wedding planning weekend. Brooke has the awesomest packages of any photographer and I’m not kidding here. In some of her packages you get a weekend at her beach cottage with your engagement session for a wedding planning weekend. It is super secluded and the CUTEST little house I have ever seen. She has a knack for decorating, it’s adorable! We were greeted with some bottles of wine from her hubby’s winery (Sactuary Vineyars, if you are down on the Outer Banks you MUST get some, yummmmm) and were just so relaxed at her home. It’s so inviting. Sadly though not long after we arrived we found out that my future father in law had passed unexpectedly and we needed to get back to Ohio ASAP. Brooke went above and beyond what most people would do and was just amazing. She not only was super understanding on why we had to leave but was so accomodating and helpful that it made everything so much easier to deal with. I cannot imagine anyone else being more perfect for us at that moment than Brooke. She’s just that awesome of a human being.
So as you can imagine, we were already quite attached to the super Brooke before our wedding day and already loved her without her taking a single snap yet! However on the day of the wedding she won us over again. She’s just so cheerful and has an infectious personality, you can’t help but love her. THEN you see the images and you are floored. She catches every single moment and turns it into something even more amazing. The posing is so easy with her and nothing feels forced or faked. Of course I surprised her a time or two by doing things she wasn’t expecting (like running off into the ocean) but she was on her toes and kept right up with me. At the end of the night she even donned some goggles and went underwater to capture some seriously breathtaking shots of our first dance in the pool. Yes, you read that right. Our first dance was in the POOL.