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Kathryn & Wade Beaufort NC Rainy Engagement Session Sometimes you really can’t avoid the rain in North Carolina. After having to push back their engagement session several times, we had to suck it up and shoot in some rain! Thankful for the heavy treeline of the live oaks, a former couple’s vacation house letting us […]

Chapel Hill Engagement Session | Summer at UNC’s Chapel Hill campus is nice and quiet. It’s also so beautiful! Classic architecture combined with hundreds of year-old tree-lined walkways provides a perfect backdrop for this UNC graduate’s engagement session. Dressed in an adorable Lily Pulitzer dress, Catlin, Patrick, and I explored the campus to find some […]

New Wedding Venues in The Triangle Area The Triangle Area has been booming over the last decade, and new venues have been popping up all over the area. As weddings are coming back into full swing, I wanted to highlight some new venues that are opening this year in the area! A little about me? […]

Brittany & Eric April 17, 2021 Market Hall Raleigh, NC Brittany & Eric! What two joyful people so excited to marry each other at their Raleigh wedding! One of the most fun days, full of lots of inside jokes. I met Brittany and Eric at the Weddings & Warehouses event in January of 2020. Weddings […]

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Ashlynn & Dylan | Walnut Hill Engagement Session March 7, 2021 After watching the beautiful long grass get cut at the NC Art Museum (boo fresh-cut stumps) a few days before their session, I was lucky enough to have Walnut Hill let me use their space for Ashlynn & Dylan’s Engagement Session. I have known […]

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