i'm kaitlyn phipps, a wedding and family photographer located in southwest virginia.

Welcome to my little corner of the internet! My blog is home to all my recent weddings, sessions and life with my sweet family. Happy scrolling!

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personal

so glad you are here

Sometimes I just sit back and wonder how the chaos and loveliness that is my life became MY life. I feel like the last few years have been this crazy adventure. And it’s exciting and kind of exhausting, but mostly it’s really thrilling to see all these things I never expected to happen, happen. And […]

Personal, Photographers

creative at heart – round two

I still feel like I’m reeling from last week’s Creative at Heart and chocked full weekend of friends and family. My heart is so full and summer is in fast pursuit! It’s coming for us friends! Especially for those of us who are in little college towns. In about a month, all of the students […]

Depth of Feels

depth of feels

Something that I oddly have an abundance of in life, is lifelong friends. Something I noticed at our wedding is that both David and I have people in our lives that we’ve known since we were little kids; we’ve got friendships that reach back decades and that is so amazing! The family that most fits […]

Portraits

gender reveal – erica & shane

What a week, friends. And it is still going! The last week of life was nice and relaxed for the most part, finishing up by being nice and crazy and all types of wonderful. And that of course means, that it was time for another Creative at Heart conference. I barely have the brain capacity […]

Depth of Feels

depth of feels

Sometimes, in the wake of client sessions piling up and a busy schedule, my personal photos get left in a folder somewhere. They get left unedited and not even sorted through! So obviously during a slower season like this it is so fun to get to go back and look at some of the things […]

Personal, Portraits

from the archives – the vespers