I'm a published wedding and portrait photographer located in a small town outside of Charlottesville. In addition to capturing beautiful images, I love spending time with my family, am freakishly good at word games (Hey Wheelmobile!), love an ice cold can of Coke or Dr. Pepper, know every line to Hocus Pocus and can never pass up a Chick-fil-A waffle fry or a trip to HomeGoods. 

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Creating your wedding invitations | Tips for Brides

You have your date, your colors and your overall theme—now it’s time to create your wedding invitations. I’ll be honest, I was a DIY print at home girl. I purchased blank invitations featuring a pretty letterpress purple orchid from Target (they’ve since gotten out of the wedding invitation game). I also purchased the coordinating RSVP […]

September 4, 2020

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Finding Your Dress | Tips for Brides

You’ve already found the one, so now it’s time to find THE ONE. Yes, that one, the dress one. By now, you’ve probably thought about some of the basics—long versus short, simple versus lots of bling, lace or no lace, etc, but there are tons of options out there and being in that sea of […]

February 8, 2020

Bride admiring her dress while getting ready at The Dominion Club in Richmond VA

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Finding a Photographer | Tips for Brides

There are lots of articles out there about choosing your wedding photographer and let me say, as a wedding photographer, some of them make sense and some of them don’t. Here’s my advice for selecting a wedding photographer and definitely what I would do if I were a bride searching for someone to capture my […]

April 26, 2019

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Finding Your Venue | Tips for Brides

Now that you’re engaged and you’ve been thinking about what you’d like in a wedding, it’s time to find the perfect venue to bring your vision to life. 1. First things first Hopefully, by this point you’ve already created a draft budget. If you haven’t, as a popular wedding song says, REVERSE REVERSE! Draft your […]

March 16, 2019

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You’re Engaged; Now What? | Wedding Planning Tips for Brides

Congratulations! You’re engaged. So now what? Wedding planning can be super overwhelming because chances are, it’s something you’ve never done before. There are budgets, venues, selecting vendors, picking dresses, invitations and more, but it doesn’t have to be a stressful experience. Planning a wedding can actually be super fun. So now that you have something […]

January 9, 2019

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