chesapeake charm
I'm a hopeless romantic who finds great joy in creating and capturing connection and beauty wherever I go. These are the people I have the honor of photographing.
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Hey yall, I'm Mandi! Welcome to the Chesapeake Charm blog, a journal about recent sessions and maybe a little bit of behind the scenes, too!
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When my sweet friend Alyssa reached out to me about photographing her and her family for maternity portraits, I was over the moon! I photographed Alyssa and her husband Pete as they were expecting their first child Gianna, and it was such a pleasure! This time around, we headed to Hampton Mansion in Towson. It […]
Cake cutting – a long lived wedding tradition which has evolved from the ancient Roman tradition of breaking a white cake over the bride’s head to symbolize the breaking of the bride’s virginal state and to bring good fortune to the newlyweds. In other cultures, the cutting of the cake originally symbolized fertility! The bride would cut […]
Last fall, I had the pleasure of photographing Brooke’s senior photos! We were lucky enough to have TWO sessions together, one at her high school, and one at Jerusalem Mill. I never got the opportunity to blog about our sessions, so with her upcoming graduation and State Championship softball game coming up, I thought this would […]