Weeks Recap!

Shew, I have been MIA on my blog the past couple weeks! Here is a short recap of what is coming and whats been going on!

Saturday June 25th I shot a 50th wedding anniversary at Cross Keys Vineyard. This anniversary was the sweetest thing and felt like I was shooting their wedding all over again!

Wow, this cake is SO amazing!!! The next morning I ran off to the hospital to shoot baby Kiley in the hospital (which I already blog posted! High five for me!).

I finished packing my bags, wrote up a quick blog post for Kiley and then I traveled to OBX for one of my best friends wedding and spent the week there with her family.

Love you guys!

After a week of relaxing on the beach I drove 6 hours home, crashed in bed and woke up the next morning to shoot a wedding with my good friend Sam, with Samantha Ritter Photography. We shot this amazing wedding at JMU! Obvioulsy this kind of wedding always excites me AND it was on the football field!

After the wedding with Sam, I woke up the next morning to shoot sweet Kiley’s newborns!

Shew, see what I mean?! It was a crazy end of June! Now I am teaching art camp and editing my life away! See you soon!

 

 

Baby Kiley

Meet baby Kiley! I just love when my couples choose to do the full maternity package with maternity pictures, hospital pictures and newborn pictures! I am sure you remember this beautiful couple I did in the spring… well now we are welcoming their new and beautiful baby girl Kiley! Congratulations Heather and Greg, she is SUCH the sweetheart! Beautiful new family! Baby feet! They are the best! Greg was the CUTEST dad I’ve ever seen! He would not give her up and wanted to kiss her all over the whole time! I was able to capture some beautiful moments of a beautiful father daughter relationship in the making.  LOVE this! Ahhhhh, those little baby lips! Uncle time!Current family favorite! 🙂
New grandparents all around!Congratulations again! Kiley newborns are coming soon too!

Sam and Laura

 This beautiful wedding was located in an adorable town called Crozet located in the mountains of Virginia. The venue was at the gorgeous Grace Estate Vineyard. This couple was a blast to work with and their wedding day was picture perfect! For days we watched the weather because storms were all around their big day. We lucked out and had the most beautiful weather without a cloud in the sky.

Laura is a very simple yet extremely elegant bride and it showed on her wedding day. Her attention to small details were beautiful and made this wedding absolutely stunning. Laura’s hair pulled back in the most elegant bun paired with the most beautiful asymmetrical dress was just the start of the most gorgeous details. Sam wore a striking grey suit with pink accents from his tie to his socks.

Congratulations you two, I am so honored to be a small part of your beautiful day! Thank you for taking such great care of my team and loving my small business! Here are a few of my favorites from your day!

Married! First look!Found the most beautiful red barn on the property! I just love this one!

 

I love when my couples do a first look! Gorgeous!
Such beautiful senery everywhere at Grace Estates! Favorite! I just loved this silo! Amazing for black and white!  You are stunning Laura! Wow, such a gorgeous bridal party!
These guys aren’t looking so bad themselves! Another favorite!
Love this one that my second photographer captured and focused on the brides brother!  Love the colors of this wedding!  My favorite part of every wedding! Such a proud father! LOVE this one! Stole them for a few before the sun set completely. My second photographer is fabulous don’t you think?! She ran up to the top of this hill to get the venue before the sun completely left the sky. This image is to die for! Amazing Samantha, as always!

Kayla Koslow Photography

Always have to sneak one in for my collection! Love you guys and congratulations!

Whitney & Josh {Engagement}

When Whitney first told me we would be going to Josh’s family farm to take pictures I was immediately excited! New locations for photographers is like christmas morning. As photographers we get tired of suggesting the same public locations to take couples so I am always excited when people invite me to their family land because it is bound to have perfect locations. Virginia offers so many amazing places to take photographs and you just can’t beat these blue ridge mountains! I was already excited about the new location and then she mentioned Josh’s family truck that his parents rode away in on their wedding day!? I really couldn’t contain my excitement for this opportunity and you will see why!

