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I'm Erica a D.C. wedding photographer, with two young children, and a love for organization. Welcome to my small space on the internet where I can share with you special sessions, real weddings, and even little looks into my everyday life. Take a look around, and thanks for stopping by!

Creating a wedding timeline without a first look requires careful planning and attention to detail. If you found my first post for planning a wedding timeline without a first look helpful, here’s my step-by-step guide breaking each part of your day down to make planning easy for you. Let’s break it down step by step: […]

Planning with Purpose

Planning a Wedding Timeline Without a First Look: A Step-by-Step Guide

Weddings

It’s not every day that I get to witness a love story as beautiful and heartwarming as Margaret and James’. Their Clyde’s Willow Creek Farm wedding day was an overjoyed celebration of a love that had been lost and then found again. Surrounded by the captivating charm of Broadlands and the sentimental embrace of Clyde’s […]

A Clyde’s Willow Creek Farm Second Wedding | Margaret + James

Clyde's Willow Creek Wedding photo

Getting the chance to return to another Janna Brown editorial shoot in less than a year, was unbelievable. When envisioning this shoot for a European-inspired wedding editorial, set against the backdrop of the exquisite Salubria Manor in Culpeper, I could not have fathomed a more breathtaking outcome. The presence of enchanting floral arrangements, working with […]

Weddings

Wedding Editorial at Virginia’s Historic Salubria

Weddings

As a wedding photographer I love seeing my images printed for each and every couple I work with. But the ultimate delight is having my couples select their favorite images and place them in an heirloom wedding album. Talking with so many couples, I am regularly asked, “Do we need to print a wedding album?”  […]

Is a Printed Wedding Album the Right Choice?

printed wedding albums

After over 10 years as a wedding photographer I could offer my couples thousands of tips to help make their wedding days run so much smoother. Every couple I work with gets access to all these great easter eggs of information but there is one that I just can’t keep to myself. My absolute number […]

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My Number ONE Wedding Ceremony Tip!

Outdoor wedding ceremony

Weddings

This Madison at the Mill wedding in Orange, Virginia is a bit closer to my heart than most. It is something really special when you get to watch your friend meet their perfect match, and then that relationship blossoms into an engagement.  My husband’s close friend Torrey is one of those guys that can light […]

Madison at the Mill Wedding | Melissa + Torrey

Madison at the Mill wedding

One of my favorite trends that has stuck around since Covid is more intimate weddings. These are weddings with guests count less than 50 people. They really let these small venues shine, like the DC War Memorial (sometimes mistaken for the War World I Memorial). The War Memorial has always been one of my ‘favorite […]

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D.C. War Memorial Wedding | Kavita + Nick

Summer DC War Memorial wedding

Weddings

Megan and Alex were married at the base of a beautifully hand-crafted cross on their family’s Cumberland homestead last September. I love getting to photograph weddings wrapped in so much love and unity with both friends and family at the center of it all. Megan and Alex’s day was the perfect example.  Megan’s parents purchased […]

Cumberland Homestead Wedding | Megan + Alex

Cumberland homestead wedding