Maryland and Washington, DC Wedding and Family Photographer

A week ago I made my way to sunny Washington, DC to shoot Joanna and Edward in what turned out to be a marathon engagement session spanning three locations in 4 hours.

We started at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. If you’ve never been there before, you have to check it out– it’s the largest Roman Catholic church in the US and is as beautiful as it is enormous.

“Be of Good Heart”… I like that.

Look at those smiles, makes my job easy.

It takes about 30 minutes to do a lap of the church, the place is HUGE. Seriously. There were so many places to shoot it was ridiculous.

Right when we were about to combust we ducked inside and made use of this fantastic hallway.

We finished up at the Shrine and ran over to the Catholic University campus to grab a few shots where Joanna and Edward met. As it turns out, they’d noticed each other on separate occasions, in roughly the same spot.

I’m told Edward had better grades in grad school, but Joanna clearly has him beat in the facial expression department.

We finished up in Old Town Alexandria. I have to give these guys credit, they were up for absolutely anything. Even traversing the same crosswalk three times in row and stopping to kiss in front of 200 strangers.

I’m really looking forward to seeing these them dance at the wedding too.

After dark we grabbed some off-camera flash shots and called it a night.

Joanna and Edward, thank you for being such good sports, I had an absolute blast.

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