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Ashley Hesse Photography

Hi! I’m Ashley, a Virginia engagement and wedding photographer, and I have a soft spot for love stories.

Billie & Miguel’s Holiday Maternity Session in Colonial Williamsburg This is it. This is one of the absolute BEST parts of my job. Seeing couples get engaged, married, and then bring children into the world. Billie & Miguel reached out for their engagement session and then I photographed their wedding back in 2018. Now that […]

Clair and Britt’s Saude Creek Vineyard Engagement Session I looked forward to this Saude Creek Vineyard Engagement session for weeks! I know what you’re thinking and no, it’s not just because a glass or two of wine was involved. Honest to goodness I was truly excited to meet Clair & Britt. And they did not […]

Whitney & Justin’s Winter Wedding I can’t believe this day has come and gone so quickly. The anticipation for this one was absolutely through the roof, and they partied so hard that the power literally went out… but we’ll get to that later. 364 days of engagement lead up to this winter wedding at the […]

LeeAnne & Reggie’s downtown Norfolk engagement session What a fun afternoon. This Norfolk Engagement with LeeAnne and Reggie was so fun. There was laughter, short stories, and the realization that she knows one of my distant cousins pretty well! It was also a pretty warm day for December 1st! I’m pretty sure I even almost […]

Marley and Josh’s East Beach Engagement I love sessions where I show up and within minutes feel like I’m hanging out with old friends. I felt just that way at Marley & Josh’s East Beach engagement session. We hit it off so quick, I didn’t even hold back with my dad jokes like I normally […]