Karri Brantley Photography notes getting the BEST out of your wedding dress!

You've got the ring, CONGRATULATIONS, now how are you going to look your very best on your wedding day?!?

Your dress took you hours to find and typically only gets worn the day of your wedding, so why not have the excuse to get all dolled up before then and get some fabulous Bridal Portraits! Not only will it ease the pressure on your wedding day, but you'll have the relaxed atmosphere and time to get that perfect photo of you looking the way you've always dreamed in your marvelous dress.

There is so much to decide with planning a wedding, but we at Karri Brantley Photography would LOVE to give you some great advice as to how and what to do once you get that new wedding dress.

More and more brides are choosing to have their Bridal Portraits done before the wedding either at a premier location like the Arboretum or Botanical Gardens or on the Blue Ridge Parkway. We are happy to suggest our favorite make-up artist, hair goddess and amazing florist in the Asheville area prior to your shoot.

To find out more information, please contact us here.

A man and his Elvis guitar!

Here is a story to blow your TOP off! Sit down relax and read about this true story of a man and his Elvis guitar.......

This is Mike {below}. And his official and totally legit Elvis guitar. He's had this guitar since 1975 when Elvis Presley personally gave it to him. Yes, you read that right. Mr. Elvis Presley! OMG! Here's the story as to how he got this guitar, as I understand from Mike himself.

Mike got front row tickets to Elvis' concert in Asheville with his then girlfriend, Debbie {his wife now}. During the concert he noticed Elvis looking at him a couple of times, but thought nothing of it. Then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, towards the end of the concert, Elvis leaned towards Mike, took off his guitar, handed it to Mike and said 'here keep this, you're going to need this someday!" Um *gulp* and *gasp* from Mike's bright eyes and speechless face. So, needless to say, he sat the rest of the concert holding onto the guitar, with feet wrapped around it {there's an example below}. To this day, this is the only guitar that Elvis ever gave a patron in the audience and it is the only guitar that doesn't complete the entire collection at Graceland in Memphis. 

As it turns out, Mike is actually an Elvis impersonator occasionally for parties and special events around the states! Ironic, don't you think?!?

So, for Father's Day, Mike's kids bought him a photo session with little ole me to photograph him and his Elvis guitar all these years later. What a HUGE honor. I mean, this is a hunka, a hunka, burnin' guitar y'all!!!!