Hi, there! We are Rowlands Photography - husband & wife wedding photography team for the low-key, authentic, head-over-heels couple in love. We are based in Hampton Roads, Virginia, but you can find us all along the east coast and beyond. Take a look at our past work get to know us. If you're a bride, be sure to check out our special "For Brides" blog series by searching by category below!
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Hello, hello! After a long, restful, much need break for the past three months, we are back on the blog today sharing Mackenzie & Andrew’s Poe Museum engagement session in Richmond, Virginia. We got back behind the camera last weekend and really enjoyed our time with these two cuties as we wandered around the Poe […]
Mar 18, 2021
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Best of Weddings 2020 | Hampton Roads Virginia Wedding Photographers Wow, 2020, where do I even begin? While the world as we knew it changed seemingly overnight, a few things in this world didn’t and one of those is love. Although it sounds like a cliché, we can’t begin to tell you how different these […]
Dec 31, 2020
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Though we have no idea where this year has gone, we are so excited that we are days away from Christmas! We wanted to share with you some of our favorite photos from this year’s Chesapeake Christmas Tree Farm mini sessions at Historic Greenbrier Farms. We had the great honor of photographing a record number […]
Dec 24, 2020
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Each year, our wedding season typically ends in November, when the breeze starts to get cold in southeastern Virginia, but this year we had Maddie & Taylor’s wedding just 6 days before Christmas. Maddie & Taylor got married on December 19, 2020 and it was a beautiful day in every way. They were surrounded by […]
Dec 23, 2020
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Hello, friends! It’s us, the Rowlands family. We’re Michael and Chelsea Rowlands, otherwise known as Rowlands Photography, and these are our two beautiful children, Isaiah (3 years) and Adaline (9 months). We often show other people’s special memories on our blog, but we wanted to share our Lake Meade Park family session photographed by our […]
Dec 17, 2020
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It’s time for one of our favorite blogs of the year – behind the scenes 2020! Year after year, this is a favorite for our clients, family and friends as they get a look behind the scenes of what we do on a wedding day. Even with all the photos we have, it doesn’t even […]
Dec 15, 2020
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I know what you’re thinking: “a family session on their wedding photography blog?” Though we don’t usually share family sessions on here, we decided to for two reasons: 1) We love the Parks family and we want to share how beautiful their pictures turned out. 2) We want to photograph more family sessions for others, […]
Dec 8, 2020
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There are few things that make us feel more honored than when a fellow wedding vendor chooses us to capture their wedding day. Caroline is a planner & coordinator with Night & Daye Events and when she contacted us to photograph her and Joe’s Vineyard Estate at New Kent Winery wedding, we were thrilled! Not […]
Nov 19, 2020
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Of all the Woman’s Club of Portsmouth weddings that we’ve photographed, this one was one of the most relaxed wedding days we’ve had. Kelly & Jay had a small wedding party, a small guest list and a handful of wedding vendors who were all just excited to finally see them get married on November 13, […]
Nov 18, 2020
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Almost all of our weddings this year have had absolutely beautiful weather and we have been soaking it up. It’s as if God said, “you decided to have your wedding despite what’s going on in the world? I’ll give you the best weather we’ve had all month.” And the same was true for Cristen & […]
Oct 22, 2020