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We’ve known Aubrie and her family for over 10 years which I think is nuts! When we get to photograph friends weddings, they end up being so amazing and more special than I realized. When we shot their destination beach engagement session, we couldn’t wait for their wedding to come! I definitely cried twice or more at this wedding.

Aubrie is the only daughter of our friends Brian and Rana. Watching Brian see his daughter fully dressed in her wedding gown will be engraved in my mind for a long time. Again this same look as he watched his daughter dance with her husband for the first time at reception.

The memories I have from this wedding are too many to count. From amazing speeches, to the laughter of girls in the hotel, to parent dances that were very very sweet, Kelsey and Chad had the definition of perfectly sweet wedding day.

We’ve known Kelly’s family for what seems like forever. Honestly, the fact that I have photographed weddings for friends that I’ve grown up with is pretty amazing. I’m actually honored and it’s sooo special.

When Kelly reached out to us about shooting her wedding, I was so excited. When we met Mike and did their engagement session, I knew their wedding would be so sweet and fun. Fun was an understatement.

It’s always special for us when we get to photograph weddings of sisters and siblings. We met Melissa when we photographed her sisters wedding in 2017. The family is incredible and honestly one of our favorites in the history of our career. Their sweetness, their grace, and their kindness is literally unfathomable.

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.

Wow, what an exciting wedding! Marlina and Jake celebrated a beautiful American & Indian fusion wedding last month, and it was massive! Our largest to date with over 420 guests! Talk about family love and support!

We have been looking forward to this wedding for months. We found friends in this couple and in their families. They trusted us beyond measure for their daughters wedding day. Ms Dana even took me in her car from ceremony to reception and my time with her was so special, mainly because it’s rare that I get time with a mom on a wedding day, one on one. Brooke, your mom is soo unbelievably proud of you and Nick, she 100% trusts you with her daughters heart. It’s not surprising that your deep connection and relationships within your Kingdom Hall is a huge part of why you all love the way you do, and are so loving towards all. 

2006 in Tulsa Oklahoma. I think that’s the year we met. Halie and I have been friends for over 10 years!!!

We were roommates in college, we took adventures together, spent hours and days together talking, crying, praying, dreaming, and hoping for things to come. We prayed for our husbands, prayed for careers, prayed for dreams and aspirations to become realities. Little did we know when we would graduate what the future would hold.

Halie was in our wedding in 2013, and the last time I saw her was on our Honeymoon a week later in Florida.

In the summer of 2018 Halie and Jonathan got engaged and invited us to their July 2019 Florida wedding as guests and we were so pumped. We haven’t been guests to a wedding in years, literally. Later in the year, Halie called me to let me know they were not only moving their wedding to New York, but to December, the week of Christmas. Of course we would be there, and I knew we would be there in whatever capacity she wanted!

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.

We are so so so pumped to be sharing this wedding. What a crew, what a party, what a couple. Our second to last wedding of the year was unreal. The day started with a pretty high chance of rain, and it totally changed. My dream wedding day is partly cloudy, sun hidden, and rain at the end of the night, and that’s exactly what these two go. I know we are crazy, but it’s the best coloration. No one is squinky or sweaty. Cold is still beautiful weather and as I tell all my bridesmaid as they shiver in the cold “pretend I just flew you to Maui” and then they laugh as I remind them it could be a lot worse, it could be blizzarding or pouring rain.

As they shared their first look, their bridal party cheered from afar and we were able to get all their portraits, wedding party and family photos finished before the heavy mist and the start of rain came. Lauren is a lacrosse coach at Mt. St. Mary’s so it was pretty special they got married in the chapel and a her team even came to the ceremony to rally around them!