Griffin Family / Home Time Portraits

Griffin Family / Home Time Portraits

We get to meet so many other professionals through weddings, and we don’t take any of them for granted. Some of these encounters have become special friendships and lifelong clients. I LOVE connecting with other professionals and hearing their stories of how they attained their successful business.

Nazli + Travis / Piedmont Park With The Pups Engagement

Nazli + Travis / Piedmont Park With The Pups Engagement

It’s neat how with some people, you really connect easily. We have what we call “love at first sight” with our clients, and Nazli + Travis were one of them no doubt! We were on our 21 Days of Travel back in November when we received their inquiry.

2020 Craig Obrist Photography WEDDING Awards

2020 Craig Obrist Photography WEDDING Awards

After a year where we thought we felt our business could fall apart, here we are happy to report that we completed 35 weddings. Wow… I’m sitting here amazed yet again at what God can do and how He always provides for us. No disease, no virus can stand in His way… I’m humbled by His faithfulness and promises, and come what may, we continue to place our hope in Him and Him alone.

City #1 - Ocala, FL // Silver Springs State Park // 21 Days of Obrist Travel

City #1 - Ocala, FL // Silver Springs State Park // 21 Days of Obrist Travel

“THREE weeks?” is the response we got mostly when people ask what we’ve been up to. Yes, you heard right… 21 days was the goal and we did it! It was more of a mission than a vacation per se. When we decided to take our girls out of their school and register them to our county’s online school and homeschool our son, we wanted to make that decision count.

Jasmine + Sir John / The Biltmore Ballroom Wedding Atlanta

Jasmine + Sir John / The Biltmore Ballroom Wedding Atlanta

I’m seriously getting old because our couples are looking younger and younger to me more than ever before. Sometimes, our kids are closer to our clients’ age than I am to them, and that’s just weird! Ha! Our kids have discovered many gray hairs on our heads lately, and I’m telling you… it’s kinda scary.

Elissa + Mats / A Home In Atlanta Wedding

Elissa + Mats / A Home In Atlanta Wedding

At each wedding, I learn something… sometimes, it’s what not to do or how not to be and sometimes it’s everything I want to do and everything I want to be. At Elissa + Mats’s wedding, it was the latter. Even though changing plans can be disappointing or become a hassle, sometimes it becomes something that was the best for us after all.

Marisol + Walter / Montaluce Winery North Georgia Wedding

Marisol + Walter / Montaluce Winery North Georgia Wedding

Our business journey has fortunately given us so many opportunities that no other job ever would have. It’s a job that really gives us an adventure in life that an “office job” couldn’t. It definitely has its own stress and endless things that we had to overcome and still do just like anything else in life, but we don’t regret one bit the life choice we made.

Elizabeth + Thomas / Hightower Falls Wedding

Elizabeth + Thomas / Hightower Falls Wedding

Meeting brides at bridal shows has been our tradition for many years! That’s the way we met Elizabeth + Thomas awhile back, and it was so good seeing them again. If you follow us on our stories, you know that we like to travel as much as we possibly can with our kiddos, so any road trip is very fun for us! Hightower Falls was the venue that our couple chose, and we were so glad because this place is beautiful! We’ve been here a couple of times before for a few weddings, and it’s always been in different seasons.