What To Expect

Once you’ve booked your session, I’ll be emailing you a prep guide full of tips and tricks to get everyone ready and excited for our session, but if you’re interested in a little more info:

So what type of Session will we do?

Newborn Sessions

Newborn sessions are done within the first 2 weeks to ensure those sleepy, curly poses we all love. Please contact me while you are still pregnant to make sure we have your due date in the calendar and space to get your little one in as early as possible.**

We need that beautiful bundle nice and sleepy in order to get those precious poses. Baby should be recently fed and wearing easily removed clothes. Feel free to come in and feed them in the studio as well! Newborn sessions with me are super chill. Baby will be wrapped and calm while we capture their adorable faces and details on soft blankets and cozy baskets as well heart melting poses with parents and siblings!

I want to make this session special for you! Do you have a hat Grandma made or a favorite sports jersey for baby to sleep on? If something is important to you, let me know! I can try my best to set up something special if you have something in mind, but not on hand.

Get in those pictures! I will be the first to tell you I wasn’t feeling awesome the first week after my little guy was born, but I really wish I had some pictures of us like I’ve seen of other moms and their babies. Trust me, you won’t care how your hair looks when you are 80 and looking back, you’ll be glad you have them.

 

Portrait Session

This type of session is for any time you want to bring your little ones in for their own sessions.

Whether they are just getting good at sitting up and it’s time for the relatives to get a newer picture in their wallets or you haven’t had a moment to catch all the siblings in the same picture, it’s never a bad time to book a regular session!

I love stylized sessions, so if you’re kids are going to set up a lemonade stand for the day, or you are baking a bunch of holiday cookies and want someone else to take the pictures so you can join in the fun, I will be happy capture those fun moments.

 

Cake Smash Sessions

The first half of the session is a standard portrait session with a nice outfit, then the cake comes out and the real fun begins!

I love themes, so if there is a birthday party theme or color scheme, I incorporate that into our session!

It can get pretty crazy once that cake is all over the place. Part of the smash session can include a “clean off” shoot with a bubble bath in plastic tub. At least they can leave almost as clean as they came in!

Couple Session

There’s is nothing more amazing than two people in love. If you are soon to be or newly engaged or married and want some sweet photos of that wonderful love the two of you share I will be happy to tag along for a nice picnic at the park, a cute date to the fair, a day of painting your new house or even a proposal.

Maternity Sessions

Expecting parents!  I know sometimes all you feel like doing is laying around while eating something salty (or are you a sweet treat fan?) and cry at commercials, but you also need to remember feeling beautiful and full of life! These are for you, we want to get this belly looking round and cute, but we don’t want you to feel too huge or tired. So late in the 2nd trimester is best, around the 30 week mark (when all that energy is supposed to come in- HA!). However, if you are getting close to fully baked and want a session, by all means! Get me over to that belly with a camera!

Family Sessions

Now I know I said no matchy-matchy, but color coordination is easy on the eyes and looks nice too. Choose a color or two (or three!) and have a few pieces on everyone. No logos or words on clothing please, I’ve found it distracts from the focus of the picture, your beautiful faces!

Above all things, I want your family to be comfortable and have fun being your silly selves! I love when theres no pressure to do this or that and we let the kids run around and play. That’s how we capture the fun!

And of course, any or all of these things might go out the window depending on what’s happening at the session, but at least we tried to be prepared right?