Journal

Mary Ellen and her family were the winners of the 2019 Christmas Bazaar giveaway at St Francis in Fulton MD. We waited until early summer because they welcomed a beautiful daughter, Olive. We started on the docks of Centennial Park. Porter liked the ducks and pointing them out to us. Pointing out his new sister…well […]

When Kellie emailed me to set up family photos she remarked how the last full family portrait they had was when their boys were in elementary school. Now they were teenagers! Amazing how fast life moves! I met them at their home and we walked to the park behind their home. I know photos are […]

When I met Tim at Boordy’s a few days before the proposal, he mentioned Rachel was annoyed that he left the house on a rare day off to run errands. She had no idea he was picking up her ring after we picked the perfect proposal spot. The day of I got there early. I […]

A personal micro-wedding at the bride’s family home on the Chesapeake Bay Elisabeth and Cliff contacted me a month or so into the pandemic. Like so many their wedding plans have been forced to change. Their original wedding plans however were a destination wedding in the Dominican Republic so it must have felt extra cruel […]

Chania has been my neighbor for a few years now. When I first met her she was probably a freshmen in highschool. Her mom and I swap gardening tips over the deck, especially since the pandemic and when she put out a “Proud Hammond High School Graduate, Class of 2020” sign in the front yard […]

In March, weddings started postponing left and right but a few brave couples saw opportunity instead of concern. Emma and Colin have been together “for ever”. Really- they went to prom together, and have been engaged for 4 years. I joked with Emma they have been engaged longer than Ryan and I have known each […]

My suite mate in college, Rachel, now coaches soccer at a local high school which is how I connected with Katherine for her senior portraits. Like many seniors this 2020 her final year in high school played out really differently than anticipated. This year, more than ever, we need to celebrate our seniors! They worked […]

Sometimes you just need to dress up like a princess- especially when their is a global pandemic keeping us down. Stacey and Aliana’s mother had to postpone her wedding and the girls were going to outgrow their flower girl dresses before the wedding sometime next year. When I saw the dresses I knew they couldn’t […]

May 26, 2019 was my own wedding day, one year ago today. If you had told me on that day that just a year later we would be celebrating in quarantine due to a global pandemic, I would not have believed you. We had plans to return to Tennessee or perhaps head to a beautiful […]