I’m taking you guys allll the way back to January today for a beautiful winter wedding at the John Marshall Ballrooms in Richmond, VA. Looking back, I remember how cold it was taking these pictures; I also remember forgetting my coat inside during portraits, so that may have been a contributing factor. A little cold […]

When I got married back in 2011, Pinterest didn’t exist. I know, I know, pick your jaw up. We had to plan the “old fashioned” way — doing Google image searches for things like “wedding hair styles” and “purple flowers”. Sometimes you got good results, sometimes not so much. Pinterest would have made my life […]

No one who has ever helped organized a styled shoot will tell you that it’s easy — it’s truly a labor of love born from the desire to create something beautiful with your dream team. You have to be fully prepared to commit to it as you do any other client but I promise, the […]

Designing a styled shoot is no easy task. There are so many great ideas out there that it seems nearly impossible to narrow it down to just one. As that’s just me speaking as a Washington, DC wedding photographer; I can’t imagine how brides are feeling these days with inspiration available at every turn! I’ve […]

A few weeks ago, I headed down to Kingsmill Resort in Williamsburg, VA —  about 3 hours outside Washington, DC — to shoot a wedding with one of the sweetest people I met at Creative at Heart this past January, Anna. Before all this, however, I had a coaching session with Katelyn James who told me over and […]

When Lisa told me that it was her dream to have her cream and blush Bull Run Golf Club wedding featured on The Knot, I knew we had to try to make it happen! See, The Knot had been a huge inspiration to her as she planned her dream day and hoped to have that same sort […]

I was so excited to be the wedding photographer for Miranda & Tyler’s big day at The Barn at Walnut Grove outside of Harrisonburg, VA this past weekend. Being a Washington, D.C. wedding photographer, it isn’t very often that I get to go shoot in the area where I went to college. On the drive […]

You know what’s kind of scary? Asking some amazing vendors in the wedding industry to collaborate with you on a shoot, to have them help you make this little dream in your head you have a reality. And surprisingly, it’s not the “no, I can’t right now,” e-mail that I’m scared of — it’s actually […]