The Heart of It: Riverside Elopement

Elopement Wedding Photographer • Charlotte, NC

Charlotte Elopement Photographer

I went to a photography workshop at the beginning of March this year because I was longing for an authentic connection to my fellow industry photographers. It's easy, as a small photography business owner, to start to feel alone. To wonder how everyone else is doing it. 

Some important things I learned from this workshop

  • If you build it, they will come 

  • You are probably arent charging enough

  • keep growing yourself as a creative 

  • Make art you're proud of

  • Be scared, but do it anyway

A beautiful couple celebrating their elopement beside of a river as he hugs his partner from behind, by Vanessa Venable, elopement wedding photographer in North Carolina
Close-up of the train on the bride’s dress as it flows down on a vintage rung beside of a river in an elopement wedding photographer session by Vanessa Venable