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I'm Hope Taylor. A photographer, educator and business coach serving joyful clients for almost a decade. I began my business when I was just 16 years old, and now I help you grow yours from my home in Savannah, GA!
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Last week, I shared the first 3 blog posts from our wedding day: The Details, Getting Ready and First Look. Earlier this week I shared our Ceremony & Portraits…and now it’s time for the RECEPTION!!! This is going to be the longest post of them all…because it contains SO many of my favorite memories from […]
Last week, I shared the first 3 blog posts from our wedding day: The Details, Getting Ready and First Look. Today, I’m sharing our CEREMONY (!!!) and some of my favorite portraits that followed! When Hayden and I were planning our ceremony, we knew we wanted to keep it focused on joy, laughter and the […]
After taking a few weeks off, we’re back with brand new content on our YouTube channel and I’m so excited!! We took some time to reassess what was working and what wasn’t, including what adds the best value to you, and we’re making a change. My YouTube channel is now dedicated solely to my senior […]
This week of blogging our wedding day has been SO fun for me! In case you missed it, I blogged the Details and Getting Ready portions of our wedding day. Today, I’m sharing Hayden and I’s first look…and the portraits that followed! This is going to be one of the posts where I let the […]
I don’t even know where to start with this post…because the getting ready portion of our wedding day was one of my FAVORITE parts. You would think it would be the ceremony or first looks or dances…but spending the entire morning with all of my favorite girls was so, so special to me. It was […]
Ya’ll…HOW DID I LET THIS HAPPEN!? I started blogging our wedding weekend back in July…and then NEVER GOT TO THE ACTUAL WEDDING! Life got ahold of me and my to-do list kept building on itself…and now we’re at the end of September. Goodness gracious. I am deeming the next month WEDDING MONTH on the blog […]
What an AMAZING way to kick off the cooler fall season!!! I had the chance to photograph Kennedi’s senior portraits last week at the beautiful Hampton Park. It’s one of my favorite places to photograph seniors in Charleston! There is a ton of Spanish moss and ALWAYS flowers in bloom (no matter what time of […]
Summer senior season is coming to a close…and fall sessions are kicking off here soon! But, Mary Caroline’s beautiful Charleston session just screams summertime. Her colorful outfits, the golden light and the beach-y Chareslton charm were the perfect way to end the season! Oh, and the humidity and mosquitos…but those are free to go. Haha!! […]
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