Whitley + Chris / High Museum of Art & Atlanta Skyline Post Wedding Portraits

Whitley + Chris / High Museum of Art & Atlanta Skyline Post Wedding Portraits

Since the pandemic hit us, I’m learning more and more that our happiness is not determined by our circumstances. It’s the matter of the heart and when your heart is set on the goodness of God, nothing can take your joy away.

Lubna + Farhan / Three Day Tampa Bay Florida Wedding Grand Hyatt

Lubna + Farhan / Three Day Tampa Bay Florida Wedding Grand Hyatt

So, you know how 2020 was everyone’s year? Yeah, it was supposed to be “ours” too. As traveling photographers, it was the year of our dreams. We had so many out of state and even out of the country weddings booked, but as you know… this thing called COVID happened, and we felt as if our dreams were being shattered.

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.