One of the things that I love about being a wedding photographer is that it takes me to so many new places! One day I’m shooting a wedding in the mountains and the next I’m doing an engagement session at the beach! Virginia is full of so many different sceneries! 

We set the date for Michelle and Matt’s engagement session months ago. When your fiance is in the military and you both live out of town, you don’t have the luxury of being flexible when it comes to scheduling! So when the night before their session the forecast was calling for rain most of the day, we knew rescheduling wasn’t an option. We made the last minute call to switch the session to the morning in hopes that we would miss the rain- which we did! Definitely made the right call! 

The Outer Banks is one of my favorite places in the world! I’ve been going every summer with my family since I was born! Now that life is a little busier, we don’t get to make it down as often as we’d like. But when Ashleigh asked about doing their engagement session in the OBX while they were down there with their family AND it happened to line up with the week that Branden had off from work, it was kismet! So we grabbed the dogs, headed down early and made a day out it! And it was perfect! 

Ok, so I have to admit to a major brain fart. I had Taylor and Cameron’s engagement session all pre-blogged and ready to go for last Tuesday. Well, it wasn’t until the Friday after that that I realized it never went live! Turns out I scheduled it for 2019! You know busy season is upon us when things like that start happening! Oy! 

Exploring Virginia Beach’s classiest new hotspot was the perfect way to spend an engagement session for a classy couple like Katie and Clark! The new Cavalier Hotel at the Virginia Beach oceanfront was such a fun place to start their engagement session last week! Even though it was crazy busy with other events going on while we were there, there were still so many cute spots to explore! Not to mention all the gorgeous homes that also sit on the property! If you live in the area, you definitely need to check it out! 

You know those couples that just make you smile when you’re around them?? That’s Kristianne and JV to a T! And the way JV looks at his soon-to-be wife just makes my heart so happy! Kristianne and JV live in Pennsylvania and were only in town for this one weekend before their wedding to do their engagement session, so it’s a good thing that we had great weather! The air may have been a little chilly, but the light was divine!