Aaron Watson Photography Blog - Charlottesville, Va

A New Spin on Guestbooks using Engagement Pictures!

Kelsey — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:00:18 +0000

We love displaying our photography in albums, because it’s such a great way to tell the story of a portrait session or wedding. We have custom designed wedding albums and family albums, and we are very excited to show you a guestbook we created from an engagement session Aaron did with Elizabeth and Bubba. As you click through the album, you will notice blank pages and extra white space surrounding some pictures. These pages and extra space provide great places for all their wedding guests to sign and leave little messages for the happy couple. After the wedding Elizabeth and Bubba will have an album of their beautiful engagement pictures along with personalized signatures from their family and friends that they can flip through all the time!

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Quote Post – Inspired by Baby Photography

Kelsey — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:01:18 +0000

I was doing some marketing research recently, and I stumbled upon a page of quotations about the joys of children. Some of them had me laughing out loud, and some of them had me tearing up even though I don’t have kids! Since I had such a great time reading all the quotes, I thought I would start a quotation inspired blog post series. A lot of the photographs from our family portrait sessions illustrate the quotes I found perfectly. For example, Aaron took some baby portraits here in the studio of Joe, Chelsea, and their baby girl Maggie. Maggie is such a cutie pie, and she was so animated during her photography session that I thought her baby pictures would be the perfect ones for the first quote post! Enjoy these adorable photographs and reading the quotations sprinkled throughout the pictures!

Love,
Kelsey

“Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.”
~ Elizabeth Stone

“You will always be your child’s favorite toy.”
~ Vicki Lansky

“A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for”
~ anonymous

Announcing Aaron Watson Photography’s “Love” The T-Shirt Contest Winner(s)!

Kelsey — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:15:46 +0000

It’s been a very intense battle to the finish in our “Love” the T-Shirt Contest (if you haven’t already seen it check out our Facebook Page)! All the brides who had their picture taken at the Aaron Watson Photography and Exist N’ Motion booth at the Elegance in Bridal show did an amazing job rallying likes to win the Prize. It was very exciting for us to watch the votes shoot up! Last year we were so impressed when the winner of the Contest got over 100 votes, and this year the winner has reached over 1000 votes!!! Congratulations to Kiersten for getting so many likes and being the winner of our “Love” the T-Shirt Contest!!!

But wait, we have an added surprise for two of our other brides! (I wish there was a way to insert a drumroll in a blog post.) Because there were so many brides who did such an amazing job in the contest, we are going to be giving a 2nd and 3rd place prize!!! Congratulations to Kadee for being our second place winner with 954 votes, and to Allie for being our third place winner with 393 votes!!! You can see what each girl has won by scrolling down and reading the caption under each winning picture.

Congratulations to each of our winners, and a BIG thank you to all of the brides who participated in our contest! You rock!

Kiersten has won the grand prize of an Engagement Session with Aaron, as well as a 16×24 print of her favorite photograph from the session! (Valued at $545)

Kadee has won the second prize of an Engagement Session with Aaron, and an 8×10 print of her favorite photograph from the session! (Valued at $389.95)

Allie has won the third prize of a $250 album credit for a custom designed Aaron Watson Photography Wedding Album!

Aaron Watson Photography is Loving these wedding blogs

Kelsey — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:27:10 +0000

We were so honored to be featured in a few wedding blogs this month, and we wanted to share the love and feature their blogs on ours! The Charlottesville Wedding Blog posted twelve of our favorite pictures from 2011, and the Bridal Bar Blog did a post on Kyle & Regan’s Fall Wedding. Both blogs are great resources for brides planning their wedding because they show off the work of local vendors, give all kinds of advice, and offer inspiration for every aspect of a wedding. We highly recommend stopping by these blogs regularly and seeing all the great things they share! (Make sure you click on the pictures to read the full posts!)

Family Portraits at Glenmore Country Club in Charlottesville VA

Kelsey — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:00:41 +0000

These are a few family portraits from Jonathan, Michelle, Anna Lisa and Clara’s family session at Glenmore Country Club. Let me tell you, this family is a blast! Both of the girls were a little shy at the beginning of the session, but that didn’t last long. Before Aaron could take too many pictures, they were running around all over the place and having a great time playing together as a family. Anna Lisa and Clara are so adorable, and the pictures of the two of them together are awesome! I love the series of pictures where Clara was riding on Anna Lisa’s back and then in the next pictures they had collapsed. Anna Lisa made so many funny faces for Aaron, she even did a dance and Aaron caught a picture that made her look like a rock star! You can tell that you would always have a good time hanging out with their family!

