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Kaitlin and Justin are sweet, sweet, sweet. A rom-com girl after my own heart! You’ll see a great tribute to Sweet Home Alabama in their ceremony pictures. Kaitlin works in the wedding industry and it shows! She had all of her details stored in her “wedding planning box” that she started when she was just a teenager. All that planning paid off! A beautiful outdoor ceremony, gorgeous over-sized balloons, a barn reception, and an ice cream truck! Justin tied it all together with his cowboy hat and boots. It was the perfect wedding full of Southern charm. Thank you, both, for having us and congratulations!

Yah!! Screw COVID! Stephanie and Nate were going to get married, COVID or not. These cuties were supposed to get married at M&T Bank Ravens stadium with an awesome reception but made the decision to do an intimate ceremony at the Pendry Hotel in Fells Point when they found out that their venue was not yet open for weddings. We were excited to be able to be part of their day and document it, but also because we hadn’t shot a wedding there yet!

To date we’ve rescheduled 27 weddings in our company between all our teams which I just find insane. So much has been robbed from our couples from Covid and government restrictions. But I have to say, in the midst of the uncertainty and chaos, we seriously have the most incredible stories and couples. Here’s one of them.

We met Maria at the Four Seasons bridal show last year and knew that her and Shantanu would be one of our favorite weddings of 2020. They would have a beautiful 3 day Indian wedding on our calendar and we were pumped to shoot it. I told them at our engagement session that I may have been a little more excited about Indian food and culture because I spent a month in India in college and loved it. Over the last few months we’ve gotten closer to these guys.

What a session for the records! If there’s a couple who rocked their rainy day engagement session, it’s these two!

First off, I’d like to say that there wasn’t any rain in the forecast, or rather it was like 10% and not even on the radar, literally. Miranda and I made the call that we would go through with the session! We met them at the Pagoda at Patterson Park. We used to do sessions there ALL.THE.TIME… like in 2015… but for the last couple years none of our couples chose that location. We were pretty excited to return to that gem in Baltimore because 1) we obviously have gotten better over the years but 2) it meant something special to our couple.

Their dog Piper did awesome and although didn’t find the camera too friendly, she rocked her segments nonetheless.

Excited to share our first engagement session of Quarantine 2020!

Back in March, we wrapped up a Fells Point Engagement session for one of our couples days before heading out on a week long cruise. We needed a break, we needed time off before a crazy wedding season would be upon us. Little did we know it would be our last one in Baltimore for 2 months. Within hours of getting back into the nation, we would be one of the last boats to go to sea. We also didn’t know that 60 some days would pass between that Fells Point session, and this session. Say hello to engagement sessions during Quarantine.

To give you background, Kayleigh and Clark booked us at the very beginning the pandemic in Maryland for their 2021 wedding and they are amazing. They are also historic for us. They are the first engagement session we’ve had in the middle of a pandemic. They had to wait until we got approval from the city, and then they saw us in a very “nervous” state, something that most our couples don’t see. We love the chaos of wedding days, the uncertainty of wedding logistics even the planned ones, but throw government regulations into the mix, yikes. We wanted to law abide but we knew we were allowed to work too… ghost streets, and little traffic was just not normal so we felt free too to be creative and give these guys some shots we normally would not have gotten.

I’m so excited to share this session today! This was our last Baltimore engagement session before all this craziness happened with COVID and stay at home orders. It was days before we left for our cruise and I actually think like the day or 2 before these cuties drove south to Florida to move into their new home!

Woot Woot! What an awesome day! You know, when most people think about getting married in February, they are worried about snow, blizzards, being too cold, having to be outside for photos, and lack of daylight. But let me tell you, with this couple and this wedding day, those things weren’t even on the agenda. The day was beautiful, we all planned ahead. It definitely was cold, but since it wasn’t snowing or raining, Emily and Greg were absolutely amazing and trusted us to rock and roll and get them killer photos despite the cold cold winds. Their families, wedding party and guests were a blast and honestly, we still are so pumped that the day went as smooth as it did!

Bridget and Jake had a great Fells Point sunrise engagement session. They battled through a really cold session! We took a break and got coffee and hot chocolate right before an outfit change! Getting to know these guys and watching them be sweet and giggle while all our of hands were soo cold… it was just the best. We are pretty excited to be shooting their 2020 wedding later this year!

We are excited to share this engagement session 1) because it’s beautiful and 2) because it’s a shout out to one of our amazing couples who have had to reschedule their wedding because of the pandemic. Last weekend these two would have been married and had the most killer party of all time on Gibson Island. We were SOO pumped to shoot their wedding and honestly, now that we have to wait a whole year, it’s only going to build the excitement and anticipation of their day. Sharing this today hopefully will give you an awesome perspective on these two… they are fun, sweet, loyal, and totally in love. Most of the time we meet couples face to face for the first time in our home. We literally met these guys in the kitchen at Kevin’s parents home after meeting his mom first. Talk about giving a good impression… I’m always so much better in my own zone at first, but the hospitality, sweetness, and kindness of Kevin’s parents set us at ease and soon after meeting our couple, we were like… this is gonna be awesome.

Our first engagement of the 2020 year has happened and we are sooo glad it was Shannon and Rob! I jokingly said, “we’re a little rusty” because it had been 3 days since our last wedding of 2019. We all laughed. 

Shannon and Rob are the cutest! They really didn’t have a set location they wanted to shoot at so we proposed a few ideas and we ended up heading into Baltimore the first week of January into Harbor East to rock their session all around the Inner Harbor. We cruised and covered so much land in a short amount of time. Shannon’s outfit was soo cute (LOVED the black dress) and the weather was supposed to rain so the overcast skies allowed for some beautiful backdrops and lighting. 

Shannon and Rob, you guys crushed it… AND even though you tota