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

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Emily & John 
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 Gabriella & MAX 
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Lindsey & Michael
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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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It’s a post I see on a daily basis in almost all of my photography/small business groups on facebook, and it’s all about facebook reviews. This is something that I have wanted to write on for quite a couple years, now and I am finally doing so! A lot of people look for reviews, when […]

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One of the biggest compliments you can get as a wedding photographer is having ANOTHER photographer hiring you for their wedding!!! Emily is a photographer in my native Northern Virginia, and they both grew not too far from me! When we were discussing engagement locations she wanted to do the not so typical northern VA/DC […]

Oh Sunrise Session, how I love your light so! I am so used to being near the Coast that I’m used to sunrise session going from right before the sunrise and you get the gorgeous light for about an hour. Not in the Mountains! Nope, it took a good almost HOUR AND A HALF, for […]

This was proposal was several months in the making! Jonny contacted me about proposing to his girlfriend Carly while they were visiting Biltmore for her birthday! It is so thoughtful how much planning Jonny put into his proposal. We walked through Biltmore on google maps and picked the perfect spot for him to propose, and […]

Sometimes things don’t go as planned. I wish every Saturday was a beautiful glow worthy day, but you can’t control the weather. Just like on wedding days, you get what mother nature gives you, and sometimes you just gotta roll with it! I stalk weather every week, watching the days I have sessions, and a […]

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Kathryn's Rose Hill Bridal Portraits

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Em & Nic Raleigh Union Station Wedding

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