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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!

It was about 2 1/2 years ago when Jen met Steve on Match.com.  She was new to online dating and had no idea what she was doing! Match turned out not be so easy after what she had heard about it.  She winked at him somehow on the website and he messaged her right away.

Nick and Dina were both living in Hoboken, New Jersey.  The first week that Dina moved there from Stirling, New Jersey, she decided to download Tinder and thought it was time to start dating and hopefully meet someone nice!

Mike and Abby are high school sweethearts.  They met in art class, Abby was in her sophomore year and Mike was a senior. They had a mutual friend that introduced them and by the end of the year they started dating.