it was my pleasure to be a part of rabia and azim's two-day wedding in virginia in the early fall last year. azim's brother is actually a good friend of my husband's and an old college acquaintance of mine, so it was very nice to meet the whole family and truly an honor to be the one to photograph the wedding…
Read Moreone of the things i love the most about this job is being welcomed into groups of friends as individuals in the group get married over the years. i first met ashraful back in 2010 at my friend yasmin's wedding - only my second year of business, and he was a friend of yasmin's husband tyseer. a year later, i saw him again in california, at osman and lubna's beautiful bay area wedding in the summer of 2011. aaaand then again in the summer of 2013…
Read Moreas i got started on kelly and kris's wedding day, i told kris that i was in "photographer heaven", there at doukenie winery on an absolutely perfect late spring afternoon. that experience carried through all the way until the end of the night - an evening of everything i love most about my "job": to be surrounded by such beauty; love brimming into laughter and happiness overflowing into tears. and of course, killer afternoon sunlight…
Read Morepriyanka and eddie were already married when they first met with me, but they were planning a special reception for the south asian sides of their families - priyanka is nepali, and eddie's mother is punjabi - at the ritz-carlton at tyson's corner in october 2013…
Read Morezehra and saad got married in a lovely, two-day event last summer in richmond. the nikah (wedding ceremony) and mehndi were held at the stonehenge country club and the wedding at the hilton short pump. zehra is one of the sweetest brides i have ever worked with…
Read Morei had the wonderful opportunity to photograph a wedding at one of my favorite family vacation spots this fall - wintergreen resort in virginia. when bre first got in touch with me about it, i was over the moon - an outdoor fall wedding in the mountains, with two beautiful and obviously in-love people! a photographer's dream come true. as the day approached, however…
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