Sweetness is the love of a family… This past week the Maeder family met me out at a beautiful orange grove for an early morning family portrait session. Dayna had wanted to have a portrait session that captured their entire family, the kiddos alone, and of course her and her hubby. Family sessions are such a blast. I typically start …
Adrienne & Colin’s Green Springs Park Engagement
Adrienne and Colin met me out in the middle of the woods for a beautiful engagement session to celebrate their upcoming wedding. I actually first met Adrienne, and even photographed her, during her sweet sister Leanne’s wedding at the Winter Park Farmers Market. Adrienne and Colin actually met a little over four years ago when the both works at Sonny’s …
Megan & Mark’s Yellow and Gray LDS Orlando Temple Wedding
Megan and Mark celebrated their beautiful wedding day by saying their “I Do’s” during their sealing at the LDS Orlando Florida Temple in Windermere, Florida among friends and family. Traveling down from Tallahassee and the Panhandle, both love their faith and template immensely and knew that the drive was short in comparison to being sealed in love for life. Megan …
Lauren & Jarod’s Silver and Purple Timacuan Golf Club Wedding
Lauren Doremus and Jarod Lee tied the knot during their glamorous wedding at the beautiful Timacuan Golf and Country Club. Known for its jaw dropping wooden beams, chandeliers, and marble bar, Timacuan is truly the perfect place for a glamorous wedding. My couple actually met when they were both in high school over ten years ago. Lauren had the biggest …
Christine & Jesse’s Gemini Springs Engagement
Christine and Jesse met me out this past week for a beautiful, low key engagement at Gemini Springs Park in DeBary, Florida. The two love visiting the park with their pup and hiking the trails together. Fill with lush greenery of natural Florida foliage, a beautiful red barn, and sweet little hidden trails is what makes this park just so …
Karla & Austin’s Downtown St. Augustine Engagement
Saint Augustine is by far one of my favorite places for engagements and the same goes for my lovely couple Karla and Austin. The two love spending “date days” walking the historic cobblestone streets and visiting the beautiful Castillo de San Marcos fort located on the Matanzas River. Our session actually started off at Castillo de San Marcos. The (what …
Crystal & Matt’s Woman’s Club of Winter Park Wedding
Crystal and Matthew tied the knot during their 1920’s lawn party wedding at the Woman’s Club of Winter Park this past week. The two actually met through mutual friends over 16 years ago and after being close friends for eight years, their friendship turned into a romance. Recently moving to Florida, the two previously lived in the big apple. After …
Erin’s Winter Garden Senior Portraits
This past week I had the incredible opportunity to capture the senior portraits of Trenton and his absolutely adorable, sweetheart of a girlfriend Erin. For the shoot we choose a Florida setting among the orange groves with soft morning light. Erin is just an absolute doll! She helped Trenton the whole time during his shoot from the perfect out fit to …
Amy & Kevin’s Vintage Courtyard at Lake Lucerne Wedding
Amy and Kevin tied the knot this past weekend at the beautiful Courtyard at Lake Lucerne. I was fortunate enough to be able to meet my traveling couple about a month before the wedding when we did an engagement session at the beautiful historic building. The historic home sits among a row of other beautiful homes, each from a different …
Purple & Gold Indian Wedding at the Magnolia House
January has truly been full speed ahead. I have been incredibly fortunate to have so many gorgeous brides inside and out. From engagements to weddings, and featured in this post a styled shoot – it has been a jam packed month. Carol Sutton with Bold, Beautiful and Beyond Weddings invited me to take part in a gorgeous styled shoot at …
West Orange High School Senior Session
Just as much as engagements, I adore senior shoots and wish I had the opportunity to shoot them more often. It is so much fun getting to know our future leaders, scientists, engineers, veterinarians, and artists. For me, I love working with seniors (and all other grades in high school) every opportunity I have. We all remember how amazing your …
Lauren & Jarod’s New Smyrna Dunes Park Engagement
Lauren and Jarod celebrated their engagement with a beautiful Florida style beach engagement at Smyrna Dunes Park in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. True to Floridian fashion, our Winter is beautiful regardless of it being a cold season. With the air whipping through their hair and the cold water waves rushing below their feet, the two had me laughing the entire session as they themselves hugged, laughed, …
Rachel & Nick’s Winter Woodsy Engagement
Rachel and Nick celebrated their recent engagement with a beautiful bohemian engagement session in the woods. I was so excited to photograph the two and love how into the planning process Rachel has been. From the start, she has had all of “I’s” dotted and “T’s” crossed when it comes to wedding planning. Our conversation on wedding plans soon turned …
Rose Quartz Ballet Wedding at the Capen House
The beauty of ballet truly cannot be understated. Growing up, my family took me to see the Nutcracker every Winter to expose me to the beauty and art of ballet. Even though we sat towards the back, I remember feeling like I was right on stage. The ballerinas came to life as they perfectly performed intricate chasse en tournants to …
Crystal & Matt’s Historic Casa Feliz Engagement
Crystal and Matt met me out at the historic Casa Feliz this past week for their absolutely adorable engagement session. Casa Feliz is one of Crystal’s favorite venues and was perfect for a vintage type vibe to their shoot. The Spanish Farmhouse was designed by James Gamble Rogers II and was lovingly restored after moving locations in Winter Park to …
Sara & Sawyer’s Winter Park Farmer’s Market Wedding
Sara and Sawyer tied the knot at their beautiful Winter Park Farmer’s Market Wedding in Winter Park, Florida. You may remember the two from their adorable engagement session at Rollins College when trekked around the campus looking for the perfect spots. However, it truly wasn’t hard to find the perfect background when you have subjects as sweet as these two. …
Paola & Jorge’s Pink and Grey Royal Crest Room Wedding
Paola and Jorge tied the knot during their beautiful golf club wedding at the Royal Crest Room in St. Cloud this past week. The two actually met back in March of 2010 while Jorge was visiting their mutual friends in Miami. As luck would have it, Jorge happened to be in the right place at the right time to have …
Christie & Joe’s Timacuan Golf and Country Club Wedding
Christie and Joe had one of the most beautiful and classic weddings I have ever shot at the Timacuan Golf and Country Club. My beautiful couple met several years back while Joe was serving. After falling madly in love, they were blessed with two little ones and unfortunately didn’t have the time to plan a wedding. Joe had always promised …
Amanda & Jamie’s Disney Monorail Engagement
Amanda and Jamie contacted me a few months back to capture their Disney engagement session on the monorail and at the Grand Floridian. Amanda had found me on The Knot and both loved my natural, non-posed styled, and were drawn in by my “about me” video on my website. I couldn’t have been more excited when I found out that …
Jasmine & Victor’s Purple and Silver Crystal Ballroom at Veranda Park Wedding
Jasmine and Victor tied the knot during their beautiful wedding at Crystal Ballroom in Veranda Park. Located in the heart of Metro West in Orlando, it was the perfect location for their family flying in from out of the country to meet and celebrate such a momentous occasion. The two had booked me through their wedding coordinator Oluchi Chucku who …