Maine & NH Wedding Photographer // Couples Who Showed Up Dressed Like Themselves (Not a Pinterest Board)

Guess what, nobody actually spends their weekends in a suede-brimmed hat and flowy neutral linen… and that’s okay.

Here’s a little spicy truth for you: your engagement session isn’t an audition for a lifestyle catalog. You don’t need to cosplay as a beige aesthetic influencer who drinks oat milk in a dried pampas grass field. (Unless that’s your actual vibe — in which case, carry on, oat queen.)

But for the rest of us living in reality? Ripped jeans, leather jackets, scuffed-up Vans, band tees, hoodies, baseball caps, and windblown hair are the vibe. That’s the real stuff. And that’s what I wanna photograph.

I’m Not That Girl, and You Don’t Have to Be Either

Let’s get this out in the open: I’m not a trendy-boho-yuppie photographer. You’re not going to catch me in a flowy dress, fake laughing in a wheat field under a wide-brimmed camel-colored hat. That’s not me. And if that’s not you either? Hell yeah. We’re off to a great start.

You wanna wear your favorite band tee that has holes in it because it’s been to 47 concerts and smells like freedom? Do it. Wanna show up in your everyday ripped jeans and a hoodie because that’s what you two wear when you’re grabbing beers or running errands together? Love that.
Wanna throw a ruffled dress on with a leather jacket and combat boots? Icon behavior. Do it.

Your Photos Should Look Like You

You know what’s actually timeless? Feeling like yourself.
When you look back at these photos, I want you to say, “Oh my god, that’s so us.” Not “Who are these soft-filtered strangers pretending to drink vintage wine out of mason jars?”

Some of my favorite sessions ever have included:

• Couples in beanies and black denim, cuddled up on the rocks like literal album covers.

• Leather jackets flapping in the wind while we blast music and run around the coast like we’re 17 again.

• Band tees, tattoos, flannels, and beat-up Chucks — that kind of authenticity.

• Ruffled dresses that weren’t picked off a Pinterest board but straight out of their own closets.

These are the photos that feel like your life, not a curated aesthetic.

Forget the pressure to dress like someone else’s “dream couple” aesthetic. And I sure as shit will not be giving you a shopping list of what clothes to buy. You don’t need to dress up to show up. You just need to be you. Because when you do, that’s when the good stuff happens — the belly laughs, the forehead kisses, the real moments that don’t feel forced or filtered.

So wear what makes you feel comfortable, confident, and completely yourself.

I’ll bring the camera. You bring the vibe. Let’s make something real.