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Yah! This session finally happened! Haylie, Chris, Patrick and I had been anticipating this session for months, no joke! Originally their session would have been earlier this summer in June, but we all thought it wise to postpone it until we could have the session we all wanted for these two!

We spend our time together cruising the National Mall in DC, the place where these two met and fell in love. It was only fitting to go to all their favorite places, which were beautiful backdrops and scenary for their session. Their session would only be complete with their sweet pup Snoops! He did awesome. As Chris said, the session was A+ but Snoop got an F. lol. Not really, Snoop aka Dragon did awesome and we got what we could with all the amazing distractions that dogs love.

This session is super special to me because Kellie is my COUSIN! I haven’t seen her in months, maybe even over a year, and it’s not too often that we see each other because we live in different states! But we had a family reunion a few months ago to celebrate our grandmothers life as she passed away earlier this year due to COVID and other health related things. Soon before our reunion, Kellie got engaged to Evan, a really sweet guy we were sooo excited to meet! Yah for more cousins (I only have 3 bios and now they all will be married!)

It was only fitting when we were together to take engagement pictures. It was also fitting because we happened to be spending the weekend all together at Britland Manor Estate for the reunion, which is also a wedding venue!

Super excited to share this wedding! When Katie and Carlos told us they were moving their DC wedding out to Leesburg VA, we were so excited and thrilled. We wanted them to have a beautiful wedding with all their people, and they did. That was their driving factor for moving their wedding out of the city and to the country.

So Jordan and Brett are a couple we also met on our cruise to the Western Caribbean! They are friends with the engaged couple, Kristen and Josh, you can see their pics here. When Kristen and Josh agreed to doing photos, we ended up asking Jordan and Brett if they wanted some too. They said sure and came along for the session to get some cute dating pics of their own! They were awesome in front of the lens and totally trusted us as we guided them through a lot of poses in a short amount of time. Jordan and Brett, thanks so much for venturing through Cozumel with us. We are pumped for your adventures to come!

Every time we take a trip, we try to meet or find a cute couple that would be willing to allow us to take photos of them for portfolio in exchange for giving them amazing photos to remember! We met Kristen and Josh on the spa tour the very first day of our cruise, actually we were still at port and walking through the ship to get to know the layout, what it had to offer and see if there were any specials going on. We talked just for a bit, found out they were engaged after talking about being wedding photographers and the stresses of our bodies to the spa lady haha. Anyway, we ran into them again a couple more times and decided to ask them if they were up for it sometime during the 7 days of being on the ship together. We ended up doing an excursion with them too which was really awesome. Sure enough, they said yes doing the session and we proposed Cozumel.

Baltimore is such a small place yet so big. Steph and Nate found us because Patrick saw that Nate had gotten engaged via Facebook and if I’m correct, Nate was looking for wedding vendors and Patrick reached out. Nate and Patrick went to Calvert Hall together and hadn’t seen each other in years. We met his gorgeous fiance Stephanie at our house for a consult and obviously talked about engagement session and they mentioned that they wanted to do some in Florida. We didn’t think that it was going to be an option because of timing but then Patrick had this awesome idea. At our consult, we told them we would be going on a cruise. Patrick asked, “well when will you be there next.” We all were in disbelief when we discovered that we all would be in Florida at the same time so we worked out the logistics and made it happen.

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. 

In April of 2017, Patrick and I were supposed to shoot a wedding. I ended up getting pregnant during summer wedding season of 2016 and gave our April couples the option to void contract with us since I was unable to shoot the wedding. All 5 of our April weddings kept contract and Patrick and Sarah (our associate team lead) ended up shooting all the April Weddings. Ally and Benny were one of them.

Ally and Benny’s wedding was gorgeous and I was so bummed I had to miss it. Patrick and Sarah dominated that wedding and I jokingly told them “you don’t need me anymore!” 

Benny’s sister Molly reached out earlier this year and asked us to photograph her wedding which made my heart so happy. I can’t even tell you how excited I was and honored to shoot a wedding for a sibling to one of our couples.