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What a day you had! One of our favorites from October. We were looking forward to this wedding so much. After a really fun engagement session with these two at the beach we knew the day would whole lots of surprising moments and tons of laughter. Turf Valley is such a cool venue because of the ceremony space in the variety of reception ballrooms. These guys had a beautiful first look out in front of trees that were fiery orange and had already changed into beautiful fall colors. The first look was amazing… Tyler was nervous and so excited to see his bride Kaity was in a gorgeous Kleinfeld dress and so excited to walk and see her man. Once they saw each other the rest of the day was pure fun. These two together crack me up. They are both sweet with each other honest and playful. As soon as we added the bridal party and it was quite the day. So much laughter inappropriate jokes made and photos to prove it.

Kelsey and Matt were one of our mid October weddings and we couldn’t be more excited to share this Turf Valley wedding with you!

Kelsey and Matt were such an amazing couple to work with. We knew the day would be fast and furious with a ceremony ending really close to sunset. But for us, if just meant that there would be strategic and beautiful photos for this couple.

Olivia and Tim were seriously such a sweet couple for us. The morning with them all was a whirlwind. Olivia was so cute when she said all she wanted was to marry Tim and dance so much. Though the morning was a super tight timeline due to the time we were all allowed on site, the girls rocked it. Olivia never showed any signs of stressed. I think she just decided she was going to have the most amazing day along side her fiance Tim who would become her husband that day. 

Emily and Kevin had a beautiful engagement session at the Naval Academy and in downtown Annapolis. After Emily and Kevin hired us, they had a few ideas of where to go and we proposed some and we all agreed on Annapolis. Upon arriving it started to rain. We all were like NOOOO…. This isn’t going to happen. Patrick and I started to think strategically about where we could go and how to shoot despite the rain. Basically these guys had to trust us as none of us (including them) wanted to reschedule the session due to schedules, etc.

I am so excited for this fall 2020, Living Radiant has some beautiful weddings coming up! For me, I can’t wait for this October wedding because my groom, Jon, is a friend from college! We went to Towson University together almost SEVEN YEARS ago! Oh, how the time flies! While we both stayed local to the area, luckily, and I was so thankful he called when he wanted to propose to his super sweet girlfriend, Alex! You can catch that sweet moment here!

We met Erin years ago at a Bridal Show. Fast forward to 2019, Erin emailed us, told us she was engaged and asked us to shoot her wedding. She knew she wanted us way back in 2015 or 2016 which is incredible that years later she remembered us and asked us. I felt like I was getting proposed to haha. We were absolutely thrilled when she asked us. We were excited to meet Brian and since all of us are business owners, there’s just this deeper level of understanding that we all get with each other. 

Anytime we shoot new locations, we get really giddy and excited. Our couples probably think we are nuts, cause we show up, hug them, and then propose our strategy for their session. As most our couples, these guys were like… yes please, we don’t know what to do. So we set out on an adventure through a new state park on the water across the bay bridge. We had no idea what we would find but I’ll tell you, we found SO much variety for these guys. I don’t have a favorite segment for this session because every time we walked a little further, we found more beauty. 

Lauren and Dan… What can we say??? You guys were so much fun to work with! Your wedding day was really special. We absolutely loved that you had a small and intimate wedding party and a small guest count. Intimate is the word I would use for your wedding day. The love you guys have for each other is so evident, I mean look at your photos. The laughter you cause each other to release is what we wish for our couples for years to come! Even when you came to our house for your gallery reveal, we felt like we were with friends, not just one of our couples. You even cozied up with each as you look through photos!

I’ll never forget when Heather sat at my kitchen table in our new home and told leaned over to KC and told him she was going to have to cancel their next meeting. As in they had planned to meet another photographer that night after us, and decided not to. They booked us at our table that night and the rest is history! The only thing that could’ve made this wedding day better was if selfishly, we had done an engagement session with them because we didn’t feel like we had enough time with them on wedding day! These guys had a ton of guests, an awesome timeline, and were covered head to toe in love.

We talked a lot about where they’re from. University of South Carolina is a big deal for these guys. Upon showing up to the Airbnb where they were getting ready flags hung outside and trees and on the building. At reception the flag was brought out and half their guest count were in a photo. These guys lacked no fun at their wedding and Alyssa danced the whole time! I have no doubt that their wedding was the best night of their life. They did not do a first look which I thought was going to be super stressful for the amount of people they had… we were definitely put to the test. 22 total. 11 on each side. What a feat. I had 10 on each side when I got married so I loved this group of attendants! Their wedding party was so much fun!