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Creative Philadelphia Wedding Photographer: Laura & Will

🥋❤️🥋I love being a creative Philadelphia wedding photographer!  Meet black belts, Laura & Will, on the roof of their Philadelphia apartment!! These two met during Jiu-Jitsu, so I was all about incorporating it into their engagement photos! I love couples who are true to themselves and living life out loud!

We had plenty of cute photos in front of the LOVE sign, City Hall, and all of the typical Philly engagement spots, but these are by far my very favorite!  Scroll through to the end to see a super creative shot, where they totally look like a human yin-yang symbol to me. ☯️

My dear friend and associate shooter, Jim, photographed this session and I couldn’t be happier with his work. He is a genius with the camera and I’m so happy to have him on my team❤️

Creative Philadelphia Wedding Photographer, lisa rhinehart, captures this unique, fun, creative image of this couple during their rooftop engagement session doing jiu-jitsu together

Why Rhinehart Photography?

Laura shares, “We chose Lisa because of her fun, creative and colorful shots. When we were looking at her photography, we felt that she was really good at candid photography and capturing a certain level of emotion and authenticity.”

She adds, “Since Lisa already had a wedding booked for our date, she set us up with Jim, her associate photographer. He was wonderful! Jim is definitely methodical yet kind and personable. He is willing to do crazy things like lay on the ground in Philly to capture the perfect shot and have a Jiu-Jitsu shoot on the rooftop with us. We are super awkward but he made us feel really comfortable just being ourselves!”

philly engagement photographer, rhinehart photography, captures this light, bright traditional image of the couple as they walk down the busy street arm in arm laughing at one another during their engagement session

unique, creative image of the couple as they stand under the archway silhouetted while they hold hands and face one another with the vibrant blue sky behind them during their Creative Philadelphia engagement session

Creative Philadelphia Wedding Photographer, rhinehart photography, captures this image of the couple as they strike a dance pose in front the famous love sign in center city philly during their engagement session

Creative Philadelphia Wedding Photographer at Broad Street

Laura says, “We live only a few blocks from City Hall, the LOVE Sign, and all the other iconic Philly locations! Will and I actually both have a running route that goes through here. We chose to have our engagement session here since it is really representative of our Philly experience.”

traditional portrait of the couple as they stand side by side with their arms around one another smiling at the camera during their philly engagement session

creative unique image of the couple as they stand hugging one another and smiling with the staircase leading your eye right to couple during their philly creative engagement session

Creative Philadelphia Wedding Photographer, rhinehart photography, captures this black and white image of the couple striking a dance pose in front of city hall in Philly in the middle of the road

traditional engagement photography of the couple sitting beside each other with their heads touching as they smile at each other during their philly engagement session

unique, creative image of the couple as they stand under the archway silhouetted while they hold hands and face one another with the vibrant blue sky behind them during their Creative Philadelphia engagement session

Eclectic Mix of Candids and Portraits

Laura laughs, “We are actually just sitting in some random landscaping that we found along the way. Jim has such a great eye and knows exactly what will make a colorful, cool shot while capturing the emotion and moment.  I was so surprised with how cool those green leaf shots turned out.”

Creative Philadelphia Wedding Photographer, rhinehart photography, captures this vibrant image of the couple as they sit amongst random landscaping to creative this fun, unique image of them during their engagement session

close up image of the couple as they sit beside one another during their engagement session in Philly and touch their heads together while smiling at one another for this vibrant image Creative Philadelphia Wedding Photographer at LOVE Park

Laura shares, “There is always something going on in Philly and I love that these photos capture that and have a sense of photojournalism to them that capture that.”

