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Yah! Excited to share this wedding with you all. Kelli and Jim hired us for their Beloved wedding, which for us is a mini wedding under a few hours. We were thrilled when they asked us to shoot their wedding. We knew their focus was their families and dearest friends. They especially were excited about their vineyard wedding and all the details they put into their day. Kelli got ready with her close girlfriends and daughter and her mom. I loved that she shared a first look with her son upon arrival to the venue. When it came time to the ceremony, watching Jim see Kelli for the first time was soo sweet. The had an honoring ceremony, and they said I do surrounded by family and friends and vineyards. Everything about their day was intentional. One of my favorite details of the day was this DIYd pallet that had photos of them from adventures and with family. They also had a beautiful cake and great food thanks to Eleven Courses!

First off let’s just make it very known that we met these guys on a cruise. And everyone reading this who is at the wedding knows how ironic and funny that is because many of the people at the wedding and family and friends know that Alyssa and Josh love to cruise. Patrick and I were on a cruise with friends for Patrick’s cousin’s baby Moon. One night Patrick and I went to the casino and met Josh and Alyssa I believe at a blackjack table. We asked them if they had a desire to be guinea pig models for us when we landed at the Bahamas in Nassau so that we could have a beautiful Bahama portfolio they would get pretty pictures. We were surprised they said absolutely yes. We gave them directions in an address for where to meet us in the Bahamas. So trusting of us and we so trusting of them. Crazy to think that that was back in 2016.

Who would’ve thought that years later when they would get engaged that they wuold ask us of all photographers in the nation to be their wedding photographers!! When Alyssa and Josh reached out via Facebook we were so excited! My response was “absolutely yes” we would love to. We were excited to make the drive up from Baltimore to spend time with our couple at their wedding and then at the after party. Seeing them that first moments the night before their wedding was as if we picked up where we left off at the bahama beach years prior.

Yah! I am so excited to share this engagement session, probably because it involves a super sweet baby named Beck! Aubrie and Tim are actually already married, thanks to COVID, but they will be really official this fall when they get married in front of witnesses, family and friends, and of course the cutest little boy!

Our time with Aubrie and Tim was so much fun. I probably helps that we have little kids too cause an photo shoot is no joke for little kids. Some do great, others don’t. But this little guy did sooo good. As I write this I don’t think he cried once!

This wedding was one for the history books. The couple – crazy fun. My bride – easy going, trusting, and of course beautiful (I say it all the time… I have the prettiest brides on the planet, inside and out)! And our groom, fun AF.

The venue was so cool to shoot at, it was our first time here as wedding photographers, but my second. During COVID my extended family actually rented Brittland Estates for a family reunion to honor the passing of my grandmother. I fully knew we would see it converted in 2021 for Alex and JD’s wedding! It is so elegant and spacious!

The vendor team… amazing and fun! Some of our favorites to work with!

Alex and JD are kind, fun, good people. Crazy for sure, just the kind that we love. We went into this wedding knowing that the priorities were people, photos, and dancing. I think dancing was the highest priority and it was evident by our groom and his bride and their guests! This also may have been one of the weddings in which guests felt the most free, wanting to be apart of something fully, without restriction, without limitation, and this is exactly what it was.

I remember getting a phone call and an email from Wendy. She was sweet and knew she wanted to hire us. I wanted to do a zoom call with her even though we were only going to be photographing a couple of hours, and our conversation was nothing short of fun, laughter, and excitement for what would come.

Wendy and Ken are a super kind couple that we had the honor of spending a wonderful May day with. Their wedding at Grey Rock Mansion in Reisterstown. With a wonderful vendor team, an amazing family unit, and some of the cutest flower children to date, they had a gorgeous day.

This wedding is so fun for us to post. When we met Zach and Melinda, I’ll never forget thinking how amazing these two are together. Zach is by far one of the most gentle yet strong man… like the kind that leads well, that you’d follow because you trust him. And Melinda, what a babe. She even told me once “I’m not really girly” and I told her straight up, you’re a bombshell… she’s just super humble, so sweet, and I can definitely see us being friends for life.

From our time with them eating dinner after their engagement session, to our final meeting, a few texts, we knew their wedding was bound to be full of fun, tears, and sweet moments. I can’t even say what my favorites were because there were so many cool things that these guys did. So I’m gonna start at the beginning and work my way through the end.

Yah! A turf valley wedding! I remember in our first couple years of business, Turf Valley was bucket list for us. I wanted to be their friend, wanted to shoot weddings there. Well, let’s just say… they’ve become one of our favorite venues. Not only do they refer weddings to us, but we have the honor of photographing events there, even their spa and pool. Patrick got to be a model once to lol. Anyway, we love Turf Valley and this wedding was our first there this year!

Stacy and Ryan are such a bomb couple. They truly are some of the most genuine people we’ve had the honor of photographing. They are sweet, kind, down to earth, and were just a joy to be around their whole wedding day. They even let us steal them at sunset and walk literally like 100 yards to chase the sun!

I’m so excited to share this wedding for so many reasons! I met Paige years ago, in the winter of 2011, maybe it was even 2012. I was working for a brand agency in Towson, and Paige worked for one of our clients. Little did I know that years later, 8 years to exact, that Paige and Matt would reach out and hire us to be their wedding photographers. I honestly was so excited, nervous and honored. I didn’t really get to say goodbye to Paige when I stopped working for that agency, so reconnecting with her was so special. There is sooo much to go on about with this wedding, so I think it’s best if I just go in order!

We are always honored when other skilled photographers hire us to shoot their wedding. When we first met Nicole and Ray, I remember driving home from our time with them, after eating ice cream curbside. I told Patrick “I really like them.” I was intimidated initially by Nicole. She’s beautiful, fun, spontaneous. I wasn’t used to being around a bride at an engagement session who was so confident and fun, treating me like a friend I’ve known forever, right off the bat. Most couples go into their engagement session nervous, and a little closed off.

Nicole and Ray got married at a venue we had never shot before and what a beautiful venue Kylan Barn is! New venues are so fun for us. We have to figure out how we are going to light it for reception, where portraits will happen depending on lighting situations day of.

The morning of the wedding, we pulled up to Kylan Barn and I immediately said, this is going to be awesome.

with the fact that Erin has become a dear friend of mine. I met her years ago, like 2014 or 2015, in a different season of our lives, and can’t believe we got to shoot her beautiful wedding in April! When she and Brian reached out in 2019, we are so honored! Watching her marry the love of her life was a dream… like I actually had a dream about it and even told her haha. Brian is such a stud… he’s amazing. Motivated and the pursuer of Erin’s heart… it’s so evident and obvious. These two rockin’ business owners are amazing… Erin is my massage therapist and together they own B-Fit, a gym in downtown Baltimore.

Their wedding day was full of so much goodness. With a bridesmaid reveal, a first look shared with Brian, a gorgeous sunny day at the Mansion at Valley Country Club, and of course a rocking party…. what a day! I loved the choreography they did together for their first dance and her matron of honor’s speech, her sister, had the whole room laughing.