For as long as I can remember I’ve had a camera in my hands, wanting to capture anything and everything. I was the little kid that made music videos in her bedroom, the big sister that took 124803 photos on every family vacation, and the 16-year-old that binge watched wedding videos until 2 am (usually crying happy tears over the love between two people I had never met). It’s truly wild to look back on my childhood now and realize that my love for storytelling and transforming moments into documented memories was always there. I filmed my first wedding when I was 17, and 9+ years later I still get butterflies thinking about that day.
and I love your love
I'm Abby,
On your special day, you can find me laying in the grass, standing in the pouring rain, running into the waves, climbing on the counters, dangling off the cliffside - all to get the perfect shot of you and your soulmate.
I have witnessed so many incredible vows over the past 9 years. So, here are mine to you, my sweet future couples:
I will forever be your biggest encourager. I will button and bustle your dress faster than you can imagine! I promise to help you plan every detail, and to help you pivot completely when things go awry. I also promise to encourage Taco Bell stops at every turn. I vow to capture your love honestly and joyfully. I will cry alongside you as you commit to forever, and gleefully raise a toast to your lives ahead. I promise to always share my snacks, my jacket, my jokes, and my heart with you. I will pick thorns out of your veil and dump sand out of your dress. I vow, in rain or shine or snow or fire or hailstorm, to give your day the care, energy, creativity, and love that it deserves.
I am absolutely enamored with and enthralled by the love stories I get to capture. Being this fulfilled by my job is beyond my wildest dreams, truly.
You know when you set your phone background to a new photo of you and your person and every time you look at it you get that warm fuzzy feeling??? You deserve to get that feeling every time you scroll through your photo gallery or watch your film. I always always always want my photos + videos to take you back to what those moments felt like, not just how they looked.
CALL ME A HOPELESS ROMANTIC, BUT I’m convinced that being in love is the best thing in the world
... Allowing you to be fully present with each other, while unobtrusively documenting your love with intention and care. I want to capture not only how beautiful your day looked, but also how it felt. I want you to look at your photos + film and instantly be transported back to the emotions you felt that day. It is the greatest gift to experience that while looking at my own wedding photos + video, and I feel truly lucky to be able to give that gift to my couples.
Thanks to Ryan, I know how it feels to be head-over-heels in love…and I cannot wait to capture that same feeling for you.
My own wedding day reminded me how much I truly value capturing authentic, genuine moments as they unfold - always anticipating these little moments instead of fabricating them...
We got married in late June, 2023 in a backyard wedding at my parent’s beach house in the outer banks, surrounded only by our combined 10 (!!) siblings, our parents, and our grandparents. It was the most beautiful, laidback, peaceful, intimate, true-to-us, joyful day of our lives, and I am endlessly thankful for how perfectly it unfolded. Although I’ve always felt so passionately about what I do, getting married myself allowed me even more to feel the true weight of the moments I am entrusted with capturing. Our wedding photos and video are now our most treasured possessions, and I feel so thankful to have every emotion and moment of our favorite day captured forever.
I know firsthand the relentless joy, unbridled laughter, and inevitable happy tears that come along with marrying your favorite person in the world - and I love noticing and capturing each of those sweet, special moments for my own couples.
The way Ryan loves me deeply impacts the way I capture love.
Ryan is the sweet, patient, analytical, thoughtful, goofy half of our relationship. He balances me out, helps me look at the world with wonder and curiosity, teaches me to slow down, makes me laugh harder + more often than I thought was possible, and understands me to my core.
We’ve been together since we were 17, and I adore him more and more every year. We’ve truly grown up together, and he has been there supporting my business since day 1! If I’m being honest I will most likely talk about him within 5 minutes of meeting you hahah - I’m absolutely obsessed with him and if you’re here I’m sure you understand the feeling!!
One of the biggest influences on my life and my art is my husband, Ryan.
how my own love story drives my creative passion
5/7 Continents
22/195 Countries
17/63 US national parks
The Ever Growing Travel Checklist
Check out my travel page for my upcoming travel schedule!!
& of course, I am always down for a spontaneous trip
- I do the NYT Crossword puzzle, Wordle, and Connections every day (in that order)
- My top 5 on Spotify are Noah Kahan, Mt. Joy, Wild Rivers, Caamp, and Chappell Roan
- I love to read - my goal for 2025 is 52 books!
- I am the oldest of 8 kids!!
- I AM A TACO BELL FANATIC - combo #7 with a baja blast is my go-to
- I have a detailed google doc for EVERYTHING - I am definitely the planner of my friend group and love planning our bucket list girls trips
- I never go anywhere without chapstick and a snack
- I have a 5 year old red goldendoodle named Koda (you will definitely see him on our facetime calls)
- I am obsessed with Survivor and have submitted my audition tape to be on the show!!
- My husband and I met when we were 16 and got set up to go to prom together
some fun facts about me!
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