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This is the place I get to showcase all of my beautiful clients and the love they put into their sessions or weddings. I also love sharing tips and tricks on wedding photography planning, ideas to make your session fun, easy, and organized, as well as personal stories. Find the category you're looking for, or browse for hours! There's plenty to keep you entertained.

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Arlington Virginia Courthouse Wedding

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Kattia and Uday’s Arlington Virginia courthouse wedding photos are totally reenforcing my love of elopements and my love for hosting photo sessions on Capitol Hill! Local Knot Tying These two love birds were recently married during their Arlington Virginia courthouse wedding ceremony and I was there to capture that plus these gorgeous portraits for them […]

Washington, D.C. Senior Portraits

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I am *so* excited to share Colleen’s Washington, D.C. senior portraits with you today! I’m excited because 1. Colleen is just beautiful and was so fun to photograph, 2. we had every kind of weather during this session, so we got quite the variety of images, and 3. I’ve been wanting to photograph seniors for […]

Your Wedding Photography Investment – It’s More Than Just a Number

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You’re engaged and excited to get married! Woot woot! There’s so much celebrating going on, so much prosecco being poured, and you are enjoying every moment of it. That is until you realize there are so many decisions to be made when it comes time to start planning your actual wedding. Today I’m kicking off […]

Daylight Savings – Fun Monday

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Happy Monday! And good morning! The Monday morning after daylight savings is always a little rough, like a little bit of jet lag. But at least we gained an hour, right?! I was patting myself on the back yesterday for choosing daylight savings day as my one day off. No morning shoots meant I could […]

Wedding Hangover Cure – Tips & Tricks

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I’m super excited to share this information with you today! There’s always much talk on wedding related forums about the infamous ‘wedding hangover’, which is not what it sounds like. For wedding industry professionals, a ‘wedding hangover’ means something much different than it means for the wedding guests! It has nothing to do with drinking […]

D.C. Photo Shoot Spots – Playing Tourist

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A super fun part of my job is choosing where to take photos for people. And the best part of that fun is when I get to play tourist like I did this past weekend. Getting to do what I love for a job is certainly not something I take for granted; I’m grateful every […]

Father’s Day Weekend – Fun Monday

Father's Day weekend

Another Monday, another Fun Monday post! I hope everyone had a fantastic Father’s Day Weekend! I know I did! I got to photograph a wedding & portraits at several awesome locations with a wonderful second shooter, got my hair did, was introduced to a gorgeous new shooting location, & found time to get some rest. […]

Weekend Away – Fun Monday

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Happy Monday!! I spent the weekend away so I’m feeling nice & refreshed for this Monday at the office! I could use a little more rest, but hey, who couldn’t?! I’m ready to seize the week and hope you are as well! I’d love to hear how you spent your weekend! Tell me in the […]

Sister Graduation Photo Session

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This sister graduation photo session is so fun and I’m super excited to share it with you! Sisters Graduating Kate and Hannah are sisters. They both graduated in 2022; Kate with her degree in Biomedical Engineering from GW University, and Hannah with her masters from a school in New York. They were both excited to […]

National Arboretum Surprise Proposal

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Susan and Blake are engaged! Blake popped THE question this weekend during his National Arboretum surprise proposal, to which Susan of course responded with a resounding YES! The plan… Blake put so much thought into creating a special experience for Susan at their National Arboretum surprise proposal and it was so much fun to photograph! […]