Love,
Kelsey

Aaron Watson Photography’s Version of a Photo Booth – The CRAZYBOOTH!

Kelsey — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:00:04 +0000

We haven’t put up pictures from an Aaron Watson Photography Crazybooth experience in awhile, and after we saw the pictures from Kate and Seth’s Crazybooth, we realized it was high time we posted a few! We recently added a few amazing props which were generously donated by one of our brides after her wedding. Among these new additions were an assortment of wigs, a green tutu, zebra pants, and, my personal favorite, sparkly Michael Jackson gloves! Kate and Seth’s guests put all of these to good use, and the pictures that resulted were so funny we had to share a few!

Love,
Kelsey

Beautiful Winter Wedding at King Family Vineyards

Kelsey — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:00:21 +0000

Kate and Seth’s winter wedding at King Family Vineyards was absolutely gorgeous! I am so blown away by how romantic these wedding pictures are. I am usually not a fan of cold weather, but I would brave the chilly temperatures if I could get pictures like these! The frostiness of the scenery gave the whole wedding a mystical feel, and they carried the winter theme inside with the help of Amy Webb from Blue Ridge Floral Design and their wedding coordinator Colleen Miller. Their reception looked like a winter wonderland, I am in LOVE with the sparkly candles they set up everywhere, they’re perfect!
Kate’s dress is so beautiful, and is made even more so because she got it at Church Street Bridal. Church Street Bridal is a wedding gown shop that combines wedding dresses with philanthropy. Designers and shops donate new wedding dresses to Church Street, and when a bride purchases her dress from there, the money from the sale is donated to the Young Women’s Christian Association. The YWCA has a wide range of programs in place that help women and children, like the Domestic Violence Prevention Center and Ygyrl Leaders Mentoring for Teens. We are going to do a more extensive post on Church Street Bridal soon, but I wanted to mention it because I think it’s such a great way to help your community!
Okay, now back to the prettiness of Kate and Seth’s wedding day! Speaking of pretty things, you may notice the diamond horseshoe on Kate’s bouquet and on their wedding cake by Paradox Pastry. They added this detail because Kate loves horses, and Seth is a farrier! What a neat way to incorporate that aspect of their lives into their wedding. Kate had a dessert table for their guests to enjoy, and some thank you boxes for them to fill up and take home as favors. I have been told that the chocolate covered pretzels were incredibly delicious. Derek Tobler was a phenomenal DJ as usual, and helped the guests get down to the cupid shuffle. All the guests made sure to show off their best moves, and a few of them borrowed props from the Crazybooth to give them an extra edge. Good call in my opinion! A feather boa adds to any occasion.

Love,
Kelsey

The lace wrap around the stems of Kate’s bouquet is from her Grandmother’s & Mother’s wedding dresses fashioned with a horseshoe pin.

Wedding Photographer: Aaron Watson Photography
Venue: King Family Vineyards
Officiant: Claire Goodman
Wedding Coordinator: Colleen Miller Events
Wedding DJ: DJ Derek Tobler
Caterer: The Rock Barn
Florist: Blue Ridge Floral Design
Makeup & Hair Stylist: Moxie
Wedding Dress: Church Street Bridal
Wedding Cake: Paradox Pastry
Invitations: Andrea Espach Designs

The Bridal Show and Aaron Watson Photography “Love” the T-Shirt Contest

Kelsey — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:45:18 +0000

We had a blast seeing everyone at the Omni Bridal Show on Sunday! It was so much fun walking around and checking out the amazing vendors in the Charlottesville Wedding Industry. We made sure to sample every bit of food we could (it was all delicious), and we loved watching the Fashion Show put on by Amanda’s Touch Bridal!
We had a ton of beautiful brides stop by our booth and chat with us, and a bunch of them put on our “Love” T-Shirt to enter the Aaron Watson Photography Facebook Contest! We took photos of each bride with her T-Shirt on and put the pictures in an album on Facebook. The bride with the most liked picture from the bridal show will get a FREE Engagement Session with Aaron and a 16×24 print of her favorite photo! Now all the brides are in the process of rallying their friends and families to go to the Aaron Watson Photography Facebook page and like their picture. Make sure you check it out! Feel free to join in and like a bride’s photo, she will definitely appreciate it!
Here is a picture of the Aaron Watson Photography crew with our booth. Please notice the gorgeous flowers provided by Hedge Fine Blooms, which added beauty to our booth, and smelled terrific! Also, big thanks to West Main Bridal for lending us one of their mannequins to model our “Love” t-shirt!