Big thanks to DC wedding blog United with Love for showing Emilie and Zack’s awesome courthouse wedding and Segway portrait session some love in their 2012 best-of roundup. Big thumbs up for courthouse weddings everywhere. (And while I’ve got you, did you know I have special courthouse wedding pricing? I sure do – you can read all about it here [pdf].)

Ah, 2012 (here’s 2011). What a crazy year, the one George keeps referring to as “the best in our lives.” Seems pretty premature to put that label on it, but by all accounts, it has certainly been the best year yet. I’ve got my eye on 2013, though, don’t you worry. Without too much musing, I’m going to move right on into the images. There are a lot, so go grab a cup of coffee and come back and take a walk through the last year with me. What follows are a set of images – one for each session I photographed in 2012. No personal work, no second shooting and one choice I made just now mostly through gut – not necessarily my favorite, just the one that caught my eye, just now. My 2012, in order:

Y’all, I’ve mentioned how much I enjoy being married to George.  He’s so freakin’ rad.  On our first and second anniversaries, I wrote little ditties about how much I love him blah blah blah. And this year I don’t feel compelled to do that. I don’t necessarily think it’s a bad thing… as far as I can tell, in a successful marriage, you sort of settle into each other. So things don’t seem extraordinary all the time – they’re just really nice, really comfortable, really warm and loving and cozy.  Plus, I get to be married to this stud!  I love this image I snapped of my man at Chris and Shubha’s wedding earlier this year.