So, we typically only do this ONCE a year and it’s because we have LOVED in the past hearing people say what a true GIFT it is to give someone a portrait session or awesome wedding booking and they’re SO right…this stuff we do over here at Amanda Hedgepeth Photography? It lasts. Whether it’s a…
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Since before moving to this incredible sandbar, I started shooting weddings down here DREAMING of the day I could drive home down the road at the end of the nights. Now having Mike (my husband!) be my second shooter and make that drive with me, I can assure you that after stopping for 711 nachos and…
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Jessica, you know how much I adore you by now hopefully and it’s a LOT. When I saw you lighting up at that altar, I’m in go go go shooting mode and for a quick second I just watched you and took it in because seeing you so happy with this amazing man is a…
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When it comes to this pair, I have so much to say but I will have to make sure I give you the best of it. I could write a blog paragraphs long but let’s just sum it up this way: they are golden, they are genuine, they put others first, they are team, they…
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Alyssa and Kyle were staying on Hatteras Island during what turned out to be a little of a hectic beginning of a weather week…including the fact that they didn’t know if they were going to be flooded in and potentially stuck. WELCOME to the Outer Banks where so much is unpredictable but sometimes it can magically…
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Jenna and Andrew…how can we even deal. We adored every part of this sunny, Manteo wedding day starring two people who make the world so much sweeter having found one another. Engagements were SO much fun and full of really good squeezes and laughter but this day, it was gold. Tears, sunshine, a setting by…
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This summer I got an email from Jessica and I was all in – they wanted a sweet, intimate wedding on the salty aired Outer Banks and they needed someone to capture it for them. If there’s one thing I love, it’s diversity in what we shoot so we’ll be at a 250 person wedding…
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When couples are heading for a getaway here on vacation and want to have a session done – naturally, I’m honored and if you know me in person, you know I’m giddy to shoot two people in love for a year, five years, forty years. I just LOVE couples. I love families, too because they…
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When someone is driving from out of town and not already on vacation for a full week, I am praying over and over the weather works out. Instead, I’m looking at this devastating forecast for a 2018 bride and groom and I can NOT even accept that it’s real until my husband Mike says, “no…
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It’s an absolute privilege to call Vicky and Matt clients of ours and you will see a joy that brings YOU joy when you look through the cheerful story of their Manteo wedding day! I don’t even know how we beat the heat and the crazy weather that we all experienced earlier that week but…
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We watched the weather for a week and it was NOT looking good. Not just a prediction for rain, but the kind that keeps the skies grainy and dark the whole day through. I was prepared and knew I could handle it but of course I’m always hoping for something different when it comes to…
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From chasing seagulls during all dayers on the beach to enjoying the shade and shopping in the charming town of Duck, we have so much fun on the Outer Banks all year round during our post-morning routines. It’s no secret there’s a TON to do here, but we are also in a stage of life…
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