Kim and Kyle’s love story started many years ago, simply and sweetly… 🙂 “We met in eighth grade on the bus. His friends were messing around and caught my attention. Later he got my number from a mutual friend and we’ve been talking ever since!” These two have such a beautiful, natural connection built on […]

As the sun rose over the river on a crisp Sunday morning in October, Kate and Cody were getting ready to become husband and wife at Riverview at Occoquan in Lorton, VA… These sweethearts met in the drumline at West Virginia University and honored their love of music, games and family with a brunch wedding […]

The sky was full of clouds for most of the day this past Saturday. The temperature was perfect, but the sky wasn’t sure what it wanted to do as gray storm clouds hovered above with blue sky trying to peek out. Just before the sun actually set, golden light beamed through the trees and cast […]

I met up with Kate and Cody for their engagement session 3 days before everything shutdown due to Covid… since they were visiting for a few days on a break from life in Texas, we were so lucky to have spent the afternoon exploring Artifact Coffee together and the Clipper Mill and Woodberry industrial buildings […]

No matter how intimate or lowkey your wedding day plans are, if you’re planning a party and celebration with family/friends from many different seasons of your life, it has the potential to be a stressful, whirlwind experience. I’ve been photographing weddings since 2012 — I’ve seen the day organized in so many different ways to […]

Marissa and Brooks’ wedding day was so effortlessly elegant, colorful and classic all at the same time… these two are just so photogenic, so in love and so sweet in the way they care for each other and their close friends and family. Having both attended Stevenson University, their wedding party was so much fun […]

“Everything with Joe just felt right from the very first day.” …shouldn’t all love stories start like this?! Being from the same hometown, growing up in the same church, attending rival high schools and having countless mutual connections in their small community in Carroll County, Julie + Joe were truly meant to find each other! […]

Is next week really Halloween already?! BRB I need to buy a bag of chocolate… it keeps me up at night to think about getting stuck handing out smarties because all the good stuff is sold out but this always ends up at the bottom of my to-do list EVERY YEAR! Anyone else share the […]

How to infuse color into your wedding details that you might not have thought of but can have a huge impact on your guests and (my favorite…) your photographs!