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Our first wedding of the year is up on the blog! Angie and Steve were hoping for snow but as we all know, we haven’t gotten any this whole winter! That didn’t keep these two from having an incredible day alongside family and friends.

The morning was wonderful as Angie and Steve got ready and dressed alongside their closest friends. I love details! Steve had really neat R2-D2 cufflinks, and Angie had a beautiful custom ring box made. Angie shared some sweet moments with her mom as they spent time together getting ready. Three really great reveals happened soon after everyone was ready. Angie got to see her dad, her mom, and her brothers reactions to her fully ready to get married!

What an incredible wedding. Up on the blog today is Jenna and Scotts Bohemia River Overlook wedding! They are a power couple… Down to earth, genuine, fun, and honestly they deserve each other. Just amazing people. It was bittersweet for us because they were our last wedding of our 2022 wedding season. Typing that doesn’t even put words to it because we had such an incredible year! 

Up on the blog today is Josh and Johnnas beautiful October Turf Valley Wedding! We are so excited to share this wedding for sooo many reasons! First off, Johnna’s family, parents and aunts and uncles are owners of Turf Valley. I jokingly say they all own Howard County… and they are some of the most incredible people. But beyond that, Johnna’s sister Nicole is one of my best friends in the industry and I’m so thankful for her friendship. When Nicole shared with me that her sister was engaged, I was sooo excited! I secretly hoped they would hire us, so when Josh and Johnna reached out, I was ecstatic! I love their families more than they know. A funny story before we dive in… back in 2014 when we went full-time as wedding photographers Turf Valley was on my bucket list of venues. I remember thinking… man, the day we photograph a wedding at Turf Valley, I will feel like I hit the lottery. The relationship we’ve cultivated in the last 10 years has brought great friendships, even with their catering staff and managers I feel like we can really create magic there and have the trust of the staff.

We love when friends from other seasons of life come to us to document their wedding. This story is fun because Patrick and Ashley go back to the Chapelgate days in highschool (I think that’s right, maybe even younger!). Fast forward to a few years ago, we were doing an event at Turf Valley. Ms. Kim, what we call her, is Ashley’s mom and she was on staff at Turf Valley and a huge part of the famous Wedding Extravaganza event planning team. We loved our meetings with Kim and team, and soon after re-met Ashley. Fast forward to last year, Ashley invited us and hired us to document the unity of her and Jimmy and their beautiful family. Dang, do they have the sweetest and prettiest kids!

Sharing this wedding is so awesome! Krissy and DJ are one of our rescheduled couples from last year. In fact I was not even supposed to be at Krissy and DJ’s wedding as we had told them last March prior to reschedule and prior to Covid that I was pregnant and may not be able to be at their wedding. We were super bummed because I was so looking forward to shoot their wedding. Then Covid hit. Then they reschedule their wedding. Then I had a baby last July. All that to say I had the honor of shooting Krissy and DJ’s wedding along side my husband this past August. Krissy and DJ got married at the famous Pier 5 hotel in Baltimore Maryland. This venue is a waterfront venue that has beautiful views of the city and waterfront.

Yah! Our third “wedding” of 2021! The reason we have “wedding” in quotations was because we didn’t actually photograph the ceremony, just the first look and their newlywed photos! Ariel and Josh were surprised by their friends who gifted us to them for their wedding day! Due to numbers at their wedding, they decided that they wanted us to photograph their first look and newlywed photos at their alma mater, The University of Maryland. We were so excited to be with Ariel and Josh for a couple hours. It was SOO cold, but these guys did amazing and didn’t complain once!

Happy new year! This wedding was so eventful and exciting as it was our first wedding of 2021. While it may have been a small wedding with only 20 people it was a full wedding day for us. Our team as long with our cinema team spent over 10 hours with Kayleigh and Clark and their families. We were so excited to work alongside Social Graces Events planning team for the first time and their work did not disappoint. With a beautiful design aesthetic in place Kayleigh and Clark definitely had a winter wonderland. I think one of my favorite parts of this wedding was the fact that they closed out and ended their wedding with the last song being all I want for Christmas is you. Everyone was rocking out on the floor, parents, siblings and the bridal party that was in attendance. With the dusty blue beautiful color palette the details were gorgeous. The ceremony install was one of my favorites to date as well. Kayleigh and Clark, you guys were our first 2021 couple and we are so glad you were. If you remember, you were also the first engagement session we shot after months of being shutdown. We shot their engagement session only about a week or a couple days after the restriction was lifted and the streets of Fells Point were very empty. We were so pumped these guys still got married on their original wedding date despite all the unknowns of the pandemic. Kayleigh and Clark we are so excited for you guys in your future. We hope that this year is full of life, joy, and success!

We met Candice and Nick at a bridal expo at Rosewood Farms in late 2019 right before anyone knew a pandemic was headed this way. Candice and Nick are a genuine, sweet, and just down to earth couple that we could easily find ourselves staying friends with for years to come. Candice and Nick postponed their June 2020 wedding to December 2020 and decided to have their wedding regardless of people count. They knew they just wanted to be married, have family and friends present, and they did.

This December wedding was so fun and so memorable. To start, we had never met the couple in person prior to the wedding, which we thought was so crazy. I think because I had talked to Rachel so many times over the phone and via email, when we met in person that morning, it just felt so normal and so right and so fun. The whole day was a day full of surprises and anticipation. There were details woven in that were subtle but intentional. A rosary around Rachel’s bouquet that her mom identified as her grandfathers the morning of. Plaid pashminas that made this day feel wintery and like Christmas was upon us. Their reception venue was their families home and a backyard of memories turned to wedding ones.

We had beautiful weather in November and this wedding takes the cake for prettiest lighting of the year! Alex and JP had an incredible day. We were so excited that they could get married and have a lot of their friends and family present. The day was surreal for many reasons. The decor and details of the day was gorgeous. The vendor team was amazing and the couple was a dream. JP was nothing short of the best groom you could imagine. A week before his wedding, he lost his mom to cancer. Her presence was felt there as the day went because the joy I heard she had was unparalleled and the day was nothing short of joyful. We loved watching the joy and sweetness our couple had for each other. From a sweet first look, to an Uber fun bridal party to a super fun reception, we felt like we were in 2019 again shooting weddings! Covid or not, these two were going to make the most of their day even with certain restrictions in place.

JP and Alex, thank you for including us in an amazing day! We can’t wait for what 2021 has for you and the years to come!