Josh and Whitney aren’t technically high school sweethearts but did go to high school together. They jokingly talk about 5th period together where Josh says Whitney was just “too cool” for him…Whitney disagrees and laughs every time when he mentions this! Although Whitney and Josh didn’t date in high school together they have been together for the past 5+ years.  They are the sweetest couple and love on each other without any direction from me! I cannot wait to shoot their wedding in Novemeber! Congratulations you two!

Whitney you picked the perfect shirt for Josh! Your eyes are just gorgeous!
Ow Ow! Love these! Whitney you are absolutely stunning!  One of my favorites! The rust of this truck is just fabulous! I LOVE this one! Does it get more beautiful! Whitney you have THE model look down, so beautiful! All time favorite here! Josh picked out the most beautiful vintage style ring! So gorgeous!

Holly & Mike {Engagement}

 

Well, this post is going to become personal. Holly and I have a rather funny story. We grew up in the same area, had the same friends, went to the same gatherings, yet we never really met or became friends in high school. We even went to the same college (Go Dukes!). Crazy, I know. But Holly and I didn’t become friends until we were hired at the same elementary school the same year as first year teachers! When I first saw Holly at new teacher orientation I knew her name, I knew who she was but we had never had a conversation ever…so I walked up to her and started talking about some mutual friends and we clicked instantly. Its funny now, because I don’t think we would have been good friends in high school, but in my eyes we are the perfect adult best friends! I couldn’t have made it through my first year teaching…or my second year, or even my third year without this girl! I am so grateful that she has walked into my life for so many reasons… hey, timing is everything isn’t it?!

I met Holly and Mike before they were ever engaged (its been a few years since Mike popped the question). I still laugh at the time Mike asked me and one of their friends if he should pop the question during a night of bowling while Holly was up to bowl! I literally looked at him and started to laugh because he tends to make plenty of jokes and this comment was just too random to be true, right?! No, Mike popped the question that Christmas… so I guess I shouldn’t have laughed!

This engagement session took some work! I had to beg and plead these two to get engagement pictures taken and finally it happened! I’m not going to lie, going through these pictures from a few months ago had me in tears again…from laughter. This session was hilarious! I am glad I was able to grab a few out of the hundreds I took where they actually took my nuzzling comments seriously!

Love these black and whites! Mike has that model look on the right! Love it!
I am so excited for these two! They are truly a wonderful couple who I love dearly and I cannot wait to see what life has in store for their lives as a married couple! Loved this amazing barn! Such happiness in this one!  Eeeeeek! My favorite guy Tucker! I’ll never forget the day we went to get this little guy… he really was little at one point in time!  Holly, you are gorgeous! All time favorite! Tucker is always looking like a lion…but especially in this one! 🙂

The Nieder Family

 

I met Kim several years (I think five!) ago when I joined her rec league volleyball team! This year she announced to us before the fall season started that she was expecting! We were all so excited for her but all very surprised! Well, if you know anything about Kim, you won’t be surprised that she continued to play the whole season! Needless to say we won this year and she was 5 months pregnant in our championship game!!! Whooohooo she’s amazing! I was honored when Kim asked me to continue shooting her family during this new time in their lives.

We were not planning on getting any maternity pictures done but when I found this field and realized Kim was still a week away from delivery I had to call her, and boy am I SO glad I did! Kim is absolutely stunning as an expecting mother! Enjoy this amazing set of images of this beautiful family in the most perfect yellow field!
Can you believe that these are weeds?! Farmers hate them! I LOVE them!  Love this dress, so perfect in this field!Kim you are STUNNING!
One of my favorites!  Adding another girl to the family!Candids while they were waiting on their Momma!Love you guys! Can’t wait to love on Baby Josie!

Baby L

I had the pleasure to work with this beautiful baby girl a couple weekends ago! “Baby Louie” (as her siblings call her) was the sweetest 5 day old ever! I have such a love for squishy and snuggly babies!

Newborn photography, Kayla Koslow Photography, Photography, Virginia Photographer

Those pouty lips!  LOVE this one!  Sweet moment with momma!