Kristie and Trevor’s Wedding at The Westin Hilton Head Island Resort & Spa by RIM Photography

I had a wonderful time at Kristie and Trevor’s destination Hilton Head Island wedding at The Westin Resort & Spa. Amazing suite for the bridal party with a private balcony that boasted its own gazebo. What a find! We took a few minutes to hang the wedding gown there for a breezy blowing in the breeze photo, and then did a mini bridal portrait session there as well.

I’ve photographed  several weddings at The Westin in Hilton Head and can highly recommend it for destination weddings. There are so many options for ceremonies on the beach or on the deck and reception areas from intimate dinners to grand ballrooms. Catering sales manager Julia Dodson is wonderful to work with both from a bride and photographer perspective. to make everything come together just right.

As is most always the case in Hilton Head, even mid-November weddings have picture-perfect weather to keep brides in strapless gowns comfortable. And speaking of picture perfect, it was hard to go wrong with this couple who looked like they just stepped out of the covers of GQ and Vogue!

All in all, a fabulous night. Enjoy the pictures!

Click here for a slideshow of Kristie and Trevor’s wedding.

Gallery: Elizabeth and Brett’s Wedding

Amazing sunset at an amazing setting: Elizabeth and Brett’s wedding at The Creek Club at I’On in Mt. Pleasant, SC.

 

 

Village Artists Gallery

Great day the Village Artists gallery today at The Village at Sandhilll in northeast Columbia. Sold my third Hilton Head Island photographic canvas.

This gallery-wrapped canvas was a scenic of Shelter Cove, a favorite hangout for us whenever we are in Hilton Head. Apparently it held the same nostalgic meaning for this couple who stay in Shelter Cove during their Hilton Head Island vacations. I wonder if they had a Hilton Head Island wedding as well.

My daughter snapped this picture of two of my Hilton Head Island photographic canvases at the Village Artists at the Village at Sandhill.

My other two large landscapes were also Hilton Head Island photographs. The most popular one depicts a pier in Hilton Head that customers remarked looked so incredibly three-dimensional that it felt like you could step into the canvas. During my show in March at the Village Artists gallery, patrons kept staring at the pier, walking left, then right, then back again, asking about the phenomenon that the pier seems to follow the viewers wherever they stand.

In the category of small-world irony, the person who bought that  Hilton Head photographic canvas turned out to be the father of one of my best friends, though he had no idea I was the artist! He said it reminded him of his summers spent with his grandparents on the coast. He was a man of few words but I could tell it held special meaning for him and was thrilled to  have my art hang in his office.

The other Hilton Head landscape is a serene scene of seagrass and water, full of beatific blues and golden yellows that make you want to just lay back in a hammock, take a deep breath and appreciate God’s wonder in the creation of it all. This one will hang in my house one day.

An interested patron views the Hilton Head Island photographic canvas by Renée Ittner McManus.

While Hilton Head weddings are my mainstay, it’s been such a rewarding experience to branch out into landscape photography and even more special to have complete strangers fall in love with the Hilton Head scenery as much as I did. Who knows, maybe one day I’ll wonder into the home of a friend of a friend and see my canvas proudly displayed over his or her  fireplace. Now that would be a real treat.