She continues, “As for all the dramatic dips and poses, we’ve been taking dance lessons for our wedding and we wanted to show them off!”

creative, unique image of the couple as they standing face one another hugging and smiling with the giant love sign and other Philadelphia landmarks behind them for this creative philly engagement

creative, unique image of the couple as they spin around and dance underneath the famous love sign in Philadelphia captured by Creative Philadelphia photojournalism Photographer, rhinehart photography

fun, creative, unique image of the couple as they dance with each other in center city philly underneath the famous love sign during their engagement session

Creative Philadelphia Wedding Photographer, rhinehart photography, captures this unique, fun, creative image of the couple as they dance together underneath the famous love sign in center city Philadelphia during their engagement session

close up, vibrant, creative, fun image of the couple as they dance with each other in center city Philadelphia during their engagement session underneath the famous love sign

Creative Photojournalistic Philadelphia Wedding Photographer, rhinehart photography, captures this image of the couple as they stand together underneath the famous love sign in center city Philadelphia while the city buzzes with action around them Creative Photojournalistic Philadelphia Wedding Photographer

Laura says, “This is our first time really living in the center of a city. We have our little box up in the sky in the heart of Philly. We will be moving to Utah after our wedding so it’s nice to have these images to reflect this chapter of our lives in the city and one of the main reasons we chose to have our engagement session here.”

creative, unique silhouetted image of the couple as they smile at each other with he vibrant blue sky behind them and taillights of the cars in the background popping

Creative Photojournalistic photographer, lisa rhinehart, captures this image of the couple as they stand together hugging on the corner of the street while life buzzes around them with cars, people, bikes and more during their downtown philly engagement session

Creative Philadelphia Wedding Photographer, rhinehart photography, captures this creative, vibrant, unique image of the couple as they standing between the buildings silhouetted against the colorful sky as the sun sets during their philly engagement session

Meet Violet

Laura smiles, “Violet is such a sweetheart. We adopted her from Morris Animal Refuge. They’re one of the first animal shelters in the United States!

Check out Violet’s RBF in their family photo, lol!

image of the couples black and brown colored cat with green eyes, violet

family portrait of the couple with their brown and black colored cat during their philly engagement session

image of the couple as they hold and kiss their cat violet during their engagement session at their apartment

family portrait of the couple with their cat as the cat tries to jump out of their arms during the photo

Their Jiu-Jitsu Story

Laura shares, “Jiu-Jitsu has been a huge part of our lives for four years. We first met when Will was recruiting for the club at MIT. I was just a faceless freshman and he was the president of the club. We became friends and eventually dated 3.5 years later!

She continues, “We continued with martial arts and when I moved to California for grad school, I started training in yongmudo hapkido. When it was time for my black belt, it was during the height of COVID. We had been doing virtual training or we had to go outside and social distance. Will was actually my Uke, which is the partner that gets thrown around.”

Laura laughs, “I placed a lot of trust in Will throwing me around on the rooftop for these pictures! It’s a 25-foot drop over the railing. It was fun though! This was our first time doing Jiu-Jitsu on our rooftop, usually, we just have drinks or eat up there.”

Creative Philadelphia Wedding Photographer, lisa rhinehart, captures this unique, fun, creative image of this couple during their rooftop engagement session doing jiu-jitsu together

jiu-jitsu engagement photographer, lisa rhinehart, captures this fun, creative image of the couple as they do jiu-jitsu together on the rooftop of their apartment while the sun sets behind them

authentic engagement photographer, rhinehart photography, captures this image of the couple as they do jiu-jitsu together on the rooftop of their apartment in center city Philadelphia

traditional portrait of the couple standing beside one another in their jiu-jitsu gear during their engagement session in center city Philadelphia

Creative Philadelphia Wedding Photographer, lisa rhinehart, captures this night time shot of the couple as they kiss on the rooftop of their apartment in their jiu-jitsu attire during their creative engagement session in center city Philadelphia

Laura shares, “Our wedding is super close, so things have been chaotic wedding-wise lately, honestly, we weren’t even ready when Jim showed up for the shoot, but he was great! He really honed in, made us feel comfortable and we had such a fun photoshoot, even amidst the pre-wedding anxiety.”

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