The joy and beauty just wouldn’t quit at Kelsey and Kagan’s Baldwin Hall Wedding in Annapolis. I was so honored to be a part of this day, and special thanks to Porter for coming along to help capture all of the fun. This wedding was featured on Green Wedding Shoes and Charm City Wed – head over there for more photos and vendor details.
I love love courthouse weddings. And I especially love them in Annapolis, which has the most beautiful wedding chapel with big windows, surrounded by a town that has perfect portrait nooks every few feet. Here are a few from some recent Annapolis courthouse weddings.
Amy says: Absolutely gorgeous photos!!!
It’s hard to know where to begin when describing an experience like this. It starts with a family trusting me and inviting me to take part of what is perhaps the most vulnerable experience of their lives. For weeks before the due date my phone never leaves my side and I jump every time I get a call, and then the call comes. We are giddy at the first pains, we tire as we labor together through the night, we worry a little, there is a lot of love and tenderness, we laugh in between the rushes, and at the end I always cry as the struggle ends in life. I think no other experience in my life has been as moving as being able to witness and photograph births. It sounds cliche but when you watch it unfold it really is incredible, a miracle.
I actually teared up scrolling through these, and I’m not a crier at all. There’s something so tender and magical about these photos. The one where he’s putting chapstick on her lips? Or sitting on the floor laughing and waiting? You did such a beautiful job.
omg. this is amazing. great job on catching the magic. the photos are so real. It’s like I’m really there, watching it unfold in front me.
Absolutely wonderful. All emotions captured. Beautiful, beautiful stuff. Well done 
awesome, I have goosebumps. What a beautiful beautiful post. I can’t pick a favourite image!
Everyone should document the birth of their children….this post makes me so very happy!
Karey says: These images are stunning! I feel a connection, because my son was born in that very same room!
Sarah Culver says: Karey that’s so great! Special Beginnings was a really wonderful place, I know Marcella was very happy with her experience there
This is incredible and one of my personal favorites (probably because I know Marcella, Alex, and little Olivia). You did an absolutely phenomenal job documenting the birth experience. Your storytelling ability is just out of this world. <3
Sunny says: These are really beautiful. Way to use the low light to your advantage…I love the film like quality of the black and whites especially. Well seen.
Daphne K says: These are beautiful Sarah – I don’t know why, but tears started to fall at the shots of the husband kissing the new mother and baby. They’re intimate, vulnerable, powerful — yet beautiful at the same time. Bravo Sarah!
Absolutely stunning. Sarah. You took the trust this family placed in you and invested it in priceless memories. So inspiring, love you and your work!
Pam J says: That brought me to tears just looking at the images. What an amazing gift you have, and what an amazing gift you received by being invited to share this miracle.
Nathan B. says: Sarah. This is outstanding. Your technical structure balanced with a deep spiritual connection with the unfolding story makes this perfect. Beautiful work.
Wanna come to Missouri in February? 
Sarah Culver says: I so wish I could be there!
So wonderful, Sarah!
Love these so much.
Birth is such a beautiful thing and you really captured that.
<3
This is so beautiful and raw. They are going to treasure these more than you know, Sarah. <3
Lori says: I’m proud of you, Sarah.
Mia and Paul have been together forever, like 7 years forever, yet their chemistry and giddiness when around each other would have made me think it had only been a few months (cf their awesome engagement session). The emotion, excitement and thought that went in to this day astounded me. Mia has an impeccable sense of style and she combined that with nostalgic details like using her parent’s cake topper on the cake her mother made, getting married at her grandparent’s house, and a close family friend making biscotti and macarons for late night snacks.
This wedding was also featured on Ruffled, you should definitely click over there for Mia’s thoughts, and more photos including the amazing invitations and a close up of Paul’s awesome custom tie.
Awesome work, Sarah! I love the ceremony backdrop, and even more so this photo: http://blog.sarahculver.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Maryland-At-Home-Wedding-0241.jpg – this wedding looks like so much fun
I love this wedding, it looks so so happy! Wonderful work, – love the shot in front of the doorway.
Sarah, these are incredible! Clearly you had a gorgeous couple to photograph and the way you captured them moves me. You photography is so heartfelt. I can just feel the love. Nice work!
such good use of light, especially for the portraits. Love all the emotion throughout!
You captured every emotion and detail perfectly! And those cake toppers are to die for <3
Each and every shot is freakin’ GORGEOUS, Sarah. Sublime light and perfect moments. Awesome, awesome, awesome.
Great job finding the perfect balance between detail and emotion. Keep it up.
Congratulations to Kelsey and Kagan.
i swear ever time i visit your blog every post is better than the next. I seriously believe this is your best set ever… i mean ever.
So good Sarah!
wow sarah. great location for portraits. she is stunning w/ them flowers
It’s a beautiful wedding. Love them all.
Such wonderful and happy moments here! Such a cute and expressive couple! I love it all!
Wowzers. What a stunning wedding!!! Gorgeous bride. Love every one of the the portraits!!
Beautiful wedding and stunning photography work!
This is insanely pretty all the way through. Gorgeous work. Love it all.
So many wonderful shots in this set, but I think my favorite is when Kelsey apparently won the cake eating contest somehow. What expression on both of their faces. I actually laughed when I got to that one. Also the cake toppers and details in this wedding were amazing!