CHARYL AND JOSH {Charlotte Engagement Photographer}

P-A. P-A-T-R. P-A-T-R-I-O-T-S Patriots! Whooooo!

For all you “Big I” alumni, this post is for you. I know Charyl and Josh from back in the day. We all went to Independence High School, affectionately referred to by its present and former students as “The Big I”. Well… at least I hope they still call it that, or else that would be a huge disappointment.

I don’t know about you, but high school wasn’t the “worst experience of my life” as some people claim it was for them. Mine was pretty awesome. When I attended Independence (pre-high school football championships), it was the perfect melting pot of all kinds of cultures and crews. For the most part, we all got along. Our groups of jocks/rednecks/cool kids/geeks weren’t as segregated as most high schools and the majority of students fell into more than one of those cliques. That’s not to say we were perfect by any means but for the most part, more lines were blurry than were in focus.

High school is where I decided I would major in Art in college, it’s where I took my first photography class – you know – where you make your own camera out of a shoe box and process your own black and white prints, it’s where I found two of my very best friends and met two beautiful women who are not just friends but I get the privilege of calling “sister.”

Though Charyl and Josh both went to Independence (well, Josh ended up transferring to another school but he’s a Patriot at heart), they started dating shortly after high school and have been together ever since! They both attended the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and met in Sanford Hall, one of the oldest dorms on campus, where they were one floor apart – rooms 419 and 519. They would meet between classes at the Belk Tower or near Fretwell and would go to Bingo Night at After Hours. So what better place to shoot their engagement session than the campus at UNCC? We hoped to venture downtown as well but dusk and a home Panther game stifled that plan. So, we are meeting next week to take a couple of shots uptown. But I couldn’t wait that long to share with you. Meet Charyl and Josh!

Thanks Charyl and Josh for a fun shoot! Please support Kasey Loftin Photography by liking my page on Facebook. Cheers!