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May 13 2013

Published: Megan Beth Photography

Posted inBusiness,Engagement Sessions,Weddings

I’m so absolutely thrilled to have these lovely weddings and engagement sessions featured in several local Maryland, and DC wedding blogs.  I photograph every wedding with the same passion and attention to detail, but when editors recognize and appreciate all the hard work we do, it is quite an honor.  Here is where you can find more of the photographs from the beautiful features!  Bayside Bride featured Cathryn and Mike’s nautical coral wedding at the Port Annapolis Marina!

Marry Me Metro featured the most lovely snippet on Meghan and Craig’s Baltimore engagement session.  And Charm City Wed did a beautiful recap on the stunning wedding of Lydia and Craig at the Engineer’s Club!

Lindsey and Charlie made the best of their rainy, tornado, and it paid off.  It was such a pretty wedding and Bayside Bride posted some adorable photos from their gray and yellow wedding day in Annapolis here!

Megan and Gabe’s engagement photos were published on Charm City Wed, and then had their beautiful Spring wedding featured on Capitol Romance which you can check out here!

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Laurie Bracewell - No surprise…you are AMAZING and it’s all well deserved!! :)May 13, 2013 – 9:28 pm

Mom - This is SO awesome. Super proud of your success, Megan!May 13, 2013 – 5:09 pm

Mar 25 2013

Megan Beth Favorite Maryland Wedding Venues.

Posted inBusiness,Weddings

I get asked many times what is my favorite venue to photograph a wedding, and unfortunately the answer isn’t super easy.  Each wedding venue that I’ve shot at, all have so many unique characteristics that make them each special; from mansions, to yacht clubs, to fancy hotels, to historic properties, I’ve seen it all!   Here’s just a brief sampling of some of my favorite venues!

The Evergreen Museum is where I photographed Stephanie and Darrell’s wedding:

I love shooting weddings at the Tidewater Inn, and most recently I shot Amy and Bill’s romantic fall wedding there:

The Strong Mansion on Sugarloaf Mountain is one of my favorite venues in the Frederick area for a wedding!

Although I had never heard of The Aspen Wye River Conference Center before a couple years ago, I fell in love with it because of how hidden it was.  Yelena and Brad threw the most stunning wedding there this past October!

The Newton White Mansion was another beautiful venue that caught me by surprise and Liz and Alden took it to the next level with their gorgeous wedding this past year.

The stunning St. Regis in DC never disappoints for a classy affair.  And what a dream it was to photograph Naomi and Andrew’s wedding there a few years ago! 

I love photographing weddings in Annapolis.  Why?  Because only Annapolis has wedding venues like this.  The William Paca House was the most perfect backdrop for Katie and Chris’s wedding!

Over on the eastern shore, The Oaks Waterfront Inn is a stunning wedding venue on the water and the perfect setting for Jessica and Rob’s nautical inspired wedding!

Woodlawn Farms is a beautiful old farm house, Bed and Breakfast located in Southern, Maryland.  It was such a beautiful day when Maggie and Seth got married there!

The Silver Spring Civic Center located in the heart of downtown Silver Spring is a great wedding venue if you’re looking for a more modern backdrop for your wedding.

Mary Anne and Gus got married at Antrim 1844 in Taneytown Maryland, and although it rained all day, the wedding was still an absolute dream to photograph!

And a wedding at the Annapolis Yacht Club always impresses with their stunning views and top-notch staff.  Can’t beat that!

Historic Londontown and Gardens is one of the most stunning Annapolis venues that sits right on the water, and I couldn’t have been more honored to photograph Marie and Scott’s wedding there this past year!

And last but not least Historic Oakland was a gorgeous backdrop for Megan and Gabe’s romantic summer wedding!

 

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maggie - score one for woodlawn! amazing location if i do say so myself :) all of these venues are stunning though…April 5, 2013 – 2:24 pm

Ann Marie - Weird. I asked you this question :) hah. I love this post and I love that the Antrim is on it!March 26, 2013 – 3:18 pm

Jul 13 2012

FAQ: Advertising.

Posted inBusiness,FAQ,Personal

Erin: I’ve just recently started to look into magazine/online advertising, have you done this kind of advertising and do you think it’s worth it?

Well.  I can answer this question very easily.  The answer is no, I don’t recommend it.  Although I have never paid for a magazine ad I have taken out small online ads on websites and I can tell you one thing: I have never once booked a wedding from online advertising, and in my personal opinion (and many others) it is a waste of money.  The photography industry is so saturated that one little button on a website, full of twenty other photographers is not going to bring you any business.  My biggest referral base in my business is word of mouth.  The facts are simple, if you do a good job, provide a great product, give amazing service then people will be willing to talk to their friends about you.

