Me and Derek go way back….like all the way to 2007. I used to work at the greatest suglass boutique ever Solstice Sunglass Boutique, and Derek was the assistant manager. It was so much fun working there, probably because it never really felt like “work” and because of that crazy discount. It’s probably safe to assume that over half of my pay went to investing in quality eye wear. I say “investing” and “eye wear” because it sounds much more responsible than saying I blew all my money on designer sunglasses for dara and I, but that’s another story blog post. I will say that we still have boxes of “quality eye wear” including gucci, marc jacobs, ray ban, mosley tribes, dita, and oliver peoples; one can never have too many sunglasses.
After my time (and discount) at solstice ended, I still kept up with the crew, and heard the great news from Derek that he had started dating Jason. Dara and I met Jason and immediately loved him. He and Derek are perfect together and really compliment each other. We were so blessed to have them as guests to celebrate our wedding day in New Orleans and spent a few great nights at the wine loft together. When I was in Louisiana in March I had the pleasure of shooting these two. They were so easy to shoot and were super comfortable in front of the camera. And you can tell they were up for anything like running in a fountain together.
I had so much fun shooting Jason & Derek. Dara came along on the shoot to “help” which mainly consisted of making us all laugh. We had a great time in downtown Baton Rouge. Derek & Jason we miss you guys!
