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Yah! Up on the blog today is Jeanette and Ryan’s engagement session at Centennial Park! We were excited to have these guys book us! They get married this year (2024!!) on November 2, which some of you know is our wedding anniversary!  Patrick and I just celebrated our 10 year anniversary last fall 2023 so […]

We’re thrilled to showcase Dayana + Nick’s elopement on the blog today! This sweet couple allowed us the honor of capturing their intimate ceremony, which unfolded in the charming gazebo at Brookside Gardens. Nick looked dapper in a handsome blue suit, while Dayana looked absolutely stunning in a sleeveless fitted dress with a long train […]

I am so excited, maybe the most excited this year in writing a blog post. This whole day, this couple, this bride (who is my friend!) is so special to me. But in order to understand why and who this blog post is about, let me take you back in time and tell a story! […]

Yah! I’m so excited to share this session! These guys are our last wedding of 2022 and we are so pumped that they are the ones closing out our calendar! When we met up with them for their session, we knew were were going to have a blast. We had an hour to get as much variety as possible since we had so many ideas and places we wanted to take them in Old Ellicott City. Jenna and Scott met through work and were inseparable… very much like their session. They make each other smile and come alive. I LOVED Jenna’s dress… so much that I actually have it in navy! Now I have to go get mine altered cause she made it look so good! We took them from the bottom of the hill, almost to the top and wrapped up right around the new Mason Jar milkshake bar and La Palapas! Too bad it was closed by the time we finished up, so we walked over to La Palapa where we spent a couple hours just hanging out! Jenna and Scott, we are soo excited to be alongside you guys documenting your story, family, people, and love. Thanks for choosing us and trusting us!!

If there was one couple this year that I had to say was the most daring… it would be these two. The decision was made for an outdoor ceremony fully knowing that the radar was showing rain. Everything was wet and damp, overcast, a little gray, but you would never know from photos. You know why… because we LOVE a good partly cloudy, overcast day. It’s the BEST lighting for head to toe even light, a phrase and method we aim for with every wedding we shoot.

What I thought was so neat about this wedding was that this was a destination wedding for these two. No one in their families are from Maryland or even live in Maryland. In fact, most of the bridal party and family flew in or drove in for this wedding. We didn’t realize that until half way through speeches when we figured out that no one was from the area. These two were supposed to get married on the 4th of July but due to COVID decided to postpone the wedding. We were so excited to be alongside these guys along with our film team so we were pretty thrilled to go into this day ready and excited. Something else special about this wedding for us is that Kari, the wedding planner, is one of our past brides! SO that was really cool to be able to work alongside her. She knows how we roll and together we were able to help the day roll seamlessly and beautifully!

Stone ridge Hollow is a beautiful venue we had never shot there. We were so excited to shoot there because we had heard so many great things about the property. So much variety so many places to take killer photos of our couple. Some of my favorite moments of the day was Trevor seeing Stephanie for the first time. I got emotional when Stephanie’s dad walked in for the first time and saw her fully complete head to toe and again as a bride.

Caitlin and Joe had such a beautiful wedding. Everyone was concerned about the rain they were calling for and the timing could not have been better. Caitlin and Joe lucked out… the rain literally came at the end of their outdoor ceremony at Glen Allen Farm. In our minds, it was an incredible day, the kind we pray and wish for. Overcast skies all day for even soft lighting for photos and then at the end of the night, Umbrella Night shots under a sky of rain.

We’ve never done this and we thought it would be awesome to share. We get a lot of compliments on our work and our personalities and our professionalism, so we figured it would be appropriate to share some of our 2018 Behind the Scenes to show the not so glamorous part of our job… some embarrassing and some hilarious… What an amazing year we had, we hope you had an incredible 2018 too.

This Sunday wedding in December felt like a Spring wedding with overcast skies and warmer clients. We couldn’t believe that with a 48 hour window, one day felt like winter freezes and the next day was a spring day. We met these cuties through James’ family as we photographed his sisters wedding 2.5 years ago.

James and Jessica had a really special day as the majority of the day was spent at their new home in Silver Spring. Together they bought 10 acres, an old horse farm, and all of their portraits from their first look, to their wedding party, to their family portraits were in and outside their home.

They wanted a winter feel to their photos, so we wove in furs, luxury details and home decor that would capture their love story, their fashion preferences and their sweet love. And of course some winter Christmas trees too.

This wedding was probably our most looked forward to wedding. Our favorite weddings aren’t always our $100k+ weddings, they also can be our elopements or 50 person weddings. Most the time our favorite weddings are the ones where our couples are sweet, down to earth and phenomenal to work with. Shooting Sarah and Graysons wedding was one of my favorites for sure because Sarah is like family and she’s worked with us for 3 years!

Sarah has been in our lives for the last 3 years… Grayson too. We met Sarah through one of our other couples and we hired her to be our assistant. Over the last 3 years she has been a crucial part of our growth, our success and our family. Zeke loves her Aunt Sarah, and Sarah has become an incredible photographer. She now leads our secondary team and has her own wedding through Living Radiant.