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I’m Stephanie, a wedding + lifestyle photographer based in Colorado Springs, Colorado and Warrenton, Virginia. Whether I’m by the mountains of Colorado or Virginia, my soul feels at home, surrounded by rural living and the raw beauty of nature. I genuinely love what I do, and feel so passionate to share the enthusiasm and joy of these celebrations with you!

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Today, the category … Ring shots! Continuing the series “Best of 2013” after already listing best family moments and most inspiring session last week. I chose out 15 ring shots that stood out to me throughout the weddings and engagement sessions. I chose these 15 shots not based on the ring, but how the photographed […]

January 13, 2014

I’m feeling good about 2014 already! 🙂 The push and the drive is motivating me! … and the bazillion lists I have made! 😉 So far I have in the past 7 days, I have *Organized my entire office space. When I debuted my office space last summer, it wasn’t completely clean. Yes, it appeared […]

I will be continuing “Best of 2013” next week with weddings and engagements! Cannot wait! So many pretty clients will be covering the blog throughout the week! 🙂 But for this post, I want to turn the table around … I want to know what YOU want to hear from me! I’ve never done anything […]

“Best of 2013” will continue as I share wedding and engagements next week! Yay! Tomorrow, I need YOUR feedback … so stay tuned! 🙂 Meet the Somers family! As a surprise and a Christmas present, these siblings got together from far and near to have photos to give to their parents. What a sweet idea! […]

We continue the series “Best of 2013” with todays posting “Most Inspiring of 2013”. A year ago, I was approached by Craig and Erica to do a series of engagement sessions to showcase them in each season. We live in the perfect area where the seasons have so much personality! I fell in love with […]

Today starts the “2013 Best of” series! I laughed when I thought to do this posting, top 10 best family moments, because there have been so many priceless moments throughout this year and I LOVE it! Why not share the smile on this COLD day?! Let’s get this post started with some of my favorite […]

Over the weekend, I volunteered to run out with Kyle to take care of the snow storm in the Leesburg area in the middle of the night for his work. Really, not ideal to stay up until 6 a.m. to watch your boyfriend shovel snow with the drifts pounding him and his team. I know […]

This year I’m doing something a little different. My sister introduced me to the “yearly memory jar”! She found it … guess where? Of course Pinterest! Haha! But I was thrilled to try something so beneficial to the year. So the purpose of setting up the memory jar is so at the end of the […]

Happy New Year! I realized I did not have the chance to wish that yesterday on everyone’s day off. Never too late as I basically have this whole month to say that, right? And to start out this posting, I wrote in the title space, “2013 Resolutions”. Not sure if I’m in the mindset of […]

I LOVE doing these posts! It ends the year on a high note and really allows me to realize how blessed I am for another wonderful year! This year has been a CRAZY full packed year and just for that, I am thankful. I am thankful for the wonderful man in my life keeping me […]

I’m Stephanie, a wedding + lifestyle photographer based in Colorado Springs, Colorado and Warrenton, Virginia. Whether I’m by the mountains of Colorado or Virginia, my soul feels at home, surrounded by rural living and the raw beauty of nature. I genuinely love what I do, and feel so passionate to share the enthusiasm and joy of these celebrations with you!

DOCUMENTING LOVE'S UNSCRIPTED CHAPTERS FROM COUPLES & FAMILIES IN COLORADO + VIRGINIA

@stephaniemessickphoto

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