Westerly Photography

Here’s the story of the most perfect engagement session— I am biased because it happens to be my best friend— but genuinely it also was the most perfect session ✨
Hannah + Casey traveled to Wilmington to have their engagement photos taken on the beach. I planned out the best/most ideal spots— it was a weekend in the middle of summer so finding spots that would not feature the swarms of tourists was the goal. We were aiming for just before sunset, as I always suggest, to get the perfect golden lighting and magical silhouette sunset shots. All was well until…. We’re monitoring the weather as the weekend approaches and it’s supposed to storm (not just rain… STORM) all weekend. Peaking on the day and time we initially chose. Thankfully H + C are the most go with the flow humans on earth, and we’re down to make anything work. We change the time to earlier in the day and plan to hit the beach before the big storm is set to start. They rush to get ready we hop in the car and as we drive to the beach (less than 10 mins away)… we realize we’re driving into a huge block storm cloud. Hovering just over the beach. Our luck.
All the tourists are leaving the beach in swarms and all the best parking spots are no available (unheard of in peak summer time). I tell H + C we have minutes before it downpours and we dash out of the car. We rapid fire shoot and then BAM. Lighting and pouring rain. We’re all soaked running back to the car to game plan. We decide to wait it out for nearly an hour in the car for another break in the storm. We days back out to the beach and the sky CLEARS (momentarily). We get all the glorious footage, no sounds (tourists) in sight.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY 🤍 4 years of a beautiful marriage and to many many more! Seeing you both tackle all of the challenges of life and enjoy the joyous moments together has been amazing. Now you’ve grown from spouses into phenomenal parents. You are blessed to have each other and Raina is even more so to have you!
Searching through my albums to find a photo to post, I realized I’ve been there to capture the proposal, engagement, wedding, friends weddings, maternity, and newborn photos for my brother and sissyboo 🤍 needless to say I was 🥺
Fun fact: they both have green eyes and their first dance song was “Green Eyes”.

I just got done telling I have to work hard not to constantly spam the feed with her wedding day photos... but here I go again! 🤗💛