After meeting Leslie as a bridesmaid in a 2010 wedding I was so thrilled when she and Eric reached out to have me photograph their wedding this October.  They were in town from Boston for the weekend, and we spent the afternoon roaming the streets of downtown Annapolis.  These two have a love that is preciously adorable and bursting at the seams happy.  I’m so excited to photograph their wedding on the Eastern Shore, and document the beginning of their love story.

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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!

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These two.  They’re full of laughs, smiles and happy times.  They were in from Boston for the weekend, and I can’t wait to share with you the rest of their engagement photos from Annapolis.  More coming soon!

“I don’t know what’s going to be revealed to be behind all of this mayhem. One human insect or a poisonous mass of broken sociopaths.

But here’s what I DO know. If it’s one person or a HUNDRED people, that number is not even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population on this planet. You watch the videos of the carnage and there are people running TOWARDS the destruction to help out. This is a giant planet and we’re lucky to live on it but there are prices and penalties incurred for the daily miracle of existence. One of them is, every once in awhile, the wiring of a tiny sliver of the species gets snarled and they’re pointed towards darkness.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, “The good outnumber you, and we always will.”"

-Patton Oswalt

These two.  With Offeibea’s amazing spirit, gorgeous smile, and infectious laugh, it’s no wonder that Kerry fell in love with her while they were running track in college.  He’s the ying to her yang and they embody what love and friendship means.  Offeibea and Kerry booked me online, so meeting them during their engagement session was such a special treat.  We laughed and explored these beautiful gardens in Georgetown just as spring was starting to bloom.  I’m so thrilled that they chose me to photograph their wedding this year at one of my favorite venues, Antrim 1844 and can’t wait to see their lives begin as one.

It’s beginning to be that time again;  where the leaves come out of hibernation, the flowers start blooming, pollen is produced in excess and the sound of lawn mowers pollutes my Sunday morning wedding hangover.  Welcome to Spring, folks!  I will admit that I love all the seasons, a few months of one, then on to the next!  A little variety is good.

But back when I was a wee one, yes, shut it I know I’m still wee…back when I was wee-er I hated Spring.  Spring meant yard work.  And one Saturday morning at the very grown up age of five, we had all woken up and were to have a family yard work day.  And this?  This put me over the edge, SOMEBODY CALL CPS.  So.  As Mom, Dad, and Amanda were already outside yardworkin’, through the tears I packed my little play suitcase with all the important things one should need for flocking the nest.  Clean underpants, check.  Fancy Sunday dress, check.  My Little Ponys, check.  And I was off.  I exited the front door while everyone was in the back.

They had pushed me to my limit, you know with the yardwork and all, so I was throwing in the towel and running away FOR GOOD.  I didn’t know where I was going, but I was getting there by foot.  The tears were streaming down my little five year old face and I slowly walked across my front yard.  I made it to the end of the yard, right to the edge of the street and turned around one last time to take the last ever glance at my ‘old house.’  And standing there in the front yard was my mom Megan what are you doing?, she must have found my note inside.  I suddenly rethought my new journey, I couldn’t leave, I’d miss them too much, and so I put my suitcase down and went sprinting back into my mom’s arms as the tears fell from my cheeks.

After that day, running away never crossed my mind again; but one thing that didn’t change, my hatred for spring yard work.

And speaking of Spring, I can’t wait to share with you Offeibea and Kerry’s beautiful spring engagement session in Georgetown!  More from their engagement photos coming soon!

10.  I have super-sensitive, super-sonic senses.  Smelling.  Hearing.  And touch.  Very few smells pass the stink test.  I can’t handle repetitive annoying sounds or conflicting music.  And it has to be just the perfect blend of fabrics/texture for me to touch or wear something.

9.  I eat Chipotle burritos like a type-writer.  Yep, horizontal.  Left to right.  Yes, I understand everything falls out.

8.  In 2002 I reached the ten-limit amount of car lock outs with AAA.  Twice, running.

7.  There is a “grace period” in the morning after I wake up that I don’t talk.  If you speak to me, don’t expect an answer.

6.  I used to have sticky fingers; items included unique pint glasses from restaurants, plates, knifes from Outback (who doesn’t have knifes from Outback), and the largest ticket item was a three and a half foot mirror from a hotel bathroom that still hangs in my hallway.

5.  When Kanye West and Jay-Z were in town I went to both their shows.  First on Tuesday night, then again on Thursday night.  Yes, I’m that crazy fangirl.

4.  I eat pizza taking into consideration the Bite-to-Bite ratio.  Therefore I take a bite of the end point, then of the crust.  End point, then crust.

3.  I was required to take a driving class to prevent my license from being suspended, due to an excessive amount of speeding tickets and points on my license.

2.  I say ‘moo point’ instead of ‘moot point.’  You can thank Joey Tribbiani for that one.

1.  Once I may or may have not climbed to the top of Greenbury Point’s 600 foot radio towers on the edge of the Severn River overlooking all of Annapolis.  This may or may not still be a sore spot with my mother.

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When you called us into your bedroom that one evening, on Dad’s birthday, for a serious family conversation it wasn’t out of the ordinary.   We’ve become accustom to these things, especially in the last few months where Dad’s condition has been rapidly deteriorating.  But I quickly realized this was different.  And the tears started flowing.  You told us not to worry, but I just couldn’t help it.  Part of my soul is made up of you, so the thought of something being wrong was just too much for my little head to comprehend.

After you got out of surgery on Wednesday and were in recovery, I was doing whatever it took to make you laugh and admittedly, videoing it to see if we would have the next YouTube hit on our hands.  Because that’s what I do when I’m struggling, I try to make everyone laugh, to ease the pain of difficult situations.  Unfortunately you just aren’t that funny after anesthesia.  Maybe you could work on that?  David after dentist?  Jane on Jef Holm?  Please take notes.

Later that evening while we were at home you were acting, well, weird.  There is no one on this earth that I know better and you were acting anxious, fidgety, and on edge.  You mentioned that your neck was sticky so we went into the bathroom and I was doing my best to wash off the Iodine from your chest and shoulders.  It was in those moments where I knew you weren’t as strong as you once portrayed.  When I wished the whole thing would just go away.  And I wished the you I know would just come back already.  You were holding your hair up and I was trying to be as careful as possible when you jumped back and screamed OUUUUUCH.  My heart sank and I’m positive the blood drained from my entire body.  I looked back up at you, and there you were, laughing hysterically.  GOTCHA.

Ok woman, you win.  For all the times I’ve played pranks on you, jumped out at you, scared you, laughed at you with you…you win. <3.

Meghan and Craig are about as adorable as they come.  After seeing them at many weddings this past summer I was so excited to hear about their engagement, and they booked me to photograph their wedding this fall in Baltimore.  Seeing them together just makes you smile, they are so comfortable with each other and make each other laugh so quickly and easily.  Knowing them and their friends, this wedding is going to be one memorable night at the Baltimore Hilton.  I met up with Meghan and Craig in Baltimore for their engagement photos, and we started off right around their neighborhood of Little Italy!

Really!?  Love this.  Like, LOVE love.

After roaming around Little Italy we traveled over to a different part of town–specifically one of their favorite parts, right by Camden Yards!

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