for REAL PEOPLE
portrait + Wedding photography
I'm Valerie. I'm an East-Coast based photographer who digs real moments.
I don't think professional has to mean stuffy or traditional. I believe in doing things your own way, being yourself and having some fun along the way.
Sam and Anthony | Washington DC New Years Wedding | Classsic DC wedding photographer New Years is already fun enough. Add the most fun couple and a first look where it started to snow and it makes for the best new years celebration. VENDOR LOVE WEDDING PLANNING CONSULTATION | LIZ AND CLAIRE | CLAIRE […]
Sometimes you have pretty awesome friends who get married and decide on a mashup of roaring 20s circus things and you get to wear your best flapper outfit and party it up. And sometimes you get to take a few photos for those friends. AND SOMETIMES… they’re related to the awesome Kelly Balch and they’re […]
Norm and Candice | Cathedral of the Sacred Heart | The John Marshall Ballrooms | Creative Richmond Wedding Photographer Richmond, Virginia // November 18, 2017 And a little advice for my fellow wedding photographers while we’re at it… So, it’s kind of convenient that Candice and Norm’s wedding was the next up on the list […]
Kristina and Travis | Creative San Francisco Bay Area Wedding Photographer | Club Los Meganos Wedding Photographer I couldn’t even decide what photos to post from this shindig. I literally created this blog post by (no shit) rolling my scroll wheel and randomly stopping on an image in blogstomp. I couldn’t decide… so I let […]
Melanie had two requirements for her wedding… it had to be outside… and she had to wear boots. Other than that… Berend and Melanie wanted the most laid back wedding you could have. Board games. Cornhole. Fire pits. No bridal party. No official first look. No first dance. Or anything traditionally “wedding”. Tons of dancing. […]
Rich and Jessica are awesome. The love fly fishing… their adorable dog… drinking wine at the exact place they got married… and you know, being kick-ass doctors. I love a good fall wedding. Jewel tones are kind of my jam and these two knocked it out of the park. PLUS… frolicking around in the fall […]
Ryan and Kristine | Brookside Gardens Wedding | Washington DC Documentary Wedding Photographer I say it all of the time… but I really do have the very best clients. AND I always leave their weddings wishing I was a part of their inner-friends circles… Kristine and Ryan are definitely some of those people. (As if […]
Alex and Mireille | Virginia Science Museum Wedding | Creative Richmond Wedding Photographer Alex and Mireille spent their first date doing a scavenger hunt at Libby Hill… so it was only fitting that they spent Labor Day weekend saying “I do” in the very same spot followed by a huge reception full of Minute-To-Win-It games, […]
