Hey THERE!
We’re Cassie and Michael Cardwell.
Our favorite things are roadtrips together. Hiking. Breakfast for dinner. The Memphis Grizzlies, and peanut butter pie from Hog and Hominy. (IYKYK) We’re a couple of suckers for reality TV (Survivor fans, where u at?) We like kickin' butt at Mario Kart, and covering the walls of our house in photos. We like the in-between moments, because we believe those moments are the ones that truly tell the story.
We were both photographers long before we met, and each have over ten years of experience as wedding photographers. We got married in 2018, and created The Warmth Around You that same year. Since then we’ve photographed hundreds of weddings, thousands of irreplaceable and fleeting moments for people with the same love for living in the moment and having a piece of it to keep with them forever.
Photos of us by River + Rae Photography
OUR STORY
We met over a love of adventure and film photography, which led us to a mini-road trip to Monte Sano State Park to go hiking and getting out of our everyday routines for a day. We eventually stumbled across an impossibly enchanting Japanese Teahouse. We stood in a fog-filled woods, and it felt like we had stepped into another world.
In 2018, we traveled back at the Teahouse to get married. We couldn't think of any place more perfect to say our vows and start the next chapter of our lives than the place where our story began together. We shared our wedding photos on our Journal if you wanna see. 2018 was also the year we joined our photography businesses to become one, and created The Warmth Around You.
In the fall of 2021, we embarked on our greatest adventure yet- parenthood. We welcomed our son into the world and he was the missing piece we didn’t even realize we were missing until we had him here with us. He fills our lives and hearts to the brim with laughter and light and silliness.
2023 we stood in awe as we watched one of our wildest dreams come true right in front of our eyes- our own photography studio. A dream we had individually for as long as we could both remember, and an active goal of ours for years now, finally coming true.
That’s kind of how it’s felt since meeting each other- dream after dream coming true and constantly asking ourselves, how did we get so lucky?
JOURNAL.
Every person that steps in front of our camera is letting down their guard and allowing us to photograph their most intimate moments. Their purest, unfiltered selves. As a way of opening ourselves up and returning the vulnerability, we wanted to share more of ourselves with people that trust us enough to document such important days. Here is our personal blog. You'll find everything here; home renovations, our travels, dumb movie reviews, you name it. Get to know us, for real.
The best way to really get to know us is through the photos we take and cherish. Here’s a few from our personal archives.
