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.
Will and Kara: Married | District Winery Photographer | Creative DC Wedding Photographer Kara and Will got married during the cherry blossom festival in DC. Scratch that… not just during it. On it. All up in it. They got married the day of the parade. Initially, we had made plans to head down to the […]
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 […]
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, […]
I don’t even know where to begin with this one. It’s too good for it’s own good. Jeff and Paulyn know how to throw a wedding and throw a wedding right. Just about 60 people. Everything RVA-inspired. Plenty of portrait time. Enamel pins as favors. Ice cream breaks. Libby Hill Park AND Quirk Hotel. AND […]
Three events. Two Days. And just about 1,000,000 moments of happiness. Sarah and Ankur married at Castle Hill Cider in Keswick, Virginia… actually, technically, they married twice. One part Indian Wedding Ceremony… One part Western Family Ceremony… and TWO nights filled with HUGE GIANT DANCE PARTIES. I love a good dance party… and this was […]
Chelsea is a really wonderful photographer who I have had the pleasure of getting to know in the last few months… (Just in time for her to move and leave and go to the other side of the state.) She wanted this time documented. Her family’s first home. To remember the moments inside the walls […]
