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

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Jessica and Jack have been a part of each other’s lives for a long, long time now! Since they were kids, in fact. But, it wasn’t until Jack showed up as a teacher’s aid at Jessica’s school that she saw him in a different light. He was a man now! All of the sweet elementary […]

Engagements

downtown roanoke & carvin’s cove engagement session // jack & jessica

Hayden and Amanda are a self proclaimed Tinder-Ella story! And it all started in a local college bar in Harrisonburg where Amanda was sure to let me know that she’d told her friends where she’d gone that night :] They were drawn to each other right away and have been together for years since – […]

Engagements

downtown harrisonburg and bluestone vineyards engagement session // hayden & amanda

The sentence “I’m gonna date your sister one day,” is probably something that every brother in the history of the world has scoffed at or shrugged off. But Levi was dead serious when he said that to Sierra’s brother! And against the odds, he made it happen! After some joking back and forth on snapchat, […]

Engagements

heritage park engagement session // levi & sierra

“It’s not over.” Those are the words Chris swears he heard as he walked away from getting turned down by Paiden. He’d taken a risk and asked his friend to go on a date with him…and she said no. But he had total peace that that was not the end of their story. Meanwhile, Paiden […]

Engagements

downtown roanoke and carvin’s cove engagement session // chris & paiden

Thank goodness for jobs in engineering, because without them, Chris and Anisha never would’ve met! They struck up a friendship working in the same office. Along the way, there were things like rock climbing together, after work drinks, but for years and years they were just friends. Well, that is if you don’t count the […]

Engagements

clifton engagement session // chris & anisha