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Kelly and Billy met in 2010 at Montclair State University. They were both student teachers at the time together at Northeast Elementary School.They would spend their lunch hours enjoying each other’s company and getting to know one another as just friends!

It was just about two years ago that I received an email from Claire! She was newly engaged and she and Keith had just booked their wedding venue at The Rock Island Lake Club! (One of my favorite venues for sure).

As the summer was getting close to an end, Chelsea and Jon waited with excitement to know that their wedding day was not far off! Chelsea and Jon celebrated their love at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey where their families all gathered around them and joined as one family and one heart!

This maternity session is very close to my heart! A few years ago I blogged about my daughter Kaitlin and Andrew’s beautiful North Carolina wedding and I wanted to express my heart as a mom when your daughter gets married! It was such a wonderful joy for me to share my heart!

Heather met Jack through her cousin Jimmy as the two of them grew up together and were best friends.  She secretly had a crush on Jack before she was old enough to even date!! 

I have been photographing this beautiful family for over seven years now!  It started when Alyssa was expecting her daughter, Autumn Faith.  We had so much for the first time doing a maternity session.

Rebecca and Tyler’s beautiful wedding at the Pleasantdale Chateau was nothing short of a fairy tale!  They chose this venue in particular because it was full of old world charm and warmth at the same time.  Their wedding day was perfect in every way.

Kelsey and Matt met in December 2013 through two mutual friends in Boston, Massachusetts. Matt was heading to New Jersey to visit family coming down from Maine when one of his friends invited him to a holiday party. 

Andrew and Lindsey met at a Sushi Bar in Staten Island where Lindsey grew up.  She was in graduate school for speech pathology and Andrew was nearing the end of medical school. The cutest thing that Andrew did to impress Lindsey that night was he took a napkin out and drew a picture of the central nervous system! She will never forget it! 

Brit and Jon met at Manalapan High School where Brit was hired as a long term substitute for a physical education teacher.  Jon was the high school football coach.

They hit it off immediately, and they found that there days were intertwined because Brit had all of Jon’s students as her students.  She soon noticed that Jon was always popping his head into her class to “check in” on his players he would say! It soon became clear that he was actually checking on Brit! They soon started dating and after four years Jon decided to propose!