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:

Liz and Dave got married under an absolutely beautiful (and big) fall sky with their closest family and friends last week.  You couldn’t have asked for a better day out of late November. Or a more cheerful, laid-back couple.

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Gotta love a bride who takes a tequila shot before she walks down the aisle!