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Fact: Wedding days can be stressful. Fact: They don’t have to be if you’re prepared. As your wedding photographer, it’s important to us that your day is beautiful and as stress-free as possible. Having a relaxed day means you can enjoy the day you’ve worked so hard to create. After years of  experience, I’ve noticed that […]

Wedding Tips

5 Tips to Keep Family Wedding Portraits Stress Free! | VA Wedding Photographer

family portrait on Airlie wedding day

One of the most common questions I’m asked when planning engagement sessions is whether or not our brides and grooms can bring their pets along. And the answer? YES! We LOVE capturing your furry friends because they’re part of your life, love story and family. However, while I encourage you to bring your furry love, […]

Wedding Tips

Animals during Engagement Sessions

Your engagement portraits should be a reflection of who you both are individually and as a couple. These are images that will outlast the day you took them and will be shared and seen over and over again. Because of that, I am often asked what our couples should wear to their sessions! I love […]

Wedding Tips

Fashion Tips for Your Engagement Session | VA Wedding Photographer

Destination wedding photographer

Engagement sessions are a part of my wedding packages and I’m often asked if they’re necessary. Today’s blog is all about why engagement sessions are SO important for both you two and me, your wedding photographer! These sessions are the first time you’re going to meet your photographer face-to-face, are a great way to capture […]

Wedding Tips

Why Engagement Sessions Matter | VA Wedding Photographer

couple walks in garden during engagement session with M Harris Studios

5 Thing to Do After You Get Engaged Congratulations!!! Getting engaged is such an exciting moment in your life! But, if you’re anything like us, the minute you got engaged (okay, well maybe once you took your ring picture and had a minute to relax!) your brain probably started going a mile a minute thinking […]

Wedding Tips

You’re Engaged! Now What?

Destination wedding photographer M Harris Studios

Joanna and Garrett’s DC Wedding At the beginning of this year, I had the extreme honor of capturing Joanna and Garrett’s intimate wedding day at La Vie in Washington, DC. Although I love the big weddings I get to be a part of on the regular, there’s something very special about an intimate day like […]

Weddings

Intimate Winter Wedding at La Vie in Washington D.C.

wedding portraits in La Vie by destination wedding photographer M Harris Studios

Kelsi & Andrew’s Leesburg VA Engagement Session Kelsi and Andrew are such incredible people! Kelsi is an Autism Special Education teacher and Andrew is a high school counselor. The two met while working at the high school they’re both employed at and Andrew apparently told a co-worker after he met Kelsi that he wanted to […]

Engagements

Oatlands Manor Engagement Session

Formal Oatlands Manor engagement session with M Harris Studios

Claire + Austin’s Modern Navy Inspired Wedding Day Claire and Austin are seriously one of the most wonderful couples I’ve ever had the chance to work with. These two have been together over three years (most have been long-distance since Austin serves our country with the U.S. Marines) and finally tied the knot this fall […]

Virginia Wedding, Weddings

Modern Inn at the Old Silk Mill Wedding

Fredericksburg VA wedding day photographed by M Harris Studios

New York Garden Engagement Session Lexi and Matt are on the blog today and I’m SO glad! This beautiful garden session was great to photograph… I mean, just look at those gorgeous flowers!!! Lexi and Matt are such a sweet couple. You can clearly see how much they love each other and enjoy being together, […]

Engagements, Outdoor Engagements

Lexi + Matt

Destination wedding photographer photographs engagement session in garden

Michelle + Jose’s Old Hickory Golf Club Wedding Michelle and Jose are some of the most wonderful people I’ve ever been lucky enough to work with – and they’re so in love, so it was no surprise their Old Hickory Golf Club wedding was full of that same love! These two were engaged after Michelle […]

Virginia Wedding, Weddings

Old Hickory Golf Club Wedding Day

Old Hickory Golf Club wedding day portraits photographed by M Harris Studios

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