Gabby and Devon are getting married this month! This couple's engagement session with their adorable pup was just the sweetest! Cannot wait for their big day soon at Rumbling Bald on Lake Lure!

Huge thanks to Pinecrest Bed & Breakfast Inn - Asheville, NC for letting us come play on your lovely property and to Mountaineer Motor Tours for bringing the Model T out for some awesome photo ops.

I love this time of year with all the engagement and family sessions, weddings, elopements, events, and adventures ahead! If you have something special coming up or someone special you need photos captured with, I would love to help you get photos you love from these once in a lifetime moments. 

Photographer: Camilla Calnan Photography

Location: Pinecrest BnB Asheville

Model T: Mountaineer Motor Tours

I loved being Anne and Eddie’s wedding photographer for their early spring Weaver House wedding in Weaverville, North Carolina. This fun couple is nothing short of amazing and it has been an honor to photograph them! Every moment of their day was so special – the love letters they sent each other before the ceremony, the bride’s first look with her mom, their heartfelt ceremony surrounded by their favorite people, the wedding feast, dance floor filled with joyous dancing all night, old and new friends and family celebrating together, and ending with a beautiful sparkler exit. It couldn’t have been a more beautiful day to celebrate these two!

They had perfect weather for their outdoor garden ceremony on an early spring day at the Weaver House. This venue is a magical place tucked behind a fence on Main street. Once you enter, you would never guess you are in town. The garden is stunning with an Asian inspired floating stone path to the gazebo surrounded by bamboo. They chose the perfect place for their big day.

Congratulations, Anne and Eddie! Wishing you a lifetime of happiness together!!

Photographer: Camilla Calnan Photography

Venue: Weaver House - Alexandra Herman (planner)

Hair: Jessica McGill (friend of bride)

Make-up: AnaRie

DJ: BombBasic 

Flowers: SweetLeaf Floral (Charleston, SC based; friend of the bride)

Isn't it funny how life works out sometimes? Kate and Kirk knew each other as kids growing up in the same small town. After life took them in different directions for some years, they reconnected and found love in their old friendship. When the time was right, they decided to gather their closest family and friends to make it official. They chose Fleetwood's, a bar, thrift store, and rock n' roll wedding chapel in Asheville, North Carolina, for the big event. I was over the moon to be there to capture this gathering of old and new friends.

This joyful celebration was set among colorful graffiti and amazing vintage relics, it was a photographer's dream! They gathered the most fabulous people, all arrived dressed for the rock n' roll theme as requested. Kate rocked her beaded gown and leather jacket, Kirk was looking extra fly in his floral suit, setting the tone for one epic wedding! It was a blast to see two people so fully celebrating each other while being celebrated by their family and friends. It was a perfect event for this awesome couple.

I could try to write about the magic that I was honored to capture that day, but think the photos will speak more clearly than words ever could. I hope you enjoy getting to see a little bit of Kate and Kirk's most wonderful day. Wishing the happy couple all the best for what is to come!!

Location: Fleetwood's Asheville, North Carolina

Photography by : Camilla Calnan Photography

Lindsey and Seth are one of the most wonderful couples that I have had the pleasure of photographing. This big-hearted duo adopts, rescues, and fosters cats and dogs, volunteers their time to do wildlife rescue work as well as owning two doggy daycare/boarding/grooming facilities in the Asheville area. It was such an honor to get to meet them, their pack of 6 lucky dogs, two of their kitties, and some of their favorite family and friends while photographing all the fun!

They chose to celebrate their love by having a small gathering in the gorgeous field near their home in lovely mountain cove on the most perfect day. Lindsey knew she wanted to incorporate a wildlife release into their wedding day, and Seth was more than happy to oblige. After the ceremony, they led the guests to a nearby wooded area, opened the crate door, and three opossum rescues emerged to discover their new home. The wildlife rescue she volunteers with, Edith Allen Wildlife, had some of the most adorable opossums that were ready to release right around the wedding date, so it worked out perfectly to surprise the guests – and me. It was the best wedding surprise I have gotten to capture!!

It was an inspiration to spend a special day getting to photograph the magic this couple creates together. I am the luckiest person to have met this pair and I’m humbled by all they do to help animals and people everyday. Between their work at Wonderdog caring for so many people’s dogs and all the foster and rescue work, they do so much to help so many animals have better lives. Truly thankful we connected through their wedding and I hope to get to photograph more chapters of their story as the years go by!!

I adored every moment of Lindsey and Seth’s wedding – so excited to share this joy with you all! Wishing all the best to Lindsey and Seth!!

Photography: Camilla Calnan Photography

Wildlife rescue the bride volunteers with: Edith Allen Wildlife Sanctuary

Location: near the couple’s home in Weaverville, NC

Their awesome doggy daycare/boarding/grooming business: Wonderdog Asheville, Wonderdog Merrimon

Nathalie and Mark chose to elope in downtown Asheville for their destination wedding. They found a gorgeous rental close to town with the most spectacular views and invited a few of their favorite people to come celebrate with them.  All the perfect details, the most genuinely sweet and stunningly beautiful people, the best locations, the most lovely day, and a couple so obviously overjoyed to be getting married, I was in photographer heaven!  I am so lucky that they chose me to photograph all this love and gorgeousness!!  
From the rental to the courthouse, the modern architecture of the rental to art deco magic in the historic buildings downtown, Asheville is an awesome backdrop for wedding photos!  Inside the courthouse is gorgeous and any opportunity to photograph there is such an honor - especially with a couple as beautiful as these two are!  I always swoon over the sweet moments after a couple is just married!  This is exponentially true when they marry at the courthouse and are so excited to make it official that they walk directly to the Register of Deeds office as these lovebirds chose to do.  We took some time for romantic portraits of the newlyweds and photos as we walked through downtown before rejoining their party to celebrate with a toast at Sovereign Remedies just blocks away.  This restaurant’s speak-easy inspired vibe fit this couple’s timeless style perfectly. 

I am still reeling in how spectacular this destination elopement truly was!  It is such an honor to work with my couples to make *their* wedding vision come to life, helping to plan as needed, and capturing it all so they can relive it for years to come.  It is my goal that they go back to the feeling of that moment every time they look at the photos .  I love getting to photograph such special moments and hope you will get in touch if you or someone you love needs big (or small) moments captured!

Photography by Camilla Calnan Photography

Ceremony at the Buncombe County Courthouse

Reception at Sovereign Remedies