the journal

Elizabeth and Mark celebrated their marriage with an intimate wedding at the North Carolina Arboretum in Asheville, North Carolina. Surrounded by their closest family and friends, these two arborists created a meaningful wedding day filled with gratitude, thoughtful details, and heartfelt moments that reflected exactly who they are.

What began as an ordinary walk by the lake unfolded into a moment that felt like a dream, a surprise proposal in a pocket of light by a willow tree.

I didn’t know the way my own beginnings looked or felt, not until the photographs holding the stories I never knew existed finally found their way to me.