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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.

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!! I’m so excited to be sharing this day of love with all of you <3 There’s just something magical in the air on this day. It’s a day to celebrate love, in whatever form, and today I’m doing so by sharing favorite photos of what I like to call love birds. There […]

I’m excited to announce another blog feature today! Wedding Wednesday will be coming to you every – you guessed it – Wednesday, to help you plan your wedding photography. In these Wedding Wednesday posts I’ll be sharing favorite images from weddings past, answering frequently asked questions, discussing the thought process behind certain aspects of wedding […]

I recently had the honor of photographing the most intimate & quaint Ellicott City wedding at the Howard County Courthouse. As I drove to the courthouse along the winding roads leading into the historic district of the town, I thought about how special a location this was to get married! This sweet couple will have lovely […]

One thing I learned from having the opportunity & privilege of photographing these Persian wedding day details at the Bellevue Conference & Event Center in Chantilly, VA, was that love translates. The entire day, from the getting ready chatter to the ceremony and after-dinner speeches, was in Farsi. You may not know this about me, but… I […]

Happy anniversary to me! Well, to Rachel E.H. Photography, LLC, I should say 😉 August marks the one year anniversary of REHP being a legit business – yay! I’m celebrating this month with a three part blog series on lessons I’ve learned during my first year in business.

“The only time you should ever look back is to see how far you’ve come.” – Anonymous August marks the one year anniversary of the month in which I registered my business in the commonwealth, Rachel E.H. Photography became legit, and I was well on my way to becoming a Washington, D.C. area wedding photographer! […]

Fabiola & David enjoyed an intimate, loving wedding at Bistro Provence in Bethesda, Maryland, this past weekend. Their closest friends & family joined from near & far to celebrate their love & marriage, some coming all the way from Spain, where Fabiola is from. Even the couple’s dog, Sheldon, joined in the fun! The party filled […]

You may remember this stylish, romantic, fun couple from last December’s Washington, D.C. Union Station engagement session posts (yes, they’re the powder paint couple!). I met Ashley & Antonio at Maria & Arthur’s wedding in November and have been looking forward to shooting their wedding at Renditions Golf Course in Davidsonville, MD, ever since! Well, this weekend my wait […]

 One of the gifts I like to give my wedding clients is a complimentary engagement session. It’s a great opportunity for me to get to know them as a couple and for us to ‘work’ together prior to the wedding so we all feel comfortable and the betrothed couple feels a little loosened up in […]

I actually started this post right after the Paris bombings last November, when a series of coordinated terrorist attacks took place around the city. What struck me the most after that nightmare wasn’t the terror the victims felt or the hatred the attackers harbored, for we are all so familiar with those sentiments nowadays, as […]