It’s an exciting day for Annamarie Akins Photography! I’m so thrilled to reveal my new logo to you! My amazing website designer, Krista, did an incredible job of taking my desire for something simple and sophisticated and turning it into a reality…She actually finished it at the beginning of January, but now that my full site is getting much closer to being complete I am ready to share it! I can not wait to get my new marketing materials with this pretty thing

If you’ve been reading my blog for a while or if you’ve followed much of my journey in this industry, then it probably feels like I was JUST rebranding…I started out in this industry with nothing but a blog template and it didn’t take long for me to realize that I needed something more official, so in November of 2012, I hired Krista to create for me what my site is today. It officially launched last spring at the start of my first season as a full time wedding photographer (having quit my day job earlier that year). And it

My family has always celebrated Christmas on Christmas Eve because that’s what my dad did growing up in Germany…so we are at my parents house today and it is packed with family and I love it! When I was little I was always just excited that I got to open my presents a day earlier…well it feels like Christmas came early for me this year because yesterday I finally had my copy of this winters issue of the Washingtonian Bride and Groom magazine in my hands!

This year I focused on striving to continually improve my craft so that

I’ll start this post by saying that I can’t believe we are already part way through December! I hope that you are getting in the holiday spirit and enjoying decorating and spending time with family like I am! A couple of weeks ago, I drove up to Annapolis, MD to spend a day with the amazing Natalie Franke.. I had the honor of being the first person to have an “official” mentoring session with Natalie, which I explained to her was sort of ironic because I was also the first person to do one with Katelyn James about a year and a half ago! Time flies! And it is so fun to see how much has changed in that