Stacy & Tommy’s E-pics

Today’s blog post required a bit more work than usual. I had to find and dust off my old scrapbook because, well, I knew Stacy back when there were Units stores, big bangs, and cavariccis. That’s right the 80s. And went to school together through all of that awesomeness.

Here’s a great image that I found of our 8th grade graduation in 1993  – this is 1600 ISO film with no flash permitted (and some awesome gold photo corners – don’t be jealous!). I remember all of those lovely, grainy images from graduation.

Bonus points if you can find either myself or Stacy in this picture. 🙂

So the story goes on and we all go off to high school. Since we were in the private school circuit, there are several high school options so we all kind of split up and most of us lost touch.

About a year ago, I ran into one of the girls above at a salon while shooting a bride getting ready for her wedding. The next thing I knew we had a St. Patrick’s Class of 1993 group on Facebook. But my story doesn’t end there. I get a message from Stacy, she’s admitting to being a blog stalker since the group was started and she’s getting married! Well, alright!

Stacy wins the prize of being the person that I have known the longest and whose wedding I will be shooting! That’s a long-arse name for a prize isn’t it? Must. Work. On. That.

And then there’s Tommy. Poor Tommy, Stacy & I spent much of our first meeting laughing and talking about old friends & high school hi-jinks. Although I’m sure he’s happy that I can’t produce a picture of him in 8th grade!

I really got a chance to get to know Tommy during the portrait session. He can attest that it’s not a real engagement session without an awesome sunset, people staring at you or a field full of burrs.

Check out the awesome sunlight, the great pose, and a field full of mean, nasty burrs.

There was a lot of laughter.

This one cracked me up.

And we finished up at Lee Harvey’s, where they had their second date!