I still get referrals from weddings that I shot several years ago, and even better, word of mouth referrals normally make for better clients.  As a general rule your clients’ friends are like-minded, so if you find a client you really like and they refer their friends to you, their friends are going to be somewhat similar.  Similar in morals, values, priorities, style, taste…all of which can be important when booking clients.

I am so fortunate that I have such a strong word of mouth referral base, and showing up to weddings is like a mini reunion!  Here are some past, present, and future Megan Beth brides at Cathryn’s wedding.  Love these girls: Meghan, Chaela, Meredith, Cat, Amanda, Lindsey.  And on that note, I’m heading out for Amanda’s wedding this weekend in Annapolis!

Contact megan beth here.  Join me on Facebook here. Follow me on twitter here. And please leave a comment, I’d love to hear from you!

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May 17 2012

Megan Beth Guest Sign-In Albums.

Posted inBusiness,Engagement Sessions

Let’s be honest, traditional guest sign-in books are a thing of the past.  Lately couples have been trying to think of new creative ways to make sure they remember all the special people who attended their wedding.  Well guess what?  I’m here to make your job easier.  Because what’s better than showcasing your beautiful engagement photographs with a custom 8×8 leather bound flush mounted guest sign-in album.  Umm, winning.  They are way fancy, and custom designed with your engagement photos.  Many of my couples use them as coffee table books after the wedding, which I think is an absolutely perfect way to remember the day.

Here’s a look at Amanda and Sonny’s guest sign-in album with their engagement photographs from Annapolis, Maryland!  The album is 8×8, and here you can see the size comparison to Maggie and Seth’s 10×12 vertical wedding album.

Love the stamp imprinting on the front and the inset photograph.

 

 

The pages are printed on archival quality photo paper with lay-flat binding.

The layouts are designed clean and simple with lots of white negative space for guests to leave notes of well-wishes and sign their names.

Contact megan beth here.  Join me on Facebook here. Follow me on twitter here. And please leave a comment, I’d love to hear from you!

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Mary Anne - Oh I thought of doing this for our wedding, but ended up doing my little tree instead. Wish I could have done both. It’s SUCH a great idea.May 17, 2012 – 5:31 pm

Apr 05 2012

Published: What’s Up Annapolis Weddings

Posted inBusiness,Personal

Pork chops.  Who even knew there were so many choices?!  Center cut?  End cut.  Rib eye.  Yadda yadda yadda.  Oy.  I had no idea.  I just wanted the good ones for shake n’ bake.  Dude, quit judging.  I’m the MASTER of Shake N’ Bake!  I glanced over my shoulder to the magazine rack and saw where the wedding section was and knew what the last cover looked like and knew that it wasn’t there any more.  I grabbed whichever pork chops I was looking at and ran over to the rack of neatly stacked magazines.  I picked it up and looked at the date.  Spring/Summer 2012.  I hastily flipped through the pages looking for something familiar.  And there they were.  And were they ever.  Like, a whole lot of them.  And there I was.  In the meat department of my grocery store looking through a magazine with my images in it.

I feel so honored to be published in What’s Up Annapolis Weddings and it makes me so happy for all my couples that were featured in it.  So thank you to them for trusting in me, and for the magazine for wanting to use my images.  And yes, I bought my grocery store out of stock.  So if you live in Bethesda, you might have to go to a different grocery store to pick one up.

Mary Anne and Gus’s adorable milkshake bar was featured, because really when isn’t a milkshake bar a good idea.  That’s right, always.  Then this beautiful image from Katie and Mike’s wedding at The Oaks in St. Michael’s.

Nicole and Mike’s beautiful Annapolis wedding, which was held at the Westin was featured in their Real Weddings section.  And I wish you could just bottle up the love that those two had that day, it was adorable.

And Jamie and Corey’s stunning September wedding at the Hyatt in Cambridge.  Then Jill and Jeremy’s July garden chic wedding at the Aspen Wye River Conference Center on the Eastern Shore.

Contact megan beth here.  Join me on Facebook here. Follow me on twitter here. And please leave a comment, I’d love to hear from you

 

 

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Christine - I got a copy in my mailbox today! Love it! CONGRATS!! :)April 11, 2012 – 10:40 pm

Katie - <3 Love! Congrats!!! They might have to change the title to "What's up Megan Beth?" xoxoApril 6, 2012 – 10:43 am

Eileen - We KNOW you’re amazing…now, so will everyone else!!! You’ll need an appointment secretary soon!April 6, 2012 – 8:29 am