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‘Tennessee but With a Little Italy Spice’

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Shea Cravens, a Tennessee-based photographer who runs Hunter La Shea Photography, posted a TikTok and Instagram carousel last month showcasing the results of an innovative engagement shoot.

“When you want Italy vibes for your engagement photos, but you live in Tennessee … so you take your photos at Olive Garden,” reads the text over the TikTok video. The post had more than 23,000 views as of Saturday.

The photos, all taken outside the restaurant at 6 a.m., according to her posts, were noted by commentators as turning out quite

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Couple’s Olive Garden Engagement Photo Shoot Goes Viral

A young couple couldn’t make it to Italy, so they chose the next best thing.

A couple eager to take engagement photos in the Italian countryside couldn’t exactly travel across the world for the photo shoot–so they improvised.

Carlsey Bibb and Caden Mills got engaged not so long ago and have begun planning a wedding for later this year. So when it came time to snap the engagement photos, the two already knew exactly the type of vibe they wanted to capture.

Unfortunately, they live in Tennessee where the Italian countryside is far out-of-reach. So the couple got creative and

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‘Spin Me Round’ is an all-you-can-eat Olive Garden parody that doesn’t quite satisfy

“Spin Me Round” isn’t the movie you think it’s going to be. That’s sometimes a good thing, but not always.

The unexpected and offbeat is a valuable quality in a film, as anyone who has seen a Jeff Baena film (“Horse Girl,” “The Little Hours”) knows. “Spin Me Round” has a promising premise and an outstanding cast, including Alison Brie, who co-wrote the film with Baena, as well as Aubrey Plaza (Baena’s wife), Molly Shannon and Fred Armisen. But the grab-bag nature of the plotting proves clunky in places.

It’s never not entertaining — the cast is just too good

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