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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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Just in case you weren’t around last week, I want to give you a recap! Each year, I share the BEST images I captured in three different categories: seniors, engagements and weddings. Last week, I blogged my Best of Seniors 2017 and today I’m sharing my best of engagements!! It gets harder and harder to narrow down […]
I remember first meeting with Anna and just loving how soft-spoken and sweet she is. We chatted over Chai fraps downtown while talking about her wedding day, structuring her timeline and her fiancé, Chris. He couldn’t make it to our meeting that day, but I could already tell I was going to love him just […]
Have you ever seen such bright, joyful outfits on such bright, joyful people!? Because I don’t think I have!!! Megan and I went to high school together (she was a year below me and we were in the same drama class!) and I always thought she was just the cutest thing. She is now a […]
Mackenzie inquired with me shortly after Brian proposed. Her email said that she had told Brain weeks before that, whenever they got married, she wanted me to be a part of their special day…she just had no idea how soon it would be!!! Brian proposed in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris (DREAM come […]
Ohhhh these two!!! Brittney’s initial inquiry is one of those emails that just makes you fall in love with her immediately. She was SO excited, joyous and wonderful from the very start. Her very first email to me included a video of Bryan gifting her a brand new Husky puppy (which was later a huge […]
Christina and Chris are one of my beautiful 2018 couples and I had SO much fun with them at their engagement session last week!! Their session brought me to an area of D.C. that I had never visited before…it was BEAUTIFUL! But…I’m not too great at D.C. driving. Haha!! I missed ONE turned on the […]
Melissa and John are getting married THIS MONTH (ah!!!) and weren’t initially planning on doing an engagement session. But, after a phone call with Melissa a few months ago, she decided that they wanted to work with me before the wedding day so that we could get comfortable working together. This is something that I […]
I am currently prepping this blog post while sitting in the Denver airport!! I am speaking at a conference first thing tomorrow morning before flying straight to NC for this weekend’s wedding…whew!!! It’s going to be a great and FULL few days!!! 🙂 But, last week I had the opportunity to photograph two beautiful engagement […]
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