Entries by jbhaygoodphoto

Intimate Wedding Raleigh

It’s happening every weekend now it seems like – people who can’t have the big wedding celebrations that they planned, are opting to scale it waaaayyy back and have a smaller, more intimate wedding at home. Erin & Evan were supposed to get married at a local venue, but since that’s not happening right now, […]

High School Senior Boy Portraits – Outdoorsy

It’s no secret that most high school senior boys are let’s just say, less than super excited, about their senior portraits. BUT – this kid, he was as sweet as could be, with a smile that didn’t stop. He graduated this past spring from, and is headed off to college shortly – best of luck […]

Intimate Wedding – Chapel Hill

Just because we aren’t having big events right now doesn’t mean people can’t get married. I received a phone call on a Thursday from the Father of the Bride saying that his daughter and her fiance wanted to get married that coming Monday, at 10am and they were hoping I could come document it. And, […]

Bar Mitzvah at Snipes Farm Retreat

Bar Mitzvah’s are so much fun! It’s the culmination of so much hard work – years of study, lots of planning and it brings together the whole family to celebrate that accomplishment. I ADORE this family – Kelly is a food writer (like, hello dream job!) and has the best sense of FUN of anyone […]

Duplin Winery Wedding

When I met Sarah & Charlie, they mentioned they were getting married at the Duplin Winery, about 1.5 hours from here, and I was like – YES! First it’s a wedding and 2nd it’s a *road trip* – woo hoo! Sarah & Charlie are both nurses, and they deal with A LOT of stuff at […]

What’s really involved in a 1-hour Portrait Session?

“We just need, like, ONE good photo for our Christmas card” I hear this a lot. People are after that one perfect image of their whole family looking pinterest-worthy for their holiday cards. Sure, we can do that. And you know that for you to be photo-ready you have to shop for the perfect outfits, […]

Apex Wedding at The Oaks at Salem

Jenna & Austin are the most adorable couple 🙂 They are both academics – he’s in paleontology & archeology and she’s in elementary ed and their wedding was full of genuine love, connection and really smart witty humor (which, I totally dig) – (dig, get it? he’s in archeology? lol) Anyway, they had a lovely […]

Courthouse Wedding

If you, like many couples, are finding that the big wedding you were planning maybe isn’t going to happen the way you thought – I’d like to show you how sweet a courthouse wedding can be. These two literally eloped – they didn’t even have any friends or family there with them – I got […]