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Traveling the world, photographing couples in love & wrangling two little ones!

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Get a taste of wedding days with sneak peeks of my favorite images, tips from local vendors, updates about your favorite photographer, and as always lots of pretty pictures!

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Emily & Peter are about to celebrate their FIRST ANNIVERSARY!!! One of my favorite parts of when I lived in DC was the amazing portrait session locations, and we scheduled their session back in January. If you know anything about Cherry Blossom’s you know that it is impossible to predict their blooms until they happen. […]

March 30, 2019 Wimock at Kinderton Spring Wedding We haven’t had the best of luck with weather this past year, so as I started stalking the weather for Megan & Justin’s wedding day, it of course said rain. As I kept checking it throughout the week, I sighed relief as it went to cloudy to […]

The last 12 months have been some of the rainyest Saturdays of all time! Ask any wedding photographer on the East Coast, we’ve had the worst luck with weddings this year, but I’ve also had the best couples to deal with it!!! Although Meggie & Lee were disappointed that is rained basically all day, they […]

It’s not often I show up to a wedding just to do night time portraits, but this was a specific request for one of my best friends couples. Even though I was 3 weeks post-partum, I loved shooting these gorgeous images for this couple! (who had a 10 week old themselves!) The Christmas setting gave […]

On a chilly October morning, I met up with Meggie & Lee for their engagement session at Graylyn Estate. Graylyn Estate is basically straight out of a fairytale, and there was an abundance of gorgeous spots both outside and inside the manor. We were able to squeeze in their engagement session on probably the busiest […]

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Kathryn's Rose Hill Bridal Portraits

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