the journal

Two runners, a stunning Catholic church, a lot of best friends, and a beautiful sunny Knoxville, TN day. This St. John Neumann Catholic Church and Abby Farm Wedding had all the ingredients for a perfect East Tennessee Catholic wedding. Laid-back weddings are the best. I love how Jaclyn and John focused first on the sacrament […]

I will take any chance I can get to travel out to East Tennessee to photograph weddings and I am absolutely obsessed with Savannah and Michael’s Cathedral of the Most Sacred Heart Knoxville wedding. From finishing touches at the Embassy Suites in downtown Knoxville, to a rainy arrival at the Cathedral for their traditional Catholic wedding, to a sunny intimate dinner at The Lonesome Dove, this wedding radiated joy, grace, and style. I met these two over the summer for their engagement session and immediately fell in love with this beautiful couple.

You’ve started planning your beautiful Catholic wedding, you’ve booked your reception, we’re designing your portraits, and then, you get an email. It’s from your church coordinator outlining the rules of wedding photography in their church. You don’t panic! First, because you read this, and second, because your Catholic wedding photography team is well-versed in Wedding Mass Photography Etiquette.

Kayla and Martin’s Sewanee University of the South engagement session was such a dream. I absolutely loved getting to visit the University of the South and it’s beautiful architecture. Even more though, I loved getting to meet this lovely couple and learn about their relationship as we visited different spots around campus that mean so much to each of them.

Ambra and Tim had one of the penultimate Nashville Catholic weddings and nobody can change my mind. They included all the best things: getting ready on historic Music Row, a Nuptial Mass at St. Ann’s, and delicious food and drink at 5th & Taylor. This St. Ann’s and 5th and Taylor wedding was the perfect finale to my Fall ’25 wedding schedule.

I LOVE weddings with a strong sense of family and community and Faustina and Cole had just that. Their sweet November wedding day was full of loving family and close friends. And you know those people that you meet and instantly realize are just the nicest ever? That’s Faustina and Cole. Their November Cookeville, TN wedding at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church and Leslie Town Center was such a joyful and refreshing Fall day.

’m not sure there could be better backdrops for a Nashville wedding day surrounded by Fall colors than the historic St. Mary of the Seven Sorrows Catholic Church and the Nashville Zoo all decorated for their Zoolumination event.

Coffee in hand, summer garden exploring, Catholic engagement session? Yes. Please.  Savannah and I tossed around a few location ideas for their engagement session but when she said coffee and bible studies had played a huge role in the beginnings of Michael and her relationship, that made the decision easy. We put together this Franklin Catholic Coffee House engagement session.

Savannah and Tanner had their short and simple Catholic wedding ceremony at St. Ann’s Catholic Church (one of my favorites!) in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. It was a beautiful, rainy, and emotional ceremony that was an honor to photograph.

Kimberly and Shane’s traditional Catholic wedding at St. Mary’s in Nashville was one of the most inspiring weddings MOP photographed this Spring.

Their wedding was the definition of simple, elegant, and focused on all the right things: Christ, each other, and spending time with close loved ones.