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Christina and Kyle had the sweetest session at the Elkridge Furnace Inn! What a beautiful place for a wedding or engagement session! These two lovebirds were so natural behind the lens making it super fun for Patrick and I. Watching these two made us realize once again how blessed we are to have such great people in our lives. Christina and Kyle, we are so thankful that you are our friends and one of our Radiant couples.

I’m in the season of life right now that there are all these people and friends I know that are trying for babies, pregnant, or just having little ones. I’m obsessed with it all! I get giddy and excited. I know our day will eventually come when we take the leap of faith, but until then, I will gladly sit and edit beautiful images of pregnant women and their hubbies as they start a new adventure in their lives, and be cheerleaders and encouragers during their process.

It seems that this year most of our couples are the result of online dating. It’s actually amazing, over half our couples met online. I used to be anti-online dating, and I’ve come now to think it’s a fabulous idea!

Megan and Luke met online and started dating in the summer of 2013 and just clicked! They were engaged a year later in July of 2014! These two are two cute. Their initials are the same but backwards MEL & LEM).

When I married Patrick, I married into a fabulous family. Patrick’s cousin John Mike married this amazing woman named Heather, a few months before Patrick and I got married. If you can guess, Heather has become one of my best friends, and I’m seriously so thankful that she’s my family now too. We always say that the whole reason John married her, was so her and I can be best friends through cousins. Thanks Patrick and John Mike. 

So Heather used to be a Marino before she became a McDade (my extended family by marriage) and her extended and immediate family asked us to help them with getting a much needed and overdue family session on the calendar.

So when I first met Olivia, we ate some food at Cunningham’s Restaurant, and pretty much knew mutually, we would be a great fit that day. Olivia and Alex are seriously too cute.

We met them up at Jerusalem Mills on a gorgeous evening a couple weeks ago for their golden hour engagement session. They brought some friends along and their precious pup (dog son) Murphy. Wait til’ you see this cutie! Murphy was SO good, and even wanted to be in the pictures!

Crystal and Mike had a simple and beautiful wedding at Martin’s Camelot. It was an evening wedding indoor with a short ceremony and a reception full of dancing. The food was great as was the speeches from family and friends.

We are thrilled to share this wedding as it was one of our first weddings in September, but the last of our first triple-header ever. The newly married Mr. and Mrs. Christina and Eric Irvin got hitched on September 6th at the Annapolis Marriott, with a gorgeous sea of boats behind them. 

Brian and Jordan were referred to us through another client and we were so glad to meet them! Celebrating their anniversary and the upcoming birth of their new addition! A first for the couple, they wanted to commemorate the very special occasion and we were so glad to help them do just that!

Congrats to Tiffany and Justin! These two were part of our first triple-header weekend, and we were so glad that they were a part of it!

We joined them on their parents farms for their engagement session last September, complete with horses, cows, and romantic corn stalks. There was no question that this beautiful couple would make the most of their outdoor barn-themed mint wedding! 

Josh and Christina had a glorious lighting day for their Ocean City Engagement Session. We weren’t sure if the rain would hold back and it totally did…  because these two were convinced it was going to be a beautiful day!