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We can’t believe it’s New Years Eve. We will be leaving in just a few hours to shoot our last wedding of 2019, in Annapolis on a boat, bringing in the New Year!

In 2019 we shot 42 weddings, 29 engagement sessions, 41 family sessions, 5 maternity sessions, and 8 newborn sessions. I still can’t believe this is our amazing life and we are so grateful and appreciative to all our family, friends, and clients for empowering us to do what we love! I haven’t always done behind the scenes posts just because of time and soaking up the Holidays with family, but I wanted to this year to see that at the end of the day, we are very normal, we love our couples, and we have a lot of fun doing what we love to do.

Happy New Year and Cheers to another amazing year!

What a way to end the year! We finished 2019 on a beautiful yacht with a couple who we met in 2018 at a wedding. I love how stories tie together. Deborah is the mom of one of our 2018 brides so being able to photograph her wedding after her daughters was really special.

In October of this year, we shot Kelsey and Matt’s beautiful Turf Valley Wedding. Kristen is Kelsey’s younger sister, an engaged bridesmaid who was super sweet, peppy and really helpful. 

After Kelsey’s wedding, I got an email asking if we were free for a December 2019 wedding and I wasn’t sure if the date was an accident or not. Sure enough, Kristen was planning her wedding in a month and a half! We of course were pumped that we were free and even more pumped to shoot another set of sisters! 

This wedding day was such a fun one to photograph. First off, Susan and Jim were a super trusting client. We had only met them a couple times before their wedding and for not doing an engagement session with them, they rocked their newlywed pictures and their bridal party photos amazingly!

We spent the majority of the day at the Maryland Club. This venue is beautiful and this was our first wedding with them… it was a great experience. The historic and richness of the rooms made for beautiful photographs AND the guests had plenty to look at. 

This December wedding you’re gonna LOVE! We met Allison and James through one of our past couples… actually a lot of our past couples. There’s this whole group of friends that went to Stevenson together and met because of a slip of paper under a dorm room door. We knew this wedding would be so fun due to the fact that we just got to see these guys in another wedding (LINK TO KORINNA) we shot earlier in the year. 

The day was amazing. It could have been REALLY cold and it wasn’t as bad as everyone thought. The fact that first look, all portraits, bridal party and family were outside for photos is amazing. And the backdrop at Thousand Acre Farms is absolutely beautiful. 

Let’s just say that RAIN made this day incredible. We knew the day would be a bit of a challenge with the weather, but upon walking in to meet Page and Jason, these two could have cared less about the weather. Page got ready surrounded by friends and Jason surrounded by close friends and his two sons.

How fun was this day! What a way to step out of your comfort zone… for all of us! Gloria and Roger opted for a really unique engagement session in DC at the National Gallery of Art! It was a rainy day, so we had crowds to compete with, but they were both super flexible and were go gracious as we mazed through the museum! I loved how creative this session became and how much fun we had exploring. I can’t remember the last time I was at this museum, it’s definitely been over 10 years! These cuties are a lot of fun, I met them first at Lina and Jake’s wedding in March of 2019. I can’t wait for their wedding this September!!

I’m always amazed at how connections are made and how clients find us. Months ago I got an inquiry from a new business in town that needed a photographer for their ribbon cutting and business launch. They found us through a wedding venue coordinator we work with often. I shot that event, met a lot of people and got to celebrate in incredible business. On that day I met Scott, having no idea he was engaged OR that he would soon be in need of a photographer for his stateside wedding. 

Mandy and Chris just moved back from Annapolis to Baltimore! Welcome home! We did a cute homecoming engagement session downtown Baltimore and got some of my new favorite shots! We went to Locust Point, Fort McHenry, Under Armour, the American Visionary Art Museum, and Fed Hill! Take a note from these two and be flexible and you’ll end up with gorgeous photos! 

Super excited to share this wedding with you all as I’ve been cheering Erin and Frank on since I met them almost 3 years ago in July when they took a cute picture on IG in front of our 4th of July parade float and tagged us in it! We are sooo bummed we can’t join them in Mexico for their destination wedding, but when these lovebirds asked me to shoot their stateside wedding, I of course said Yes. These two are champions (well literally too cause they are fitness models and win all the time at their competitions) but beyond that, they are sweet, amazing, sooo kind and totally in love. Like the kind dreams are made of! Erin and Frank, Patrick and I are sooo excited for what’s ahead for you. We think the world of you and can’t wait to see what unfolds for you. And you know I’ll be stalking your Mexico wedding so be sure to have someone IG’ing all the behind the scenes of your incredible day! xo